Thank you! It is incredibly helpful to read about other people's experiences.
Yeah, I had a follow-up planned about anxiety but my thoughts hadn't really coalesced. I need to continue to that.
there are screening questionnaires like the PHQ-9
I had been periodically checking in with the depression questionnaire. It seems like there's some, but it (both in my subjective impression, and according to the graph) it seems a pretty steady background, not correlating with something I hadn't noticed, as I thought it might.
I struggle with multi-step tasks like getting dressed
Again, I empathise with some of this, but not with a lot of it. I've a lot of trouble finishing tasks I'm under pressure for, and some difficulty finishing tasks at all, but I don't seem to regularly get distracted. (Like I'm pushed away from something I'm doing, not pulled towards somehting else)
The anxiety-procrastination spiral is definitely not unique to AD(H)D;
Yeah, that's an excellent description. Perfectionism. This used to be my REALLY BIG problem, and now it's a lot better, but it's still recognisable in lots of other ways. And yes, I've slightly different breakdown of aspects, but very much that sort of thing.
do you find your concentration issues are linked to depression/low mood?
Yes! It seems like my mood dips, and then all these problems are insurmountable, and then it picks up, and I can handle them all without much difficulty. (Now I'm wondering if my mood picks up *further* I may get more over-energetic-distractable, but I don't have any clear evidence)
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Date: 2019-06-17 12:32 pm (UTC)Yeah, I had a follow-up planned about anxiety but my thoughts hadn't really coalesced. I need to continue to that.
I had been periodically checking in with the depression questionnaire. It seems like there's some, but it (both in my subjective impression, and according to the graph) it seems a pretty steady background, not correlating with something I hadn't noticed, as I thought it might.
Again, I empathise with some of this, but not with a lot of it. I've a lot of trouble finishing tasks I'm under pressure for, and some difficulty finishing tasks at all, but I don't seem to regularly get distracted. (Like I'm pushed away from something I'm doing, not pulled towards somehting else)
Yeah, that's an excellent description. Perfectionism. This used to be my REALLY BIG problem, and now it's a lot better, but it's still recognisable in lots of other ways. And yes, I've slightly different breakdown of aspects, but very much that sort of thing.
Yes! It seems like my mood dips, and then all these problems are insurmountable, and then it picks up, and I can handle them all without much difficulty. (Now I'm wondering if my mood picks up *further* I may get more over-energetic-distractable, but I don't have any clear evidence)