The pain of some ADHDers that have come to me…

• I think I’m broken
• I am always late for things
• I am so frustrated with the world and myself
• I can’t finish anything
• I just can’t sit still
• My parents don’t understand me
• I don’t understand me
• I don’t have any friends
• I don’t like or love myself
• I am constantly interrupting people
• I’m just not where I’m supposed to be
• I don’t know how to study or what my teachers want from me
• My feelings are always getting hurt
• I can’t make decisions and it drives me crazy
• I never think through my decisions I am way too impulsive
• I always wait until the last possible minute to get my work started
• I think I’m an alien
• I can’t ever get to sleep;
• I’m always thinking or analyzing something
• I keep loosing interest in my partners
• I haven’t files my taxes in 8 years
• I can’t stand the way certain people talk to me
• I hate waiting in line it just gets me so angry
• I have terrible road rage; why don’t people know how to drive
• I wonder if I’ll ever be able to keep a job, I am always getting fired
• I am always so anxious- I always feel like I’ve forgotten to do something and everybody is judging me
• I have problems getting along well with people of my own sex I much prefer the opposite sex
• I know what people are thinking about me and they don’t like me
• I watch TV until the sun comes up and then I’m exhausted and can sleep
• I stay up until all hours on the computer
• I don’t know how to organize my work to get anything done
• I don’t know what I should be working on or even how to get it started
• I say horrible things to myself that if I said to someone else they would never talk to me again
• I always have a enemy at work
• There are so many thoughts in my head I don’t know what to focus on
• I think terrible things about people in my head
• I’ll start a new routine and get excited and then
• I’ll loose interest and get so hard on myself
• I can do something for somebody else but I can’t do the exact same thing for me
• I procrastinate about everything I have thousands of unfinished projects
• I get completely lost in the detail of things and then the time is up on the project and I haven’t moved forward
• I drink wine at night so I can unwind
• I smoke week to calm me down and keep only one thought in my head
• When I get angry it’s like “The Hulk” has taken over me
• I never go away anywhere on vacation because I never get around to planning or saving for one
• I have so much debt I see something and I just have to have it
• I don’t know how to start a conversation
• I have so many hobbies that I don’t know where to store the stuff anymore
• My children have so many activities it feels like I spend all my time running around picking them up and dinner is always too late
• My child is so angry it scares me sometimes
• I wonder if my child will ever develop the skills to support himself when I’m gone. I don’t know what will happen to him
• My kids hate each other so much it’s like a constant battlefield in the house and they just don’t listen to me anymore
• I can’t follow conversations and I look like an idiot
• My wife says I just don’t pay attention to her anymore
• I am super sensitive to criticism and I get very defensive
• If I’m not the best at something I feel like there is something wrong with me or I have failed
• I don’t accept people’s compliments
• I’ll be great at work for a month and be terrible the next month I am never consistent
• I’m always getting lost, I can’t find my way anywhere
• If my wife tells me how to drive I just get so irritated with her
• I snap at my husband when he tries to correct me
• I open up too much to people and often regret it
• I am so sensitive in relationships that I end up sabotaging them
• I have a dream but something is holding me back from reaching it or maybe I just don’t deserve it
• It’s like I’m always daydreaming