My 40+ years real life experience of living with combined ADHD addiction late life diagnosis medication treatment and management.

I wanted to share this story because it might help and inspire some people and im proud of myself for coming out the right side.

All through my life it's been tough but especially the last 4 years have been the toughest awful some really low points but mixed with some wins.

After finally completely stopping a life time of out of control drinking age 39 nearly 3 years ago along with bad habits and a two and half year wait also multiple ADHD and mental health assessments on my full life. In november I was diagnosed with combined ADHD.

Hyperactivity
Inpulsivity
Inattentiveness

About as bad as you can get it on the high end of the scale called the ring out fire due to a thousand thoughts a minute.

It's effected me all my life behaviour emotions memory sleep grades at school took me extra year longer then anybody else at college addictions jobs relationships friends etc but I couldn't see it clearly till stopping drinking I now know drinking all them years after work was self medicating and relaxing my brain.

They have now prescribed me ADHD medication and its changed my life literally feel like 20 years younger but it early doors and it does wear off its given me more focus energy. I sleep better it's controlling my emotions thoughts no more pacing outbursts no more sleeping 3-4 hrs a night no more feeling exhausted etc. It works really well during the day but you do crash later. I Feel happy again looking forward to life it brought my serotonin and dopamine levels up to that of normal nerotypical brain no more miserable Ben want to talk more again as you can tell. its basically a central nervous system stimulant my nervous system is matching my brain more in sync. Only downsides it wears off towards bed and the old brain trys to start but manageable and lack of appetite it long process they monitor me every 2 weeks and adjust stuf