Looking for ADHD Treatment Provider in Memphis TN

[Jiraf]

I am recently diagnosed at 59 years old last August. My GP prescribed Concerta, which worked miraculously for about three weeks and gave me a brief glimpse of how much better life could be, but it has not continued to do the trick even with increase dosages. My GP retired at the end of the December, and the doc who is taking over his practice will not work with me to change meds (at least she will renew the Concerta until I can find a new solution.)

I am having trouble finding someone who can help me with this. Any recommendations for a provider in my area would be greatly appreciated.

[MemphisAdhd1988]

I am also in Memphis and struggling to find a therapist that is truly specialized in ADHD. Please read my bio to see my history of bad therapists.

[Jiraf in reply to MemphisAdhd1988]

it sounds like you may have finally found someone who can help you - I hope so, That is a lot to go through. I am lucky that I have a therapist who has helped me off and on for the last 34 years and who finally identified my ADHD. I do wish she had done so sooner, but better late than never. I also did end up finding a physician here in Memphis who had helped the friend of a coworker with their ADHD and is now my GP. I am on Concerta 54 mg, which for now seems to be helping.

After living with this my entire life, being diagnosed at 59 has been a little mind-blowing. So many of the problems I have had throughout my life with schoolwork, work, and relationships all point back to my ADHD. My intermittent problems with depression throughout my life had a lot to do with it as well I think. The overwhelming feeling of never being able to get it right and do what is needed. UGH. Your comment about RSD sent me searching for that online as well. I don't think I had heard of that before, but I would bet I have it. Especially as a kid my emotional responses were so extreme. I was deemed a cry baby in elementary school and shunned for it, and I would feel physically completely cold. Then one kind word and I would be suffused with warmth. So, something else to research and better understand.

I thought it was interesting too that you use weed to cope with your ADHD. Mine has been alcohol. A drink or two can calm the frenzy in my brain so that I can relax and think. My therapist says that is not a thing with ADHD, but I think she is wrong.

I hope you and your wife make it. She must love you to have stayed this long. Good luck!

[MemphisAdhd1988 in reply to Jiraf]

Thank you for connecting, it helps to hear you have similar issues. And you are correct about the tie between depression, anxiety and adhd. I have been YouTube searching ADHD and __________ pick one: (weed, addiction, depression, anxiety, RSD). And there are lots of people and Dr. who talk about it, and say a lot of the same things I have now realized I have felt all these years.

[Jiraf in reply to MemphisAdhd1988]

Agreed. I wish I had learned all this about myself at least 20 years ago.