Does ADHD get worse after diagnosis 🤔 #adhd

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   Post-diagnosis feeling: “My ADHD got worse”

   1. APAlex Partridge0:00

      I've been diagnosed with ADHD, and I swear as soon as I did, my symptoms got worse. Is this normal?

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   Why it can feel worse: selective attention and heightened awareness

   1. APAlex Partridge0:06

      Yes, it is, and it's to do with selective attention, that when we suddenly become aware of something... So let's say you've been diagnosed with ADHD, so you've gone and you've spent time working with someone to go through

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   Diagnosis requires identifying real-life impairments and distress

   1. APAlex Partridge0:16

      your symptoms or difficulties or areas that are problematic. And obviously, to get the diagnosis, you have to be experiencing distress or difficulty, then you have to provide evidence of them. So yes, I forget things all the time. Yes,

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   Common ADHD difficulties people enumerate during assessment

   1. APAlex Partridge0:26

      I lose my car keys. Yes, it's very difficult to get organized. Yes, time management is a problem. I struggle to finish things. I struggle to listen. I'm fidgety. I'm restless. Um, it's really hard for me not to over-talk.

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   Reframe: likely not worse—just more noticeable

   1. APAlex Partridge0:36

      I'm impulsive. I'm impatient. You know, you, you list all these things, or you go through and you suddenly... Your awareness has just shot up. So because it's, it's salient, suddenly this is really salient, you just notice it more. So yeah, and it feels like it's got worse. I don't think necessarily it has got worse. It's just that you're much more aware

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