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October 9, 2012 at 5:46 pm
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Anxiety causes ADHD symptoms to be worse, and that’s certainly the case for me. Until my recent diagnosis for ADHD, I had always assumed that my inattentiveness and forgetfulness were caused by anxiety as they appeared worse when I was under stress. I put the problems with motivation down to just the way I am, and was unaware of my emotion regulation issues.
What really made me sure the problems were stress related back then, was that I saw a huge improvement after I learned to use relaxation response exercises. Being calm makes all the difference in coping with ADHD.
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