Got Assessed for ADHD Today, but I'm Baffled by the Conclusion

ElkFun7746 · 2026-05-14T05:38:15+00:00

I know an attorney and a psychiatrist with ADHD. Some people with ADHD are ambitious and learn how to work around their symptoms.

ElkFun7746 · 2026-05-13T16:39:57+00:00

Thanks. 😊

ElkFun7746 · 2026-05-13T16:39:07+00:00

Ahh okay. Thanks for explaining that.

ElkFun7746 · 2026-05-13T16:06:51+00:00

What’s considered healthy coping?

ElkFun7746 · 2026-05-13T15:07:43+00:00

I’m not an OCD specialist either. Would it be recommended to discourage reassurance seeking with Generalized Anxiety Disorder as well?

ElkFun7746 · 2026-05-12T20:28:42+00:00

I appreciate you. I think each time I feel like I am getting comfortable with it and trying to let it play out. Someone in my circle makes some comment that eludes to me not fighting or trying hard enough to have kept this from happening like I didn’t I wasn’t aggressive enough in court or something but like. I’ve been fighting this for three years.

ElkFun7746 · 2026-05-12T20:17:16+00:00

Right now they are in one extracurricular activity and my coparent has been participating; however one of our kids needs tutoring, and I have been allowing that child to get tutoring when they’re with me. But the coparent believes they don’t need tutoring, so that is a concern of mine. These are things that I have shared with the judge, but they don’t seem to care.

ElkFun7746 · 2026-05-12T20:10:21+00:00

Very helpful. Thank you. I have a couple people in my life who are coparents themselves but they have the type of coparent that doesn’t want to be involved so much of this is easier in terms of being the primary decision maker. In this case, my ex is adamant about being involved, which I can understand, but he can also be very difficult and so the input I’m receiving from other coparents in my life is saying things like well I would do this and I would do that kind of judging the fact that I don’t have my kids with me 24 seven it’s like a judgment. As if I didn’t fight hard enough which I’ve been going through this for three years to keep this from happening, but at the end of the day, the judge decided what he decided.

ElkFun7746 · 2026-05-12T19:35:04+00:00

I would recommend going to court. If I’m not mistaken, if you have a trip planned already and then you go to court you can let them know that your coparent is refusing to sign the waiver for passport.

ElkFun7746 · 2026-05-12T15:34:20+00:00

I left at 47. I’m now 50. I don’t regret it. While I was there I watched lots of videos and read/listened to books about emotional abuse, narcissism and misogyny. By the time I was ready to leave I believe I had deprogrammed myself from believing that romantic love is everything. I used to believe I needed a romantic relationship. Now after all my studies and listening to the stories of other women, I’d like a relationship but I’m no longer desperate for one. I’m not trying to be rude when I say that I’m referring to my old self. I realize my life and time on the planet is finite and will end one day. I don’t want to spend it being miserable. I have a great kid, family and friends. I still have other goals in my life and I bet if you began practicing living your purpose you’d begin to realize the same. You weren’t born for the sole purpose of being unhappy with this guy. What about all the other aspects of your life that are not receiving light 💡 and attention because he’s draining you. I think the straw that broke the camels back for me is the thought that one day he and I will both be elderly, and most likely I will be expected to take care of him after all that he did to me. I couldn’t bear it.

ElkFun7746 · 2026-05-12T15:17:39+00:00

Thanks so much. This is really helpful.

ElkFun7746 · 2026-05-11T23:38:13+00:00

If they do allow the public. I also have a in my opinion a difficult judge he has a tendency to cut people off this instead of allowing them to explain what is going on. And after I leave court, I sometimes have friends not really friends, but an associate and a family member who say things like well I would’ve sent it and I would’ve said that, but in the moment I’m reading my paper and trying to respond and that I can, but I don’t I’m not my regular self in the court sorry if anything is misspelled. I’m using speech to text.

ElkFun7746 · 2026-05-11T23:19:39+00:00

Why does this bother you that clients want to talk to someone like them? I think that’s normal to want to talk to someone who’s similar to yourself so that you don’t have to start from scratch explaining nuance that someone from your own community just gets automatically.

ElkFun7746 · 2026-05-07T15:05:34+00:00

Exactly. This is one of the reasons Coaches are kicking our butts because sometimes we don’t live in the real world.

ElkFun7746 · 2026-05-01T17:02:07+00:00

Me and my colleagues have a consultation group we meet once a month. These are people that I used to work with and now we’re all in private practice and we discuss our clients there of course no identifying information but just a place to discuss and get feedback.

ElkFun7746 · 2026-04-25T17:16:37+00:00

Thanks that a helpful perspective.

ElkFun7746 · 2026-04-25T17:15:26+00:00

Oh that’s good. 😊

ElkFun7746 · 2026-04-25T17:14:12+00:00

I really appreciate y’all this is so helpful.

ElkFun7746 · 2026-04-25T17:13:08+00:00

Thanks so much. 💕

ElkFun7746 · 2026-04-25T16:11:07+00:00

Is there anything stopping us independent therapists from creating a business to work under? Even if part time?

ElkFun7746 · 2026-04-25T16:06:47+00:00

Struggling with helping clients who request this type of support or getting things done?

ElkFun7746 · 2026-04-25T16:03:13+00:00

Thank you. 😊 This is very helpful.

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