Any fellow ADHD peeps out there/I’m sorry for prior transgressions!?!

[SRD_PSU]

So, any fellow ADHDers out there??
Preface: this board message has been a long time in the making, and I’ve been working up the courage to say this for way too long…..
With as much brevity as possible…..
COVID put me in a bad, bad, bad place, mentally!
All my release mechanisms(because of the pandemic)had failed!
I was anxious, and depressed, and on edge.
Through many, many, many sessions of therapy I had began to dial in the problem:
I had undiagnosed ADHD, depression, and anxiety.
I took a while, but I finally got the right meds dialed in.
Through meds, newly founded release mechanisms, and the most supportive wife on the planet, I’ve conquered my demons!
If anyone out there has the ADHD (I have the inattentive type), please research RSD.
I’ve had prior handles on the old board, and I would go full nuclear, fly off the handle, full blown scorched earth, when the team lost.
Looking back on it(and not that it’s an excuse), it was my ADHD(more specifically RSD), that was talking, NOT me.
So(and I won’t tell you my prior handles), I deeply apologize for being a giant d$&K in the past.
I’m truly blessed to have the support network I do.
My point of all of this, is to bring awareness. There’s a stigma behind mental health. If anyone is or has suffered from any of the above, please know you are not alone!
If I slip again, I’d love nothing more, than to have this board as a leaning post!
My name is Scott, and I suffer from terrible ADHD-I

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[rudedude]

So, any fellow ADHDers out there??
Preface: this board message has been a long time in the making, and I’ve been working up the courage to say this for way too long…..
With as much brevity as possible…..
COVID put me in a bad, bad, bad place, mentally!
All my release mechanisms(because of the pandemic)had failed!
I was anxious, and depressed, and on edge.
Through many, many, many sessions of therapy I had began to dial in the problem:
I had undiagnosed ADHD, depression, and anxiety.
I took a while, but I finally got the right meds dialed in.
Through meds, newly founded release mechanisms, and the most supportive wife on the planet, I’ve conquered my demons!
If anyone out there has the ADHD (I have the inattentive type), please research RSD.
I’ve had prior handles on the old board, and I would go full nuclear, fly off the handle, full blown scorched earth, when the team lost.
Looking back on it(and not that it’s an excuse), it was my ADHD(more specifically RSD), that was talking, NOT me.
So(and I won’t tell you my prior handles), I deeply apologize for being a giant d$&K in the past.
I’m truly blessed to have the support network I do.
My point of all of this, is to bring awareness. There’s a stigma behind mental health. If anyone is or has suffered from any of the above, please know you are not alone!
If I slip again, I’d love nothing more, than to have this board as a leaning post!
My name is Scott, and I suffer from terrible ADHD-I

l

Welcome back, and very glad you have found an effective treatment regime.

 

[BW Lion]

So, any fellow ADHDers out there??
Preface: this board message has been a long time in the making, and I’ve been working up the courage to say this for way too long…..
With as much brevity as possible…..
COVID put me in a bad, bad, bad place, mentally!
All my release mechanisms(because of the pandemic)had failed!
I was anxious, and depressed, and on edge.
Through many, many, many sessions of therapy I had began to dial in the problem:
I had undiagnosed ADHD, depression, and anxiety.
I took a while, but I finally got the right meds dialed in.
Through meds, newly founded release mechanisms, and the most supportive wife on the planet, I’ve conquered my demons!
If anyone out there has the ADHD (I have the inattentive type), please research RSD.
I’ve had prior handles on the old board, and I would go full nuclear, fly off the handle, full blown scorched earth, when the team lost.
Looking back on it(and not that it’s an excuse), it was my ADHD(more specifically RSD), that was talking, NOT me.
So(and I won’t tell you my prior handles), I deeply apologize for being a giant d$&K in the past.
I’m truly blessed to have the support network I do.
My point of all of this, is to bring awareness. There’s a stigma behind mental health. If anyone is or has suffered from any of the above, please know you are not alone!
If I slip again, I’d love nothing more, than to have this board as a leaning post!
My name is Scott, and I suffer from terrible ADHD-I

l

It’s very brave of you to reach out. We’re all proud of you for doing so.

Can I ask you a question? How much exercise, preferably rigorous, do you get per day?

We’ll always be here for you.

 

[SRD_PSU]

It’s very brave of you to reach out. We’re all proud of you for doing so.

Can I ask you a question? How much exercise, preferably rigorous, do you get per day?

We’ll always be here for you.

90-120 minutes, every day.
Rigorous exercise is what has kept me from divorce.
It’s my stress relief!
Thanks for the kind words.

 

[SRD_PSU]

Welcome back, and very glad you have found an effective treatment regime.

Thanks for the kind words.

 

[Player2BNamedL8r]

So, any fellow ADHDers out there??
Preface: this board message has been a long time in the making, and I’ve been working up the courage to say this for way too long…..
With as much brevity as possible…..
COVID put me in a bad, bad, bad place, mentally!
All my release mechanisms(because of the pandemic)had failed!
I was anxious, and depressed, and on edge.
Through many, many, many sessions of therapy I had began to dial in the problem:
I had undiagnosed ADHD, depression, and anxiety.
I took a while, but I finally got the right meds dialed in.
Through meds, newly founded release mechanisms, and the most supportive wife on the planet, I’ve conquered my demons!
If anyone out there has the ADHD (I have the inattentive type), please research RSD.
I’ve had prior handles on the old board, and I would go full nuclear, fly off the handle, full blown scorched earth, when the team lost.
Looking back on it(and not that it’s an excuse), it was my ADHD(more specifically RSD), that was talking, NOT me.
So(and I won’t tell you my prior handles), I deeply apologize for being a giant d$&K in the past.
I’m truly blessed to have the support network I do.
My point of all of this, is to bring awareness. There’s a stigma behind mental health. If anyone is or has suffered from any of the above, please know you are not alone!
If I slip again, I’d love nothing more, than to have this board as a leaning post!
My name is Scott, and I suffer from terrible ADHD-I

l

My son (currently in middle school) has a diagnosis and is on the inattentive/anxiety loop. He has his struggles, but our family is constantly adjusting and doing quite well. I’m pretty sure if I was school-aged today, I’d have been diagnosed as well.

As is, in my profession, I work with a lot of special needs kids, and see a lot of their struggles in much of my personal experiences. Indeed, it’s no joke, and more people - like yourself - need to keep breaking through the MH stigma, especially considering so many viable treatments are available.

Thank you for sharing your story…I wish you continued good mental health.

 

[EricStratton-RushChairman]

Salute you for sharing. I can relate... I had two involuntary psych hospital stays 18-20 years ago. I was getting crushed under the weight of PTSD and undiagnosed bi-polar 2 (along with alcohol and chemical dependency as my attempt at a coping mechanism). I was in bad shape. Cost me a marriage, a great career, and nearly my life. Proper meds were helpful as a bridge back to the real world. Living the dream now but I never forget my journey and always live in gratitude.

In the end, I live by the acronym I was taught at McLean Hospital on the four things to always focus on....

M - Meds
E - Exercise
D - Diet
S - Sleep

 

[Bwifan]

So, any fellow ADHDers out there??
Preface: this board message has been a long time in the making, and I’ve been working up the courage to say this for way too long…..
With as much brevity as possible…..
COVID put me in a bad, bad, bad place, mentally!
All my release mechanisms(because of the pandemic)had failed!
I was anxious, and depressed, and on edge.
Through many, many, many sessions of therapy I had began to dial in the problem:
I had undiagnosed ADHD, depression, and anxiety.
I took a while, but I finally got the right meds dialed in.
Through meds, newly founded release mechanisms, and the most supportive wife on the planet, I’ve conquered my demons!
If anyone out there has the ADHD (I have the inattentive type), please research RSD.
I’ve had prior handles on the old board, and I would go full nuclear, fly off the handle, full blown scorched earth, when the team lost.
Looking back on it(and not that it’s an excuse), it was my ADHD(more specifically RSD), that was talking, NOT me.
So(and I won’t tell you my prior handles), I deeply apologize for being a giant d$&K in the past.
I’m truly blessed to have the support network I do.
My point of all of this, is to bring awareness. There’s a stigma behind mental health. If anyone is or has suffered from any of the above, please know you are not alone!
If I slip again, I’d love nothing more, than to have this board as a leaning post!
My name is Scott, and I suffer from terrible ADHD-I

l

Welcome back and I have numerous family and friends with ADHD. You are a strong person and to be commended for sharing this and looking to help others. Exercise is key, and we all have bad days. Thank you for sharing your story.

 

[Connorpozlee]

My son (currently in middle school) has a diagnosis and is on the inattentive/anxiety loop. He has his struggles, but our family is constantly adjusting and doing quite well. I’m pretty sure if I was school-aged today, I’d have been diagnosed as well.

As is, in my profession, I work with a lot of special needs kids, and see a lot of their struggles in much of my personal experiences. Indeed, it’s no joke, and more people - like yourself - need to keep breaking through the MH stigma, especially considering so many viable treatments are available.

Thank you for sharing your story…I wish you continued good mental health.

If ADHD had been a thing when I was in school I would have been slapped with that tag within a week of being in kindergarten. As is, I’ve been diagnosed with it by every co-worker I have worked with in the schools over the last 18 years. I’m horrible in meetings. Anything more than 5 minutes (and all meetings are longer than they need to be) and I’m gone.

 

[SouthHalls410]

I applaud you for speaking out and being an advocate. I teach both regular and special education and have had many students with ADHD.… many are boys who act out etc, many are girls who sit quietly in their own worlds. Worse thing to happen for these students is the advent of standardized testing. Teaching to the tests keeps kids in their seats all day and stifles the creative learners and doers. I wish you much happiness and success moving forward.

 

[Got GSPs]

Thanks for sharing. I’ll give you some company…

I have inattentive ADHD. As a kid I was labeled a daydreamer and even had my desk put beside a teacher in elementary school. Nobody diagnosed me with anything though, but as friends were having kids with similar issues diagnosed, I made the connection and self diagnosis.

I’ve never heard of RSD before, but have seen a therapist (a couple) to deal with my sometimes abrupt interactions with people. Apparently, I would speak aggressively to people when not called for. Ex I ask an employee at Home Depot a question, and then interrupt them when I believe that they aren’t providing a response my question. I’ve also told an elderly family member (in law) to ’bleep’ off.

The first therapist confirmed ADHD through testing and got me prescriptions for couple different ADHD meds, but never seemed to want to deal with my real issues. I stopped taking ADHD meds (reverted back to Diet Mt. Dew) and went to a second therapist. Where the first guy was an ADHD specialist, the second one was a specialist in trauma. I got a little more out of our sessions, but more like getting things off my chest, as opposed to identifying the cause and then attacking it.

One thing that really connected with me was reading the book 10% Happier, written by Dan Harris. The alternate title for the book is something like “how to tame the ******* in your head”. The issues that Dan Harris described were the same I experienced: fight or flight reflex triggered when there is no threat (and it’s always fight, at least verbally). The book goes through some religious background, but then discusses the benefits of meditation and not having to tie it to religion. I’ve struggled to commit myself to meditation, but do believe this would help bring peace to my inner demons.

 

[A2nit]

Have a 16 yo dealing with ADHD, anxiety and depression. Covid lockdown first year in HS, injuries his sophomore year with no sports, school lock down threat and then a week later the school shooting in MI. I hate this for him. This has been a hopeful thread, thx all…MEDS, got it and we are happily on this path without knowing this acronym previously…

 

[Connorpozlee]

Thanks for sharing. I’ll give you some company…

I have inattentive ADHD. As a kid I was labeled a daydreamer and even had my desk put beside a teacher in elementary school. Nobody diagnosed me with anything though, but as friends were having kids with similar issues diagnosed, I made the connection and self diagnosis.

I’ve never heard of RSD before, but have seen a therapist (a couple) to deal with my sometimes abrupt interactions with people. Apparently, I would speak aggressively to people when not called for. Ex I ask an employee at Home Depot a question, and then interrupt them when I believe that they aren’t providing a response my question. I’ve also told an elderly family member (in law) to ’bleep’ off.

The first therapist confirmed ADHD through testing and got me prescriptions for couple different ADHD meds, but never seemed to want to deal with my real issues. I stopped taking ADHD meds (reverted back to Diet Mt. Dew) and went to a second therapist. Where the first guy was an ADHD specialist, the second one was a specialist in trauma. I got a little more out of our sessions, but more like getting things off my chest, as opposed to identifying the cause and then attacking it.

One thing that really connected with me was reading the book 10% Happier, written by Dan Harris. The alternate title for the book is something like “how to tame the ******* in your head”. The issues that Dan Harris described were the same I experienced: fight or flight reflex triggered when there is no threat (and it’s always fight, at least verbally). The book goes through some religious background, but then discusses the benefits of meditation and not having to tie it to religion. I’ve struggled to commit myself to meditation, but do believe this would help bring peace to my inner demons.

At one point in elementary school I had a desk directly against the chalkboard with the teacher teaching behind me to the rest of the class. Another year the teacher moved me to the back of the room away from everybody. My parents questioned him and he said it wasn’t necessarily all my fault but when I was away from the rest of my classmates, everybody else stopped talking. Another year (or maybe the same as one of these?) I was moved from the middle math group to the high math group in another classroom. Within a week I was moved from my desk within the horseshoe shaped layout to a solitary seat in the middle of the horseshoe (referred to by the teacher as a “hot seat”, whatever the hell that was supposed to mean) to back to the middle math group. It was always too much talking. Thank god we got a long recess and PE everyday.
So what do I do now? I work in an elementary school talking to kids all day.

 

[Tom McAndrew]

So, any fellow ADHDers out there??
Preface: this board message has been a long time in the making, and I’ve been working up the courage to say this for way too long…..
With as much brevity as possible…..
COVID put me in a bad, bad, bad place, mentally!
All my release mechanisms(because of the pandemic)had failed!
I was anxious, and depressed, and on edge.
Through many, many, many sessions of therapy I had began to dial in the problem:
I had undiagnosed ADHD, depression, and anxiety.
I took a while, but I finally got the right meds dialed in.
Through meds, newly founded release mechanisms, and the most supportive wife on the planet, I’ve conquered my demons!
If anyone out there has the ADHD (I have the inattentive type), please research RSD.
I’ve had prior handles on the old board, and I would go full nuclear, fly off the handle, full blown scorched earth, when the team lost.
Looking back on it(and not that it’s an excuse), it was my ADHD(more specifically RSD), that was talking, NOT me.
So(and I won’t tell you my prior handles), I deeply apologize for being a giant d$&K in the past.
I’m truly blessed to have the support network I do.
My point of all of this, is to bring awareness. There’s a stigma behind mental health. If anyone is or has suffered from any of the above, please know you are not alone!
If I slip again, I’d love nothing more, than to have this board as a leaning post!
My name is Scott, and I suffer from terrible ADHD-I

l

I'm glad to read that you've been diagnosed, and gotten treatment that is working. And major kudos to your wife for helping you to get to the place you're currently at.

It takes courage to make a post like yours, but I believe it can also be therapeutic. I congratulate you on getting to the point where you can make such a post.

 

[A2nit]

I'm glad to read that you've been diagnosed, and gotten treatment that is working. And major kudos to your wife for helping you to get to the place you're currently at.

It takes courage to make a post like yours, but I believe it can also be therapeutic. I congratulate you on getting to the point where you can make such a post.

Apologies for your cleanup on aisle 4, sensitive subject and so much appreciation for SRD and the rest of the board community sharing…