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I think it was about 20 months ago… give or take. I saw the video “ADD and Loving it?!” on PBS, it got my attention. Later I saw it again… I ordered one n watched almost a dozen times before I actually saw that there was a web site!. lol. No kidding, fortunately they showed it several times. Cuz that’s what it took for it to sink into my thick skull that “this ADHD thing is more than a lively topic for converwation, or something I’ve got in common with a couple of the coolest women in my life. My Neighbor and Her caregiver. Super sweet gals. My neighbor has a Son and Daughter in law who also say they have ADHD.
I’ve invited them here, mostly they just stop by n read some of our jokes n maybe watch a few videos. I would like it a lot if some of the folks in my life came here and participated. My imagination often thinks some of you guys are actually the people in my life. But disguised!. lol.
Yeah… I know who you are now…
Not! lol. I wonder some days. Just enough to feel embarrassed when one of you guys say something one of the friends in my live life would never say. Then I forget about that post, n it starts all over again.
If you’re about my Moms age, “You’re My Mom!”, if you’re my neighbors age. “YOU”RE MY NEIGHBOR!”
and on, and on… I like my imagination. It’s provided tons of entertainment when I was bored… I can rely on it.
It ain’t just my imagination that I’ve got ADHD though. I took the “Virtual Doctor” test right off the bat when I finished loggin in here. Even got a lot of help from more than just one person in the office at TotallyADD headquarters.
They helped with the login process cuz I goofed it somehow. Just plain couldn’t figure it out. But they helped me regardless of how dumb I seemed to be. (Just seemed to be stupid, lazy or crazy… SEEMED!) But folks like Jimi, and Pamela and others helped me out for Nothing!. Zero dollars you guys. So I’m feeling super grateful. Who wouldn’t?!.
I also got an official diagnosis about this time or maybe in Dec. 2011. With a fully accredited Phychiatrist. They made me take a long drawn out written exam. I ended up doing it three darn times
cuz I’m an ADDer for crying out loud and “that’s how we roll”
It was a long struggle. I’ve just spotted a wrinkled up page of the angry letter I wrote to my General practice doctor in Jan 2012, halfway under a blanket on my bed… I’m glad I never finished it, or sent it to him… I was a lil bit nutty, n sometimes stressed out… to say the least last Jan.
Of course I’m all better now… lol. We know that’s bull, huh?
I’ve got another appointment coming up on the 27th of Feb. Ack! that’s next week… Freaking finally… I’m only taking one wellbutrin each day now. Maybe I’ll try Ritalin again. We shall see what the Doctors say.
It’s a long twisted, dramatic, and discombobulated story. Mines plastered all over this web site… It took me some time to get the hang of living with this ADHD business… But we’re on to an easy enough path these days… I can’t complain. It’s better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. I can tell you that my friends.
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