I think it's quite easy to want to have a recognised diagnosis to explain our distress so I would like some opinions about whether my experiences are part of ADD/ADHD. I'm 32 and work in a very stressful job with many demands on my time and emotional effort. I have struggled with this job in the following ways: I am always tired as I can never force myself to go to bed early enough to get a proper night's sleep, eg. i will be on internet browsing random things (like this!) and then sleeping 4 hours before i have to get up. At work i dread sitting in view of my supervisor as i often feel the need to not do any work at all and just daydream. I find it hard to grasp instructions and feel stupid. I feel i hardly get any work done and spend more time worrying about it e.g. writing one letter can be put off for days. I still have tasks that i have not completed months after my supervisor asked to do them and decided to just not bother and hope he doesn't find out. I just hate the idea of working so many hours e.g 8 hours a day. In my previous job i would go in at 12pm or even 1pm or later quite often instead of the 9am start i was contracted to do and would still leave at 5pm just because i could get away with it, however i was in a constant state of guilt about this but just could not face having to do work. I feel i can only ever do one thing at a time and multi tasking is out of the question! I can get immersed in one thing and want to repeat things e.g food i eat or places i go on holiday. I am not hyperactive tho, more the opposite ie lowperactive! I am only impulsive in cerrtain contexts when i will say controversial things or humour in bad taste. In the past i have lost money gambling tho : ( anyway, i do have some OCD, prone to depression and social anxiety.
Any thoughts on this would be great.