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Step One: Honor Your Feelings
Your immediate reaction to the news of an ADHD diagnosis may be relief — now you know why you are the way you are. But it may well be regret for past struggles and for what might have been, or fear that ADHD treatment will take away your creativity and change who you are.
You may also have difficulty accepting the diagnosis itself. "Even though my diagnosis made sense, I just couldn't or didn't want to believe it," says one woman who was diagnosed in her forties.
Understand that your feelings about the diagnosis, whether positive or negative, or mixed, are natural. Realizing you have something to feel sad about, or work on, or capitalize on and preserve will help you take action.
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