My Journey to Adult ADHD Diagnosis!

[@robbiekerr463]

Great video Jo, Keep up the good work and raising awareness 😎

[@mrspandheradhd3372]

Thanks Rob! Lovely to hear from you!

[@OriginalSuperfreak]

This was awesome. I saw your post on one of the ADHD groups on FB and subbed. Glad I did! Look forward to more vids 🙂

[@mrspandheradhd3372]

Hey! Thank you so much another one will be out later today!!

[@NotSoNormal1987]

Hi. I just watched your video. Thank you fir posting. I've been recently diagnosed at the age of 33. And I had a lot of the same struggles in school. I had a wrong diagnosis of bo-polar disorder by one professional. And was diagnosed with ocpd as well. Which I also felt was an incorrect diagnosis for many years. I was recently evaluated again and feel like this psychologist finally got it right. It's too late for me to get good grades in high school. I actually ended up dropping out and getting a ged years later. And I've wanted so badly to go to college, but didn't want to fail and ruin my family with horrible debt for a degree I didn't complete. (I'm in the usa.) I am feeling angry over what could have been. And that's something I need to work through. But now that I know what I'm up against, I can do a better job dealing with it. Knowing what's going on makes a difference. It seems that a lot of us women get overlooked till we're struggling in adulthood with responsibilities or our own children. I've started medication and am in the process of getting the dose right. But it's made such a huge difference so far. After feeling like the weird one my whole life, it's nice to know that there are a lot of other people like me, who's minds work much in the same way as mine.

[@mrspandheradhd3372]

Ah bless you! Thank you for commenting! The anger is off the scale right? I will be doing another video on how hopefully you can get over the anger and live life to the full and be happy! 💕

[@NotSoNormal1987]

@@mrspandheradhd3372 I'm generally not an angry person. So it's more of a dull lingering I haven't been able to shake. I think it's rooted in the sorrow of what could have been. I don't like feeling anger. And I can't change what has been. It's frustrating.

[@mrspandheradhd3372]

EspressoBug I totally understand! I was angry for a few years, but it was hanging around, I just thought one day I can’t carry on like this anymore, I need to live my life! Took a while but I did it! X

[@NotSoNormal1987]

@@mrspandheradhd3372 I think it just helps a lot knowing that I'm not there are a lot of other people with very similar lived experiences. And knowing that others have gotten through this emotional situation with diagnosis.

[@MollysADHDMayhem]

great video! I was diagnosed at 21! so I know how hard life is!

[@mrspandheradhd3372]

Ah thank you! Im new to all this and because we are such perfectionists, im in self doubt mode at the moment, need to snap out of it! Life is hard isnt it, and some just dont get it! its so frustrating!

[@WGL1089]

GMC and NICE didn't recognise the existence of ADHD in Adults until 2008... When did you receive your diagnosis?

[@alexiahetzel2532]

Teachers need to learn before they can teach. But well done you x

[@mrspandheradhd3372]

Exactly that! Lucky enough ive come out the other end more positive, but took 30 years!