To Those Who Have ADHD Too

@AshIsNotTrash Your description is very much like what goes on in my head. My brain doesn’t get quiet. I don’t have thoughts that are so fast you can’t keep up. Instead, I am speaking to someone in my head. I usually have someone in my mind I am talking to. For instance, I talk to my psych doc in my head, a friend, my husband etc and that switches and then sometimes I am just fixated on this one worry and I have these long monologues in my head. My compulsions I suppose are mental. I research, seek reassurance. My brother pushes the oven light 5 times then turns around and does it again. He can’t pass a certain light switch and not turn it off and on or something bad is going to happen. I don’t do any of that but I do ruminate a lot. I will get stuck on something and my mom use to say “you just go over and over things”. As a kid, I would sit in class and be thinking about other things. Looking around at other people and not always able to follow the teacher. I was always nervous I would get called on so I would really try to make it look like I was listening. What Adderall does is enable me to read and not have my mind constantly drift off, I am more direct when I am speaking and listen better, I can finish a task I started and that voice of mine I don’t hear. However, I still suck with time management and I feel like I am missing time more, like I started noticing my voice in my head and look at the clock and 4 hours have gone by so fast, when my thoughts start going it’s usually about one thing which is questioning if I really have either or both. I am more particular how I do things as well. There’s some negative physical side effects as well to the medication.

@AshIsNotTrash I forgot to thank everyone for their replies and where is the ADHD & OCD support group? Thanks again!

@Chickens_Frogs Under the therapy tab you'll find the link for support groups. I'm unsure of specifically which day/time the ADHD group meets but that will guide you to the selection of groups available

@Beachgirl2024 I definitely feel confused a lot. Hard time making decisions, spend way too long on e-mails and texts, that’s been a thing that seems to really point to OCD to them but that’s not life impairing to me. I have very poor time management, decision making on basic things, managing money, I seem to have to have the planets align right so to speak to initiate certain things. A can’t be done before B even though in reality it could and this happens a lot in my day to day home life. When I was working in an environment with peoples lives in my hands my decisions came easier. My organization and what needed to be done first, second so on was much easier. However, I did have stress. Sometimes the most would just be getting to the job on time. Getting up on time yet still rushing out the door in a panic.