I was speaking with my psych about some increasing and steady down turns in mood through my day. I explained that I do recognize my current level of emotional stress, which is always my weak spot, but that I felt it was accumulating and boiling over by the late afternoon to early evening in a way that was too much for the situation. Taking the anxiety medication that I am prescribed helps a little, but it's just so over the top that it was happening any way, despite taking extra (it's as needed and he said if one isn't enough in an instance to take a second).

We talked through it and at the end he said that I'm an intelligent and intellectual person. My ADHD shows up more for me through that intellect. He said that while I'm not on the spectrum, he would say my ADHD is frosted in that way. And so because I'm trying to deal with an emotional set of issues by interacting with the emotions, they are taking over and getting out of hand. Where my alternative would be to recognize them as they come up, but then approach the situation in a way that's logical, as I'm more naturally inclined to do.

I get what he's saying. Totally understand and I have suspected before that one aspect of when I become emotionally unregulated is that there are a lot at once, I can't necessarily define them all, and I don't know which are appropriate to the situation or which are me getting ahead of myself or which are me making assumptions.

So I have two questions:

1. Has anyone else had a psych tell you this is the way your adhd shows up, or had similar problems?
2. Is there a resource for reading more about this kind of thing? I was only aware of ADHD as being either inattentive, hyperactive, or complex, and this sounds to me almost like a different theory of how adhd shows up. I'd like to read about it, but I don't really know what to search for since I am not diagnosed with both Autism and ADHD.

TLDR: I'm looking for a resource and common experiences.