5d • General discussion
Does Your ADHD Pain Cut This Deep?
There is no denying that anyone who has ADHD struggles to some degree.
And depending on your specific ADHD diagnosis, your struggles could vary anywhere from minor to quite severe. Now add to it that someone with ADHD is 3 times more likely to suffer from addiction, depression, anxiety, and that everyone's unique life experience, the nurture side of things, can ease or exacerbate all of it, it’s clear is that anyone with ADHD has the deck stacked against them.
So when I connect with another ADHDer who is struggling and they tell me the following:
"𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘤𝘬 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘯𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘦."
Hearing this breaks my heart every time because I know it doesn't’ t have to be that way
But here’s the reality, I get messages like this every day from people who feel this same sense of hopelessness.
Now the best I can do in those moments is provide words of encouragement and I almost always end up inviting them to hop on call to talk through their struggles and figure out a path forward.
Because of all the things that I’ve learned about ADHD is this, you were never meant to do this on your own and this is something I wish I knew in my teens…and that's 40 years ago!
I can only image how different my life would be today if I got the help I needed when I was say 16.
So if your struggling with ADHD do yourself the favor and find the support that works best for you, be it working with a psychiatrist, therapist, coach like myself, meds or even join a community of other like minded ADHDer's who can empathize with your struggles and remind you your not alone
But if you wake up tomorrow and choose not to get help then that's on you and don’t expect your situation to improve cause chances are it will just continue to get worse.
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