My brother was diagnosed in his late 20s. He’s on something similar to Ritalin and has sorted himself out. We always just assumed he was bold
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Currently in the beginning stages of getting tested at 30. So bloody costly, both in terms of time and money.
Only diagnosed there myself before Christmas and it’s like night and fucking day. Was on kiddie doses to begin with before an increase and even that was like nothing I’d known before. Used to always think I needed to be in a state of “flow” to get things done; little did I know all I needed was a bit of meth!
I’m a woman with suspected ADHD, the symptoms are vastly different from men and I’m constantly being told that because I can do X or can’t do Y, it means there’s nothing wrong with me. Was told I’d have to pay upwards of 3k euro to get properly diagnosed before I can even look at medication options. It’s ruining my life.
This describes me scarily well, might have to talk to my GP. Had the exact same things she was talking about
Can’t help but feel bad for those who grew up before ADHD was a thing. A lot of kids would have been abused by teachers for ‘being bold’.
I have to say from personal experience, there’s a special hellishness to making someone wait 6+ months for an appointment when they’ve got a condition that fucks up their perception of time
27 and in the process of getting diagnosed. I first approached my old doctors when I was in my teens and explained that I just can’t focus on school in any form and they told me all teens are that way. I got brushed off several times. I told my schools counsellor & my year head, my year head believed i was a waster and her solution was to sit me alone away from my friends. I pleaded before the leaving cert that I physically and mentally can’t sit down and write for hours and that if I was given the chance on a PC where I could type faster I would feel better, their response “those options are for people who really need them”. I still don’t know what I got in the leaving, I never opened the papers. I’m glad I’m getting sorted now, but I wish I was taken serious when I was a teen.
FYI, rADHDmemes is a good subreddit they are funny and relatable to people with ADHD. It’s actually how I realised I have it.
Personal story, I was a patient of Marie Murray when I was 14 she’s an expert who has been on Jerry Ryan etc. and She was really great, she changed my life actually.
I was diagnosed with three things, one was learning difficulty, another was being fairly intelligent (I’m not Einstein but everyone thought I was a moron because of the first thing) and the third thing was having a dad who was a bit of a prick.
I think the psychiatrist who was working with her’s exact words to him were “he has to go to school all day and be bullied and then come home to more of it, its a miracle he’s even still here”
Anyway one thing I didn’t really get was treatment for the learning stuff because it was mostly centered around my writing. Turns out I had ADD, when I emigrated to the states and went back to university I sought more help for it and they put me on the standard drugs which were not good for me. Because I have a bit of a temper (usually held in check very well) the standard Adderall and Ritalin type drugs made it more difficult for me to control my moods and I was not fun to be around.
So I had to discontinue use of them.
Recently I started a medicine called Strattera which is a whole different type of drug closer to an anti depressant.
Its absolutely miraculous, I wish I’d had it 30 years ago, I’m capable of sustained work with very fine attention to detail if I’m well rested and in a good frame of mind which I am most of the time.
Its something to look into having gone untreated my whole life having this has made a huge difference to my overall outlook and ability.
Living with diagnosed ADHD, you have this sense that you don’t quite fit too.
Contacted a place in Belfast that can start treatment for my ADHD and they said it would be a 6 month + waiting list. There’s one other place my GP mentioned that being Dublin but he said they will not do any treatment and send me back to him and he himself cannot do anything. This country sure loves making everything as difficult as possible.
The more I read articles like this, the more I am convinced I am undiagnosed.
My entire fucking life I’ve felt odd or left out, I KNOW my mind doesn’t work like most people’s and it’s scary sometimes.
I tend to hyperfocus on certain things, and I’m awful for picking up a new hobby but dropping it a few weeks after. I can type for hours on a story or creative writing assignment but ask me to hand write a page and not only does it take me forever, my handwriting is awful and changes style every few words.
I’m super organised when I have to be but the rest of the time I’m stupidly scattered. My time management is terrible, I’m always stupidly early for things. I can only accomplish tasks if I make a checklist for EVERYTHING. I panic and overplan everything too (seriously, five checklists for a night away in Dublin)
I’ve a really bad habit of oversharing in conversations and then feel bad for dominating the chat and worry about it for days afterwards.
It’s horrible, I just KNOW I’m not “like normal people” and it sucks because nobody WANTS to say “Hey there’s something wrong with me, there’s something *off* about me, please help me.”
(I know the term “normal people” might be offensive but it’s just my way of describing the feeling of being “other.” I distinctly remember a family member, when I started secondary school AND college, telling me to “be normal, act like the others in your class, don’t be weird.”)
>“I had been given a diagnosis of anxiety, and a diagnosis of depression at an earlier stage as well.”
>Yet, “I always had this sense that there was something missing, that those were symptoms of something broader”.
>After she read an article about ADHD in the media, her suspicions crystallised. “I just remember nearly falling out of my chair – ‘Oh my God that’s me’.” It prompted her to read more and seek a possible diagnosis.
I am a diagnosed ADHD woman, and I feel like I could have written this myself.
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My brother was diagnosed in his late 20s. He’s on something similar to Ritalin and has sorted himself out. We always just assumed he was bold
[removed]
Currently in the beginning stages of getting tested at 30. So bloody costly, both in terms of time and money.
Only diagnosed there myself before Christmas and it’s like night and fucking day. Was on kiddie doses to begin with before an increase and even that was like nothing I’d known before. Used to always think I needed to be in a state of “flow” to get things done; little did I know all I needed was a bit of meth!
I’m a woman with suspected ADHD, the symptoms are vastly different from men and I’m constantly being told that because I can do X or can’t do Y, it means there’s nothing wrong with me. Was told I’d have to pay upwards of 3k euro to get properly diagnosed before I can even look at medication options. It’s ruining my life.
This describes me scarily well, might have to talk to my GP. Had the exact same things she was talking about
Can’t help but feel bad for those who grew up before ADHD was a thing. A lot of kids would have been abused by teachers for ‘being bold’.
I have to say from personal experience, there’s a special hellishness to making someone wait 6+ months for an appointment when they’ve got a condition that fucks up their perception of time
27 and in the process of getting diagnosed. I first approached my old doctors when I was in my teens and explained that I just can’t focus on school in any form and they told me all teens are that way. I got brushed off several times. I told my schools counsellor & my year head, my year head believed i was a waster and her solution was to sit me alone away from my friends. I pleaded before the leaving cert that I physically and mentally can’t sit down and write for hours and that if I was given the chance on a PC where I could type faster I would feel better, their response “those options are for people who really need them”. I still don’t know what I got in the leaving, I never opened the papers. I’m glad I’m getting sorted now, but I wish I was taken serious when I was a teen.
FYI, rADHDmemes is a good subreddit they are funny and relatable to people with ADHD. It’s actually how I realised I have it.
Personal story, I was a patient of Marie Murray when I was 14 she’s an expert who has been on Jerry Ryan etc. and She was really great, she changed my life actually.
I was diagnosed with three things, one was learning difficulty, another was being fairly intelligent (I’m not Einstein but everyone thought I was a moron because of the first thing) and the third thing was having a dad who was a bit of a prick.
I think the psychiatrist who was working with her’s exact words to him were “he has to go to school all day and be bullied and then come home to more of it, its a miracle he’s even still here”
Anyway one thing I didn’t really get was treatment for the learning stuff because it was mostly centered around my writing. Turns out I had ADD, when I emigrated to the states and went back to university I sought more help for it and they put me on the standard drugs which were not good for me. Because I have a bit of a temper (usually held in check very well) the standard Adderall and Ritalin type drugs made it more difficult for me to control my moods and I was not fun to be around.
So I had to discontinue use of them.
Recently I started a medicine called Strattera which is a whole different type of drug closer to an anti depressant.
Its absolutely miraculous, I wish I’d had it 30 years ago, I’m capable of sustained work with very fine attention to detail if I’m well rested and in a good frame of mind which I am most of the time.
Its something to look into having gone untreated my whole life having this has made a huge difference to my overall outlook and ability.
Living with diagnosed ADHD, you have this sense that you don’t quite fit too.
Contacted a place in Belfast that can start treatment for my ADHD and they said it would be a 6 month + waiting list. There’s one other place my GP mentioned that being Dublin but he said they will not do any treatment and send me back to him and he himself cannot do anything. This country sure loves making everything as difficult as possible.
The more I read articles like this, the more I am convinced I am undiagnosed.
My entire fucking life I’ve felt odd or left out, I KNOW my mind doesn’t work like most people’s and it’s scary sometimes.
I tend to hyperfocus on certain things, and I’m awful for picking up a new hobby but dropping it a few weeks after. I can type for hours on a story or creative writing assignment but ask me to hand write a page and not only does it take me forever, my handwriting is awful and changes style every few words.
I’m super organised when I have to be but the rest of the time I’m stupidly scattered. My time management is terrible, I’m always stupidly early for things. I can only accomplish tasks if I make a checklist for EVERYTHING. I panic and overplan everything too (seriously, five checklists for a night away in Dublin)
I’ve a really bad habit of oversharing in conversations and then feel bad for dominating the chat and worry about it for days afterwards.
It’s horrible, I just KNOW I’m not “like normal people” and it sucks because nobody WANTS to say “Hey there’s something wrong with me, there’s something *off* about me, please help me.”
(I know the term “normal people” might be offensive but it’s just my way of describing the feeling of being “other.” I distinctly remember a family member, when I started secondary school AND college, telling me to “be normal, act like the others in your class, don’t be weird.”)
>“I had been given a diagnosis of anxiety, and a diagnosis of depression at an earlier stage as well.”
>Yet, “I always had this sense that there was something missing, that those were symptoms of something broader”.
>After she read an article about ADHD in the media, her suspicions crystallised. “I just remember nearly falling out of my chair – ‘Oh my God that’s me’.” It prompted her to read more and seek a possible diagnosis.
I am a diagnosed ADHD woman, and I feel like I could have written this myself.