Crying into my phone

[HappyBinosaur]

I’m feeling so overwhelmed and wobbly at the moment and have just (stupidly) read the comments on an aibu thread adhd. It made me cry.

I thought I was getting past feeling utterly shit about myself but I’m finding everything hard at the moment.

My new medication is helping in some ways but not others.
My dc with adhd started medication and it worked so well so I was hoping for the same!

I know I have adhd but I also have ptsd and sometimes I don’t know which is which!

Deep down I think I genuinely do like and accept myself but I don’t think I’ll ever fit in with the world and so I spend a lot of time not actually liking who I am.

There are some terrible comments on that AIBU thread; please try not to let it get you down. I linked an article from a medical journal strongly refuting claims that ADHD is over-diagnosed in the UK. No one puts themselves through the very stressful process of an assessment without strong grounds to think they are neurodivergent - it's not an assessment you have on the off-chance - so it isn't surprising that it's common for assessments to identify one or more ND conditions.

I am autistic so I have no experience of ADHD medication - if yours isn't helping, can you go back to your doctor and see if the dose needs amending?

A real positive of children receiving early diagnosis is that they (hopefully) don't then carry decades of struggle when they had no idea why they were different, and a huge memory bank of humiliation and rejection, because they will get the right support in early years. You can't compare yourself to your DC, especially as you have PTSD as well to cope with. Try to be easier on yourself