Can you write on overlapping symptoms of anxiety and ADHD? At 33 years old, I suspect anxiety symptoms played a much larger role in my life story and daily function than I thought.... and certainly more than the minor role I thought it had relative to ADHD. I seriously often wonder if I situationally drop 30 IQ points because of anxiety.
Jun 16, 2023·edited Jun 16, 2023Liked by Owen Scott Muir, M.D
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This article is right on in my opinion. Anxiety and related conditions have been a very fundamental part of my life and now that I’m in my 60s I am starting to unwind it. My root cause is childhood trauma and a lot of my anxiety is very embedded in my fight or flight response. The real breakthrough for me was completely convincing myself that my anxiety was a muscle memory, and there was nothing to be anxious about in this moment.. it sure didn’t work at first, but coming to that rational conclusion really got the ball rolling. I don’t know that I could’ve really attacked it until I retired from the world of competition and acquisition, etc. even materially supporting myself, was enough to generate a hell of a lot of anxiety, or at least become a very good hook for the anxiety. I had anyway once that was gone I had room..
About two years ago, I came up with my own working definition of anxiety, which became my mantra and helped keep me focused; anxiety is knowing something to be true and refusing to believe it. It is especially true when the truth is that you don’t know what’s going on. In other words, resisting the truth of not knowing produces an enormous amount, anxiety for me.
Can you write on overlapping symptoms of anxiety and ADHD? At 33 years old, I suspect anxiety symptoms played a much larger role in my life story and daily function than I thought.... and certainly more than the minor role I thought it had relative to ADHD. I seriously often wonder if I situationally drop 30 IQ points because of anxiety.
I became a paid member just so I could comment.
This article is right on in my opinion. Anxiety and related conditions have been a very fundamental part of my life and now that I’m in my 60s I am starting to unwind it. My root cause is childhood trauma and a lot of my anxiety is very embedded in my fight or flight response. The real breakthrough for me was completely convincing myself that my anxiety was a muscle memory, and there was nothing to be anxious about in this moment.. it sure didn’t work at first, but coming to that rational conclusion really got the ball rolling. I don’t know that I could’ve really attacked it until I retired from the world of competition and acquisition, etc. even materially supporting myself, was enough to generate a hell of a lot of anxiety, or at least become a very good hook for the anxiety. I had anyway once that was gone I had room..
About two years ago, I came up with my own working definition of anxiety, which became my mantra and helped keep me focused; anxiety is knowing something to be true and refusing to believe it. It is especially true when the truth is that you don’t know what’s going on. In other words, resisting the truth of not knowing produces an enormous amount, anxiety for me.