I spent a good part of the pandemic beating myself up for losing multiple debit cards (despite not going to stores?), frustrated that I was getting distracted working from home, and buying so many things online to get organized that are just in piles in our spare room. When my therapist began exploring the possibility of a diagnosis, I spent time in denial. With acceptance (and meds), I feel like a new person.
Yes! It’s so refreshing to hear ADHD discussed in terms of how it applies to adult women. I was diagnosed at 20 after a lifetime of report cards that said “if she could just focus…” and “Marcail isn’t living up to her potential.” The same semester that I was on College Jeopardy I also got a 1.8 GPA. Part of it was because I was having so much fun, but a bigger part was that I just couldn’t do the thing.
I recently switched from Adderall XR to Vyvanse after finding a female integrative psychiatrist who took my whole health picture into account, and it’s been a great change. Still, the behaviors that I’ve learned and skated by on for DECADES are so hard to unlearn as a 41 year old working mom of two young kids.
Thanks for shining a light on what this (insert swirling hand gesture here) feels like.
I spent a good part of the pandemic beating myself up for losing multiple debit cards (despite not going to stores?), frustrated that I was getting distracted working from home, and buying so many things online to get organized that are just in piles in our spare room. When my therapist began exploring the possibility of a diagnosis, I spent time in denial. With acceptance (and meds), I feel like a new person.
Yes! It’s so refreshing to hear ADHD discussed in terms of how it applies to adult women. I was diagnosed at 20 after a lifetime of report cards that said “if she could just focus…” and “Marcail isn’t living up to her potential.” The same semester that I was on College Jeopardy I also got a 1.8 GPA. Part of it was because I was having so much fun, but a bigger part was that I just couldn’t do the thing.
I recently switched from Adderall XR to Vyvanse after finding a female integrative psychiatrist who took my whole health picture into account, and it’s been a great change. Still, the behaviors that I’ve learned and skated by on for DECADES are so hard to unlearn as a 41 year old working mom of two young kids.
Thanks for shining a light on what this (insert swirling hand gesture here) feels like.