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Originally Posted by Quarter life
Unfortunately ADD contributes greatly to a loss or impeding of executive functioning in a lot of cases. I am sure your husband knows that he must work toward being re assessed...but his procrastination and inability to put thoughts into actions stops him from moving forward.
Maybe try to get a friend involved who can take him to the medical appointment or compel him to keep the appointment so as to get started on the medical help he desperately needs. If he is left to his own devices he may just continue being caught in the perpetual procrastination/motivation trap.
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We just moved 900 miles away in June so we don't yet have friends that we connect with like that. But even his friends he's had his whole life don't know that part of him.
However, today was much much better. I basically begged him to just not drop out until he saw a doc. While he was napping I did some searches to help with his overdue school work to try and get things ready for him so he didn't feel so stressed. When he woke up he was a completely different person. He got all his school stuff done and promised to go to class today and the doc. I honestly thought he'd just go to school, drop out, and come home. I was blown away. He was up two hours before class today, turned in his stuff, went to his doc appt, and now has a month Rx for dexadrine (what he was on several years ago).
Tomorrow will be his first time taking it in 5 years. He thanked me tonight for not letting him quit and for helping him with school work (even though he didn't use what I did at all and still did all the work himself). He said he really liked his doc and sounds excited at the prospect of significantly lowering his stress. He also called a T and is making an appt for two weeks from now.
I'm being cautiously optimistic. I know this won't be a fix all. I know a million things could happen to derail him but I'm just happy that today was a good day.