What is ADHD?

Dopamine secretion is different from that of ordinary people, resulting in attention deficit. ADHD is a kind of ADHD that people often hear of; I am another kind, non active.

Note: All contents in this article are not professional suggestions. If you have doubts, please go to a doctor in time.

How was the diagnosis made?

My friends who went to school or worked with me in North America recalled some of my performances and spontaneously suggested me to screen for ADHD.

Go to the website of adhonline and fill in the questionnaire for 200 yuan at your own expense and give it to the doctor. A few days later, dozens of pages of reports were received, preliminary diagnosis of ADHD and anxiety disorder. I got the first bottle of prescription drugs after a video consultation with a doctor specializing in medical insurance in the United States.

What are your symptoms?

From childhood to adulthood, teachers always commented that I was "very smart, but I didn't work hard". During the whole class, I was distracted and careless in doing the questions. Work to write code, the efficiency is very polarized. When you speak, your mind jumps, and you want to interrupt the other person as soon as you understand. The desk is always messy, and things are often thrown away.

One of the diagnostic bases of ADHD is the symptoms before the age of 14. Looking back at my childhood, I had many symptoms.

Why was the diagnosis made so late?

Due to social discipline and other reasons, women with ADHD usually behave more quietly and even deliberately cover up certain behaviors, so it is more difficult to find and treat them.

My super understanding and memory partly offset the impact of ADHD. The overall academic performance was very good, but adults didn't think much about it. After work, we need to deal with complex transactions with high intensity, which gradually exposes problems.

ADHD is a personality trait, not a defect?

The brain dopamine secretion is different from that of ordinary people, which is determined by physiology rather than psychology. If the lack of concentration affects life, study or career, it is a problem to be solved.

I suspect I also have ADHD?

Please see a doctor as soon as possible for two reasons:

Now many diseases are entertainment, which brings prejudice and trouble to real patients. Although it is difficult to diagnose in some countries and regions, at least make efforts to seek medical advice.

ADHD is an objective defect caused by physiology and needs the help of professionals. Problems that cannot be solved by will alone may be relieved by taking medicine.

Experience of taking medicine?

Because I was diagnosed with anxiety at the same time, the doctor prescribed drugs without anxiety side effects, starting from low doses.

The first time I took the medicine, I felt amazing. The world is very quiet. You can read every word in the book and listen to others patiently. Losing the desire to share and the happiness from small things, I can't be a happy puppy anymore.

After taking the medicine?

Sync with the doctor every few weeks.

Me: "I feel like a different person. What should I do? My work needs creativity and empathy."

Doctor: "The medicine can't be stopped."

ADHD can only be maintained by drugs and cannot be cured. The drug is still resistant to certain drugs. It's not so magical after the third time.

What advice do you have for your patients?

Don't give yourself negative hints, and simply attribute all the shortcomings to ADHD. Last time I saw a post saying that ADHD has poor spatial imagination, so its geometry is not good. My spatial imagination is very good, but the calculation of analytic geometry is often careless and wrong. The key is to find ways to learn it.

Give more positive hints (this applies to everyone). Tell yourself that what you are doing is very important and interesting, and you will have a sense of achievement when you finish it. In the choice of profession and occupation, we should dig out more things we love, and rely on the internal driving force to enter the state of high attention.

Use tools to adjust attention. For example, you can use Notification to manage tasks in progress, and regularly set email rules and mobile phone notifications. Structured input and output, use bullet points when taking notes or discussing ideas.

What's your mood after diagnosis?

First, grievances. I really want to do a good job, but I am often misunderstood and I don't care. Doing things in a disorderly way, and being questioned by others is incompetent.

Many celebrities have ADHD, such as scientist Stephen Hawking, Richard, founder of Virgin Airlines, and actress Emma Watson. Would you like to work with them? I only know that when I found this list, my eyes burst into tears.

If I told you——

Under many difficulties, among the world's troubles, ADHD can not only go to famous schools and big factories; Xinxin and her friends stood at the forefront of their respective fields, making scientific research, investment and entrepreneurship, and achieved unexpected achievements in their twenties

What is impossible about human potential? Let's encourage each other!