9/9/2023 0 Comments Adhd meltdownOne time I somehow broke into an old people’s home when pissed as a student, thinking that it was my friend’s address (logically). I read hundreds of books because I wasn’t happy. When I was drinking, and before I knew I had ADHD, I was a self-help book addict. You may just stay like this in torment, or you might have a drink to deal with the feelings. You find it hard to stay still or focus on anything because the thoughts of what you think you’ve done the night before are playing in paranoid HD in your head. After a binge drinking session, you wake up with the fear. It’s easy for ADHD sufferers to get locked into a cycle of drinking. Alcohol sits terribly with some of the classic symptoms of ADHD, such as impulsivity and disrupted emotional functioning. They are likely to binge drink more often, and they are more sensitive to its effects. Those with ADHD are more likely to drink heavily. And once you mix ADHD with alcohol, what you have is this: a perfect storm of calamity coming your way. What I didn’t know was that ADHD was causing a lot of my anxiety. I used alcohol to go from shy person in the background to life and soul of the party, a bit like Superman, with booze being a crap substitute for a phone box. But I was anxious which, unbeknownst to me, was a symptom. I was quiet, did my homework and kept still just fine. I just thought it was something that badly behaved kids who couldn’t keep still had. I first heard of ADHD, otherwise known as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, when I was at school.
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