Adhd/Anxiety different treatment?

I am going to try not to write a book..
I have a 12 year old son, after many battles of not medicating we are now using meds. It works a little, however he is so moody and up and down. Has anyone been on an adhd med and on an anxiety med? If so, did it work?

Please no comments on the "natural" way - i have been down this road for 10 years and it didn't work.

Please don鈥檛 put your children on Adderall, I鈥檓 19 and i鈥檝e been treated with psychostimulant since I was 7 years of age. Not only do amphetamine based medications have a much higher abuse rate and more adverse side effects, in my opinion they do not work as well compared to the Methylphenidate medications.

Ritalin is a much safer treatment to start on, not the slow release of course.

This is coming from a person who has been treated with every pill known to man, I graduated in the top 5% out of 190 students in my year level. My father also grew up with ADHD.


All behavioural medication will cause mood swings. The coming down usually starts with feelings of irritability, very abrupt when asked a question, short tempered and almost no tolerance when something annoys them. This can take 30 or more minutes to pass.

Towards the end of the coming down, there is a brief period of withdrawal, they may appear very gloomy, best to just leave them alone until it passes. Then you are back to the hypo kid.
Tell me if I鈥檓 wrong about the coming down, I鈥檓 trying to remember from my childhood, there are slight variations in the different meds.

Now, the ride up, from when you first give them the tablets. Feel free to question my next statement, its rather hard to try and describe what its like at that age.

Behavioural meds are meant to calm your kids down, right?
The meds raise awareness, give the ability to maintain high levels of focus, and maintain a level of concentration by lowering impulsiveness. If I鈥檓 relaxing in front of the television and i take my medication, i am filled with an urge to do something, you feel compelled, motivated, all of a sudden your senses have just exploded into a state of optimal focus, from nothing.

What would a boy of 12 do with every single nerve impulse in his brain firing away, in a state intended for learning or performing tasks that demand absolute focus.
His brain is all fired up, with nothing to do.
It鈥檚 hard to get a picture across, or a description in any sense of what this feels like at his age.
Everything in his body is set to go, he has never felt this sensation, and more importantly what does he do with a mind stuck in overload for 2 hours?
What I鈥檓 trying to get at is, this 鈥淎nxiety鈥?is the medication.
鈥渨hy am I feeling like this, what am i suppose to do, what do i do鈥?
He needs to learn how to use the medication, give him a purpose. Just letting him round around the house would confuse the crap out of him, scary? Ye.

If you are at all interested in showing your son how to use the medication just send me an e-mail, i could probably offer you some techniques to cut back on the stresses of dealing with ADHD kid.

I have been on Adderol, Vyvanse, and Concerta for ADD (insurance issues made me keep changing).

I also carry Ativan as a quick fix anxiety med.
It works for me. I have found that the ADD meds raise my anxiety though...

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I was in the same boat with my son, and the behavioral methods found in this article really helped him.

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