Dare me for ADHD

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Milestone 1- £100 

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Milestone 2- £200

Dare- Pretend to be an official greeter outside a shop I do not work at. 

Milestone 3 - £300 

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About me

After a lifetime of now-so-obvious signs and symptoms being misdiagnosed as anxiety and depression (accompanied by prescriptions for anti-depressants that I'd routinely forget to take), at the age of 28, I was finally diagnosed with ADHD.

Getting diagnosed and medicated bridged some of the gap between "where I was" and "where I thought I should be", but there were still aspects of my life that were still giving me a serious case of the brain nopes.

To put it frankly, everything was still turning to sh*t.

I was out of ideas on how to help myself, and I was fed up with hearing the same pieces of advice:

"Write a list"

"Just set yourself a reminder"

and a cracking one from my boss at the time

"When you feel yourself becoming distracted, just pull yourself back to the task at hand"

I know that people mean well, but let's be clear, these SoLuTiOnS aren't a fix for neurobiological executive functioning issues. Advice like that is about as useful as telling someone with dementia to retrace their steps.

I reached out to ADHD UK and booked a taster coaching session. Due to a slight time blindness issue, I ended up joining my virtual discovery call on Folkestone beach, drenched, and out of breath from my clamber out of the sea. Clutching my towel in one hand and my phone in the other, I fumbled around with my earbuds - which I dropped - and subsequently inserted a pebble into my ear trying to rectify the situation.

Trying my best to style that out, we started to discuss what I was struggling with. I often go blank when I need to explain myself, but it was different explaining myself to someone who really understood.

I couldn't wait for my next session (which I promised myself not to take from the beach).

We covered a lot of ground in less time than I thought, and I went on my way with some strategies to tackle my most irritating brain nopes. They were simple, but they worked, and the harder I looked at the things that helped or didn't help, the easier it became to figure out what I needed. I realised I had all kinds of strategies packed into my daily life already. It's still something of a work in progress, but I feel like it would have taken me years to figure all these things out without coaching.

About ADHD

Adult ADHD Screening Survey