Adult ADHD? A Journey of Self-Discovery and Getting a Diagnosis

Here is a little update for you in regards to where I have been, what I've been doing, and the future of the podcast!

In this episode, I discuss what led to my Autism/ASD/Asperger Syndrome diagnosis and what was happening in my head. I describe on the battle between ADHD and ASD, and the power play between them.  I also touch on ADHD and developmental delays. ❤️ the podcast?Why don't you give it a review/rating on this podcast platform!

In this episode, I update you on my new diagnosis and where I have been hiding this year. Think surgeries, mental breakdowns etc, all the fun stuff! ❤️ the podcast?Why don't you give it a review/rating on this podcast platform!

In this episode, the sound quality is awful for the first half so massive apologies there! I discuss medication hacks, go off on tangents about amazing inventions I have stored away in my brain and my irrational fear of answering the phone! ❤️ the podcast?Why don't you give it a review/rating on this podcast platform!

In this episode, I fill you with updates into the Land of Katie, cover new theories into ADHD, and cover more to do with the link between a diagnosis and sleep. I'm flappy as anything in this episode and my microphone isn't the best quality today, so apologies in advance! ❤️ the podcast?Why don't you give it a review/rating on this podcast platform!

In this episode I share with you the many new changes that have been occurring in my world as of late. I discuss my realisations around putting myself first, stepping back, boundaries and more. I also tell many more ridiculous life stories, which are seemingly never ending! ❤️ the podcast?Why don't you give it a review/rating on this podcast platform!

In this episode, I discuss more quirks of ADHD, including ‘the ick', abstinence vs moderation, forming connections to things that aren't alive… I could go on!! I also offer advice to partners of people with ADHD on how to approach conversations going forward.❤️ the podcast?Why don't you give it a review/rating on this podcast platform!

In this episode I discuss another side to my personality that is the polar opposite of ADHD, and how I can relate to other personality disorders as much as I can to my current diagnosis. ❤️ the podcast?Why don't you give it a review/rating on this podcast platform!Want to support the podcast?! Why don't you ‘Buy Me A Coffee' ☕️? : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/adultadhd Follow/contact me on: Instagram: @adult_adhd_journey  Facebook: @adultadhdjourney Email: adult.adhd.journey@gmail.com

Hello and welcome to a new series!!! In this episode I will be discussing the next stage of my ADHD journey and the new self-realisations I have discovered. I talk about my next stage of acceptance and living with my diagnosis and the compromises and changes I have made along the way!❤️ the podcast? Please rate and review!Want to support the podcast?! Why don't you ‘Buy Me A Coffee' ☕️? : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/adultadhd Follow/contact me on: Instagram: @adult_adhd_journey  Facebook: @adultadhdjourney Email: adult.adhd.journey@gmail.com

This is just an update regarding the podcast, alongside a personal little medication-fail story for you! Want to support the podcast?! Why don't you ‘Buy Me A Coffee' ☕️? : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/adultadhd Follow/contact me on: Instagram: @adult_adhd_journey  Facebook: @adultadhdjourney Email: adult.adhd.journey@gmail.com

In this episode, I discuss the issues surrounding ADHD and the ‘All or Nothing' approach we can have to life. I talk about my own personal experiences surrounding this inability to establish a happy medium in all things ‘life'.Want to support the podcast?! Why don't you ‘Buy Me A Coffee' ☕️? : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/adultadhd Follow/contact me on: Instagram: @adult_adhd_journey  Facebook: @adultadhdjourney Email: adult.adhd.journey@gmail.com

In this episode I discuss how ADHD affects me in the work place, and how I struggle with the conventional format of such a conventional life! I talk about my own personal experiences and my main struggles at work.Want to support the podcast?! Why don't you ‘Buy Me A Coffee' ☕️? : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/adultadhd Follow/contact me on: Instagram: @adult_adhd_journey  Facebook: @adultadhdjourney Email: adult.adhd.journey@gmail.com

In this episode, I discuss my absolute lack of assertion as an ADHDer and how I struggle to have difficult conversations or voice what I need due to a fear of being judged. I also talk about another mental breakdown (#2,357 this year) and how it's affected me. Want to support the podcast?! Why don't you ‘Buy Me A Coffee' ☕️? : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/adultadhd Follow/contact me on: Instagram: @adult_adhd_journey  Facebook: @adultadhdjourney Email: adult.adhd.journey@gmail.com

In this episode, I discuss the unhealthy child-like coping mechanisms that are so common amongst ADHDers and link several of them to my own personal experience. This episode takes on a quiz-like format when discussing these survival techniques, so get your pen and paper ready! I also talk about my ongoing insomnia issues and my first ever schema therapy session.Want to support the podcast?! Why don't you ‘Buy Me A Coffee' ☕️? : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/adultadhd Follow/contact me on: Instagram: @adult_adhd_journey  Facebook: @adultadhdjourney Email: adult.adhd.journey@gmail.com

In this episode, I discuss how ADHD can effect your ability to adapt to change on both large and small scales. I talk about my crippling levels of indecisiveness and how I struggle to make even the smallest of decisions. I also delve deeper into what other people may perceive as self-obsession, but is in fact the opposite. Want to support the podcast?! Why don't you ‘Buy Me A Coffee' ☕️? : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/adultadhd Follow/contact me on: Instagram: @adult_adhd_journey  Facebook: @adultadhdjourney Email: adult.adhd.journey@gmail.com

In this episode I discuss emotional growth and capacity, and how having negative experiences of relationships can prevent your brain development. I talk about my woes with insomnia and my ever-lasting battle with all things sleep. I also share some tips and wins with helping establish further emotional regulation. Want to support the podcast?! Why don't you ‘Buy Me A Coffee' ☕️? : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/adultadhd Follow/contact me on: Instagram: @adult_adhd_journey  Facebook: @adultadhdjourneyEmail: adult.adhd.journey@gmail.com

In this episode I discuss the relationship between hyperactivity, anxiety, lethargy and shame, and what drives these behaviours. I explain why people with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder are medicated with stimulants (Aren't you hyper enough already? People ask!) and how it works. I also talk about my most recent medication review and what I have taken from the experience. Want to support the podcast?! Why don't you ‘Buy Me A Coffee' ☕️? : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/adult adhd Follow/contact me on: Instagram: @adult_adhd_journey  Facebook: @adultadhdjourney Email: adult.adhd.journey@gmail.com

In this episode I discuss how common it is to come across other people who devalue your ADHD diagnosis, and how to overcome this. I also talk about binge eating and drinking, and how this has changed since being on the medication. I end the podcast by delving into what exactly makes me go ‘cold' with somebody and how expectations can make me crumble. There's a ripper of an analogy in there too

In this episode, I discuss my complete inability to ever learn from my mistakes and my *ground breaking* (Definitely a personal opinion!) discoveries as to why this is. I delve deeper into my emotional needs, how I react when they aren't met, and my brain's automatic response to ‘fill the void'. I speak lots about dissociation and how this reflex response is my self-protection defence, often causing the issues in my life to metastasise and blow up!Want to support the podcast?!Why don't you ‘Buy Me A Coffee' ☕️ : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/adultadhd Follow/contact me on:Instagram: @adult_adhd_journey Facebook: @adultadhdjourney Email: adult.adhd.journey@gmail.com

In this episode, I discuss how I often will jump from one relationship or excitement to the next, due to my irrational fear of being alone and an incapability to relax. I also talk about how I always want what everyone else has and how I'm a sucker for peer pressure and FOMO!Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/adultadhd Instagram: @adult_adhd_journey Facebook: @adultadhdjourney Email: adult.adhd.journey@gmail.com

In this episode I dive into relationships and the continual need to please others. Losing yourself, seeking more excitement, becoming unsettled, learning to say NO, and Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD) are some of the sub-topics that I cover within this umbrella. I talk about my own experiences and what happens to me when the butterflies begin to dissipate and the rose-tinted glasses lose their tint! This episode has some themes that people may find uncomfortable, as I discuss how some relationships we seek that keep us ‘on our toes', can be abusive or detrimental to our own health. Instagram: @adult_adhd_journey Facebook: @adultadhdjourney Email: adult.adhd.journey@gmail.com

In this episode I discuss the EXHAUSTING world of having an ‘emotional sixth sense': the capability to read those around you so astutely, often before they have registered their thoughts and feelings themselves. I talk about the vicious cycle in which you can end up in - your hypersensitivity making others' withdraw, which in turn makes you hyper-reactive, and so forth, until the situation becomes unbearable - and how the ADHDer's constant mood swings and emotional overloads can become too much for people to handle. I express myself through certain analogies involving coconuts, hyenas, and a certain wizard in an invisibility cloak. I also give an absolute solid reason for why I should win an Oscar (or 12)! Instagram: @adult_adhd_journey Facebook: @adultadhdjourney Email: adult.adhd.journey@gmail.com

In this episode I discuss the ever-changing process after getting a diagnosis of ADHD, and the different stages you go through afterwards… Like the seven stages of grief, there are also many stages of emotions, post-diagnosis. There are many analogies used to help me communicate my feelings and experiences, most of which are linked to dinosaurs (sorry!). I share my current hyper-fixation with ADHD and what my next steps are, my lack of order (or abundance of chaos), and many other quirks surrounding Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Enjoy!Instagram: @adult_adhd_journey Facebook: @adultadhdjourney Email: adult.adhd.journey@gmail.com

In this episode I discuss my research into my System 1 and System 2 brains (illogical vs logical) as well as into Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria - a lovely little add-on to that emotional instability that many ADHDers struggle with. I share the ‘next steps' that my journey entails, and the struggle I'm having between marrying up my medicated and unmediated selves. Enjoy!Instagram: @adult_adhd_journey Facebook: @adultadhdjourney Email: adult.adhd.journey@gmail.com

In this episode I discuss LOADS… hands down, it's my longest yet. Non-conformity and issues surrounding authority figures start the episode off, before I delve into the deep, dark world of rejection. I discuss those three magic words - You're Too Much - and how I have dealt with that since being diagnosed and medicated. Experiencing an identity crisis last week meant that I was left feeling vulnerable and incredibly heightened - two things that make people Run. For. The. Hills. I discuss how my unrealistic expectations of myself (and others) have caused me huge challenges this week and have caught me off guard. There are some little anecdotes sprinkled in too, just to keep you all smiling! Enjoy this next stage of my (seemingly never-ending) journey of life immediately after a diagnosis of adult ADHD. Instagram: @adult_adhd_journey Facebook: @adultadhdjourney Email: adult.adhd.journey@gmail.com

In this episode I recorded an ‘emergency' session, due to finding myself having an unexpected mini emotional breakdown. In this episode I struggle massively with my identity and who I am, finding the correct balance between ‘me' and ‘meds',  current freedom inhibitors and, let's face it, I'm pretty much confused for the entirety of the podcast. This is a massive struggle moment for me, yet I hope you can find some value in my struggle, revelations and journey. You could probably start a new drinking game with this episode - have a shot every time you hear the word ‘frustrated'! Instagram: @adult_adhd_journey Facebook: @adultadhdjourney Email: adult.adhd.journey@gmail.com

Hi everyone, in this episode I talk about my next medication review with my psychiatrist and the changes he has made due to some concerns, and just how valuable (or not) getting personal feedback, about your medicated self, from those around you is. I also share some examples of the more quirky little symptoms of Adult ADHD I experience and how they affect me in my daily life.Instagram: @adult_adhd_journeyFacebook: @adultadhdjourneyEmail: adult.adhd.journey@gmail.com

Episode 10 - I can't believe it! In this episode I discuss being a walking contradiction in terms of my memory and hearing. I speak of my two different types of procrastination - the avoidance of a singular task versus the avoidance of absolutely everything. I hope you enjoy it and find it useful!Instagram: @adult_adhd_journeyFacebook: @adultadhdjourneyEmail: adult.adhd.journey@gmail.com

In this episode, I discuss the challenges I have faced since being diagnosed around mourning for the life that could have been, the experiences I could have had, and the potential husbands I could have married - if only my diagnosis had come sooner! I delve into accepting the new me, and some teething issues I have encountered along the way. Instagram: @adult_adhd_journeyFacebook: @adultadhdjourneyEmail: adult.adhd.journey@gmail.com

In today's episode I speak about my medication review with the psychiatrist, whilst going off on many tangents throughout! I also discuss further into how I'm going and some of the frustrations that I have experienced thus far whilst on the medication.Instagram: @adult_adhd_journeyFacebook: @adultadhdjourney

In this episode, I talk about my experience with speeding fines, my incapability to remember (and even correctly read) important dates on the calendar, and how eventually I may be eaten by my cats. I also discuss more changes I have felt since being on my Adult ADHD medication. I hope you enjoy!Follow me on Instagram: @adultadhdjourneyFacebook: @adultadhdjourney

In this episode I talk about adapting to new ADHD medication, emotional regulation and the ability to follow instructions (or lack thereof in my case)!Instagram: @adult_adhd_journeyFacebook: @adultadhdjourney 

In this episode I discuss my ADHD diagnostic assessment, which happened earlier today. Follow me on Instagram: @adult_adhd_journey, or on Facebook: @adultadhdjourney

In this episode I get a little emotional at times. I talk about my struggles this week surrounding vulnerability and connection, too high expectations of others', and a feeling of hopelessness and powerlessness within myself. I discuss certain dating woes and what goes on in my head often when I date. Thanks for all the support so far guys! Instagram: @adult_adhd_journeyFacebook: @adultadhdjourney

In this episode I speak about my struggles with impulsivity and setting and sticking to boundaries. This is probably one of my biggest cruxes, and what I struggle with the most. Follow me on Instagram to keep up to date with my podcast and journey - adult_adhd_journey

I'm this episode, I talk about my ‘brush with a breakdown' and the sensory overload that my brain experienced! I'm sorry for any interference you may hear from my puffer jacket - I was very fidgety when recording (symptom: not being able to sit still!).If you want to keep up to date with my podcast, diagnosis or my journey in general then follow me on Instagram: adult_adhd_journey 

In this episode, you'll hear the very start of my story and what led up to me getting a referral for an assessment for adult ADHD. This story gives some insight and background into me and what led me to where I am today.Follow me on Instagram at: adult_adhd_journey