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[quote=Anonymous]My husband was already seeing a psychologist for issues he was causing in it relationship and no progress was being made. He had very limited mental bandwidth for the mundane but important details of daily life, and then started screwing up in big bug ways (forgetting to buckle the car seat, showing up places without important things, and finally wandering away from baby next to a full bathtub). I started suspecting ADHD and sent him in to talk to him with one of those "do you have ADHD surveys". The psychologist referred him to a doctor who immediately prescribed medication.

As another poster said, in our case the medication helped a little, but they've made my husband short-tempered in the late afternoon/evening and he still isn't willing to put in he effort to improve in other ways. He takes his medication but says stuff like "I don't even think ADHD is a real thing." Coincidentally, Alzheimer's and other forms of early dementia  runs in his family and I often if some of the ADHD symptoms are really precursors to dementia. He seems to use all of his mental energy at work and there is nothing left for the rest of us. I wonder if it is the disease or if it is just apathy.

I'm sorry that you have to deal with this. It's lonely. [/quote]

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