What struggles do people with ADHD face?

People with ADHD often have trouble focusing on tasks as their mind will wander from one place to another. They also tend to be fidgety and may move around a lot. This can lead to issues such as impulsivity and trouble paying attention to their surroundings. Low self-esteem, troubled relationships, and difficulty with work may result. However, there are ways to get help. Medication and talk therapy are known to help bring clarity to those struggling. Waiting their turn and interrupting conversations are also common struggles among those with ADHD. Overall, this mental disorder is common, which is why it goes undiagnosed so often. However, it interferes with one's quality of life as their mind and body are overactive, more than the average individual.

People with ADHD are often misunderstood and suffer from low self-esteem because of this. ADHD is often associated with mental health issues such as anxiety or depression. They face many day to day struggles such as getting jobs, making friends in school and difficulty managing money which doesn't help in either of these areas. Many ADHD sufferers have trouble staying focused and tend to lose track of time and interrupt others because of this. This can be perceived as rude by lots of people who do not fully understand the condition. There is a massive stigma surrounding ADHD which does not help.

Hi! Person with ADHD here. First clarification, there are different types of ADHD. There's hyperactive, or what people most commonly associate with adhd. Often these people feel like they can't sit still no matter how hard they try and constantly can feel under-stimulated. This is also the type that the vast majority of diagnosed people have. Then there's inattentive, hi, thats me :). On the daily I have a hard time with anything from being completely elsewhere, mentally, with a complete inability to be present, even, often, on my meds, OR being so hyperfocused on something that it is impossible to move. Yesterday instead of finishing the book I wanted to read, I spent 8 hours reading up on scottish cryptids and urban legends nonstop. Internally I knew I should stop. I wanted to stop. My brain agreed that I should stop. I could not. for the life of me. move from my position. I was too engrossed that while my brain wanted to move on, it wouldn't let me. Executive dysfunction is my worst enemy, and takes so much of my daily energy and motivation. Homework has always taken me 3-4x as long as my friends unless it was a topic I could word-vomit over. It took so much of my motivation trying to finish school during a pandemic, I nearly failed my entire second semester. And when I was little, I was constantly memorizing any commercial I saw or any fact that I read, and because I was a curious child, I was always asking questions. Unfortunately, this led to me being told on a daily basis that I was making everyone's ears bleed and that my parents often needed a break from me. There also the constant flip-fop of what I can do in a day. Some days I'm fine, I can do everything at a decent pace, multitask and still be fully focused on each activity, and others are the complete opposite. Math will make me spiral, I won't absorb a single thing from that day, I feel like a zombie trudging through a thick cloud of gray while barely even being conscious. Stimulation is everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Sitting in a silent room, I'll pick up on the smallest noise (the buzz of a light, the tick of a clock, that one person's sneaker on the other end of the room rubbing their shoe on the metal leg of a chair) and it will completely derail me. I won't be able to stop honing in on it and it drives me insane. At the same time, I put my headphones on and play the loudest, most angry music I can which overstimulates my mind in a good way. I can't speak as much on the hyperactive side, but theres no shortage of resources for that end. Inattentive is more common among females than hyperactive, which is why we so often go undiagnosed. We overcompensate to make up for our shortcomings, mixed with the fact that we're not balls of energy, it comes across as just being determined. The third type is a mix of inattentive and hyperactive, and can be anywhere in-between the two. I hope this helps and so sorry for the word vomit haha! Have a good day!

Everyone with ADHD will experience different kinds of struggles. No one person is the same. So, I'm answering based on my own personal experience and from others that I know. I find the ADDitude magazine a great resource for ADHD symptoms. I personally struggle with focusing on one task sometimes. I can't concentrate as well when there's background noise or other conversations happening. I also struggle with concentration when switching between tasks. There's also struggles with executive function and making sure that I finish the important tasks instead of working on the tasks that I want to work on that may not be near as important. Plus there's several others. I highly suggest checking out ADDitude magazine to find out more symptoms and struggles.

Having worked with various individuals with ADHD, I think I can list some things that trouble people with this disorder: 1. Disorganization - This is like the hallmark of a person having ADHD. It gets my colleagues into so much trouble at work because they lose track of important documents and information. 2. Procrastination - This is also an extension of disorganization. Procrastination always leads to unpreparedness at work. And in the last moments, projects gets really overwhelming and the end is a mess. 3. Distraction - Do you know how difficult it is to stay focused in a meeting? People with ADHD always miss out on stuff because half the time the mind is traveling to a distant land. Can't help it! I hope this answers your question.

Hello, person with diagnosed ADHD and autism here, I think I'm qualified to answer this question: One thing people with ADHD struggle with is the motivation to get things done. It's almost like having a mental block... You know you have to do something, but you just endlessly put it off. One thing I've found that helps with this is the "Might as well" mindset, wherein the bathroom needs to be clean, I got nothing better to do, so might as well do it. Another thing people with ADHD struggle with is emotional regulation, and I personally struggle with feelings of rejection.

Personally, I find my struggles with ADHD seem to creep up on me the most when I'm at work. The issue isn't symptoms of my ADHD, per se, rather the misunderstanding of my condition. So little people understand ADHD and for that reason I can sometimes come across to others as lazy or unmotivated. The reality is the opposite. I find throughout the working day I run on short bursts of energy to get my work done. Normally I speed through my work quite quickly in the morning, only to end up burnt out by lunchtime. Then, I find it particularly difficult to get back on track and stay focused, until the hour before my shift ends. Usually at that point I feel enough pressure to force myself back to the work. I've also always found it difficult to stick to anything for a long period of time. I dropped out of university twice and left two jobs before completing my first week. It's very hard for me to keep myself on track at times. I tend to disassociate pretty bad. If there are multiple conversations happening at once, or lots of movement, I really struggle to focus on one thing. Back in my schooldays I used to daydream a lot, or zone off. I was a smart kid, but my intelligence only went as far as subjects I had a real passion for, which is why I struggled to scrape by in classes that required heavy amounts of focus, like maths and science.

People with ADHD may struggle with everyday things like doing housework or finishing school/work assignments, because of a state of brain where you can only do what your brain wants to do, otherwise you'd be bored and/or unable to focus, which can be a problem in school especially while doing boring/repetitive activities. People with ADHD may also have a problem with paying attention to conversations even if the conversations are directed to them. Other struggles may include zoning out or hyperfocusing, cutting out or finishing other people's sentences and sometimes even having and keeping relationships/friendships. Some people might also have trouble feeling restless while sitting/standing still for a longer period of time.

The struggles of ADHD are far wider than they seem. Lack of motivation, anxiety, restlessness, brain fog, hyperactive all affect one’s daily life. Living with ADHD can feel like a never ending journey. Managing it can be even harder, but it can be done. Sometimes it feels as though your brain is going a million miles a minute while your body is too tired to move. Other days the brain fog is so bad you can’t remember where you parked your car. Those who don’t have ADHD may not understand what it’s like but just know there are so many that do.

They have a hard time focusing on what they need to do. They also end up procrastinating on what is needed for them to do. Like cleaning their room or doing a chore, or even simple things like showering or getting dressed. The hardest thing for me to do is to keep up at work and get up and out of bed. People with ADHD/ADD usually have this kind of problem, but you just have to find a way to face it and over come the problem. Just think of it as a challenge or a dare. I never back down to dares so I usually think of things as a dare that is really tough to do.