ADHD pain perspective
by Katrina Karan: Mental Health
The author states that ADHD is described as one of the most painful conditions to experience #MentalHealth
Transcript (en)
ADHD is one of the most painful things to live with, not because it's loud, because it's contradictory. You're capable of anything and motivated to do almost nothing. You understand everyone around you, but can't explain what's happening inside yourself. You have brilliant ideas, but no patience to finish a single one. You're a genius who cannot handle an email, an extrovert who needs to be completely alone, A person full of advice who can't follow any of it. And the worst part, you know, you always know. You can see exactly what you need to do and still you can't get there. That gap between knowing and doing is where the shame lives. That's what nobody talks about. Not the distraction, the shame, the shame. And it stays there quietly for years because no one ever told you this is not a character flaw. This is a brain that was never properly explained to you.
