This week my wife, of nearly 30 years, had a psyc evaluation this week and was diagnosed with ADHD.
Today was her first day on a base dose of Ritalin. by about 10am she made the comment “I don’t know if it is placebo or not…”. For most of the day she was ‘on fire’, until 1/2 way through cooking dinner when she started struggling with focus and keeping track (she has a sore foot at the moment and being hyper focused all day may have exasperated that).
It will be interesting to see how this develops (spoken as an undiagnosed autistic 50 y/o)
Congrats ! It was life shattering for me (in both good and bad ways). Realising all the missed opportunities, but also understanding pretty much everything I did and why I did it, was somewhat heart breaking.
In retrospect, I’m wondering how the hell I managed to make it to my 30s without throwing myself off a building.
Medication is great, I very much like the extended release Ritalin, it doesn’t make me crash coming down, like the standard one.
But for me the most important thing is definitely proper follow up with psychologists and psychiatrists, to unravel all my coping mechanisms and understand why they’re here and how healthy (or not) they are. It’s a long disturbing and painful road, but I’m infinitely grateful for my diagnosis.
I hope it’s as liberating for your wife, as it was for me!