Does anyone else’s OCD/ anxiety make them seem like they have ADHD?
I do the most stupid things on a daily basis, I am absent minded, i once locked my bicycle up to a 1m high pole. I am always losing things, leaving things behind, my room is a pig sty, I struggle to feel motivated to do the things in life that are mundane, I am chronically bored, I can't pay attention to movies or anything auditory because i zone out so frequently, the list goes on and on.
I've been tested (both a psychiatrist evaluation and neuropsychological assessment) and i don't have ADHD. I was told the symptoms must stem from anxiety. I do believe this is true because I don't think I've always been this way, it seems to have intensified as i've gotten older. So the combination of my OCD, generalised anxiety and depression must manifest as something that looks exactly like ADHD.
I guess i just feel a bit alone in this, and it's frustrating when I have all these people—who aren’t psychiatrists—insisting that I MUST have ADHD.
Am i the only one experiencing this? Does anyone else have ADHD-like symptoms?