I have a family history of adhd and I guess I ve been in denial about it for a long time. Barely got through high school, have great difficulty staying focused on any one thing, severe anxiety... I don t even work. Now I m faced with a divorce and this worries me that I can t hide my condition anymore and I really need to treat it the way my family members treat theirs with medication since the way I parent is under a microscope and I can t afford to screw a single thing up. I m 37, and I ve known I had a problem with attention problems since before my early teens. Before that I m sure my parents knew, but it was a strict religious household and medications were a no-no. I have medicare. I don t have a primary care doctor. My aunt and one of my sisters both take Adderall for their adhd. I feel very unaccomplished compared her. She s a marine biologist now, only a year older than me and I m a stay at home mom with no job who messes stuff, says she is going to do stuff with her life but never does, because something else got my attention. It s endlessly frustrating.
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