ADHD

[Womannchains]

Anyone else get a diagnosis of adult ADHD and think it's just a cop out? Like the shrink is at the end of his rope with trying to help me figure out what the Hell is wrong with me, I can't sit still, I can't focus, I can't sleep, I can't eat, so well, I must have undiagnosed adult ADHD that is NOW diagnosed. It just makes me tired.

[wittsend0]

I have been diagnosed with Depression, Aphasia , Dysgraphia, Dyslexia, BUT not ADHD, which I know I have. I bounce off the walls with nothing to stimulate my thought process, and then head towards anxiety.

The diagnosis has less value then your understanding and accepting if you have it. Do you have it? Do you find yourself bouncing off the walls if you have no stimuli? Do you bounce off the walls without secondary input going all the time, like a radio or tv in the background while you are doing anything else?

If you do you probably have it.

If so then, you need to figure out what keeps your ADHD in check for you.

I constantly need secondary input unless I am 100% focused on a task.

[Womannchains in reply to wittsend0]

I am always on edge, and cannot sit still. My ADHD diagnosis makes sense, but I wish I had been given this info much earlier in my life, I think it would have made a difference, as in therapy, ect. I am on so many meds, and I don't know what an ADHD medication would do, so far I haven't wanted to try any of them.

My anxiety disorder makes my nerves raw, and dealing with constant pain, and migraines makes it pretty unbearable at times. I feel like therapy has become a chore, beating a dead horse, and the area I live in the mental health care is just pathetic.

[wittsend0 in reply to Womannchains]

I'm not a fan of High does drugs, And if you are on several, you need to seriously take a look at strengths and interactions. It's possible your problems are exacerbate by the drugs. I'm not saying don't take them. I'm saying you need to find for yourself what works , Because Doctors today don't know enough, or have the time enough , to truly get to the bottom of our problems. I hate airy fairy answers , always have, but meditation which took time for me to see a difference, definitely helps with the stressors, and the noise in my head.

I'm not on any ADHD drugs, But I have a huge difference in how my day goes by having secondary input. Music, Tv , Audio books, anything that gives my ADHD something to focus on, while I do whatever else needs my attention. I can tell you those around me don't understand it. They think I'm slacking off, or ignoring them because if the TV, or whatever. But it's not my main focus, its ADHD distraction, while I keep going on whatever I'm doing. I'm 57, I recognized without knowing why, I needed extra noise in my head ()at 12 years old), to allow me to quite down that what I now know, is ADHD.(Self Diagnosed.)