Wrong! I was only 27 when I got diagnosed πͺπͺ
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Haha, about the same. Now 32 and feel like I'm the best I've ever been since diagnosis and medication πͺ
Oh well.
I didn't get diagnosed until my 50's. Now starting to get a grip on things.
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I have a diagnosis but meds didn't work, possibly because i live a pretty much sheltered life and was never forced into work, i did some jobs but i never lasted more than a year. The last 3 years i spent smoking weed and postponing my waking up. Now i'm trying psychotherapy again and i've been prescribed efexor.
But i feel more hopeless and spent than ever. I can't feel interest nor curiosity about anything. Social interactions are pain, and what's worse is that even with my closest friends it is now like that. I just feel like I'm not interested or capable of conversing with them, cause I feel no interest in any thing anymore....
Iβm not a doctor, but what youβre describing sounds very much like clinical depression to me. So Iβm wondering if maybe your dose of Effexorneeds to be adjusted. Again, I am not a medical professional in any way shape or form also, for me personally, I was smoking weedfor the first six months after I got diagnosed in addition to taking the Adderall. The weed almost completely Counteracted all the beneficial effects of the Adderall. Once I got off it, I am not my best self that I have ever been. donβt drink I donβt smoke. I donβt do any of that stuff anymore and I no longer feel the urge.
So maybe you need to artificially create some sort of panic in your life. I look at your life and am jealous of the things discribe but you seem to be wanting in on what Im going through. So if that's the case just need to be constantly panicked about something.
It is just so tiring sometimes
30 is as great a time to start as any
I brought it up to my doctor and got a referral to get a diagnosis, finally. That was 4 years ago. I need to ask again for another referral but keep forgetting/not being able to, while im there. If I can bring myself to do it, I might just ask my doctor to help me make the appointment while im there. :P
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Getting my shit together < the sweet embrace of the status quo
Yeah like it's only a problem when I'm expected to cover the duties of the two friends who got laid off, on top of my own job description.
I wouldn't need drugs to "lock in" if I wasn't continually being squeezed for more more more focus more productivity more time more fucking unwavering attention.
It's not normal! It's this stupid grind culture that makes me disabled. When the workload is evenly shared I don't need drugs.
25 for me and had just been fired for the second time. I was lucky enough to find coping mechanisms and a support structure that worked for me with people who had my best interests in mind otherwise I'd probably still be struggling.
That was over 20 years ago and now when I tell people I'm ADHD they don't believe me. Makes me feel good!
You shut the fuck up. I do not appreciate being attacked like this
Yep. I wasnβt diagnosed until I was like 35.
Yeah, and what's difficult is that real improvement is possible, but you get stuck in this rut where you view attempts to improve yourself as pointless.
I'm exactly like that, and I find it so strange. Usually, the brain adepts to a new situation, and that isn't exactly new.
I plan everything as if I did not have ADD, and have done so even before I was diagnosed and had meds.
Ironically, I started actually building stuff when I hit 30.
Nah, before I was diagnosed I was basically a zombie raising from the dead each morning through sheer willpower.
Even now that I'm medicated I still do this everyday. Things are better, but medication has its limits.
It also doesn't last all day, much to my dismay.
I get four hours out of supposedly 12 hour extended release Adderall.