Within the last 3 years I also have been diagnosed BPD and later with ADHD and relate to your comment ,I'm 58 now . Sank pretty low to get diagnosed via mental health teams. Also referred last year for ASD assessment ,oddly I have 2 Sons one with ADHD and the other ASD yet I never made a connection even though we are alike lol.

Yeah, it’s a really cool project.

I can't. They are way too giddy and happy. I'm just bleh in life. Live and avoid pain. It's all I resonate with.

@@Tailionis I’m sorry to hear that. As someone who struggles with depression, I can relate to feeling “bleh” in life. It sucks. But I think it’s also important to remember that it doesn’t have to be like that forever. There are treatments and things which can and do help. Also, I’m sure that everyone in this episode can also relate to feeling low and flat at various time of their lives. What we see in this episode is just a snapshot of their lives, and they’re likely putting on their best faces because it’s a show. What you see here isn’t exactly like real life. I wish you all the best, and I hope you’re able to get the help you need to feel better.

I found being medicated for ADHD generally improved my BPD symptoms, because a lot of my ADHD and BPD are very heavily intertwined. Unfortunately, as time has gone on, I’ve become a lot more sensitive to the anxiety-inducing aspect of my ADHD meds, and so I have drastically reduced how much I take and focus more on lifestyle changes to manage my ADHD

Are you asking more about the ADHD side or the BPD side?

Both and in what combinations

I have been prescribed almost everything under the sun at various times, and the vast majority of it made me sick and was not helpful. There were a few drugs that I took for a while that I found helpful. I was prescribed Seroquel (an atypical antipsychotic) for BPD symptoms. I can’t remember specifically which symptom it was supposed to treat (I think mood), but the thing I liked about was that allowed me to manually regulate my sleep schedule at a time when staying consistent with sleep was really difficult. Getting off of it was a nightmare. It took me a year for my brain to get back to normal. I used to take Prozac in my teens, which helped a little bit for depression, but stopped taking it in my 20s because it started to make me feel extremely aggressive. The only long-term medication that never gave me any problems was Trileptal, which is an anti-seizure medication that was being used off label for mood stabilizer. It was very effective and the only reason I’m not on it anymore is because I think my skills are sufficient to manage my condition and I don’t want to be taking a drug that I don’t need to take. For ADHD I have been on Adderall and Vyvanse. I was on Adderall for the most amount of time, almost 10 years until the shortage and then I switched to Vyvanse. Honestly I wish I’d switch to Vyvanse earlier because, as I’ve gotten older, Adderall has made me more and more anxious. Vyvanse still makes me anxious, but not quite as much. but currently, I am focusing mostly on lifestyle changes to manage my ADHD and only taking the Vyvanse when needed, so not every day