What is it about writing things out that changes everything?
This blog has been so difficult to write of late though. Rough drafts plague me but I see nothing yet worth sharing. This morning I reflected upon the reasons why I started this blog project in the first place in November 0f 2012: I was creating a music festival from scratch and I needed a place to write about the challenges that I, an adult with lifelong ADHD, faced. What I learned and what has brought me back here to write in February 2015 is that by compelling myself to share what I am working on, I am also compelled to work harder and to create a narrative that is worthy of your time.
I am here to use this blog again to share my lifelong challenges with a brain that can be wonderfully creative and incredibly alive emotionally but also woefully deficient in linear thinking and follow-through.
For me writing out a narrative equals more follow through. And that is what I need right now.
So I hope you join me again while I share this journey.
I'm going to try to keep this short...
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure how I came across your blog the other night, but I am so grateful that I did. I have honestly learned so much I didn't know, the most surprising to me was that overeating is common in adults with ADHD. I was diagnosed at 26 after being unsuccessful in college in many attempts as well as in treatment a few times for disordered eating. I'm now 31 and have returned to school multiple times, did get my associates, but am once again struggling mostly with depression though I now question if it's actually more of the ADHD that's getting in my way. Symptoms overlap more than I knew... and after reading your blog and wanting to respond to a majority of your posts because it seemed like I was reading about my own life. In one you mentioned how you're 42 but feel 18, which is strange in a funny way because I tell people I'm 31 going on 8...pretty accurate figuring in the age difference. Maybe in 10 yrs I'll feel 18.
Thank you for sharing your story, this has really shed a little light on my current situation... allowing me to consider that maybe I don't have to be this way forever and maybe I can get my life together in some way.
I look forward to reading more :)
-Erin
Thank you for your comments Erin. Perhaps it's synchrony that you wrote today as just recently I've decided to return to my blog after not writing it for six months. I get more done when I write essays about my ADHD struggles and successes. I'm glad you've gotten something from it. I've finally accepted that my ADHD is a lifelong condition and that I have to work with it, predict it as best I can and do what I can make my work and personal life be functional and productive. Feel free to comment on anything. It's so satisfying and interesting for me to read what people say.
ReplyDeleteThank you!