my adhd friend told me i have adhd but now i guess i don't
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soooo my college friend was diagnosed in childhood. i have always been the weird outcast kid and we bonded over books and she noticed many of my traits were like hers. forgetting things again and again, short attention span, low dopamine levels, inability to concentrate or function normally. she told me i might have adhd too. took a few tests but no doctors cuz i was poor. still am but that's besides the point. for the past few years i learnt more about it and how to manage my emotions and to deal with living on adhd. so many of my quirks and faults and thinking made so much sense. but recently, i got new job that offered therapy by licensed counsellors. the first therapist was amazing but she left soon. the current therapist i have made a huge revelation that kinda shattered my world. she says i don't actually have adhd but it's trauma response. apparently my childhood was so traumatic that i developed certain quirks and coping mechanisms that mimic symptoms of adhd. now i am... kind of lost. i don't know what to believe or how to deal with this. i've asked for a recommend psychiatrist's contact so i can get properly diagnosed but she hasn't been able to get to that.
trauma response. i don't know what to think or believe and now i'm clueless. when i thought i had adhd i felt a sense of belonging cuz i knew why i was the way i was and i knew people felt the same way. i'm alone again.