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I always laughed when one of my favourite managers was telling me this, in the meetings I was getting frustrated when people were not being effective and open as I was expecting. As much as it was a great lesson about not assuming that everyone is the same, it was not until I was diagnosed that I understood how powerful this concept is in my Life.
If you would not look for apples on banana trees, why would you expect from our Adhd brain to perform like a neurotypical one?This is when my research began and after seeing how much my life has improved with a coach that could support and guide me through my self awareness path, I have decided to become an Adhd Coach myself, in order to help others to navigate the overwhelming late Adhd diagnosis.
I have been struggling all my life with something inside of me that has been called throughout the years: depression, severe anxiety, panic attacks, imbalance, laziness... but every time I was receiving a diagnosis, I was trying to make sense of it but things seemed just not right. It always seemed I could not find the right path to feel myself without a rollercoaster of emotions and problems destabilising each step of my way.... living like this makes you ultimately think that you are the problem!
My Journey
Growing up my life has been always a rollercoaster...the first diagnosis of anxiety ,depression and panic attacks started to arrive and it all made me feel like somehow I lost control of my life, of my body or my mind.
With this all the excess behaviour started, the late nights out, the drinking, smoking.. It was actually very strange for people to understand me as, i was hard working, always present, never late, but I had a second personality that needed to just numb her feelings.
Fast forward 25 years of these struggles, with ups and downs, bold career moves and rewards, I
I open Tik Tok one day and I see a video about ADHD .My first thought was "This seems like a very good excuse for millennials to be lazy".
I KNOW, TERRIBLE! right?
Little did I know what was about to happen...
During the pandemic I was then diagnosed AGAIN with burnout. It was easy, everyone seemed to blame everything to covid and the pandemic restrictions and impacts.... But this was not right - I did not want to accept yet another diagnosis that was not fitting how I was feeling. Was I exhausted? YES! But I did not feel depressed or hopeless! I just wanted to sleep and not be forced to interact with anyone!
We talked and my GP was actually very supportive and referred my for an ADHD diagnosis. At that time in Wales there wasn't even a proper waiting list for diagnosis for adults. The health board openly told me that I could have waited a couple of years before there was specialists able to see adults and further couple of years before I could see somebody.
I decided to go private, as at that time I was struggling with work a lot and needed to understand how to help myself.
6 months later I have been officially diagnosed with combined medium/severe ADHD. I was expecting to have some kind of closure from the diagnosis, but I was so wrong! The diagnosis was a starting point. You get diagnosed and then you look in the mirror and say " so, what now?!" Left confused and overwhelmed by a life changing information, i started to research, to drop ins support groups, Facebook groups...and I found a coach that along with my therapist started to work with me on discovering myself again and understand what was working FOR MY BRAIN.
I quickly become an advocate for ADHD UK Foundation and started my journey to become an ADHD coach! I now am helping other adults to find a way to make Adhd work for them!
How has this changed my life?
With this newfound awareness and the chance to practice self-care and patience with myself I can focus on my mental health needs. For me it also meant learning how to stop hating myself for things that are outside of my control, or just taking too much of my energy to do them " as society expects".