F24, sorry if my english is not perfect.
I was diagnosed today after I started my journey two months ago. The official diagnosis:
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity/Impulsiveness Disorder (ADHD), combined, mild, comorbidity with depressive symptoms.
I always thought I was "different" than everybody else, even before I found out what the right word was, constantly out of place even though I was appreciated by other people.
It's not easy for me to find myself in this diagnosis and accept it without constantly feeling like an impostor, as if I may have manipulated a professional because my head keeps telling me all of this it's not real (especially the depression part).
I have constantly given myself an image of myself that is not real, with the (unconscious) goal of having to keep it forever...until I reached my limit.
Currently, my main goal would be to take back my life, I only have 6 or 7 exams left until I graduate and I can't get up or get off my phone, it's like an addiction that takes me away from everything in my head.
A big problem, which was also encountered during my diagnosis, is my strong need for independence and a terror of being emotionally open up to others (I've never ever done that), because in my head it's a huge loss of control that I can't accept to show to others. That's why she advised me to start therapy, she would recommend it anyway, but for that reason even more so: to have a space where I can talk freely.
I think I will start therapy, I don't know, I just want to hear some advice or stories from someone to feel more understood.
I wouldn't even be against medicines, if they were offered to me, I just want to feel more "normal" and capable like everyone else.