3 Owning Your Diagnosis
I Have ADHD Podcast
Kristen Carder
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Your life won't improve until you accept and own your diagnosis. That's when the party really starts. It’s taken me several years to really change my thinking about ADHD. Once I changed my thinking, I could change my actions and improve my life, and you can, too. That’s actually psychology 101 – your thoughts determine your feelings. Your feelings determine your actions your actions determine your results. So if you want different results, it’s time to think different thoughts.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the I have ADHD podcast where it's all about education, encouragement and |
| 0:11.1 | coaching for adults with ADHD. I'm your host Kristen Carter and I have ADHD. |
| 0:17.0 | Let's chat about the frustrations, humor, and challenges of adulting, relationships, working, and achieving with this neurodevelopmental disorder. |
| 0:26.8 | I'll help you understand your unique brain, unlock your potential, and move from point A to |
| 0:32.4 | point B. |
| 0:33.0 | Okay, what's up? |
| 0:35.0 | This is Kristin Carter and you are listening to the I Have ADHD Podcast, |
| 0:46.7 | episode number three. Today we're going to chat about one of the most important steps in the journey to success with ADHD and that is |
| 0:56.1 | owning the diagnosis once I really understood how important this was and I finally gave in and really identified as being an ADHD |
| 1:07.4 | or my life began to change for the better. Let me paint you a picture here. A man is diagnosed with ADHD. Let's call him |
| 1:16.6 | Robbie. Robbie is diagnosed with ADHD in his teens. He's on medication that helps with symptoms, but as we all know, pills don't |
| 1:27.7 | teach skills. And since his executive functioning is rather poor, the medication definitely isn't a cure. |
| 1:36.3 | He is constantly rushing around, he's constantly late for work and he speeds a lot because of this. |
| 1:47.0 | He often gets tickets, which he has a hard time remembering to pay. |
| 1:51.0 | Speaking of which, Robbie's wife takes care of the bills at home because they both know that |
| 1:56.2 | he'll never get them paid on time. |
| 1:58.5 | And she gets mad at him for spending too much money on the credit card. |
| 2:01.6 | They fight about this a lot, but nothing really changes. They can never |
| 2:04.7 | seem to get their head above water financially. Robbie's areas of the house are a complete disaster |
| 2:11.6 | and this is always a source of tension in the family because his wife is sick of cleaning up after him. |
| 2:17.0 | After all, he is an adult. There are a million projects at home and at work that Robbie has started and never finished. |
| 2:25.4 | As soon as the current project gets difficult, he moves on to something else. |
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