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Hey buddy, unless you have the education/credentials to diagnose I suggest you stop gate keeping ADHD. Many people, especially women, are not diagnosed until later in life.
Ok - I thought I was crazy, “remotest you haven’t been” like what?!?!?! (That sentence gave me a headache)
Disagree. My son was diagnosed with ADHD at age 7 and through helping him deal with it and learning more about it, I realized that I may have it myself, and was never diagnosed as a child because it wasn’t such a hot topic when I was growing up. I always wondered why I spaced out during class growing up and why I can’t sit through 2-8 hour meetings with my clients, whereas others seem to be just fine. So I went for a consultation and was diagnosed at age 34. And I can tell you that once I started treatment, it made a world of a difference.
Im a college graduate, have my CPA and always did well in school because I was very studious and cared to succeed. So I disagree that you can’t be a college graduate and make it far with ADHD because I did it even before I started treatment. But you do need work a lot harder than others. I had to spend more time studying than my classmates due to constantly losing focus and had to spend time extra time gathering information that I missed during client meetings because I couldn’t pay attention for 4 hours.
However, I will agree with you that many people callously say “oh I have ADHD, is that a plane” not realizing that that’s not how ADHD manifests itself.
I feel so seen. Something so important that I thought I was good at just flew over my head the other day and I'm like, this information was available to me and mattered, why didn't I do something with it? I also have a master's and am constantly asking myself now how I did that because I don't feel like I have that strength anymore. Makes me wonder if I'm just really good at the theoretical but shit with the practical because it has problems that I actually can't solve in it. Sigh. Still unmedicated but really trying to insert more positive changes in the rest of my life while I decide if it is for me. I'm really trying therapy and seeing if there are skills I can learn that help me manage it. Some camaraderie feels good, no matter how nuanced and different our situations are.
My boyfriend got diagnosed with adhd and dyslexia after graduating college. He always just thought he was “bad at reading”, yet still graduated summa cum laude with a humanities major
I do have ADHD. The psych I went to didn't believe me until he tested me.
I tell my kids it is not a disorder, but a different way of thinking. Have to get in to the right job to make it an advantage.
Same. I wasn’t diagnosed until 5 years into my career, after grad school. I was oblivious. Those around me were the ones who suggested I see someone. My family didn’t believe in psychology and so I was pretty much blind to the whole thing until it dropped a bomb in my adult life, which I’m still frustratedly trying to recover from and get a grip on.
I was diagnosed 2 years into my career. I worked my ass off to graduate college with honors. I never took anything away from an in person class. I just tried to take notes and studied on my own from the textbooks. It was insanely difficult and I had to work twice as hard as everyone else. Always the last to turn in tests. Masters was even harder but I snuck by with a 3.0 and it was the worst year of my life. Third year into my career I was fired. My whole life I had never really been held accountable for how long things took me, so as long as I put in the time and effort I could do it. When I started having to enter my time at work, plus have to report 60-70 hours during tax season, I failed. I finally went to a dr and gosh do I wish I’d done that sooner. My whole life’s struggle finally made sense all the way back to 5th grade. Sorry Tax Senior Staff, but you’re quite misinformed.
I barely graduated. So there’s that too.
What are the criteria for a quality psychiatrist? I don’t want just meds, I understand there is cognitive behavioral therapy that can help and I want both. Please share you insight or recommendations, especially anyone who is willing to do remote sessions… the thought of needing to set aside 2+ hours to seek therapy gives me great discomfort. Thanks in advance for your input! 💜
My experience has been that the psychiatrist is only to prescribe meds. My psychiatrist has suggested I also speak with a therapist or psychologist, but his role is just the meds. Would be interested to know others experiences though. Good question.