I’ve been told many times throughout my life that I “overreact” and “take things too seriously.” I just want to know is this usual for everyone else with ADHD? Because I try to tell neuroregulars that I have no control over my emotions and they just can never believe me because they think I’m trying to do it on purpose when I’m not. Anyone else?
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I have this problem soooooo hard. You can learn how to manage it but it is REALLY hard work.
Me too. And it invites my doctor to put me on more meds. Plus both my kids have ADHD so it was always emotionally traumatic in our house. Now, as adults, I feel such guilt for not teaching them to better regulate themselves.
Absolutely, you summed things up perfectly. Sometimes the emotional dysregulation is the worst part about having ADHD:
Yea I get that alot to. It's the main reason why I'm so neutral nowadays. It hurts but I got tired of people calling me things.
Yes!!! 100%. I’ve always been called “dramatic,” when I’m just reacting as natural as possible. I get too excited, too sad, too mad, too silly, too happy, too loud. My emotions are just really big and I can’t control them.
Kinda, yeah... I learned over time not to show Emotions to much but it's always a struggle and pretty exhausting.. It's more like acting/ pretending while the emotions themselves a still on a high level. But through pretending it would be otherwise, it actually does tune down the emotions a little. But yeah it is exhausting cause i have to always to be cautious and aware of my emotions amongst most people.
Kinda, yeah.. I learned over time not to show how i feel to much - but it's always a struggle cause i have to be pretty cautious with most people and it's basically just acting/ pretending... Still the emotions themselves i can't really control but by pretending otherwise, it seems to at least tune the emotion down a little.
