04/27/2022
Living with ADHD 💁🏼♀️
It's time to open up about my diagnosis. ADHD in combination w/depression +, anxiety is quite the triple threat. As I've been told by numerous professionals, that's an uphill battle!
Go big or go home right? 🙄 hah.
ADHD is rather common but in my opinion, a little under-diagnosed in women. Either way, I'm 33 and was diagnosed last year, ONLY after I advocated for myself & specifically sought out a professional.
What made me get tested in the first place? I've suspected it for years, but figured the way that I was- was simply a function of my personality & my chaotic schedule. Sometimes being absent minded but oftentimes feeling "all over the place"...yet nowhere did I think I had a medical condition.
I'm not JUST absent minded though; I've come to realize an extraordinary amount of 'symptoms' I continued to make excuses for over the yrs! I sometimes become unbelievably frantic over little things, my mind is constantly frazzled, my thoughts race back & forth seemingly non-stop. I oscillate between being hyper-focused on something and not being able to follow along basic conversation. Small talk can be extremely painful for me at times as I want to dive DEEP into a convo, but that's not the case for the majority of people & hard to come to terms with. I ping-pong between being extremely patient & getting frustrated easily, can sometimes be very impulsive, talk crazy fast, start a new task before finishing the current one, have difficulty fully relaxing, I fidget often and the list goes on.
And....it's exhausting living this way. My diagnosis was in part a relief. A relief that I'm not just 'absent minded' or incapable, my brain is just DIFFERENT. It processes differently, consumes differently and all of this affects how I interact w/the world around me. Mental health struggles are not unique, yet I know they are still stigmatized. It's time to open the conversation & normalize speaking up. 🙌🏼
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