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I never thought I had ADHD until recently. About a month ago or something I was diagnosed. I have: however, for all of my life struggled apparently more than my peers. I couldn't focus, I had meltdowns learning math and reading, (crying, yelling, shutting down ) I'm late places, Im often late to turn in work things or previously school things. After work 80%-90% of the time I feel completely numb, wasted, tired, and a little (or a lot) depressed.
The memes and the mental health awareness zeitgeist, I think helped me connect the dots where I used to believe it was just depression and a lack of motivation and or discipline and also a lack of socialization at the right ages resulting in less social skills and less self confidence.
Bless you, yeah, very similar for me.
I was drunkgry trying to put forward the idea that it’s ok to self-diagnose in some scenarios. “I have self-diagnosed I’ve hurt my knee and am self-prescribing bed rest.” is perfectly normal, why can’t it be the same for mental health!?
There are so many parents and older generations who are very unforgiving of “weakness” or lack of “self-discipline”, even if they themselves have symptoms that could be alleviated through self-care. I’m sad for older folk that they’d rather get angry and spread fear around it, and I just hate they’re trying to put off people from introspection. Good luck 💕
I really feel you on this — stuff like depression can really make it hard to tell. For me, I was doubtful that I had ADHD until I started medication for it, and that helped so much that I was like "oh yeah, I am definitely ADHD".
I'm glad that you were able to find answers, because even setting aside the possibility of medication (it doesn't work for everyone), the coping strategies that are useful for ADHD look quite different than for depression.