Hope for New Horizons
So today is an important day for me. Yesterday, after many years of feeling "different" and dealing with the frustration, I have been diagnosed with ADHD. And apparently I'm a lot further up the chart than even I had become aware of.
It was a very emotional day. Mostly because I now have an answer to my scatterbrained personality. It was quite scary as the doctor read the symptoms and my wife and I repeatedly reply "yes, yes, yes, yes".
I learned what it really means to be ADHD not what the media has promoted it as. What threw me the most is the major difference between how the media portrays it and the reality of it. MAJOR significance. And is probably the reason it took me and my wife so long to figure it out. As usual their "close but no cigar" reporting showed ADHD people as being out of control and unmanagable.
Try extensive procrastination, depression, a sense of being "lost", multiple thoughts vying to be at the front of the line, lack of focus, forgetfullness, trouble with memory recall.
SO I'm on Strattera for now. I haven't noticed anything significant, but, it is the first day... so no expectations. But, from what I've seen and read, it looks promising.
We'll see.
It was a very emotional day. Mostly because I now have an answer to my scatterbrained personality. It was quite scary as the doctor read the symptoms and my wife and I repeatedly reply "yes, yes, yes, yes".
I learned what it really means to be ADHD not what the media has promoted it as. What threw me the most is the major difference between how the media portrays it and the reality of it. MAJOR significance. And is probably the reason it took me and my wife so long to figure it out. As usual their "close but no cigar" reporting showed ADHD people as being out of control and unmanagable.
Try extensive procrastination, depression, a sense of being "lost", multiple thoughts vying to be at the front of the line, lack of focus, forgetfullness, trouble with memory recall.
SO I'm on Strattera for now. I haven't noticed anything significant, but, it is the first day... so no expectations. But, from what I've seen and read, it looks promising.
We'll see.
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