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Can we look back on this disorder and take in how truly awful it is to live with it? For most of your life, people call you lazy, inattentive, annoying. You t
by coldblues 4y ago
Can we look back on this disorder and take in how truly awful it is to live with it?
For most of your life, people call you lazy, inattentive, annoying.
You try to keep up with schoolwork/work/taxes/chores/XYZ but the activity makes you want to vomit from the tightness in your chest and the mental fog that creeps whenever you want to just get done with it.
The majority of people believe ADHD does not exist, and keep leading you down a road where your self-esteem keeps getting destroyed more and more when no methods seems to work effectively.
When you get diagnosed, which in most parts of the world is so hard it'd be easier to plan your suicide; and you get prescribed medication, people call you a drug addict.
ADHD is one of the most researched disorders and the most treatable, but the majority of people who have it are hardly diagnosed and their problems are never taken seriously, because neurotypicals have a hard time relating with the experience.
You always have noise in your head. You can never relax. You always have to be doing something. You have a constant monologue going in your head and made up scenarios.
You're either stuck trying to start a task for two hours, or obsessively doing something for 12 hours.
Comorbid anxiety disorder is very common to have developed from all the childhood trauma resulting from ADHD.