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I’ve been through a couple of bouts of Depression at various points in my life. Beyond the normal sadness when something awful happened or things got very stressful. It really emphasized the difference between ADHD and other conditions that you fall into. I’ve never known anything other than ADHD, and the frenzied tornado of thoughts that went with it. (Until I tried medication.) But when I was in the low part of the Depression I could sense something was different. Both times I sought help from a counsellor, though I went in to see them with the idea that, “I’m frustrated and can’t figure out why.”
Once I had a reliable diagnosis for ADHD, and I started to take it on, I could see how the tornado of thoughts was 99% negative stuff.
Even when things were going well, all I could see were the negatives, or the things that might go wrong.
Even good news was bad news. “Hey, they’ve picked up our show for another season! We’ve been renewed!” and I’d think, “Oh God, another year of long hours and hard work and stress… and what if we aren’t as funny as last year? And I want to go do something new…” Blah, blah, blah.
The scary thing about Depression is that everything and anything is negative.
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