anyways, for a few weeks, i ruminate over this i also talk to friends and an aside i was incredibly oblivious to the stigma Borderline has vis-a-vis ADHD like i won't forget how the faces of the few friends i told about it suddenly changed when i uttered the word "Borderline"
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turns out they both had people in their lives who were diagnosed with it so i don't blame them but wow anyways, after a few weeks i have my regularly scheduled session with my psychiatrist and we talk as we always do and i tell him what my therapists said
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and he thinks about it and he asks me "do you feel like you're angry all the time?" and i'm like, well, now that you're asking me, yeah, i do "i think you have C-PTSD"
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and i'm like, okay? so i go home and start looking into it and it's starting to make a lot of sense and over the next, eh, months, it clicks
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and i end up getting a therapist who specializes in trauma because yeah, most of my problems stem from what you can call C-PTSD the ADHD stuff is there, sure, but it's more surface-level and so, this is what bothers me about the ADHD discourse
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i am aware that i'm trying to generalize my experience but i strongly feel that most people don't "just" have ADHD and that there may be much deeper things at work in their lives other sources of issues
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i'm not saying everyone who has ADHD also has C-PTSD some, sure others, i don't know but i really feel like people would benefit from digging a bit deeper and not stopping at just ADHD is i guess where i'm getting at?
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and like, i know this sounds like "HEY THERE IS MORE THAT IS WRONG WITH YOU" but no, this is not about what's wrong with anyone, there isn't anything "wrong with you" if you have ADHD this is about digging deeper and i don't see this nearly enough
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and let that be said that ADHD advocacy is good and spreading the word about it is good because so many people *still* don't know they have ADHD and just suffer needlessly but once you got diagnosed, and you got your footing consider looking a bit under it -FIN-
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p.s. there is a theory that's getting popular on twitter that ADHD is just yet another way of being on the spectrum i have mixed feelings about this p.p.s. Borderline and C-PTSD have a lot of overlap so i don't blame my therapist for approaching me from that angle
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