ADHD and Anxiety

Dr. Stephanie Sarkis explains the ways anxiety can surface in children with learning and thinking differences and offers suggestions that could help you and your child better manage it.

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[violetmartin]

"you do things 0, or 150%"


me: sigh, cries a little then starts laughing

[teerilla]

This is a hell of a combo to live with many many people won't understand. You ain't alone though, we get it. Eat right, hydrate, clean your living space and yourself, work out, and talk to someone you love. If you don't love nobody, know that someone loves you

[Proutprutproutprout]

I hate that ADHD is focused on kids. What If you where not diagnosed as a child what do you do as an adult???

[lucasluke]

I have both, and when I start a relationship with someone I feel horrible because It feels like I'm holding them back. With my social anxiety I don't like going anywhere I'm a big introvert and I feel better alone, its just frustrating but always working on it

[joolima]

I was diagnosed at 10 with ADHD and underwent therapy for years until I realized at 30 that I have anxiety.

Thank you for this video, ADHD has a lot of stigma still.

[SatanicBiPanick]

I am fifteen, just got diagnosed for ADHD after all my siblings did likewise. I don’t really show the behaviors that would get attention earlier in my life, like hyperactivity, or obviously poor impulse control, but I do think that I have pretty severe social anxiety as well as anxiety over procrastination and an occasional bout of existential dread over my future and the state of the world. It’s hard to be proactive in school and to stay out of a darker mindset, and while I don’t think I have depression now, there were some times in summer of 2020 where I just lacked almost any motivation to do anything. I honestly think my costly obsession with pets and houseplants might have just saved my life at that time, because I knew I was responsible for the care of several living things and took joy in taking care of them. Without that life raft, I probably would have been in a much worse off place, and who knows where that would have taken me.

As of now, I’m fairly content, but my social anxiety and insecurity is still a beast of a problem. I’ve made progress in being comfortable in a social situation, but I still need to learn how to get from a casual, barely know you relationship, to anything that matters long term. I have anxious thoughts on whether or not I’m just tolerated by people, and overthink everything anyone or myself says. Of course, procrastination is the biggest hurdle so far, and there is a carousel of unfinished homework and c grade tests that glides through my mind, the ride never closes

Well, that was helpful. Sorry for the rant, and thank you for reading and sharing my feelings. I probably need to prioritize homework now.

God I need a therapist😅

[EthalaRide]

I'm an adult (early-mid twenties) and my anxiety has only gotten worse, and even though my ADD isn't too bad, the "0% or 150%" is SO TRUE it hurts, and it REALLY messes me up with self-monitoring. I don't know how to explain to my mother that, even though she knows about ADD and I got treatment for it when I was younger, she expects this 'switch flipping' to be coped with and gotten over by now.

[mrdrawingdoggo]

Me having severe adhd and severe anxiety looking like a little kid watching an engaging video! :3
I also fit so well into every thing she says! Haha

[arielrainz]

Adhd + Anxiety + you're an INFJ... What a perfect combo ;)

[Soooooooooooonicable]

I was diagnosed with the non hyperactive version of ADD when I was a kid. My parents put me on medication for it in elementary school and apparently I saw a lot of improvement. I specifically remember being way more social around that time then before and after. They took me off it before I got into middle school though, which now I think might have been a mistake. I'm still struggling with ADD into my adulthood and I'm considering asking my doctor to put me back on.

[Cieraroland]

I love this, I definitely have secondary anxiety because of my ADHD. Trying to work on treating my ADHD but some stimulants causes anxiety as a side effect.

[matnitram]

I have secondary anxiety and adhd. I used to be a pretty happy go lucky kid, but teachers, and people started shaming me, so now I'm constantly self-monitoring. I have more social-anxiety a lot now, although I am still social though.

[kathrynoneill]

I have both anxiety and ADHD and I always thought I was the only one.

[bigballs]

Yikes life is Hell with ADHD for real, i cant get anywhere in life. cant get help, cant get right, cant get organized, cant cant get anyone to ever understand me, I cant seem to get anywhere in life at all sept rock bottom. i seem to be really really good at hitting rock bottom over and over again. now im alone isolated no friends, family wont talk to me. nobody will even talk to me or even text me back anymore either. if you ever find yourself wondering what it feels like to be alienated and rejected by everyone and anyone you ever cared most or at all about in life. Its worse than being lit on fire trust me i’ve lit myself on fire before, i really have. I always will be a suicidal and self harming type of person. if things reach a point there way to uncomfortably for me. im willing to bet that almost no matter what, to avoid the pain and discomfort ill more than likely. do the same o’ll red hot metal branding burning scarification type self harm. that i used to do just to feel something other than the highest of anxieties, the hollowest anyone can ever feel, enough self hatred to foolishly kill myself over the next bump in the road ahead. But yet still not enough to trump how much of a coward i really am. so often in the not so long ago past of mine, Not just red Hot metal poker branding or burning either. i almost killed myself one time by lighting myself on fire with diesel. covering more than enough of me that after all said and done I learned what would be the worst death to ever suffer. burning to death has to be the worst thing i’ve ever put myself through. i have never ever and i hope i never experience it again to be honest. If thats the way i go fine i would kind of expect my death to be nothing but the worst anyways. i wouldn’t have it any other way either, my whole life has bin nothing but the hardest of lifes lessons that hurt the most so why should my death be any different.✌️

[sarahjaynelukey]

I have adhd and anxiety everything feels like a cycle and sleep is hard to overthinking

[ktarrah]

why the music???? i had to rewatch this like three times

[charfree]

I have ADHD and Anxiety.
It always comfuses me when ADHD people talk about how they stall their tasks when I do them too early instead.

[moonshadow]

I always responded to positive reinforcement and the rewards system amazingly there was only one problem time and time again the reward promised for the completion of a task was never given for example if I passed a test we'd go out for ice cream, but when the time came it was put off and forgotten and if I went to remind them I was told I was being rude and disrespectful and if I ask again I would not receive the reward. As you can see there are multiple problems with that; another example of what might happen is if me and my brother behaved at church we'd get to got to Bush gardens(amusement park in fl maybe elsewhere but for me it was fl) well my brother started acting out and despite me behaving and doing nothing wrong it was considered unfair for me to go without him. Obviously these promises continued to be broken despite having an impact on me and my behavior

[nikkitronvold]

THANK YOU!! I really needed this!! Bless you

[Eeeeehhh]

This made me realize something, thank you ☺️