Are these self-explanatory or did y'all really go to the doctors and they told you were diagnosed with sucha such. Kawaiilotus just said they discover they had adhd less than a hour ago makes me think you just look up adhd symptoms and believe that out of 1/10 of those things, you have it.
It's kinda hard telling the difference between people who really has it or just don't.
That's the sad thing about the Internet, you'll have people who really have it and may need help then you have those who just think it's a game and just want some attention.
I remember when I was like around 13 and I assume I had bipolar depression because of my constant mood swings(turns out to be puberty) and I was mentally fine.
Now that I'm older, I have clinical depression. This begin to adapt since the passing of my mother. I'm not suicidal, oh no. I fear dying for seeing my life-less mom face to face traumatized me. My constant overthinking made me stress. My stress prevents me from doing anything. Me doing nothing prevents me from enjoying anything. And I can hardly enjoy anything cause of my prone fear of dying so anxiety comes into place.
I take medicine and I'm about to go to counseling again
As someone with ADHD, I beg to differ.
I wasn't actually diagnosed until doctors had me try out medication. FYI I am 28.
Every single GP has tried to diagnose me with depression and anxiety since I was a teenager, and every time I went to see a therapist they said I had "situational" depression or anxiety, meaning that something stressful is actually causing those events, that it's not caused by some sort of chemical imbalance. Stressful things like, oh, a different disorder.
Now, my parents never had me diagnosed as a kid because they didn't want me on meds, but I displayed an awful amount of inattentive symptoms even at an early age. It's all over the report cards, and yet when I was at home I'd do nothing but read (usually material that was more advanced). There's also a ton of family members who are also obviously ADHD and it's visible in at least three generations. Anyway, eventually it got to the point where I was being threatened with being fired at work despite working a crazy number of hours a week and devoting my entire life to it. I completely broke down crying in the doctors office about how no one listens to what's actually going on, how I never get better, I can't sit still yet I have no energy, I can't focus, and now I'm getting fired. And it was just a check up for a different health issue.
He put me on a very low dose of Adderall to start out with. The first time I took it, I felt lightheaded and it was unpleasant, but I have not experienced that since. For the first time in my life I felt like I was functioning the way a normal person should be able to function and I was actually able to do some work coherently for a few hours. For the first time I actually felt calm. Unfortunately a week later I was fired anyway, it was too late.
Self diagnoses can be a bad thing at times, but honestly, if you really feel as though something is wrong and there's a lifetime of proof and it's obvious it exists in other family members, you need to be upfront about that. I argued with doctors about this for literally a decade without getting the help I needed. Going on meds was honestly a really scary decision for me (I'm severely allergic to a lot of medications), but the past few years have been substantially better large in part because of it.
I agree that people need to do more than just read a list of symptoms and say "I have that!" It has to be an extreme thing. If you're feeling miserable every day to the point where you don't function, or are suicidal, or feel like everything is out of control, or you keep getting fired or failing classes, and it all feels like it's that way for no reason, then there probably is something going on.
