Thread: ADHD Lying
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Old Dec 02, 2009, 01:15 PM
HTCool HTCool is offline
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Hello everyone,

I am a 19 year old male diagnosed with ADHD, and I have a problem with lying. Since I was younger I would lie about both large things and the smallest things all because I just didn't think about what was going to come out of my mouth before I said it. I would just blurt out lies for no real reason at all. As I'm older now, I still live with my parents, and I havent told a lie in nearly 5 months since I have found the right dosage of the proper medication. The problem I am having is that these lies keep coming back to haunt me. Things I had forgotten I lied about, come back, and it devastates my family every time. And at this point I just dont remember what I was lying about in the past, I cannot recall them, I think I just put them out of my mind. I always had this deep fear of disappointing my parents, and it caused me to eventually have more problems, the fear and stress of covering up things at school was making me depressed, and it took a long time to get my parents trust back. So now here I am with my parents unable to trust me again because of something that happened 5 months ago, and I didnt even remember I told it. I feel like an honest person now, but I am completely unsure of how to deal with my family, and put this behind me. This stress is starting to make me depressed again, and they think I am lying about being depressed to get out of being in trouble. I don't know if my lying was associated with the ADHD or something else, but I desperately need to get this under control.