My husband was diagnosed with ADD a few months ago, just after our marriage fell apart and we separated. He thinks that a non-ADD specialist therapist and some pills are all he needs to fix his problem, and it's only a "minor" problem at that. So, you could say he's deep in denial. But this isn't exactly rare with ADD husbands, as so many of us know too well.
My husband is very selfish, often misreads my actions/words, doesn't ever have empathy or sympathy for other people. Put it this way...someone dies...he'll laugh. He also is highly defensive and always looking to argue. He likes it...I think he's comfortable being angry. He's very disrespectful to me...not sure why I still stay. Do people with ADHD have low Emotional IQ?
Hello!
I am 41 years old and comes from Norway..I have been using ritalin for about 4-5 months. I have used 20mg 3 times a day quite sometime but know I have started to use 25 mg 3 times a day by my own choice..I have read that 60mg is the maximum dose. I wounder if 75mg ritalin is dangoures since the maximum dose now are 15mg more?
I would also like to say hello to everybody on this forum:-)
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My wife and I have been together for about two and a half years. We werent together for very long before we got married, as she had a three year old daughter and I wanted to quickly become her father. Many times she has told me she has ADD and has been on medication for it for many years. I never truly understood what the effect of the ADD was on our marriage.
It has been just over a year since I wrote the posts on this site. This stie was a god sent when I was going through so very much with my ADD husband. While I wished for a happy ending, that I did not get… it was a pleasant surprise when I received notice that someone had posted to my long ago writings; just the other day.
For the last 20 years, vacations with my ADD husband have been a nightmare. I've sworn several times that I would never take a vacation with him again. We tried taking separate vacations, overlapping vacations, and mini-vacations in order to try to finesse this problem, but none of these were very satisfactory for various reasons. There are a lot of things we like about vacationing together, so we'd try again to make it work.
Several things that we've implemented in the last several years contributed to the success of this most recent vacation.
My partner and I have been together for over 12 years and she's been officially diagnosed with ADD for about 8 of those. What I want to find out from others is how you've found the courage to confront your ADD partner about the damage that's been done in the relationship and move to a place where you can go forward.
hi everyone,
first of all i want to say that english is not my first language so forgive me if there will be some errors. this would be quite a long post so please bear with me.
While I have always been thankful for my life, my husband, three wonderful kids, home and friends, this Thanksgiving is different...My ADD husband came upstairs to tell me he fixed our dining room chair which needed its legs glued to be usable again. The chair been in the basement for 4 years, just waiting for this moment....My husband and I laughed and celebrated together today..over a simple newly glued chair.... The chair is just a symbol of a renewed direction for our marriage and an ADD victory. The glued on this chair is analogous to a new "cement" in our relationship.
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