Reply To: Diagnosed last week

[jlacroix]

What you’ve described matches me fairly well. I feel as though after the diagnosis, things make much more sense, I understand why things are so hard. The ADHD diagnosis answers the “why” but it doesn’t answer “what” to do about it. I am at the beginning of the process so there is no way I can know what I should do about it yet, but I can research about it now knowing what to base my searches and reading on. Like you said, life suddenly started to make more sense.

As for anxiety, I feel that not being as productive as I want to be does cause anxiety. Granted, I can have anxiety even without being under-productive, but being a working adult makes this especially hard since there’s a certain level of productivity expected every day. For the most part, I have to force myself, and I do. But I can sometimes feel depressed about it as well, and anxious from not being able to do what I want or need to do.

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