Title: Living With ADHD: How ADHD Affects Your Life | The Recovery Village
Headings: Living With ADHD
Living With ADHD
Table of Contents
What Does ADHD Feel Like?
How ADHD Affects Relationships
How Does ADHD Affect Your Job?
Disclosing Your Diagnosis
Tips for Managing ADHD

Content: Being easily distracted
Restlessness
Difficulty being organized
Frequently speaking or acting without thinking
Frequent frustration
Forgetfulness
Difficulty managing long-term relationships
Feeling like no one understands you
If you have one or more of these symptoms and you feel like it interferes with living a normal life, you should speak with a doctor about your situation. Your doctor will be able to test to see if you have ADHD and can give you advice on how to manage it. How ADHD Affects Relationships
One common theme with those who have ADHD is the difficulty between having ADHD and relationships. ADHD makes it difficult to focus on what other people are saying and follow through with commitments or things you have said. The forgetfulness that ADHD creates can make it more stressful, as promises are less likely to be kept and simple things like appointments or phone messages may be frequently missed. These little mistakes create more frequent stress in relationships and lead to increased tension. ADHD also makes it more difficult to think thoroughly about what you are going to say or how what you say could be perceived. This results in those with ADHD being more likely to say something offensive that they didn’t mean and being less inhibited in how they say it. It is important to remember that ADHD can affect adult relationships and that this is often as frustrating for the person with ADHD as it is for the other person. How Does ADHD Affect Your Job?