My Evolving Goals for Mungo's Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Blog

I think the goal(s) of this blog are evolving as I post.

At first I wanted simply to maintain a diary of my journey towards diagnosis, my treatment, and behavioural / symptomatic observations. Nice and dry, huh?

They say that diagnosis is a key step in the treatment. That is, in your recognition and acceptance that you have been diagnosed with ADHD, lies all sorts of opportunities to recognize your strengths, liabilities and circumstances where you need to engage your coping mechanisms more effectively. It also - and I find this especially heartening - provides what a close friend described as "a redemptive narrative". It allows for meaning to flow retroactively through my past and provide a clearer understanding of my past struggles, turmoil, and difficulties at work, in relationships and friendships, and finally provide a better understanding of the anxiety and depression comorbidities I've experienced.

A journal. Positive steps towards diagnosis. And finally, education. Education is very important in treatment - bibliotherapy (reading informative texts about ADHD) for example. There are so many myths about ADHD, so much misunderstanding, so many taboos and unspoken judgments and so much unintentional ignorance. At the same time, there is a growing amount of scientific and popular literature, online resources, and so much more left to learn about ADHD - for me and for the medical, psychological and research community.

So one of the goals of this blog is to allow me to compile ADHD information I've discovered and to present it to you - the audience - to help me synthesize this information. Another goal is to hopefully educate you, if you are also on a journey of discovery, or simply if you are wondering about ADHD, or have someone in your life affected by ADHD.

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Cheers,

Mungo