Excessive day dreaming?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Add Inattentive.

+1000000
This was me as a child. Didn’t get diagnosed til earlier this year (age 38).

What prompted you to get diagnosed?

NP with same story. What prompted me to get diagnosed and treated with meds is that I couldn’t function as an adult. My coping mechanisms stopped working. My symptoms got worse with stress. It took me two hours to unload the dishwasher most days because I’d get sidetracked. I’d start a million projects and finish none. My house was a wreck and my marriage was being affected. I couldn’t even read a magazine article anymore. I simply could not focus or remember anything. I thought I was going crazy, like early onset dementia or something.

The PPs who are saying not to ruin your kids with meds make me so frustrated. I started falling apart in college, became depressed, dropped out, developed anxiety, had extremely low self esteem, was told I was lazy and lacked drive. I’m very smart and had great test scores and wonderful grades until I fell apart, so I was told the problem was clearly that I wasn’t trying hard enough. I hate that I wasn’t given a proper chance because my parents didn’t “believe in” adhd, except in extreme cases, and felt like everyone was overmedicating their kids and turning them into little zombies devoid of personality. When I got the dosage right, I never once felt dull. I feel focused, creative, self confident, and like I can conquer the world.

I was ashamed to admit to my mom that I started taking meds after how she felt about the topic when I was a kid. After she commented a few times about how put together I seemed (while I was doing treatment on the down low), I told her my diagnosis and that I had started meds. She said, “oh that’s interesting. I take meds for that too.” I’m a little bitter that she didn’t seek help for me, and limited my potential, and then when she became educated on the topic she chose to accept the same help she denied me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Add Inattentive.

+1000000
This was me as a child. Didn’t get diagnosed til earlier this year (age 38).

What prompted you to get diagnosed?

NP with same story. What prompted me to get diagnosed and treated with meds is that I couldn’t function as an adult. My coping mechanisms stopped working. My symptoms got worse with stress. It took me two hours to unload the dishwasher most days because I’d get sidetracked. I’d start a million projects and finish none. My house was a wreck and my marriage was being affected. I couldn’t even read a magazine article anymore. I simply could not focus or remember anything. I thought I was going crazy, like early onset dementia or something.

The PPs who are saying not to ruin your kids with meds make me so frustrated. I started falling apart in college, became depressed, dropped out, developed anxiety, had extremely low self esteem, was told I was lazy and lacked drive. I’m very smart and had great test scores and wonderful grades until I fell apart, so I was told the problem was clearly that I wasn’t trying hard enough. I hate that I wasn’t given a proper chance because my parents didn’t “believe in” adhd, except in extreme cases, and felt like everyone was overmedicating their kids and turning them into little zombies devoid of personality. When I got the dosage right, I never once felt dull. I feel focused, creative, self confident, and like I can conquer the world.

I was ashamed to admit to my mom that I started taking meds after how she felt about the topic when I was a kid. After she commented a few times about how put together I seemed (while I was doing treatment on the down low), I told her my diagnosis and that I had started meds. She said, “oh that’s interesting. I take meds for that too.” I’m a little bitter that she didn’t seek help for me, and limited my potential, and then when she became educated on the topic she chose to accept the same help she denied me.

What type of doctor did you go see, for an adult evaluation and diagnosis? I really would like to look in to this for myself.

Thanks!