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I know that my husband has ADHD, but he does not. I am trying to figure out how to talk to him about this diagnosis. I can say he has it with confidence because I am a psychotherapist. This only makes it harder to talk to him about social and emotional issues because he does not want me using my "therapy" on him. How do I get this information into his brain? It is at the core of our marriage difficulties and after 35+ years of marriage, I am not sure we will make it one more.

I had to pick our daughter up from school with a fever and take her to see the pediatrician.  We were the only ones there. 

He came out and said that I really have my hands full, with our daughter (who has had several psychiatric hospitalizations recently), our son, AND MY WIFE.  He said something about how much she fought with our daughter when she brought her in last week but then said he was not going to comment further.

Hi everyone,

This forum has been life-saving for me and wanted to share my story, as I found so many relatable posts here. When I first started drafting this post, I wrote in the subject "In or out = ?" That is no longer so.

Hey all. I will BOLD relevant info for the skim readers. Keen for help from non ADHD and ADHD participants. 

Currently reading "The Couple's guide to Thriving with ADHD" by Melissa Orlov & Nancie Kohlenberger

I am not married to my partner but I have severely been rubbing her the wrong way with this reoccurring issue. I am a 27 year old male and she is a 21 year old woman for reference. 

I'm the non-ADHD spouse. A little backstory, we've been married for two years and I've dealt with a lot of his impulsiveness, rage, mood swings, and general irresponsibility. These things caused me to create unhealthy coping mechanisms and dynamics and earlier this year our relationship was pure chaos. So we went to counseling and things started to get better. But recently things are crazy again. 
 

My husband is diagnosed with ADHD. I do not have it. I would very much appreciate advice on this: 

I had been feeling very dragged out and lightheaded last week.  On Friday, I went to an urgent care facility thinking it might be COVID.  They did do a swab, but they were concerned it was heart related and did an EKG.  That was OK, but they told me to go to the ER to make sure it wasn't a heart problem that they could not detect.  After several hours hooked up to monitors, a blood test, a strep test, and a urine sample, they told me there was nothing physically wrong with me.  The diagnoses was stress--the doctor said that stress could be interrupting my sleep.

Looking for perspectives form other families dealing with similar situations.

Hey Yall, I'm a non, married 40 years to a non-diagnosed, untreated ADHD that in my view is severe. I've been studying books, reading blogs, lurking around here and learning more and more. Ruling out certain "tries" that aren't effective, observing and attempting to keep my sanity. Sometimes I wonder if I have dementia or alzheimers or is the chaos of a marriage partner with this enough to make you doubt your own sanity or cause the massive stress that gives chronic brain fog? ok I'm rambling sorry. My question here now is this: How do I approach the "naming" of these issues i.e.

Listened to an interesting session last night - the first of the series - and was delighted to hear that it's important to think about what the top few issues you see in your ADHD partner before deciding on the right medication. I've always been curious about this and I feel like a lot of docs and therapists who don't know ADHD/ADHD relationships well might not prescribe as effectively as they could.