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| ADHD, a Lifelong Struggle (2018) (gekk.info) | ||
| recommended by 1 user | 2020 | 458 points by spiffytech | mental health | original thread | | ||
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| nerdbaggy Apr 6, 2021 | on: FDA approves new ADHD drug for children | context |
Seems that lots of people only think ADHD people have a hard time paying attention. If it was that simple I would be so happy. Here are just a few of the things I struggle with.
- Will power. People with ADHD struggle sooooo much with will power. It’s a constant struggle with everything in life and really wears you down.
- Constantly putting on a fake front pretending you don’t have ADHD.
- Rejection sensitivity
- Feeling inadequate, and unset at yourself for not being able to perform like peers
- Emotions swinging from happy to angry in a flash
- not being able to maintain friendships
- People thinking it’s not a real condition. Unless you have it you can’t even come close to understanding how much of a challenge every day is.
- Medication only helps with the attention issue for maybe 8 hours. It doesn’t help with the other 95% of the issues
This is by far the best what is it like https://gekk.info/articles/adhd.html and here is the corresponding HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22129777