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adhdmumma ¡ 3 years
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People say,
“follow your passion”, be your authentic self”, “own your truth”.
What if you don’t know what your passion is?
What if you have no fucking idea who you are and you might ask well be expected to be a total stranger’s authentic self?
What if you doubt that there is truth of any kind out there?
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adhdmumma ¡ 3 years
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Nikita Gill, thank you for this: …
We define Chaos as follows:
no one knows how the consequences
Of our actions will truly play out,
And try as we might , we will never
Be the masters of our destiny
and Chaos, who has been listening, as she
always does to of her creations,
laughs because what else does an Ancient Being
Who Created Creation do when a small, impatient
primitive species that insists on quantifying everything
tries to quantify the unfashionable by their small terms?
And she laughs, the cosmos ripples,
And whole galaxies fall apart.
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adhdmumma ¡ 3 years
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Another disastrous affair. I dated someone for a couple of weeks and it left me feeling like a hollow husk.
The last night of the ‘relationship’ we went out to dinner. I had to drive 25 miles to him (rather than meet half way) because he couldn’t contemplate going out to eat and not drinking. So I went to his and he then said he didn’t mind not drinking and drove us to a pub nearby. He then drank three pints over dinner. As we left, he tossed me his car keys and said I’d have to drive us back. He said I was a bad driver.
Back at his, he sat down and put the telly on. I asked where I could sit and he signalled to the sofa next to him. I had to climb over him to get there.
He watched the football. In the interval he lunged at me and stuck his tongue down my throat. Apparently that meant that he wanted sex.
He was watching the football over my shoulder while we did it . Afterwards he complained about the fact that he had had to wear a condom and the fact that i didn’t use enough tongue. He said he couldn’t understand why I didn’t use more tongue when we kissed given that I had told him that I was a sexual person. I didn’t know that was a thing.
I went home soon after because he was yawning.
I slept with the idiot because I wanted sex. Because I was lonely.
He didn’t offer so much as a glass of water.
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adhdmumma ¡ 3 years
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The anxiety that comes with adhd - do I have ADHD AND anxiety or do I have anxiety as the result of having adhd?
I suspect that is the case. I am anxious because I live in a chaotic world. After all, who wouldn’t feel anxious when they are constantly aware that they have probably forgotten to be somewhere or have misunderstood something, lost something or about to walk blindly into an undesirable situation?
It helps to have a name for these feelings and to give myself the opportunity to forgive myself. I wouldn’t criticise other people with neurological irregularities so why give myself a hard time?
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“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”
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After a bad week of feeling really shit about myself I realised that I had been drowning in a negative internal dialogue. I wouldn’t speak fo my worst enemy the way I was speaking to myself.
Last night I changed that.
I told myself that I was really proud of what I had achieved today
I told myself that I was doing brilliantly.
I smiled at everyone I met
Very quickly I began to feel better.
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Most people seem perplexed when I tell them I have Inattentive adhd because I am articulate and I appear neurotypical. There is still the misapprehension that ADHD means that you are bouncing off the walls and talking incessantly. But it’s not that at all. Among other things it is:
- It’s sending emails and messages too quickly and not proof reading them.
- It’s reading things too fast and missing the point of what was said.
- It’s making hasty decisions and not being able to see the options.
- It’s reading something and realising that it might has well be written in another language for all that the information has gone in. You can read the words but they won’t translate into useful information.
- Its the confusion of interpreting information in several different ways at once. Everything seems to have more than one meaning.
- It’s reacting too quickly to things.
There is also the flip side of those things when you are paralysed by indecision because you know you’ve made so many bad decisions in the past. I have a bathroom and a kitchen that have been half decorated for three years because I don’t know which way to proceed. I can’t book a holiday. I have been single for five years.
I feel like I stumble through life.
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My dad came to stay this weekend. We talked more than we have ever done before. Things are tough for him and he needed to vent. He is such a lovely man.
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Its been quite a few weeks. I was elected city councillor, briefly fell in love and now life is slowly resuming some kind of normality.
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I’ve just started reading this. It is very interesting and although I already know about CBT and neuro-plasticity, I am getting a better understanding by reading about the individual workings of the brain and which components are responsible for anxiety.
I hadn’t really grasped until recently how much anxiety has ruled my life. This may be as the result of having ADHD or the ADHD may have been result if anxiety and the trauma that sparked it off.
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The healing power of the countryside.
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It’s Mother’s Day. At the moment I feel that being a mother is the thing I do best and my children are the people I connect with. I feel alone at work and I feel separated from from my friends. I literally feel as though I am speaking a different language to my colleagues. Maybe it’s a cognitive glitch but I feel like I don’t understand things that I am told or that I read. Nothing seems to make sense.
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I’ve had a difficult, scattered day today. I have felt misunderstood and confused and I am hoping that this new book will help.
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I felt so grumpy today. But there again so did everyone else I spoke to apparently. I got through the casework meeting that I had been dreading though and then went for a walk with Pete. The general mood at home is a bit low but it might be a reaction to the worry about E over the last few days.
Things with D and S also a bit off. S has had a psychotic episode and D is having to deal with it alone. S doesn’t want C and M to know so D is having to cope alone.
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She is home now. Inflamed appendix seems to be the diagnosis and it’s been treated with antibiotics.
It is so good to have her home.
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They still don’t know what’s wrong with her. Another night in hospital, more scans, drips and drugs and no idea what is happening.
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