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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ADHD is one of those weird diagnoses where it sounds like they will solve all the problems but frequently labeling something makes it worse. She seems like she is very anxious and copes with it by being perfectionist and then drinking. [/quote]
+1 this was me. I knew I needed help and went to the school psychologist, got diagnosed w adult ADHD (“and probably something else but not sure what”), and the recommendation was just higher and higher doses of the medication that was advertised in the Dr’s office, which ultimately ruined my life for several years. Nothing about counseling, CBT, executive functioning coaches like the PP below talks about—those supports would have made a world of difference and I wish they had told me about any of it. The closest thing I got to that was the suggestion to try to get tasks done in the morning and not the evening, and to open the capsule up and dissolve it in a bottle of water to space it out. My parents “don’t believe in this stuff” so they were no help. I managed to graduate by the skin of my teeth, barely. I’ve been afraid since of going back to try again w other Drs and meds, even though I now have a better sense of other tools that might be available to me. This was at UVA[/quote]

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