My ADHD-blog

If it wasn't for my ADHD I would never have heard of cognitive therapy.
But I came to know about it and just a while ago I had my first appointment with my Coach.
Yep you don't call them a Therapist but a Coach.

You might think, what's in a name?

Well in this case allot.
Because a therapist is learning you things.
If you can't walk anymore they teach you and help you how to walk.
If you can't talk anymore they teach you and help you to talk again.
But a Coach is different, they don't teach you 'old' things again.
They help you and motivate you to find a way to handle the practical
handicaps you experience as a result of ADHD.

Because if you have ADHD like me, you know what your 'suppose' to do.
But somehow between knowing it and doing it there is an error.
You can't, no matter how much you want and how much you try.

It's so hard to explain.
Maybe I should ask my wife to explain how she experiences me.
Then you as a non ADHD reader would get a better understanding I think.
Yep I think I will ask her if she wants to write about that.

To give a few examples:

I'm having a big chaos in my head.
They say you can see a human's soul in how his room/office looks.
Well if you see my office then you know there is a truth in that.
I can't fool myself saying that I don't mind having such a chaos in my office.
Because I love to be in my wife's office.
It's light, nice, fresh and above all, NO chaos!
If I ask her if she can look up a paper from 2 years ago, then she walks to
a place, picks out a map and shows me that paper!
She is so amazing! And she is strong to!
Believe me, I know! To be able to love me is not so hard.
I am a nice ,sweet and caring guy. But to keep on loving me,
and to go on wanting to live with me,
that's another thing! Because she can ask me to do something.
I can say yes, and then one minute later I totally forget it again.
That can happen many times, and I still forget.

That can go on for a long time, with allot of things.
Day in ,day out.............