<story><title>Ask HN: How did an adult ADHD diagnosis help you?</title><text>My therapist wants to explore an ADHD diagnosis, run tests and dive deep. My question to you is; how did this help you or impact your life?&lt;p&gt;I am in the later half of an adventurous and successful career. I continue to grow, have a long-term stable marriage, good savings, great life. I went to my therapist to handle a lingering family issue and now we&amp;#x27;ve come up to the ADHD talk.&lt;p&gt;They want to run neurological tests, said I&amp;#x27;m &amp;#x27;twice exceptional&amp;#x27; and I see this as an expensive and time consuming diversion of my goals. I do admit that there is some validity in the idea, I do see symptoms, but how would this help me at this point in my life?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>unbearded</author><text>Have been taking Strattera for a few months and wonder how many years of my life I would have not wasted if I had been diagnosed with ADHD earlier in my life.&lt;p&gt;I just turned 40 and I never thought I had ADHD until recently. Before I just thought my lack of attention on things was just the price of being a 10X on productivity (and I was a little arrogant because of it).&lt;p&gt;The reality was that I chose to put my time on tasks that I found interesting and engaging and when that choice was not available, I would feel anxious, stuck and totally unfocused. Still, I thought that was just normal procrastination that everybody goes through.&lt;p&gt;Some changes in my life and goals limited my time to act and required me to be more focused, but instead of getting into action I got more stuck than ever and very anxious as the deadlines got closer and got missed.&lt;p&gt;Treating my ADHD helped me change my relationships for better and widened the possibilites in my work and I would recommend to anybody in the same situation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iamdbtoo</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m in a similar situation. The diagnosis changed everything for me and I really wish someone had noticed it when I was a kid.&lt;p&gt;All my therapy was about struggling with my ADHD for so long because it was unkown and untreated. Once I figured the ADHD part out, everything else fell into place.&lt;p&gt;Knowing this about myself has been nothing but positive for me.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: How did an adult ADHD diagnosis help you?</title><text>My therapist wants to explore an ADHD diagnosis, run tests and dive deep. My question to you is; how did this help you or impact your life?&lt;p&gt;I am in the later half of an adventurous and successful career. I continue to grow, have a long-term stable marriage, good savings, great life. I went to my therapist to handle a lingering family issue and now we&amp;#x27;ve come up to the ADHD talk.&lt;p&gt;They want to run neurological tests, said I&amp;#x27;m &amp;#x27;twice exceptional&amp;#x27; and I see this as an expensive and time consuming diversion of my goals. I do admit that there is some validity in the idea, I do see symptoms, but how would this help me at this point in my life?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>unbearded</author><text>Have been taking Strattera for a few months and wonder how many years of my life I would have not wasted if I had been diagnosed with ADHD earlier in my life.&lt;p&gt;I just turned 40 and I never thought I had ADHD until recently. Before I just thought my lack of attention on things was just the price of being a 10X on productivity (and I was a little arrogant because of it).&lt;p&gt;The reality was that I chose to put my time on tasks that I found interesting and engaging and when that choice was not available, I would feel anxious, stuck and totally unfocused. Still, I thought that was just normal procrastination that everybody goes through.&lt;p&gt;Some changes in my life and goals limited my time to act and required me to be more focused, but instead of getting into action I got more stuck than ever and very anxious as the deadlines got closer and got missed.&lt;p&gt;Treating my ADHD helped me change my relationships for better and widened the possibilites in my work and I would recommend to anybody in the same situation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>globular-toast</author><text>What does &amp;quot;10x on productivity&amp;quot; mean? I thought ADHD would lead to lower productivity.</text></comment>