ADHD/ADD and anxiety disorders?

[estarsign]

Earlier this week when I saw my therapist I told her I felt like my mood was still unstable and that I possibly have an anxiety problem in addition to ADD. She agreed. Not sure how I feel about that

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[estarsign]

I think I do feel that way actually, that it's my fault, that if I just get stronger or try harder or something that I will stop feeling this way.

I have anxiety about enough things - finances, driving (other people's driving specifically, I'm always afraid someone is going to hit me), relationships, work, meetings, any situation in which someone is vague about the intended purpose of a meeting or phone call or some other such thing, large group situations, being late... those are the ones I can think of offhand.

It's in enough situations that I think it's a cause for concern. I do use breathing exercises (and teach them to my kids at school), but with some things I can't get the anxiety down, it constantly resurfaces. I started taking Adderall to sleep at night because it slowed my brain down enough that I could sleep. Before that I was laying in bed trying to figure out what to do with all of the behavior problem kids in my class this year (I teach special education and generally am good with behavior so I tend to get the behaviors dumped on me).

[taiba]

*hugs* I know how you feel. I really hope it gets better.

[estarsign]

Me too because basically I walk around and underneath the surface of everything for me right now is the feeling that what I'm doing to help myself isn't working so I must be a failure, which is completely not productive to anything working.