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Anyone else feel like their ADHD was always there but got progressively worse as an adult? (self.adhd)

submitted 7 months ago by xkforce to c/adhd

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I just wonder if it actually did get worse or it just seems like that because as an adult you have a lot more on your plate than you did when you were a kid/teen

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[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce 21 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Yes. I didn’t seek treatment until my late 40s. I think my coping mechanisms started failing me as I got older, for a variety of reasons.

[–] xkforce 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I was diagnosed at 32 in my last semester of my undergrad. I just ended up with more stress than I could handle and ended up in therapy and thats when I found out.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Similar thing here. Too much stress at work and at home and suddenly things I’d always been able to do were becoming difficult. I couldn’t brute force my way into focusing anymore.

But once I got on medication (and my body adjusted to it) my brain felt like it was 20 years younger again. It was life changing, for the better.

[–] anime_ted 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What was the adjustment you mentioned?

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce 4 points 7 months ago

It took a few weeks before my body got used to the stimulant. At first it felt like I’d had way too much coffee. Not exactly but that’s as close as I can describe it. They also put me on an SNRI which caused my libido to disappear for a few weeks.

After about 6 weeks everything was back to normal and only the benefits remained. It’s been almost a year now and I feel they are slowly losing effectiveness but I’m not ready to start the dosage increase treadmill yet.