It Seems I Have ADHD. Signs, Causes, and Hidden Benefits of the Third Millennium Syndrome in Adults

If you have issues with concentration, planning, and understanding your feelings — do not rush to diagnose yourself with ADHD. Anastasia Afanasyeva, a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, regularly receives questions from people asking whether they have the syndrome or not. Therefore, she believes it's time to dispel all myths and remove unnecessary labels. Before you is a guide to the most popular syndrome of the 21st century. In her book, the author will explain what science currently knows about this diagnosis. She will explain how it develops, who is at risk, and why ADHD is not a sentence. With this knowledge, you will stop being ashamed of your traits and start enhancing your creativity, high erudition, and emotional intelligence. Here you will learn: - how to test yourself with basic tests; - what difficulties exist in diagnosis; - how the syndrome manifests in children and adults; - what approaches to treatment exist in therapy; - why ADHD is more difficult to identify in women and what its peculiarities are. QUOTES: "Neurodiversity is a set of brain structure features (and most often congenital) that will be present in a person throughout their life and are therefore largely inseparable from their character and personality." "The reason lies not so much in attention deficit as in the improper and uneven functioning of neural networks as a whole, which leads to both a lack of and an excess of focus." "Often people have such beliefs: 'I am somehow broken,' 'there's always something wrong with me,' 'I will never be normal,' etc. Individual therapy helps to establish a different sense of self and choose different behaviors." "The mantra for a person with ADHD: what is not recorded in the calendar does not exist. Therefore, if you decide to rely on your memory, it's in vain." "The syndrome is an important part of you and can provide useful skills: creativity, high erudition, learning a great many areas, the ability to sometimes accomplish a volume of work in hyperfocus that no neurotypical person can manage."