BarbCCasual Contributor
Was a high functioning person with Adhd that was undiagnosed
I am 58 as of last month. I grew up in a time where unless you had Schizophrenzia, which a relative had, you didn't get any help.
I had a career that took me a long time to work for, and was traumatised by other family members who were also undiagnosed for mental health - my Father, my Mother, my Sisters.
I advocated for everyone to get help with their mental health. No one listened.
Fast forward 20 years later, and it turns out that our whole family affected in some way by mental health - mostly complex mental health, which is so damn bloody unfair.
I got diagnosed with CPTSD, when I was 45. I suffered a breakdown of sorts, but it was also physical. I couldnt eat much without throwing up. Turned out that I had sulphite allergies 220 -228. Immunologist that ran Allergy Medical worked it out at Newfarm, when they were there. Slowely I got my psyical health back in that sense. But at the same time I had two children when on my own (story goes with that) who had Adhd. They then suffered anxiety, and depression, just as I had.
To cut a long story short, I got diagnosed after a very lucky break with Doctors that were treating our famly who had come from the UK together, and were specialists, and working in my area, that I got diagnosed with Adhd as well.
So that is Clinical depression, Anxiety, Complex Ptsd and Adhd. Not fair.
