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That's anxiety isn't it? You can have ADHD without that, as far as i know?
I find that it belongs here, as anxiety and ADHD can play right into each other.
ADHD will very typically lead to missed deadlines, for example: Already getting the 2nd demand note on something you had to file, apartment is a mess but the landlord comes over in a few hours to inspect something, work.
Now anxiety can trigger when there is nothing to be anxious about, that's what makes it pathological, but it does NOT get better when there really IS something to be anxious about.
And when anxiety peaks, ADHD can make it feel differently. Just like a regular task that becomes an unmanageable tangle of unordered steps and potential escalations and obstacles rather than a clear series of steps, ADHD can also make the perceived consequences of a missed deadline more chaotic and harder to process, reason and think yourself out of.
I agree that it's not a good answer to the question "What does it feel like to have ADHD?", but microblogging is all about simplifying and giving one example, from a layman perspective who will not be able to draw a clear line between the related ailments she has.
https://lemmy.ml/post/4902066
I can't for the life of me remember their name or even where I read it at this point but there was some clinical psychologist who estimated that as many as 75% of adults with anxiety disorders have the level of anxiety we do because of (or at least comorbid with) ADHD.
More specifically this post is about RSD (rejection sensitive dysphoria) which is highly linked to ADHD though they are different things.
ADHD just often causes RSD.
Until I got diagnosed 3 yrs ago I never understood why rejection hit me like a Mack truck. I beat the living crap out of myself for 60+ years over stuff like that. :/
That’s about constantly fearing the reality-check moment that comes after your "evil mirror ADHD twin" residing in your mind who’s just too keen to take over the wheel of your life and fuck it up in the most twisted way unbeknown to you.
Yes, there’s the constant anxiety about this, but that anxiety is a direct consequence of having a "spicy mind".
I'd agree, I live in the typical ADHD chaos but this meme doesn't feel relatable to me. I guess I'm lucky? Anyway, I'd totally say this is about anxiety, not ADHD.
was gonna say, have anxiety but not ADHD
Definitely anxiety but they certain can make the other work. Like peanut butter and chocolate for messing up your life.
Common comorbidity?
It is. You can have both of course and having ADHD can help develop some anxiety, but they have nothing to do with each other.
They definitely can have something to do with each other. Anxiety and Depression linked to ADHD is a very common symptom and it's typical for patients who suffer from undiagnosed ADHD to seek medical assistance for the first two and then being diagnosed. Anxiety and depression can often be a co-morbidity (I hope I use the word right) of ADHD.
For me personally ADHD gives me anxiety due to the feelings of stress it causes and the depression comes from feeling unable to handle/cope with it.
Exactly what happened to me. I went for help with depression and anxiety. 3 years later, nothing really working, I find out I have severe ADHD at age 41. And my whole life made sense.
Can, but don't have to. A meme like this promotes a direct correlation. Can be indeed indirectly due to ADHD. Can also be a ton of other problems.
I'm not a doctor but I do have adhd, depression and anxiety. A quick Google confirms they are in fact linked, so I'm not sure what you mean by "have nothing to do with each other".
You can also be black, hungry or a chess-player. And also have ahdh. Doesn't mean they're necessarily connected. Especially if a meme like this wants to promote their symptoms as "due to ahdh".
Not "necessarily connected" is far from "nothing to do with each other". You need to stop shifting the goal posts and take the L.