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CBC made a good documentary on adult ADHD and part of it really caught me off guard because i swear they repeated verbatim my life story for the past 3 years
full programme here:
http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episodes/adhd-not-just-for-kids
Despite its name, ADHD doesn’t actually cause a deficit of attention. It actually causes inconsistent attention that is only activated under certain circumstances.
People with ADHD often say they “get in the zone” or “hit a groove.” These are all ways of describing a state of hyperfocus – intense concentration on a particular task, during which the individual feels they can accomplish anything. In fact, they may become so intently focused that the adult with ADD may lose all sense of how much time has passed.
This state is not activated by a teacher’s assignment, or a boss’s request. It is only created by a momentary sense of interest, competition, novelty, or urgency created by a do-or-die deadline.
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Me, a person who can’t pay attention to anything that doesn’t have visuals for more than 3 minutes without being bored/distracted:
“A female with ADHD may be less hyperactive and less impulsive than her male counterpart. Instead she may present with more subtle symptoms such as being disorganized, scattered, forgetful, introverted, withdrawn and socially isolated. She may have great difficulty keeping her focus on tasks, becoming side-tracked and easily distracted by things around her or even by her own thoughts. It may take her a little longer to process information, so that she appears “slow” or “spacey” or “flighty”, when in fact she may be highly intelligent. She may have a low tolerance for stress, feel extremely sensitive to criticism, and work hard to conform to adult expectations in hopes of gaining approval from others. She may have a hard time saying “no” to others, over committing to responsibilities that she cannot fulfill. It may be difficult for her to make firm decisions on even simple tasks, so that she seems wishy-washy and indecisive. Problem solving situations can become overwhelming and she may often find herself stuck, experiencing a sense of paralysis, unable to move forward at all. Managing her time can be quite a challenge, as well, and “running late” may be her norm. She may also be hypersensitive to her environment – the noise, the sights, even touch – and quickly become overloaded, “shutting down” and unable to function. She may feel and incredible sense of shame, berating herself for not “living up to her potential”.”
— Keath Low, MA
This time on ADD: I have set the daydream to a POV of I’m cleaning my first apartment so I can trick myself into doing my chores.
RSD is a bitch
that is all
REBLOG IF I CAN MESSAGE YOU 'HEY' AND START A FRIENDSHIP.
always gonna re-reblog
Forgetting what I was about to do feels like following a string in a dark forest and comeing to find that it has been cut most likely by your own actions or thoughts.
A Text About How Dark My Mind Can Get Sometimes:
I fell asleep. I’ve been exhausted lately. I really need to get my mental health under control or something. My ADD is like unbearable, I get so overwhelmed because my brain can’t focus on one thing then it gets overloaded and shuts down so I end up doing absolutely nothing. That’s when my depression kicks in because I feel guilty for not doing normal things or doing things “correctly” and then I feel an insane amount of guilt or like I should be farther in life by now.
Sometimes you don’t know what a person is going through. I know I may have upset you by not replying but you do not understand what it feels like to be me, just as I don’t understand what it feels like to be you.
And no matter what mood I’m in, I won’t ever be mean to you or say things to hurt your feelings.
I know that everybody has their own issues, life is hard sometimes, so I would never want to bring any negativity into your life, because life already has enough negative things that it likes to throw at us.
So in the future, all I ask of you is to just think before you say something out of frustration please.
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Heyyy tumblr, guess who got diagnosed with ADD. I’m the only person who’s surprised but yay.
So i have an issue
recently i went to the doctors regarding ADD and anxiety and they said they would give me a referral to CAMHS (i know theyre shit but hold on)
they went and rejected me cause i wasn’t a serious case but god is it disheartening to hear that i won’t be helped. Now my school has given me counselling for this but atm it’s just too much and i have no idea what to do. My counsellor can’t diagnose me and i just want to see if i have a diagnosis, but i have no idea what to do or where to go. My parents also don’t believe i have ADD but i really think i do
can i please get some help
Ah well shit this is me when I'm on my meds.
Whenever I start to fall down the doubt spiral of ADHD doom (“but what if I don’t have ADHD, what if I’m actually just a terrible person who doesn’t try hard enough and who somehow accidentally managed to manipulate a specialist into thinking I have ADHD?”) I like to take ADHD “tests” to remind myself that yeah, actually, my brain is 13 trash fires masquerading as 12 feral cats in a trench coat and that actually, my ADHD is both
a) pretty severe and
b) entirely unmedicated due to my physical health being the equivalent of a meteor strike masquerading as 13 trash fires.
Anyway, this one has a cool pie chart with colors which I found quite helpful compared to the usual number scales. But also, lmao, help...
Edit: link for anyone that wants it. (This is obviously not a complete or comprehensive diagnostic tool. I just thought the way it was laid out was cool and way more accessible compared to others I’ve seen in the past.)
I can just start shitposting on tumblr, nothing's stopping me but no one reads these my page is like a sad public diary that no wants to see