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Would anyone wanna learn about ADHD, Anxiety, Anger Issues, Depression, Medication, or Therapy. and like how to interact and talk with people who have these problems? I would really enjoy educating people on my life and my different brain! I'm an open book and not easily offended at all, well unless you tell me my problems aren't real or that I'm the r slur.
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Would anyone wanna learn about ADHD, Anxiety, Anger Issues, Depression, Medication, or Therapy. and like how to interact and talk with people who have these pro...
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everything is stressing me out
sorry for the spelling mistakes. today was very bad. yesterday i went to sleep at 3am because my moms boyfriend was drunk and i was really worried he would do s...
Yes absolutely. I'm always fascinated about the human mind.
ReplyYou can ask me anything about anything!
ReplyI don't know if you'll see this since it's been hours but how do all those different things affect/interact with each other?
ReplyGood question! So obviously everyone's experience is different. Not all people with ADHD have the other things and not all people with the other things have ADHD. I know, in my experience, my ADHD has affected all of the other things. ADHD is one of the causes of my Anxiety. I know those go hand in hand. Because when I'm anxious I start to fidget or get super hyper and when my ADHD is bad, I get anxious. My ADHD was never a result of something from my childhood, it was genetic, my mom, aunt, grandma, and 2 cousins on my mom's side all have ADHD. My Anxiety and Depression was also genetic but the reason it got worse was because of something I went through. When you have what I have, you feel all emotions at a heighted level, everything seems way worse or way better than it actually is, basically I'm sensitive af. So when things go wrong in my life it hits me harder then it would for nuero-typical people.
ReplyFor me, ADHD basically means is it takes a lot more concentration and effort to focus then a normal brain person. The way I can describe it is like I have more thoughts before breakfast than a normal mind person has all day. I never stop thinking. The Hyperactivity part of my ADHD makes me very loud, outgoing, and sometimes extremely crazy. My ADHD paired with my Anxiety and Depression caused me to have mild manic episodes, in which I'd go on " auto pilot " and feel like I couldn't control my own body, thoughts, words, or actions. super scary right? This caused me to do really dumb things that I remember being SO embaressed about. It's like I guess being high in a way, you say things and don't know why everyone's laughing. My manic episodes have gotten less destructive since I started medication but I still have to look out for my triggers. My ADHD causes me to do this thing called " hyper-focusing" which is actually the opposite to the main piece of ADHD. Similar to people with Autism, people with ADHD usually have a select few things that we can hyper-focus on. Things that if we start talking about them, it's really hard to move on to a different subject. Mine have always been History, Spanish, Books, Movies, and Music. In both Spanish and History ( I'm in 9th grade ) I've NEVER gotten lower then a 98% in either of those classes. I can talk about wars, the holocaust, politics, civil rights, feminism for HOURS. Same with my favorite TV show Grey's Anatomy, if you let me, I'll talk about it for hours. Sometimes I take my medication for my ADHD, go upstairs to do homework, 3 hours later my mom calls me, " how much of your homework have you done?" and I'm like "none" and she's like " well did you take your meds this morning?" and I'm like " yes mom, I did, the meds help me focus they just don't tell me what to focus on, I just watched funny cat videos for 3 hours straight, whoops!"
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