Why Get An ADHD Diagnosis?
There are benefits to getting a diagnosis. For one thing, a diagnosis opens up your options for treatment.
Without a diagnosis, you might read books about ADHD and avail yourself of certain behavioural tricks and hacks.
There are benefits to getting a diagnosis. For one thing, a diagnosis opens up your options for treatment.
Without a diagnosis, you might read books about ADHD and avail yourself of certain behavioural tricks and hacks.
Has this ever happened to you? You sit down at the computer, just checking in on the social media medium of your choice, and you think, “Oh yeah, I was going to look up squirrels with odd coloured tails.” or perhaps something else of equal importance.
...What have you missed in your life due to being distracted? There are all the usual things you and I both know. There are burnt dinners, overdue payments, overdue library books,
...This blog is about ADHD. But it’s also about life, life with ADHD. It’s about how life affects ADHD and about how ADHD affects life.
And that means I get to tell you how things positively affect our lives and our ADHD.
I’ve seen my ADHD symptoms fluctuate. And I’ve seen other’s symptoms fluctuate as well.
The first thing that happened to me when I was diagnosed was my thinking “Ah,
Many of us with ADHD have a little problem with addiction. Mine manifests in different ways.
The worst addiction in my life is a 40 year struggle with alcohol.
...There was a time when life was simpler for most people. Maybe not in the big ways, but in the little ways.
And maybe some of those ways are bigger than they seem.
Every time I do something, it’s an accomplishment.
Every day is filled with accomplishments from one end to the other. But there are things I set out to do that I don’t accomplish in a day.
...So I thought I’d take a moment to explain what that means.
We are the ones who can’t find our keys because we left them in the door,
...I hear from people all the time who tell me about their ADHD. I hear directly from people who comment here, and from people who email me privately (do some snooping here on the blog and you’ll find an email address for me if you are so inclined).
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