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Old Aug 31, 2015, 02:05 PM
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Originally Posted by lavendersage View Post
Thanks, YMIHere. I did a bit more reading about it and brought it up to my T yesterday. She evaluated/assessed (whatev's) me and concluded that I don't have it to the extent of it being a "disorder"; it's more a "style" that I have adopted of a way of doing things.

I know I'm stubborn as a mule, though (my entire family is - there's no escaping that DNA) and I hate to delegate tasks. I am a perfectionist at tasks both at work and at home but I DO complete them. I have been known on more than one or two occasions to think I've cornered the market on "righteous indignation" but, as I grow older and realize how much of a mess that I am, I've way toned down the soap-boxing (glass houses and all that).

I'm not a hoarder nor am I miserly (another one of the diagnostic criteria). Miserliness would have come in handy as I am now neck-deep in debt.

I like to copy recipes off the internet in to a running Word document (keeps getting bigger as I add more recipes to it). Now, I HATE to cook so WTF? but that's a topic for another time... Anyway, when I copy and paste them, the font differs from recipe to recipe and the formatting is all screwy and that gives me the absolute nervous fidgets so I have to make everything uniform. I've probably lost days of my life off of doing this stupid kind of shite. But, what can I tell you? It drives me bat$hit if I don't do it.
I know that feeling.

Honestly, a doctor is probably going to classify me as a sociopath or something I don't see coming. It's funny because I heard that some of the craziest people are the people WORKING in psychology.

I can't help but think that something has to give. That I really need more help and that will pave the way to fixing a lot of what is broken in my life. I'm pretty sure it's all related though it's hard for my ADHD brain to pick out the biggest culprit. But you can see that the symptoms cross over between my
ADHD and Bipolar. I suspect that I'm going to be diagnosed BPD or something which also have overlapping symptoms.

Just hoping I can put my life in order b/c I feel like I'm in chaos all the time.
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Meds: Adderall XR 30 mg, short acting 15, Trazodone 150 mg, Lamictal 400 mg, Xanax .5 mg (as needed).

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