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is ADHD harder to manage with time? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 months ago by AnotherFuture@sh.itjust.works to c/adhd@lemmy.world

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when i was a child, i had a tendency to extremely hyper fixate on various topics for months, so now that i'm older it just feels like i've experienced everything even though I technically haven't. the fixations are becoming much more quick in terms of cycles / how long they (don't) last and i spend most of my time feeling bored and empty, just rotting away and feeling entertained by nothing. lately this has caused me to get really stuck in the past, so i spend a lot of time just laying in bed crate digging my own memories and feeling kind of depressed because i have nothing new to be excited by or interested in. it does not help that i don't really have any long term goals or ambitions either, i just kind of exist.

does anyone else feel like this?

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[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 47 points 5 months ago

It sounds like you've developed depression and it's making your ADHD symptoms worse.

See a therapist if you can afford it, or at least a regular doctor and get some antidepressants

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Also notable that depression can be a symptom of adhd.

[-] Zelaf@sopuli.xyz 16 points 5 months ago

It's the repeating steps of ADHD

Not have the capacity to manage.
Get depressed.
Have worse capacity to manage.
Go back to step one.

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