I have had severe A.D.D. all my life. When I was younger I had quite a few dé·jà vu experiances. I still do, just no where near as much as I did before. My focus is absolutely horrible, of course, and my memory is thus is in constant chaos. I have horrendous memory, it is absolutely worthless. Some times I can spell foriegn words that I might have heard once or twice (extremely rare) and other times I can't even spell the word 'spell'; this happends fairly often. Although I can usually spell "spell." [lol] I will you an example of what I am like with a drug (amphatemine) called Adderall. Bare in minds the effects were QUITE fleeting. The day I first took it was absolutely amazing. I memorized about 15 novel Spanish words; their meaning, spelling, part of speech, conjugation and pronunciation... in about two to three minutes (perhaps even less, I am not sure). How do I know? I was pressed for time, because I had to take the test in about 5 minutes... I only made one error. I wrote an 'e' that looked like an 'o.' Before I had trouble staying focused in class and every once in awhile blacked out for 3 or 4 minutes (probably longer [huh] ) It was the class, I hardly ever blacked out in any other class... although I spaced out all the time. (Duh) Of course, I had a very hard time memorizing words. When I had math class I could literally solve a problem just by looking at it. And I don't mean looking at a problem at going through the steps consciously, I mean as soon as I looked at it I had the anwser. This didn't happen on all of the problems of course, however quite a few were solved this way. Before, of course, it took me awhile. I blame by innate ADD for this. [lol] That gets back to my point. Even when I had Adderall, which I don't now because it doesn't work that well at all, ADD was definitely still there. What is the most annoying, depressing and downright infuriating and time wasting thing I do is constantly double talking myself, even if I am right... which is a decent amount of the time.
So, I hope that background story will help whoever here knows about focus, memory, energy, anti-depressants, etc., to tell me about supplements I can (and should) try out. I don't want to be running around like a chicked with it's head cut off by taking amphatemines, that only helps treat my ADD so much... and the effect will always wear-off sooner or later.
ADD (ADHD) Fact Sheet
The best way to describe ADD.....
it's like trying to build a house of cards in a dust storm.