The Many Shades of ADHD That Impact Every Aspect of My Life!

It's #MentalHealthWeek during Mental Health Awareness Month.

It was 9 years ago this month that I was diagnosed with #ADHD but my understanding of its impact on my life and working to better understand my dyslexia tendencies associated with my ADHD...

Here are a few things I didn't realize were linked to my ADHD but thanks to conversations with mental health professionals and fellow ADHD SuperPOWERED humans the true impacts stretch far beyond my lack of remembering or hyper-focus!

ADHD comes in different shades but can include:

• * Time blindness: difficulty prioritizing it, measuring how much time a given task will take
• * Hyperfocus: engrossed in something that we can become unaware of anything else around them.
• * Chronic disorganization
• * Struggle to accept Critical feedback
• * Acting without much consideration for the consequences
• * Interrupting people (impulsive don’t want to forget what we have to say)
• * Tough time keeping up friends
• * Language processing limitations
• * Impulsive and lack of self-control
• * Restlessness and Anxiety feeling like our internal motor won’t shut off.
• * Everything is overdramatic
• * Over apologizing coming across as insecure
• * Feel shame in oversharing
• * Desire and need to be a people pleaser
• * Cleaning avoidance
• * All or nothing mindset
• * Addictive personality habits
• * Struggle to take pride in what we do as we grew up feeling broken.
• * Financial insecurities
• * Difficulty remembering to pay bills and how much money they have
• * Frequent mood swings
• * Lack of attention to detail when writing in regards to Capitalization, punctuation and basic sentence structure
• * Problems following through and completing tasks
• * Avoidance tendencies around difficult conversations or topics that might seem small to others
• * Trouble in relationships or being seen as uncaring or irresponsible
• * Accountability shifting and lack of self-discipline

This list doesn't mean everyone with #ADHD or struggling with #MentalHealth has these same symptoms especially with ADHD there are many different "shades of ADHD"

I created this Flipboard Magazine that lists 198+ blog posts I've read of the years that have helped me to better understand both my ADHD and mental health.

I share all of this because I WISH I understood all of the different things that were impacted by my brain working differently than most...

So for those that are struggling or those that are fully aware of their Mental Health journey I feel it's important to not only normalize mental health but also EVERYTHING impacted by those of us struggling with mental health deal with.

This is connected to my ultimate goal in life and what I hope one day to dedicate my entire platform to and that is to....

HELP EVERYONE REALIZE THEY AREN'T ALONE AND YOU CAN FIND YOUR PEOPLE! YOU AREN'T BROKEN, JUST DIFFERENT and DIFFERENT IS AWESOME!

Let's work harder at UNDERSTANDING each other and judge less!

Cheers Fanzo

Feel free to check out my latest focus on removing this stigma around mental health as I launch my $ADHD Creator Coin: ADHDcoin.com