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My husband of 30 years has ADHD. I was told by his family when we first met that he had ADHD when he was very young and it was controlled by Ritalin then he eventually grew out of it. Having no other knowledge of this type of wiring I believed everything his mother told me about it. I was given the impression that he was the only one in his family wired like this. Of course I was wrong about that. A couple years ago my husband and I went to counseling together, not for the ADHD but for the arguments that we would have about his family.

Previously, we have found evidence of our daughter not taking her medications, including pills lying around the house.  Today, my wife told me that she has not be taking them for months.  She usually puts it in her mouth, takes a drink, and shows up her empty mouth.  It seems she has somehow managed to avoid swallowing them.

My wife has ADD.  It went undiagnosed for most of her life.  After a web search I figured she had ADD and I told her to ask a therapist about it.  Of course she was immediately prescribed Adderall.  At first it wasn't so bad.  Some things got better, she would clean up a bit better and not sleep in so late, and I sure it helped her with work.  This was several years ago.  With the Adderall her drinking has gotten worse, she drinks 5 to 6 drinks a night.  She claims she needs to drink to sleep.  In addition, her doctor has put her on thyroid meds and she had a Hysterectony.  Her chemical bal

Hi All. I was diagnosed ADHD (inattention) last week including taking a Qb Check (scored 99 so that makes me well into the spectrum). But the specialist couldn't issue me with meds, only recommend some, saying i need to check with my 'cardiologist' first.

Three years ago I was treated for carotid artery dissection (I'm 60 years old), since when I've been on daily doses of statins, blood pressure tablets and aspirin. My heart is fine and so is blood pressure (122/59 yesterday).

DH had ADHD. He is on meds and really trying to work on himself. He works from home which makes it difficult for him to focus sometimes (working from an office is not up for discussion). Sometimes when I need his attention he will say things like "I need 5 minutes to focus on this first." I try to respect that and give him his space to focus on what he was working on before I came in. However, when a half hour goes by and I am still waiting, I get frustrated. If I try to remind him that I am waiting or go back into his office he gets angry and feels pressured.

Our 16-year-old son is convinced that he is going to be emancipated at the end of the summer so he can move to another state to live with people he knows from the internet and a few video game tournaments.  He says these people are starting college in the other state.  He has very unrealistic ideas about how much it will take to support himself and seems to believe that these other peopel will help support him.  He has been warned that he will have to repeat math if he misses that classes three more times this year.  He has a zero in it right now.  He says that all of school is useless and

I'm the non-spouse. It's been 11 years, most of which seem to have been hell. Again last night we had our every few months argument about the same old stuff. I've gotten my doctor to put me on welbutrin and had him up the dose at least once. She has even started talking about "separating our stuff." I'm 52, I changed my whole life to be with her. She's on Vyvanse and just as irritable as before. I'm massively overweight and she has been losing weight and is slim again. I guess at this point all options are on the table. The dog gets more attention than I do.

I have read the ADHD & Marriage book many times and tried to work through it and read through posts, etc. on this forum many times and tried to make sense of it all. But sometimes I think I'm just fooling myself. Sometimes I think that there are people with ADHD who do the work and take the medication and are able to have good relationships, even if it is a struggle for them. And then there's me, and really all of us stuck on this forum. And what I mean is that, I'm not married to someone whose problem is ADHD. I am married to someone who has ADHD.

I did a search on ADHD and marriage and found this site.  Reading this I was brought to tears (Not too hard lately) I read about non-adhd spouses, they were pretty much saying exactly how I feel.  I can see exactly how he is in the explanation of how the ADHD spouse feels and thinks too.

I have been married 44 yrs to someone who has gotten progressively worse and worse.  He hasn’t gotten professionally diagnosed as of yet although he fits every single criteria to the “T”. 

I don’t normal post to boards but I feel that I have no where to turn to. So, about a year ago I kicked my husband out of our house due to his anger issues, even though we had just started couples counseling, at the time I was upset and didn’t know what I was doing and just acting on pure emotion and adrenaline, we are both in our early 50's.