Also depression, anxiety, PTSD, alcoholism in recovery? I know, it's alot right? 😂 I wish I could just reboot my brain. Jokes aside I am activelu working on all of those and my sobriety, but its such a lonely isolating and painful process. Would love to meet some other ADHDers struggling with the same things and on the same recovery journey to have as a friend and to support and motivate each other.
Struggled with many drugs, mainly alcohol for emotional crutch when I was failing to move toward the life I wanted, bad company and codependency. Early ADD diagnosis as child, got back on stimulants for work and focus but life hit harder from many directions and I got addicted to street Adderall. Do not attempt kids. Now clean and fought like hell to recover and pick up the pieces, have my dream job building landscapes and a wonderful partner and home.
Sounds like we have the same journey. ADHD, anxiety, impulse disorder, PTSD and recovering alcoholic. Currently not in AA, but spent 2 years going to meetings multiple times a week. Recovery alone can be lonely because you have to unfortunately cut ties with people who may weigh you down. I literally had to start over. Firming all new friendships with people as a 40 year old neurodivergent alcoholic with PTSD from trauma was not easy to do. But it was worth it. I’m not perfect. I’m sober, but can be around alcohol. My sobriety was triggered from a traumatic event, so I don’t have the urge to drink. But I did attend rehab for a short time and detox for 5 days was no joke!
ADHD, severe anxiety, PTSD, a possible alcohol issue, and the list goes on. Anxiety meds never helped and made me worse. ADHD meds work 65% (?) of the time these days. I’ve tried a ton of different therapists and have been making progress in the last four months…now that I’m 42 and a single mom of 4 kids. It’s a lot. I refuse to ever stop fighting. Sometimes that’s a killer trait…other times it’s debilitating.
Other than a total of one month in the last 3 years, I've been clean. However, everything I deal with as far as my ADHD, bipolar, bpd is a MAJOR trigger and it's becoming almost impossible to stay in my recovery bc of the total isolation I feel emotionally and mentally from everyone I know. My sober friends dont get it, my friends that understand the struggles of addiction are usually high and not ppl I want to be around anyway. Idk, I just keep trying to the right things and praying I don't fall. I would really love some interaction with others like me that get it, that aren't going to judge me or treat me like crap.
