Re: Successful ADDers annoy the h*ll out of me.

[Anonymous]

hi all, i can relate to the very first post. everyone here speaks pure poetry. really well thought out answers. despite the fact that i’m skippin around a lot reading them, i am truly enjoying them. i think though it’s really hard to do…. we should all stop berating ourselves to the point of exhaustion. i think we are all our own worst enemy. who needs enemies when we’ve got ourselves to put us down?

(i’m talking about people who have ADHD or forms of it are worse in their thinking about criticizing themselves- i’m constantly doing it to myself and it really sucks!)

if for some reason, you find a little tiny bit of happiness in whatever whether its our children, pets, music, really nice roses outside the house, etc. F-CK the successful people, we need to look into our own homes, souls, and just keep trying to do good for yourself and family or pets.

i really tried to make it short and sweet here but i can write pages of stuff about my own life.

i’m a nj housewife, my kid’s got ADHD and i’m fighting tooth and nail with my husband about medicating myself and my kid because i feel like i’ve got no control over my own life. i used to be able to cook and clean, pay bills, have a job, was thinner and younger, but now that i’m 40 – my life is starting to grind to a halt and just trying to do last night’s dishes is hard. yet if i put on a little bit of music, drink a cup of joe, sit down and read, which is really rare nowadays, I feel somewhat happy. like, shouldn’t i be doing something more important right now? or what did i forget to do THIS time?!

there is no real one true answer here. i guess we need to learn to live day by day and not hate ourselves for what could have been? when i was little, i wanted to save the world, now that i’m older, i want to save myself from drowning….

vent, everyone, let’s keep our shoulders wet with tears, and then let’s figure out how to make everything better…sorry, i’m being an idiot again…

one last thing, i’m so glad that i’m not in the street, doing drugs, or starving, i have a roof over my head, food in my belly, a sweet loving son who also has ADHD, and an angry husband who is frustrating with dealing with my kid’s and my own ADHD,. but i’m still grateful….

i’m not:

* dying of some horrible disease,

* or am in a country where i don’t have shoes on my feet or running water, or proper medical care.

* in a country where there is no freedom…..

there are worse people off than ourselves here….that’s one of the many things that i think about and it kind of brings me back to earth a little…..sorry for my idiocy here….

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