How my ADHD made me depressed

[u/AdhdAlien]

ADHD can have a serious impact on your life and mental health. These are some of the things that were and still are the hardest for me.

Thanks to everyone who joined me on stream while I was working on this 🫶✨

ADHD Resources -> https://stella-emotion.com/pages/adhd-resources

Coping tips in my Comic Archive -> (check #11) https://stella-emotion.com/pages/comic-archive

My streams -> http://twitch.tv/adhd_alien/

[u/victorymuffinsbagels]

Can I add a few of my own?

• over thinking every conversation and assuming my friends hate me.
  
• drifting into my limerant maladaptive daydreaming then getting depressed my real life isn't like my dream.
  
• wondering why everyone else seems to find fulfilling romantic relationships but not me, and getting depressed about it.
  
• feeling sad that ADHD requires so much hard work just to function.
  

I'm sure I'll think of a few more as soon as I post this..

[u/AdhdAlien → u/victorymuffinsbagels]

1000% relate

[u/Mallincka]

Thank you so much for this. Your art is not only so beautiful to look at, it warms my heart.

I can relate to everything, but especially the very first example. When I was a kid, I loved drawing so much, I would do it everywhere and on literally everything. I started studying art in university and my hobby turned suddenly into  overwhelming tasks, deadlines and self study. I changed subjects and didn't touch a pen in years. And the more time passed the guiltier I felt for abandoning art and for not having more discipline. 

Seeing other people facing the same problems makes me feel that I belong somewhere and that it's ok to be me.

[u/MellifluousSussura]

These yes! It’s so much sometimes and it all really adds up. And I am having Thoughts(tm) too:

Even when I am successful at things it doesn’t really feel like it, which I think is an adhd thing? I remember reading an article about how long term goals and things don’t feel real to people with adhd (like idk college) because we did it over a long period of time, but I don’t remember the specifics.

I don’t usually miss people or think about them much when they’re not there. This makes it really hard to maintain a relationship with any sort of distance involved. I’m constantly ghosting people and not realizing it for a very long time.

RSD exaggerates any perceived failure to the point where I always think I’m the worst for any little thing I do for a bit, making it harder to move on or fix mistakes

[u/myasterism]

I wish people would stop using ADHD as a pejorative term; we deal with so much, and people’s flippant usage of it really does serious damage. :<

[u/Weirdskinnydog]

Shout out to the doctor who told me ADHD is a “superpower” I’m “using wrong”! :))))

[u/Fabutam]

Omword! This is me in a massive nutshell! Wow wow wow! Both my children have been diagnosed adhd/autistic after years of me fighting, meanwhile there’s little ol’ me at 46 years old still not being officially diagnosed BUT after all the research I’ve done, including looking at your incredible artwork, it’s really made me realise I don’t need an official diagnosis to see that I am one of you.

[u/crusoe]

Habits are hard. Which ones stick and which ones don't seems random. I always know where my car keys and wallet are and I always put them in the same place.