It's possible it could be depression, I've been misdiagnosed as depression but it was ADHD. Part of it is I'm a girl and ADHD is symptoms are quite different than in boys so we don't get noticed, but also I had a really troublesome upbringing through foster care/homelessness/child abuse so most clinicians assume that I must have depression. Turns out I'm really resilient just can't pay attention for shit.
Adhd causes depression and depressive symptoms are very similar to adhd. It's all a big tangled mess. But at least depressions usually go away, unlike adhd.
Of course, it's not usually a chronic disorder that you're born with. Maybe dysphoria is. Most people who get depression are depressed for a few months and then it goes away, either because of medication, therapy or maybe the conditions that triggered it like tragedy, bad people or substance abuse are gone.
Depression often has a tangible cause and effect thing to work with. You have a shitty job, your wife is a total bitch, you're being abused, you have no future prospects to look forward to etc etc. First handle the acute psychological and physiological effects of the depression with therapy, exercise, medication and rest. Once you've got some sort of willpower and resolve back, you can then take care of the actual problem, whatever it may be. Hopefully it's something that can be solved by changing your life style. Abusive parents, being poor or in poor health are obviously harder to solve than switching jobs, losing weight, and generally taking control of your life. Then, once you're on track, you just gotta let time heal your psychological wounds and you'll hopefully be ok again, and you'll be better prepared for the next time you're hit with a depressive episode.
Adhd is more like a "Oh you're trying to make your life work? Well fuck you, let's see you do it without dopamine and a executive function motherfucker." Yeah well, I've got motherfucking amphetamines so fuck you right back. Let's do this shit. Obviously it's easy to get depressed when your house is a fucking mess because you can't be bothered to put even one thing into the dish washer rather than just leaving it on the table.
Source: Have gotten rid of several depressive episodes mainly caused by my ADHD, but also actual solvable problems like a shitty workplace environment.
ADHD doesn't cause depression, it's sometimes comorbid, usually ADHD people are depressed because of ADHD and how it impacts your life and robs you of opportunities. Depression can go away through treatment, or resolved just by time. Regardless depending on how progressed your depression is you should always seek treatment no matter how severe because it won't always go away on its own and in some cases become worse.
Uh, exactly. I guess what you mean is ADHD causes depression, only not directly but indirectly due to its effects. It's pretty much just semantics at this point I guess.
It took me getting into 5 car accidents in an 18 month period to be taken seriously for an ADHD diagnosis. My boyfriend wouldn't drive with me because I would just stop at green lights.
I haven't gotten in a single one in the 5 years since I've gotten treatment.
They considered adult onset but telling them about my childhood they just said I was never diagnosed.
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