Dr. William (Bill) Dodson

People with ADHD

are very intense, passionate people.

Now, if they don't care about something, it's just not in their lives.

So everything that's left are things that they care deeply about.

And so their highs are high, their lows are lower.

And so they always go through life at a setting of about 10 out of 10.

So that if something else major suddenly hits them out of the blue, they've got no reserve.

And so it's layered on top of what a neurotypical person would describe as a really stressful day.

People with ADHD have a really stressful day all day every day.

And so it's that layering on top.

They don't have any capacity to deal with it.

It just, boom, overwhelms them.

They can't prepare for it because they don't see it coming.

And even if they did,

I haven't found anything in my patients other than medication that would prevent it.

So, yeah, people with ADHD go through wearing a mask to the world.

And the bottom line is who and what I am is unwanted.

And sometimes you go beyond that.

I'm bad.

I'm terrible.