Post by Siw on Jun 20, 2019 12:31:04 GMT
Hi, I was diagnosed with adult ADHD and Anxiety about 3 years ago. I'm a woman, aged 36 (boo!).
In usual me fashion, I just started writing out my whole life story, but then thought... This will bore the nuts off everyone, so I deleted all that and now, I will cut to the chase!
I've read quite a bit about ADHD and apparently, a lesser known factor of it is that many of us with ADHD can experience hightened emotions... So like we really feel everything deeply, deeply...and have less control over our emotions taking over when things happen to us.
This makes so much sense to me. My main problem through my whole life has been that I get upset SUPER, SUPER easily and disproportionately to what is happening.
I seem to have no control over it & all my life people have said "you need to stop being so sensitive". I keep thinking - I agree, but HOW DO I DO IT?!
The only thing that's ever worked for me is Citalopram. But I don't think I should be on that for the rest of my life.
Say when a thing happens (i.e. someone says something mean to me) it's like a rush of water & usually I have no defence up, so that rush of water just floods in & I can't do anything to stop it & I'm panicking & feel totally overwhelmed as in drowning in the water (basically, I'd probably be crying and feeling really upset).
But Citalopram builds up a defence wall & stops the water from just flooding in and overwhelming me. It buys me time to think and plan and see how to deal with the situation more calmly and rationally.
Anyway, I've come of Citalopram recently, mainly because I keep forgetting to take the damn tablets everyday!
I'm back to getting upset at silly things, like, I started singing an Elton John song (Tiny Dancer) and it make me start crying a bit because the tune felt so moving (even with my voice singing it!!). I'm not depressed. It only comes over me when I feel the emotion in the moment. I've been like it all my life. Is it ADHD related?
I cried at my cousin's wedding the other day... No one else was crying!
Does anyone else here relate at all, or is it just my personality- separate from the ADHD.
In usual me fashion, I just started writing out my whole life story, but then thought... This will bore the nuts off everyone, so I deleted all that and now, I will cut to the chase!
I've read quite a bit about ADHD and apparently, a lesser known factor of it is that many of us with ADHD can experience hightened emotions... So like we really feel everything deeply, deeply...and have less control over our emotions taking over when things happen to us.
This makes so much sense to me. My main problem through my whole life has been that I get upset SUPER, SUPER easily and disproportionately to what is happening.
I seem to have no control over it & all my life people have said "you need to stop being so sensitive". I keep thinking - I agree, but HOW DO I DO IT?!
The only thing that's ever worked for me is Citalopram. But I don't think I should be on that for the rest of my life.
Say when a thing happens (i.e. someone says something mean to me) it's like a rush of water & usually I have no defence up, so that rush of water just floods in & I can't do anything to stop it & I'm panicking & feel totally overwhelmed as in drowning in the water (basically, I'd probably be crying and feeling really upset).
But Citalopram builds up a defence wall & stops the water from just flooding in and overwhelming me. It buys me time to think and plan and see how to deal with the situation more calmly and rationally.
Anyway, I've come of Citalopram recently, mainly because I keep forgetting to take the damn tablets everyday!
I'm back to getting upset at silly things, like, I started singing an Elton John song (Tiny Dancer) and it make me start crying a bit because the tune felt so moving (even with my voice singing it!!). I'm not depressed. It only comes over me when I feel the emotion in the moment. I've been like it all my life. Is it ADHD related?
I cried at my cousin's wedding the other day... No one else was crying!
Does anyone else here relate at all, or is it just my personality- separate from the ADHD.