Just Diagnosed with OCD and ADHD
As in an actual diagnosis from a licensed professional. Finally decided to tackle some deeper issues.
We’re now talking medication and referrals for a specialist in OCD and I don't really know how to feel. Part of me is releaved, I have 'answers' now to what I have been living with for decades. Another part is hopeful, like maybe the person I was always meant to be is just a couple weeks away!
Finally I can live the life of someone neurotypical (not making a value judgement, just that my life has just been a series of frustrated ambitions, and if pills will fix that then so be it.)
At the core of it though, I just feel angry and sad. I could have lived a whole other life if someone had just intervened early, I'm coming off the blocks for a race that started 36 years ago.
I'm venting mostly, but I would love to hear from others who've gone through or are going through this. How did your life change?