I’ve meditated since I was 14, did yoga 3 days a week for 8 years – I’ve tried everything and while it helped, it wasn’t until I was 43, going through a divorce, halfway through my Masters degree and almost almost my career that I was diagnosed with ADHD- combined. Up until then I was diagnosed with severe depression at 16, chronic anxiety at 19, attempted suicide at 21 and struggled/masked ever since. I worked out what society wanted and tried to play along, until I couldn’t anymore. But in the meantime I have raised two beautiful children (both ADHD as well) alone, kept a spotlessly clean house and learned how to pay my bills on time and stop losing things. But the internal shame was ever present. I knew I wasn’t the same. I knew life was just always ‘different’ for me. Other people just seemed to know how to be… well… people. But I didn’t. But when I was diagnosed I commenced a long acting medication and the effect has been so life changing I can’t put it into words. Looking back it was like I was living life walking through mud up to my knees with a blindfold on, wondering why I wasn’t as good as everyone else. I’m back at Uni and a paper that used to take me at LEAST 3 weeks to write now takes me 12 hours. In the past I would get a credit or a pass, I’m currently sitting on a distinction average. If any neurotypical typical person doubts that ADHD exists or questions whether one should take the meds I recommend you take their opinion and place it exactly where it belongs. Until a person has walked a mile in your shoes they don’t even get a look in. I’m sending out so much love and hugs to everyone- be strong, stay happy, you’ve got this. You are better, stronger, more fabulous than you think you are- and you’ve got a cute bum 😊❤
This is so crazy, like how many here in those comments think they actually have ADD or ADHD… like if you dont have an healthy lifestyle (running everyday, eating healthy, only are on your smartphone or other electronics) you can DEFINITELY have symptoms of it, i bet that only 5-10% of people claiming they have it, actually have it. Its so sad but hey its way easier to take a pill that’s similar to meth, then actually changing something about your life.
Unfortunately not all of us will have the support system to actually think outside the box of mundane normalcy to follow our dream, dreams meaning thing that we truly are interested in so instead we had to force ourselves even if it repudiates taking meds…
This is where Adhd can be seen as a stigma… in life everyone has a form of adhd specifically in a society we’re it requires cookie a cutter lifestyle or a ridged system of productivity, in other word we are praised or encouraged if we do well in school work or successfully at a 9 to 5 desk work job unfortunately only a certain percentage of humans naturally either have the gene to adapt to that system and or raised or nurtured to properly adapt and seek satisfaction or see the importance in mundane tasks where others weren’t.
Factors like surroundings in environmental trauma can play an affect and so for someone like that who is trying to seek normalcy in those mundane may need a little edge to keep up.
I have adhd, and I’m either so attentive to everything going on outside of me or I don’t even hear coworkers saying my name because I’m concentrating on something just SO intensely. I wish I could regulate it- but hated being on Adderall, and having to go to the psych/ doctor so often, I never stick with it. Tried 3 maybe 4 times, it helps, but then I get bored with going to the doctor/ talking about traumas. I just try to move on tbh. Feels healthier this way, too.
She can't even answer the damn question like a politician.
It's all b*******Humans need to be placed in a category so they can always prescribe medication and tag you as something.
I’ve meditated since I was 14, did yoga 3 days a week for 8 years – I’ve tried everything and while it helped, it wasn’t until I was 43, going through a divorce, halfway through my Masters degree and almost almost my career that I was diagnosed with ADHD- combined. Up until then I was diagnosed with severe depression at 16, chronic anxiety at 19, attempted suicide at 21 and struggled/masked ever since. I worked out what society wanted and tried to play along, until I couldn’t anymore. But in the meantime I have raised two beautiful children (both ADHD as well) alone, kept a spotlessly clean house and learned how to pay my bills on time and stop losing things. But the internal shame was ever present. I knew I wasn’t the same. I knew life was just always ‘different’ for me. Other people just seemed to know how to be… well… people. But I didn’t. But when I was diagnosed I commenced a long acting medication and the effect has been so life changing I can’t put it into words. Looking back it was like I was living life walking through mud up to my knees with a blindfold on, wondering why I wasn’t as good as everyone else. I’m back at Uni and a paper that used to take me at LEAST 3 weeks to write now takes me 12 hours. In the past I would get a credit or a pass, I’m currently sitting on a distinction average. If any neurotypical typical person doubts that ADHD exists or questions whether one should take the meds I recommend you take their opinion and place it exactly where it belongs. Until a person has walked a mile in your shoes they don’t even get a look in. I’m sending out so much love and hugs to everyone- be strong, stay happy, you’ve got this. You are better, stronger, more fabulous than you think you are- and you’ve got a cute bum 😊❤
This is so crazy, like how many here in those comments think they actually have ADD or ADHD… like if you dont have an healthy lifestyle (running everyday, eating healthy, only are on your smartphone or other electronics) you can DEFINITELY have symptoms of it, i bet that only 5-10% of people claiming they have it, actually have it. Its so sad but hey its way easier to take a pill that’s similar to meth, then actually changing something about your life.
Unfortunately not all of us will have the support system to actually think outside the box of mundane normalcy to follow our dream, dreams meaning thing that we truly are interested in so instead we had to force ourselves even if it repudiates taking meds…
This is where Adhd can be seen as a stigma… in life everyone has a form of adhd specifically in a society we’re it requires cookie a cutter lifestyle or a ridged system of productivity, in other word we are praised or encouraged if we do well in school work or successfully at a 9 to 5 desk work job unfortunately only a certain percentage of humans naturally either have the gene to adapt to that system and or raised or nurtured to properly adapt and seek satisfaction or see the importance in mundane tasks where others weren’t.
Factors like surroundings in environmental trauma can play an affect and so for someone like that who is trying to seek normalcy in those mundane may need a little edge to keep up.
I have adhd, and I’m either so attentive to everything going on outside of me or I don’t even hear coworkers saying my name because I’m concentrating on something just SO intensely. I wish I could regulate it- but hated being on Adderall, and having to go to the psych/ doctor so often, I never stick with it. Tried 3 maybe 4 times, it helps, but then I get bored with going to the doctor/ talking about traumas. I just try to move on tbh. Feels healthier this way, too.