Is anyone being medicated for add/ADHD AND anxiety?

[*GiRL_21*]

  I am on Ritalin right now. And also have panic Attacks over 10 times a day.

Without Ritalin I feel stupid and can't read or remember anything.

Does anyone here take medicine for andietyy and add?

If so what combination pills are you on?



Here are all of my daily symptoms.

- touch my neck , fear of diseases, worry about heart attacks, feel pulse in head feel like my life is over and I'm going to die.

- cant go in store, if I do I look at the ground because my anxiety is so extremely strong I panic when I see other people.

- paranoid of dying or catching diseases.

- paranoid of bad things happening to me.

- sick thoughts in my head, death, ect. Playing thoughts over and over again. Makes me sick .

- I get a billion BAD thoughts in my head at the same
Time, because of my A.d.d.  BUT when I DO take my medicine (Ritalin) I think about ONE bad thought at a time, not all of them at once. 

- I'm scared of driving, I don't like to feel trapped.

- in scared of being in a classroom, because I feel like everyone is watching me, and I'm afraid the teacher will talk to me and I will sound like a idiot. Also I don't like being in a classroom because I don't like social settings, an I feel TRAPPED in the classroom, like once he shuts
The door I have to act "normal, calm" and have to hide my anxiety. It's terrible. My anxiety is so bad everyone can notice it because I move my arms, legs, can sit still.

Ugh this is hell. I'm constantly convinced I have some type of disease. I get super paranoid. And get confused.
I hate my life these days. Why can't I just be NORMAL? ((

[LindaRK]

Maybe you need a change of medication.

Once you start a medication doesn't always mean that dose will work or you will remain on that dose.  Things can change over time.

My oldest son was on Adderal for ADD and a short period of Ativan for anxiety.  He will say otherwise, but the Adderal was great and I saw a HUGE improvement in focus for him.

[Gratubee]

I'me very sorry you suffer from this. I have to tell you that in my case of repeating panic attacks I couldn't even take any meds p they have very strong side effects on me so I've overcomes it with non-drug method, here's a review and some infer act it: http://www.stoppanicattackreviews.com/the-linden-method-review/

take your chance with methods like this, anyway med only cut symptoms and the condition often get worse when you try to stop taking them.

[fortheloveofcats]

I'm on Concerta (slow release ritalin) and also citlapram (for the treatment of both depression and anxiety).
 without my concerta I'm a bouncing mess and can't focus in school. Without my meds for the depression/anxiety meds I'm even more of a diastor. for me it took the meds with teh work of a therapist to work through it all. It may take awhile to find an anxiety med that will work in conjuction with the ritalin. I use both and have for three years now with no problems. Except I always take my concerta in the am and the depression/anxiety meds in the PM. I never take them together.
If you have any questions drop me a line, but if you can find a decent therapist to help on top of meds it really does get a bit easier.