Isn't it strange shouting out to bunch of total strangers that you need help?
I am thirty-four years old and female. I have been treated for depression and anxiety since I was 18. In September I suffered a nervous breakdown. My husband suffers from ADHD and had been pushing me to be assessed for a while, and following the breakdown I agreed, because quite frankly I was non-functional and something had to change.
In November (I live in Oldham which finally has provision for this sort of thing on the NHS) I was diagnosed with ADHD (Hyperactive type). The curve ball was that my assessor asked me to see her colleague as well to be assessed for ASD.
I was surprised, but thinking nothing would come of it, didn't read up on it. As such, when I was told yesterday that I had do also have ASD I was knocked sideways. The assessor said that I'm very high functioning and mask well due to high intelligence but she was confident in her diagnosis. She said I have the variant that they used to refer to as Asperger's Syndrome.
I'm so confused and a bit in denial still.
I need help with figuring out strategies. I'm self employed, but my way of working around the ADHD and the ASD is clearly flawed, as I had a nervous breakdown last year.
I am a costumier, and work around a three and a half year old boy. I have no local childcare support. My husband has inattentive type ADHD and can't help me either.
I am very easily distracted and my brain is very "noisy" due to the ADHD. I find distraction to my trains of thought distressing. Can anyone suggest good working strategies, in that sort of environment, so that I don't end up curled up in a foetal ball in A&E again?
