@Dean Hugman only chicken?

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@Paul Hubble These are both great 👍

@Megan Eberhard I'm sorry to hear this aren't going so well right now. I don't know what type of thing you've attempted but there'sal a fairly good chance that you've not made a total mess of your life. I completely empathise with how you're feeling and I'm not trying to say that you're not going to struggle because of whatever happened. I don't knpw the facts and wouldn't throw around toxic positivity even if I did. But I've put myself in that position so many times before. I mean how hard could it be to rewire your home when there's only one floor? Google and YouTube will have plenty of advice in the subject - so if the power is turned off at the mains it's not essential to inform your landlord that you've improved their property by replacing an old light fitting with a nice new Smart one that works.m with Alexa. But when you have to make the phone call for one of their electricians to come and finish the job because you've fallen off the stepladder and it's starting to get dark but you daren't turn the power back on when there are unconnected cables hanging from almost every ceiling, they don't understand that it was ESSENTIAL that the new light was fitted today and you were far too ashamed of the chaotic state of the place to allow anybody to see it. (You've also spent an hour working out how to fix the situation yourself before ringing because you're convinced that you'll be homeless when you tell them the truth so you're a total wreck when they arrive.) If we think we can do something without having to ask for help because that would mean people might realise you can't do something 'simple', then we just go ahead and can't see the possible 💩 that is likely to occur 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ Or is that just me? Anyway, time may not heal all wounds and we might do something else next week that we have no experience of because we don't have the best brake system for our thought-action processes but we somehow find ourselves picking up the pieces and able to look back at a later date without cringing too much.

@Rebecca McCallum McCallum yes I did, and it as horrendous. At the time I'd been on a ridiculous concoction of psychiatric meds (which turned out to be totally unnecessary, thanks pych for never looking into ADHD/masking). After about 6 months of the rollercoaster the GP realised that I should have been put on HRT (hormone replacement therapy) and started me on patches for it. They helped a little, the highs and lows of the emotional fluctuations weren't as severe and the almost constant headache stopped after a couplefof weeks. After a further 8 months my moods and the exhaustion had returned to pre-hysterectomy levels. It's a pity that most research into ADHD and anything affected by it, is only done by those who have it themselves. According the official statistics, we are a small minority and therefore it isn't in the interest of central government (certainly in the UK) to finance research!

Welcome to the Tribe Craig. Good to have you here. I was diagnosed with several MH conditions that it turns out may be incorrect now that I've been diagnosed with ADHD. I hadn'thad the meds for any of those for 10+ years (they didn't help anyway) and the 'symptoms' didn't worsen. The psychiatrist who diagnosed me with ADHD said they could well all have been a result of undiagnosed ADHD and masking for over 5 decades. It's worth looking into a diagnosis, even if it is to put your mind at rest.