After two years of taking medication for my ADHD, I decided to stop taking it and now, four months on, I feel so much better. This is my experience. I am not a doctor. Please speak to your psychiatrist if you have any issues with your ADHD medication.
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I was diagnosed with ADHD at the beginning of 2022. Or the end of 2021. I can’t remember. Whatever. I got assessed privately - the waiting list in my area for adult ADHD assessment was over two years - and it’s the best thing I did. Why did I get assessed? Well, social media suggested symptoms to me that I related to, I did some of my own research, I spoke to other people with diagnosed ADHD and my therapist suggested it might be something I wanted to look into when I finally surrendered to the fact that I am an addict.
Fun fact: the co-morbidity rate between ADHD and addiction is astronomically high. Here’s where someone without ADHD would insert some stats but I know that if I go to another tab to find the stats, this article will never get finished.
People ask me why I bothered, at the age of 40, to get a diagnosis. I think the Zebra analogy explains it perfectly…
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