Free Resource for Women and Girls: Is It ADHD?Several times I’d forgotten to turn off the stove overnight or after leaving for work. When I’d find it hours later, it scared me. To change that, I started repeatedly checking the stove.
Sometimes I’d check but not actually be paying attention. So I’d have to re-check. Other times, I swore I already checked it but couldn’t trust myself to know for sure because I’d been wrong too many times. So just to be on the safe side….4. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder /can really drag me down. I remember telling a counselor how criticism and confrontation, at times, was so overwhelming that I couldn’t even watch it on television.
I lost count of how many times she asked me if something scary or life threatening had ever happened to cause such a reaction. She thought it could be PTSD. But it was actually ADHD…I’ve always been known by those closest to me as surprisingly messy. Most people don’t notice it until they need a ride in my car or visit my house without enough notice for me to hastily shove everything out of site.
Mess gets away from us quickly, due to procrastination, feeling overwhelmed at all there is to do, struggling to plan and organize cleaning efforts, forgetting that it needs to happen, and not noticing how bad it actually is. I remember my mom being so confused how I could step over the boxes she’d put at my door for a full week and never register that they were there.seem to bear it all too often.
ADHD often means zoning out in the middle of the conversation, which tends to make me look spacey. Pair that with forgetting things, not paying attention to where I’m going, the propensity for zoning out and getting lost or running into things, and I sometimes appear less intelligent than I am.[
True for everyone who keeps being treated for separate symptoms like depression, anxiety, suicidal behaviors, physical symptoms and personality disorders without looking at the root cause. Look up ACEs attachmenttrauma
True for men too