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Diagnosed with ADD in adult age! any tricks to keep motivation up and fucos? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 day ago by edvardgm@lemm.ee to c/adhd@lemmy.world

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Hey! just recently went to my psycologist, and i found alot of new things with me! ofc i had some things in background why it was so hard in school and social life and other things. but i found out that i was diagnosed with auditory memeory issue when i was 4 (and my parents never said anything to me when i was older). but that diagnose can also be a misdiagnose off add, which the test was not for. so ye, found out alot of my history and my current problems last couple of months, and got diagnosed with add well got kicked out of uni last year, had no motivation at all, and it was pain reading. so after some months, i went to psycologist about depression and fucos issue, and ye, pretty sure i have ADD with some languge diffuclitys, but not auditory memeoryproblem. wanted to killmyself so many times, and motivation for anything was just ass. and i guess it will take some time to fix it. do you have any tips what helped you, and how you find passion in school or job? :) thank you!

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[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Medication, especially when you first start taking it, will usually have a very strong effect. It'll give you laser focus. The problem is that the focus will be on whatever you happen to be "aimed" at at the time. The trick to using that effectively is to make sure you are aimed at what you actually want to focus on, so you don't end up cleaning your entire house instead of your expected work.