'The diagnosis was a confirmation. I was not crazy. I was not incompetent. I did not do well in much of anything unless I was interested in what I was doing.'
. I read through the questions in the book and checked off the characteristics that fit me. I broke down in tears, and my life changed at that point.
The diagnosis was a confirmation. I was not crazy. I was not incompetent. I did not do well in much of anything unless I was interested in what I was doing. When I finally understood that , and that was OK, I got more excited about working in my field of career counseling to help clients with the condition.therapy from an ADHD specialist
, and look for help in areas of your life that ADD gets in the way of. My type of career coaching works for adults with ADD because it’s not a quick fix. It is a deep dive that gets to the heart of who we are and what we are meant to do. Unless we enjoy what we do, we find a way to make it not work. A lot of clients ask, “Should I tell my boss about my ADHD?” Unless you can clearly define how ADHD affects you in the workplace, and can replace the negatives with positives that benefit everyone, I wouldn’t say anything until you’ve worked through it with a therapist or a coach.
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