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Hello everyone:

I used to post here under a different name and had to discontinue that name due to security reasons.  Things got very difficult for a while and I thought it best that I didn’t use my real name.

This might seem an inappropriate topic for this forum, however, I think it very relevant. I figured out my alcoholism long before I figured out my ADHD. I spent many years in AA meetings and working the 12 steps and learning about myself. I learned to say or at least think, "I could be wrong." I learned to figure out my most blatent "character defects" and work on correcting them.

I'm pretty sure he isn't in my city (Atlanta).  But who else would give an arm to get some good therapy from him?  I'm reading his Driven From Distraction book, which is SO good, and it just makes me wish we could drive down the road and talk to him!  We have a therapist right now, but she's not being terribly effective.  I wish so, so bad that we could find a therapist who's very good and experienced with ADHD-and we could afford it lol.  I really want my ADD husband to at least read his book but he doesn't ever read books, let alone on this topic.  *sigh* One day!

Happy new year everybody,

I'm interested in hearing, if anybody knows, how common it is for an ADD/ADHD person to also have OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) and / or ODD (oppositiona defiant disorder). What do the statistics say, anybody?

My spouse was diagnosed with tourette at the age of 12, OCD at some later stage. I also found out, not so long ago, that my spouse had also at some time been diagnosed with ODD.  Only recenty (about 9 months ago) my spouse was diagnosed with ADHD.

Hello everyone,

  First i'd like to say this site is great and very helpful. My story is a long one and my situation very complicated. I'll shorten it as much as possible.

  I am 25 and my OCD/ADD wife is 29. We met on the internet in 2006. I left the US in 2008 for South America to marry her. We have been married for two and a half years. I have only known for about a year and a half that she has ADD. She refrained from telling me out of fear that I would treat her differently.

I just got married two months ago to a wonderful man who is caring and compassionate in many ways.

Hi All, hope we all have ADHD free days in 2010 at least at least symptom wise.................

Ok, first post, like always just bear with me I guess. I have been married for 5 years, 2 beautiful kids.....and well this was the first christmas I did not spend with my wife/kids.

I am 48 year old female on the verge of losing my second marriage.  Recently a friend of mine suggested that I maybe ADD.  She suggested several sites on-line that self test.  I tried several different sites over a two week period and all three I scored HIGH "92" with the recommendation to seek help for ADD.

Hello to you all,

I did discover this site about 5 weeks ago, just as I had decided I had had enough of life with my husband of 20 years......I could go on for ages about him & how I feel like I am a 'single mother of 5 children' instead of 'married with four' etc. etc.