Untreated ADHD Symptoms Unveiled: Real Struggles and Coping Mechanisms
I have listed below the real struggles of ADHD, untreated ADHD.
- Emotional outbursts (anger, sadness, frustration)
- Struggle to manage impulses
- A focus on the immediate more than things in the future
- Tend to have trouble prioritizing.
- You may think more sporadically than linear.
- Trouble starting a task at the beginning and focusing all the way until the end.
- You have a bad memory, you can't tell stories, you tell facts.
- You hate listening to long stories that have back stories.
- You work better with people who get to the point.
- You have a weird system on how you remember things and how you do things.
- You hate other people's input on how you should be doing something.
- You hate emotions
- Have a history of drinking, drugs, serial dating, etc
- Struggle to maintain relationships
- You are a poor communicator
- You can't express how you feel
- People disappoint you
- Rejection is taken personally
- You feel misunderstood
- You make bad grades
- You can stare at a book for hours without a single sentence entering your brain.
- You understand instructions when they're told, but once it's time to go you forget what is said.
- You hate confrontations.
- Fighting is emotionally draining for you.
- You don't have the ability to repeat back what happened during a fight. You don't remember word for word.
- You have to write everything down, digital planner don't work for you.
I have listed below the real struggles of ADHD, untreated ADHD.
- Struggle to keep the same job for a long period of time
- People are unaware of how harsh you are on yourself
- You don't forgive people who purposely hurt you.
- You live in the clouds
- You actually never mean any harm
- Your emotions are 2 X's that of a normal person.
- When you hurt you are devastated.
- People who play with your emotions can make you see red
- Every emotion you have is real
- emotions control you
- Have felt like a failure at most of the things you do
- Have wondered what is wrong with you and why you never seem to improve
- Have frustrated a lot of people in your lifetime without meaning to.
- You have a special charm you can turn on when you want to
- You find humor in things
- You have a different perspective about things.
- After a lot of trail and error your intuitive side is born. You don't trust yourself for a long time. But you will start to slowly see how you were right about certain situations involving relationships & emotions. You are rarely wrong. But you can't judge your own situation because your emotions are blocking you.
- You might be a thrill seeker, always going on “adventures” and never content with monotony.
- Boredom leads you to jump from job to job
- Boredom leads you to move around the country a lot or if you can afford it take the best vacations.
- You might struggle to keep a strict routine.
- Lose things daily or a couple of times a week.
- Frequently late to things
- You try to get out of job related social events.
- Have a hard time committing because you just don’t know how you’ll feel that day. Your mood dictates how you feel.
- You can come off irresponsible, lazy or childish because you are misunderstood.
- You take what others see as dangerous risks
- People have mentioned that you seem careless or inconsiderate at times. You have a difficult time with your emotions, this can cause you to stop feeling.
- With age and experience you develop strong empathy towards people, almost too overwhelming you can feel their pain.
- You can focus on a task that really interests you for unending amounts of time but procrastinate on the tasks you may know are important but hold very little interest to you.
- Forget appointments
- Are “calendar challenged”
- You’re great at taking life as it comes
- Can’t stand being “bored”
- Always on the go
- Stay up late
- Very creative
- More ideas than you know how to execute
- Drive fast, all the time
- Insomnia is normal
- Relationships & emotions stress you out
- You can drink anyone under the table when it comes to coffee
- Coffee rarely has an effect on you.
- Are very sensitive to what may sound like criticism
- Possibly have a sensitivity to certain kinds of stimulation such as touch (t-shirt tags etc) or sounds (get very overwhelmed with too much sound happening at once) or smells (bad smells make you throw up)
- Have been diagnosed with anxiety and/or depression at some point in your life. In reality ADHD can make the happiest person depressed.
- You are an entrepreneur at least in your head.
- Have always felt like something was different about you
- Feel misunderstood by a lot of society
