Ok so any newly diagnosed people of adult age have a real hard time with adjustment?
I mean like questioning everything in your past. Making all the right connections to reasons for this and that. Oh so I was impulsive, and verbally confusing, and distracted...blah blah blah. Was it really hard on the system for a bit? I kinda feel like an alchoholic that has to now stand up and figure out who I pissed on and who needs my apologies. Just what an add'er needs...more self doubt. LOL
But seriously, is the transition period from happy, oblivious, wake up everyday with rose colored glasses.. to the self aware, needing change for the right reasons growing up all over again person tough on anyone else. Sometimes I just say " I will quit the meds and the bs. go back to being a happy idiot." But we know you can never go back. Pandora's box has been opened. New possibilities abound. Now if I can just get this old dusty crap out of the way.
As my grandpa use to say.. "It don't matter how you count the bananas, ice cream still ain't got no bones." Crazy old man.
I am not newly diagnosed but I can say that for a few weeks after being diagnosed I did have a hard time processing it all. I felt relief because after all these years of feeling different, dumb, lazy, etc. I finally knew why I was the way I was.
Basically you are going to go through a grieving process. You will go through feelings of relief, anger, sadness, and many more. You have now found "the" answer but you have also now found out you have a "condition" that you will have to deal with for the rest of your life, because there is not cure only tools to help manage it.
Talk, talk with family, friends, strangers, and professionals to help get you through this. You can always PM me if you want to talk more.
gypsywomyn- i stand corrected. i knew there was something not quite right about ma & pa. maybe this time i'll remember who's who.
[QUOTE=seeker63]another thing i don't get is why all my posts are so long. it's like ma & pa kettle's closet- open the door a little and it all comes cascading out in a great clamorous deluge.
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