Re: ADHD and Spirituality

[Anonymous]

I too have had a problem with faith, I was raised Christian (anglican), and first my habit of questioning everything (ADD) had me wondering what if about everything, but my habit of avoiding anything remotely scary (Anxiety) kept me from invistigating further. I was agnostic through most of my youth and young adulthood.

Since I’ve had children and seen my own anxiety mirrored in my son, I’ve become motivated to help him. I see so many people who are able to take comfort from their faith that I hoped it would help him.

It took a long time to find a church he was comfortable with. For one, true ADD style I went to 3(unacceptable ones) and, gave up.

We found a church by “accident”. We were invited to a child focused social event at a church, that my son enjoyed, when he asked if we could come back for grown up church (and sunday school), it was an easy decision.

Since, I’ve had some of my own breakthroughs during the services that followed, even discovered if I close my eyes during the sermon I am able to focus a bit more instead of counting bricks or watching the squirrel in the tree outside. I still have difficulty organising the information as it comes in but at least I can hear it, that’s a start.

I have recently been thinking about my thought organisation process, and how it could translate to emotions. Sometimes I have difficulty processing my emotions, and I’m wondering if that may have held back my faith, as much as the questioning.

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