Re: Angry? Hell ,I'm Pissed!

[Anonymous]

“Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help”. I feel that your post was a call for help. Your life has been a train wreck for so many years you have lost sight of who you are. What you are is not ADHD! You are not ADHD with a body, but a man with ADHD. I can tell you that having finally found out what has caused you to be the way you are, is the beginning of the healing process. You said it yourself “knowing that ADHD is the reason has helped”. Now take all the energy that went into your post and channel it into making your life a better place to live.

We have a lot in common Caravaggio, I to have lived a life full of pain and shame. In school, I was the class clown trying to hide my problem. As an adult, I learned that I could also hide from my problem by being a “work-a-holic” I learned to take that “hyper focus” part of ADD and use it to hide behind. I past the ADHD genes to my son. I got to watch him struggle in school and know all the while I was the one who had done that to him. My wife did help him as much as she could. He was taken to Child psychologists. He was put on the meds. She helped him with his organization skills, she did everything to help that boy. I on the other hand I was disconnected and absent, even though I lived in the same house. I did not embrace my ADD. Now my sons in prison, my wife of 32 years has left and I’m alone.

You have all the tools to change your life for the better. Use them. Please don’t think that adderall is the cure. It’s just one of the tools you have available to you. Their is a world of information and support here, make good use of it.

“God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it’s me”. Good luck

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