It is beyond exhausting. Nobody takes my serious neurological disorder seriously. I’m nearly thirty and only now I’m starting to get the medical help I would have needed 20, 25 years ago. To think what could have been breaks my heart.
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entwine413@lemm.ee 4 weeks agoThe big problem with ADHD is that every human will experience the symptoms at some point in life.
Every ADHD meme is relatable to pretty much everyone, but they don’t understand what it is for those symptoms to basically be your whole existence.
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MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
I got diagnosed last year. I’m 41. My entire life would have been very different. In fact, I believe I was diagnosed as a child but my mom never did anything about it or told me.
Anyway, I can tell that even my wife of ten years thinks I’m exaggerating or trying to make excuses.
CapriciousDay@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
For me I was actually diagnosed with just dyspraxia as a child and it was considered severe enough to have some support needs, recently my mum told me that the educational psychologist said I probably had symptoms of both autism and ADHD but I was never put in front of a psychiatrist who could diagnose that stuff.
Of course this was also back when the DSM had the mutually exclusive diagnostic criteria so who knows what they would have labelled me with in the end. I think the apparently ADHD symptoms bother me more and seem more treatable so I’ve gone in for a referral for that at least. Only 6 months to go 🙃
FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
My favorite thing and I’ve mentioned before, ADHD is like peeing, we all pee, but when it hurts to pee or you’re peeing 50 times a day or it’s causing negative impact in your life, you go see a doctor
Graphy@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The adhd gives you superpowers memes always makes me want to strangle someone.
boonhet@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Yeah it gives me superpowers like once every few months where for a day or 5 I get a ridiculous amount of work done. The rest of my existence is miserable and I hate myself for not just my lack of work productivity but also how hard it is to get myself to exercise, brush teeth, or just get out of bed. And not a single healthy routine sticks. Only the unhealthy ones.
MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Smoking gives you a sense of doing something while doing nothing. And it’s great. I’ve read that 90% of schizophrenics smoke.
boonhet@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Yeah, I hate how great it is…
fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Have you tried meds (stims specifically) ? That significantly increased my productive hyperfocus phases.
boonhet@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Methylphenidate doesn’t help a whole lot, I still have little control over what I hyperfocus on. It’s better then nothing though.
I should try Elvanse (Vyanse), maybe that’s more useful. Need to actually get it prescribed first though.