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12 Aug 2010 @ 8:25 PM
amazing Join Date: Thu 12th Aug 2010
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late diagnosed, and depressed!!!

I am a 30 yr old mother of 2. I recentely found out that there is a huge chance that Im ADD. My behavior has had a great deal of guilt in the separation between me and my husband. I am still trying to learn how to manage this problem. As usual, i don't know where to start and just to think about it makes me turn around and take care of other business. Sometimes, i look at myself and I wonder how the heck i was able to obtain everything i have obtained so far and be where I am in life. I pad myself in the back because i see me acomplishments and then I realize than in all of them luck has played a major factor. Don't know maybe I do have a guardian angel somewhere. I feel very frustrated at times by my inability to complete tasks, my inability to manage my time, my necessity to feel busy at all times, my careless mistakes that on top of that cost me lots of money, time and effort. Many of my closest friends have come to tell me that they love me but they don't expect a lot from me. They love me because of many things but being caring, loving, etc is not actually it. I forget pretty much everything, recently i went on vacation with my 2 kids. One of them is 2 and the other 5. There was nothing more stressing than this in my life. I was counting all my traveling items at all times. Everytime I stopped to read something, at the bathroom, at the gate, etc. I had to count 7 items with me at all times and sad enough my kids were 2 of them. Don't know what 2 do or how to do it. I have many wonderful ideas, proyects, goals in life and im always affraid that i am wasting time doing soemthing else and loose track of what is really important. Which at this point, not even my priorities are clear for me

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24 Sep 2010 @ 1:31 PM Reply # 1
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ADD/ADHD and Cake

I was diagnosed with ADHD later in life too. I asked myself lots of the same questions that you are asking yourself. Here's the deal. People are the same as cakes. ADD/ADHD is like icing. Most cakes have some icing on them. Other cakes have no icing on them. (BORING) Still other cakes have thick layers of frosting. (Like You and Me)

What is too much frosting is really dependent on who's looking at the cake and the party the cake is brought to.

My partner definitely has less frosting than me and sometimes thinks I have too much frosting. Other times, I just the right amount of frosting, it depends on the situation.

I struggle too with the amount of frosting. However, my frosting helped me get to where I am now in my life. Without it, all the good things about me may not be here.

Hope this helps.

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