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My partner has ADD and depression/anxiety.  She's having major surgery next week.  When she had minor surgery a few months ago her depression seemed to heighten for a few weeks.  I'm concerned it will be worse this time around because she will be under more anesthesia for a longer period of time.  Has anyone else noticed this when their partner has surgery?  Does anyone have any ideas about how to minimize an uptick in post-surgical ADD/depression symptoms?  Thank you.

Well my husband and I have had what feels like the same conversation...accelerating to arguments frequently...that we've had numerous times over our married life.  He HATES to discuss finances & hates to do some of the paperwork for our business.

I notice that I can't read some posts. If you go down "recent posts" you will see several posts that when you click on them, you go to the top of Dan's post ("Find a virtual slapper...), but it doesn't take you to the post itself, just to Dan's lo....ong original post. Then you can't find the new post because, since you've already opened that page, it doesn't get that orange "New" on it any more. George, can you fix that somehow? I have no idea how these things work. BTW, it only seems to happen if I am trying to read something in Dan's thread.

I received an ADD diagnosis three years ago while being evaluated for an ADD study. I saw an advertisement for the study and decided to sign up because so many of the ADD symptoms seemed to apply to me. The study was a double-blind study using Concerta as a medication. I seemed to get some benefit from the Concert ( I found out later that I was indeed on actual Concerta, not the placebo ). Anyway, to make a long story short, I had to leave the study before its conclusion because of my work. Since that time I have not been on any medication for my ADD.

Okay, now I'm hanging in mid-air.  Here's the story. Although my husband has been diagnosed with ADHD, he still gives very little validity to the diagnosis.

I am on a 1 week break from my partner because of his odd behaviour. I told him he is chaos and I need to remove myself from the mix so that he can sort himself out, and that he is draining me of all my spirit and will to live.  During this week one of my male friends who has an ADD son emailed me asking whether my partner had got Adult ADD.  I looked it up on the internet and I have been crying for the last 3 days.  My partner has so many traits its not funny.

I am on a 1 week break from my partner because of his odd behaviour. I told him he is chaos and I need to remove myself from the mix so that he can sort himself out, and that he is draining me of all my spirit and will to live.  During this week one of my male friends who has an ADD son emailed me asking whether my partner had got Adult ADD.  I looked it up on the internet and I have been crying for the last 3 days.  My partner has so many traits its not funny.

I know a few people have mentioned their partner's inability to take criticism. My husband is the first person who I ever actually saw embody the phrase "and his face fell." What caused it? His mom was talking to him. He came in to show her something. I think it was something funny he found about his socks or something weird. Utterly not of consequence. He told her not to interrupt because she was in the middle of talking to me. She'd be done in a second and then he could talk.

Seriously. I nearly kicked him out of the house a month or so ago. It would only have been for the night. But I was incredibly enraged by his attitude. Don't know why I didn't vent on here. I was probably too busy trying to breathe through the rage.

He's not working. I am working part-time, keeping up a blog (which I am hoping to grow into an alternate source of income one day), and have health problems. I've also been taking on some mystery shops to help get us out of the house affordably. Because he gets so frustrated not doing anything.

I'm 39 years old and recently been diagnosed with ADHD.  I learned about my special brain in a very unfortunate way.  My husband of only three months at the time said he was going to divorce me during an intense argument and left the next day never to return.  We had a 3 1/2 year good relationship prior to the marriage.  He could no longer deal with my behavior and how it had taken it's toll on him emotionally.  I did not know what was wrong.  He did not know what was wrong.  I did know that the stress of buying a house, planning a wedding, a job transition, and learning to live together, w