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Anonymous
I’ve just turned 40, and was just diagnosed myself. After a few weeks on Strattera, I actually caught myself thinking yesterday “Boy, that person sure is forgetful…”. Oh the delicious irony of it all.
Irvin Yalom wrote in “Love’s Executioner” about the idea of ‘meaning flowing retroactively’, in explaining why he enjoys working with adults and the elderly and helping them reach a new meaning in their lives – in part because he believes that it is never too late to reach a new understanding of one’s life. In reaching a new understanding, the new meaning can act as a new lens or ‘organizing process’ to someone’s past, flowing back in time and re-organizing or re-interpreting the past in a more fair and dispassionate way.
This is certainly the case for me. I consider that my diagnosis has provided me with a clarifying narrative, one that helps explain all those problems and struggles and shame filled moments and difficulties throughout my life. It in some ways acts as a salve on the pain.
I was always a late bloomer, but better now than never!
Mungo
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