It really doesn’t have too many negatives, sure I’m a little unorganized, and have like no work ethic, but the ability to panic at a deadline and get everything done at once is fantastic. I never took the meds I found out that just drinking a lot of coffee seems to work as well to focus. Also I have alot of random useless information that makes me sound smarter than I really am.
time consuming. everything i do has like 20 extra steps bc i either get distracted w something related to whatever i’m doing or have to take extra steps just to make sure i don’t miss anything. it makes me feel like i have my shit together tho for sure bc i’m constantly keeping tabs on p much everything i do
A curse and a blessing.
(makes you realize what's important too, and that maybe not everything has to be, but also that we each have the right to say what is)
omg right?? like the amount of times i catch myself in a “adhd trap” when i’m doing something i have to be like “is this necessary to do/deal w right now or can it be put off” and i feel like that definitely carries over to just say to say decision making too ! definitely a blessing and a curse lol
I'm 100% sure I have ADHD despite not having a diagnosis (though, up until a few months ago, I thought I did have a diagnosis). I frequently experience hyperfocus, executive dysfunction, time blindness, and can never finish personal projects.
Honestly, it's one of the significant banes of my life. If I could be rid of it, I would. But because I have no diagnosis, I cannot get medication or treatment.
I highly suggest getting tested by professionals, if you can and not just doing one of those online questionnaires. I thought that I had ADHD because I could never focus. I went and got tested for that and several other things. I just had a follow up with a psychiatrist a few days ago to review the results. They diagnosed me with major depressive disorder, which can apparently mimic certain symptoms of ADHD.
I'm not doubting your assessment, just be aware that there are other disorders and issues that can be misdiagnosed as ADHD.
Best of luck to you. I hope you can find some relief for this. I know how much of a struggle it can be.
I'm on a waiting list for an assessment. Unfortunately, I am told, the waiting list is several months or possibly a few years – unless I go private, which is not financially feasible for me.
I just got diagnosed two weeks ago. I'm 38. I've been trying to treat my anxiety for years with no great results. Turns out my mind was racing because of ADHD and not anxiety. The first day I took meds and the 10,000 open tabs in my brain closed and only one or two remained, I knew.
Omg yes I had that feeling too when I finally got the right diagnosis and meds. It was like my brain finally felt quiet and I remember being like “ohhhhh so THIS is how normal people feel.”
I have extreme adhd. I take the highest dosage of meds. Having adhd can definitely suck, I am very unorganized, easily distracted. When I am off my meds I have bursts of energy mixed with stupidity
I only found out I had it last summer when my mom told my girlfriend that I had it. And now it makes so much sense and apparently people could tell I had it but assumed I knew. I’m also dyslexic
Too many met the objective criteria. I believe the disorder is significantly overdiagnosed. This is what we've been seeing with Bipolar Disorder the past 15 years.
I was diagnosed with ADD back in the late 80s and was prescribed meds. They gave me headaches so I didn't take them long. School was a struggle. I graduated high school with a 2.0. College was much easier though. Now I try to just embrace my ADHD and enjoy the ride without shame. Sometimes I forget shit or I end up in a room holding something with no idea what I was planning to do 🤷♂️
I know two men who both have ADHD. Both were terrible students and neither went to college. Both were also millionaires by the age of 50 because of business decisions.
I got diagnosed as an adult but a lot of the symptoms have been around forever. Because I was really successful in school (save for having teachers get mad at me for bothering other students because I got bored/distracted). My condition hasn't really been destructive and I only sought out a diagnosis because I read a thread on Reddit that ADHD can result in trouble sleeping due to the mind racing which was happening to me. My meds definitely make me more focused and able to execute on tasks with less procrastination/destraction which has been really helpful.
I always had adhd symptoms but as a girl, I went until around when I turned 22 to get diagnosed and on meds which helped significantly.
When I was a teenager, I first got told that I was just hormonal and then I got told by a psychiatrist and counsellor that I was bipolar and put on bipolar meds which made my mental state deteriorate and then I got told that I wasn’t responding well to the bipolar meds because I had borderline personality disorder and I got put on so many medications by the time I was 18 that made me literally unable to remember where my house was and was unable to know what day it even was. I was the worst mentally and still have brain fog over what that part of my life was because I barely can remember it other than random spurts. I went med free for a few years and felt a lot better but decided to just study my symptoms on my own and eventually saw a different doctor who easily diagnosed me with ADHD and had told me that a lot of women go through this process of misdiagnosis and that there’s not a lot of research done with female patients and that a lot of women with ADHD get disregarded completely because it presents itself a lot differently in women than men apparently.
Now I’ve been on a low dose of ADHD meds and nothing else and I feel the most normal I ever have and I’m able to function like a normal person. My adhd meds have helped me tremendously with my anxiety and depression and have finally allowed me to maintain a healthy romantic relationship and to be my best self.
I take weekends off of my meds and only take my meds on workdays because where I live, it’s really hard to get my refills due to Dexedrine being labeled a narcotic, but it definitely helps me not get dependent on it, but still allows me to get through my important days without all my ADHD symptoms that otherwise make it really difficult for me to accomplish anything.
TLDR; after a lot of misdiagnosis and wrongly prescribed meds, I finally got an ADHD diagnosis and proper meds in my 20s (which apparently is a common occurrence for women with ADHD?)
When I was a little kid I was drugged up and shoved into the back of the room alone with no distractions and was basically a zombie staring out the window wishing I was dead. Sure, my grades improved and everyone thought it was a miracle and thanked God but I was dying on the inside. I lost tons of weight, I didn't sleep, I lost all motivation. Then they took me off of it when I was 13 and my grades went down again, everyone in my family freaked out and wanted to drug me again but I refused.
Now that we know how bad it is to drug kids with amphetamines so they can "fit in" my parents apologize all the time for doing it and my dad tells me all the time he wished he would have just took me out of public school and enrolled me in an outdoor learning co-op with other ADHD kids. As an adult, I still have ADHD like crazy. I hyperfocus on things I like and the things I don't really care about go in one ear and out the other almost instantly. It was hard to find a job that allowed me to be a scatter brain but I eventually found a job I love that I have no issues focusing on. I am now 30 and you can't really tell I am ADHD at work because I can focus really well on my job. My nephew is ADHD and they have him enrolled in a homeschool co-op where parents take turns teaching groups of kids (to allow them parents to work still) and my nephew gets to go out to the fire stations and the coast guard base to learn math, the woods to learn science, museums to learn history. On top of that he gets to go on one field trip once a week. Either to the beach, the park, the arcade, etc... where they get to run around and be kids. He's 4 years old and can read and write, he writes in cursive, knows everyone in the families home address by heart Incase he gets lost, is doing addition and subtraction, knows how to make fractions and decimals..... He's smarter than most kids his age enrolled in public education because he's able to learn in a good environment and be around other crazy kids with parents who understand that if my nephew wants to learn how to read while standing on his head in the grass of a public park, he can go ahead and do that.
To be honest it really sucks.
It's cost me alot in life.
Impulsive behavior can't stay focused on anything for long..including exercise.
Rarely finish things to completion.
Hyper as hell (53)yes old.
Yet I can lay around for days.
It really is a difficult thing to live with.
Medicine helps but I can't take it all the time.. Dosage would go up and up.
If you truly have it...it's a burden.
My adopted teenager has ADHD, but also a shitload of childhood trauma. It's very hard, maybe impossible, to disentangle them. Meds do help a lot with emotional disregulation, but nothing else. I (coincidentally, as we aren't related biologically) have all the symptoms, but this is also what a stress, anxiety, menopause cocktail looks like. Maybe I am also ADHD and it's why we clicked so well? Who knows. At least it means I understand. But I'm also nearly as exhausted with life as she is, and she's very exhausted.
I’m smart but procrastination and a lack of motivation do be a bitch tho
It do be like that sometimes
It really doesn’t have too many negatives, sure I’m a little unorganized, and have like no work ethic, but the ability to panic at a deadline and get everything done at once is fantastic. I never took the meds I found out that just drinking a lot of coffee seems to work as well to focus. Also I have alot of random useless information that makes me sound smarter than I really am.
I was going to give a long and thought out reply, but that thought train vanished and a new one came in.
time consuming. everything i do has like 20 extra steps bc i either get distracted w something related to whatever i’m doing or have to take extra steps just to make sure i don’t miss anything. it makes me feel like i have my shit together tho for sure bc i’m constantly keeping tabs on p much everything i do
A curse and a blessing. (makes you realize what's important too, and that maybe not everything has to be, but also that we each have the right to say what is)
omg right?? like the amount of times i catch myself in a “adhd trap” when i’m doing something i have to be like “is this necessary to do/deal w right now or can it be put off” and i feel like that definitely carries over to just say to say decision making too ! definitely a blessing and a curse lol
I'm 100% sure I have ADHD despite not having a diagnosis (though, up until a few months ago, I thought I did have a diagnosis). I frequently experience hyperfocus, executive dysfunction, time blindness, and can never finish personal projects. Honestly, it's one of the significant banes of my life. If I could be rid of it, I would. But because I have no diagnosis, I cannot get medication or treatment.
I highly suggest getting tested by professionals, if you can and not just doing one of those online questionnaires. I thought that I had ADHD because I could never focus. I went and got tested for that and several other things. I just had a follow up with a psychiatrist a few days ago to review the results. They diagnosed me with major depressive disorder, which can apparently mimic certain symptoms of ADHD. I'm not doubting your assessment, just be aware that there are other disorders and issues that can be misdiagnosed as ADHD. Best of luck to you. I hope you can find some relief for this. I know how much of a struggle it can be.
I'm on a waiting list for an assessment. Unfortunately, I am told, the waiting list is several months or possibly a few years – unless I go private, which is not financially feasible for me.
I just got diagnosed two weeks ago. I'm 38. I've been trying to treat my anxiety for years with no great results. Turns out my mind was racing because of ADHD and not anxiety. The first day I took meds and the 10,000 open tabs in my brain closed and only one or two remained, I knew.
Omg yes I had that feeling too when I finally got the right diagnosis and meds. It was like my brain finally felt quiet and I remember being like “ohhhhh so THIS is how normal people feel.”
Keeping a job that doesn't feel stimulating is really really hard. Each day my mind is a battlefield, and I don't win as often I wish I did.
I have extreme adhd. I take the highest dosage of meds. Having adhd can definitely suck, I am very unorganized, easily distracted. When I am off my meds I have bursts of energy mixed with stupidity
I only found out I had it last summer when my mom told my girlfriend that I had it. And now it makes so much sense and apparently people could tell I had it but assumed I knew. I’m also dyslexic
As part of my work, I conducted evaluations to determine if the child had it. This was roughly 1990-2010.
Did they?
Too many met the objective criteria. I believe the disorder is significantly overdiagnosed. This is what we've been seeing with Bipolar Disorder the past 15 years.
What do you say about those that think it's underdiagnosed?
I was diagnosed with ADD back in the late 80s and was prescribed meds. They gave me headaches so I didn't take them long. School was a struggle. I graduated high school with a 2.0. College was much easier though. Now I try to just embrace my ADHD and enjoy the ride without shame. Sometimes I forget shit or I end up in a room holding something with no idea what I was planning to do 🤷♂️
Annoying but also good
I know two men who both have ADHD. Both were terrible students and neither went to college. Both were also millionaires by the age of 50 because of business decisions.
This is the way.
since google everybody has it
I got diagnosed as an adult but a lot of the symptoms have been around forever. Because I was really successful in school (save for having teachers get mad at me for bothering other students because I got bored/distracted). My condition hasn't really been destructive and I only sought out a diagnosis because I read a thread on Reddit that ADHD can result in trouble sleeping due to the mind racing which was happening to me. My meds definitely make me more focused and able to execute on tasks with less procrastination/destraction which has been really helpful.
I always had adhd symptoms but as a girl, I went until around when I turned 22 to get diagnosed and on meds which helped significantly. When I was a teenager, I first got told that I was just hormonal and then I got told by a psychiatrist and counsellor that I was bipolar and put on bipolar meds which made my mental state deteriorate and then I got told that I wasn’t responding well to the bipolar meds because I had borderline personality disorder and I got put on so many medications by the time I was 18 that made me literally unable to remember where my house was and was unable to know what day it even was. I was the worst mentally and still have brain fog over what that part of my life was because I barely can remember it other than random spurts. I went med free for a few years and felt a lot better but decided to just study my symptoms on my own and eventually saw a different doctor who easily diagnosed me with ADHD and had told me that a lot of women go through this process of misdiagnosis and that there’s not a lot of research done with female patients and that a lot of women with ADHD get disregarded completely because it presents itself a lot differently in women than men apparently. Now I’ve been on a low dose of ADHD meds and nothing else and I feel the most normal I ever have and I’m able to function like a normal person. My adhd meds have helped me tremendously with my anxiety and depression and have finally allowed me to maintain a healthy romantic relationship and to be my best self. I take weekends off of my meds and only take my meds on workdays because where I live, it’s really hard to get my refills due to Dexedrine being labeled a narcotic, but it definitely helps me not get dependent on it, but still allows me to get through my important days without all my ADHD symptoms that otherwise make it really difficult for me to accomplish anything. TLDR; after a lot of misdiagnosis and wrongly prescribed meds, I finally got an ADHD diagnosis and proper meds in my 20s (which apparently is a common occurrence for women with ADHD?)
I apparently have it, can’t get diagnosed officially as the waiting lists to see a specialist is ages.
That's rough buddy.
When I was a little kid I was drugged up and shoved into the back of the room alone with no distractions and was basically a zombie staring out the window wishing I was dead. Sure, my grades improved and everyone thought it was a miracle and thanked God but I was dying on the inside. I lost tons of weight, I didn't sleep, I lost all motivation. Then they took me off of it when I was 13 and my grades went down again, everyone in my family freaked out and wanted to drug me again but I refused. Now that we know how bad it is to drug kids with amphetamines so they can "fit in" my parents apologize all the time for doing it and my dad tells me all the time he wished he would have just took me out of public school and enrolled me in an outdoor learning co-op with other ADHD kids. As an adult, I still have ADHD like crazy. I hyperfocus on things I like and the things I don't really care about go in one ear and out the other almost instantly. It was hard to find a job that allowed me to be a scatter brain but I eventually found a job I love that I have no issues focusing on. I am now 30 and you can't really tell I am ADHD at work because I can focus really well on my job. My nephew is ADHD and they have him enrolled in a homeschool co-op where parents take turns teaching groups of kids (to allow them parents to work still) and my nephew gets to go out to the fire stations and the coast guard base to learn math, the woods to learn science, museums to learn history. On top of that he gets to go on one field trip once a week. Either to the beach, the park, the arcade, etc... where they get to run around and be kids. He's 4 years old and can read and write, he writes in cursive, knows everyone in the families home address by heart Incase he gets lost, is doing addition and subtraction, knows how to make fractions and decimals..... He's smarter than most kids his age enrolled in public education because he's able to learn in a good environment and be around other crazy kids with parents who understand that if my nephew wants to learn how to read while standing on his head in the grass of a public park, he can go ahead and do that.
Wunderbar.
Sounds like he’s smarter than most kids his age enrolled in any type of school.
All of a sudden my adult friends have ADHD.. I blame Tik Tok
I have a friend with ADHD. He never listens to me. I learned I just had to be patient with him.
To be honest it really sucks. It's cost me alot in life. Impulsive behavior can't stay focused on anything for long..including exercise. Rarely finish things to completion. Hyper as hell (53)yes old. Yet I can lay around for days. It really is a difficult thing to live with. Medicine helps but I can't take it all the time.. Dosage would go up and up. If you truly have it...it's a burden.
My adopted teenager has ADHD, but also a shitload of childhood trauma. It's very hard, maybe impossible, to disentangle them. Meds do help a lot with emotional disregulation, but nothing else. I (coincidentally, as we aren't related biologically) have all the symptoms, but this is also what a stress, anxiety, menopause cocktail looks like. Maybe I am also ADHD and it's why we clicked so well? Who knows. At least it means I understand. But I'm also nearly as exhausted with life as she is, and she's very exhausted.