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Originally Posted by -jimi-
I'm not sure what help you are planning to give. If someone with ADD fails (like if anyone fails for any reason), it is easy to develop depression. I mean, if you try and fail, that hurts. But as a friend, you cannot simply make her different so she can focus on school and keep jobs.
If someone sort of zoned in from above and told me they were going to "help me with my ADD", I would be mad too. It would feel very humiliating.
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Thank you for that insight i really appreciate it
i'm trying to help her manage the symptoms and help her in anyway i can whether it is helping her with social skills, encouraging her to try methods to tame it etc.
She does develop depression pretty easily and she ends up hating herself even more and being extra hard on herself. It is almost like she is ashamed of having ADD which i'm tryna encourage her otherwise.
I don't mean to humiliate or shame anyone with ADD/HD i just want to make her life easier and thought if i educate myself on it i might be able to think of ways she can control it.... However she believes she has grown out of it.. So i'm kinda stuck on what to do.
Mentioned an intervention but she didn't respond to it so i am all out of ideas i can't force her to take meds it's not my place and i don't want to be rude.
Thank you for replying
Claire