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tfw someone just steals feelings out of your brain and puts them to words (slrpnk.net)

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[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Keep it up with these posts, if I share enough of them with my clearly very painfully obviously super adhd girlfriend I might eventually convince her to go see a therapist and seek a diagnosis someday

[-] DillyDaily@lemmy.world 31 points 4 weeks ago

Call her doctor, make an appointment, save it in her calendar, remind her in the lead up, drive her there, get the referral. Walk her to the post box to send it off, sit next to her to phone the intake office to confirm they got the referral, set appointments on her phone for every 6 months to sit with her and call to check the cancellation list until you get an appointment. Drive her to that appointment.

If she has ADHD, the steps involved in getting a diagnosis are bigger than Mt Everest, she will need a neurotypical Sherpa.

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 weeks ago

Oh I fully plan to, I'm not super neurotypical myself but I manage fine. There's extenuating circumstances involving family insurance that means she probably can't do it for another year or so but once that's over I'm gonna drag her to all of that stuff.

[-] frank@sopuli.xyz 12 points 4 weeks ago

I hope she does. I don't think I'm ADHD but my partner was just diagnosed a few months ago. Now that we think about it it's not a surprise at all lol

It feels really nice to have more understanding and more context for both of us.

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 weeks ago

I think it will help too. She resists by saying "well what will it really change?" but it can and will change quite a lot if she understands how her brain works and can build some support structures to help with it. She really doesn't want to be medicated either which I totally get.

[-] frank@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 weeks ago

Totally agree, and get that. I wouldn't want medication necessarily either. You don't have to medicate at all! In fact maybe just knowing and working with it would be a good first test.