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I think I got diagnosed with ADHD and I'm not sure how to move from here
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I've been in therapy for almost 2 years getting help for depression and anxiety. My depression seems to have fizzled out. I'm still working on my anxiety which is pretty much under wraps but I started to realize that certain things made me exceedingly anxious. Over the summer I spent some time with my sister in the U.S and being in that new environment with her and her boyfriend who I don't spend alot of time with, highlighted certain quirks that I never thought twice about. I never realized how fidgety, forgetful, impulsive and scatterbrained etc. I was until they pointed it out After some thinking I started to suspect that I might have ADHD. I major in Behavioral Sciences and I recalled what I learnt about the disorder. Plus, the TikTok algorithm seemed to sense my predicament and I got some explanations there too. I brought my suspicions up to my therapist and presented a list of evidence I observed in myself (not mentioning the TikTok thing because that could look bad) and was evaluated via a questionnaire thing. After I filled it out he pointed out that he's a therapist and therefore is not qualified to diagnose me, but the discussion continued with the notion that I do have it with maybe a pinch of autism which runs in my family. Like a soft diagnosis I guess? He kept asking what it would mean to me to have ADHD. I said "I dunno, I guess it would give a reason for why I am the way I am?" Then he asked if I was aware of how this diagnosis could change my life. I guess?

He gave me some resources so that I could get proper testing to get officially diagnosed which I hear would be a lengthy process. I would need to be diagnosed in order to be medicated but I can't go to get tested until next year. I'm in my third year of uni and barely getting by. Things keep getting harder. What can I do to cope/manage this in the meantime?

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