5 Warning Signs That Could Be at Your Tipping Point

Recently, I've noticed a pattern in my clients that I call the "tipping point". The "tipping point"
is essentially an occasion in people's lives when, for assorted reasons, the strategies they
are using to compensate for ADHD challenges will no longer are most often working. This
"tipping point" is often experienced in addition to feelings of overwhelm and chaos. Up until a
"tipping point," everyone has had the opportunity to balance known or unknown challenges
with ADHD with strategies they might not have access to even realized these folks were
using. Up until the "tipping point", they had had time to adapt and cope well using symptoms,
even going as much as being distinct for an official proper diagnosis of ADHD (to put it
differently their symptoms just weren't interfering making use of their functioning). But for
some reason an existence change - it could be a job promotion, relationship change, a
school change, or any myriad of different things - renders the current strategies ineffective
well as over time there exists a sense that the situation is no longer "going well" and in fact,
life appears to be failing in a big way.
Here are a few life situations that might be possible "tipping points":
Warning Sign #1: New Problems at School. Often, when higher elementary or middle school
hits, students begin unraveling because they experience more responsibility in juggling
multiple classrooms, more homework and larger classrooms. Suddenly it seems like there's
nothing working anymore. They can't get things done that they have to get done, everything
kind of goes into chaos, things start to come undone. Their schoolwork begins to suffer; they
may have trouble concentrating in class, forget to hand in homework or will experience
complications with old friendships. Often, no person recognizes these warning signs being
ADHD-related as the students previously had managed or were able to make up because of
their challenges. Parents and educators start to feel helpless when a previously successful
student definitely unmotivated. Students are told they simply need to do more. Everyone is
unsure getting a child back on track and the students set out to feel stupid, lazy and
incapable.
Warning Sign #2: Inability to Cope After Significant Life Changes. Some those with ADHD
experience their first "tipping point" from a significant life a positive life change such as
having a wedding or getting into a new home. These major life celebrations are anticipated
with great joy, but may often be a change that "tips" the check. Perhaps you've had the
oppertunity to balance your personal life and your individual schedule and in which you put
things up until recently, but then you will get married and now your spouse features a
different strategy for doing things or expectations of methods things needs to be organized
that vary from your views, not to mention suffering any additional stuff within your space.
Slowly you observe that situations are bust in addition to they'd before, and since this is said
to be the happiest time of your daily life, you think that there must be something wrong along
with you...right? Wrong! Significant life changes for example marriage, having another child
or moving homes can frequently upset a mysterious balance.
Warning Sign #3: Unable to Transition Successfully Into A New Role at Work. Up until your
"tipping point" you've been performing really well within your job. So well, in fact, that you are
promoted. Slowly you may begin to notice you are not achieving this job and also everyone
expected, and you start to isolate yourself, dread planning to work and may in the end
achieve fired. What happened? You reached your "tipping point". Not when you didn't
deserve the job, but because adjustments to work often feature changes of staff, support,
work area, etc. that throw you off.
Warning Sign #4: Change in Family Dynamics. If you find yourself with new responsibilities
and changes inside your family, such as consuming an elderly parent, adding members to
your family, or getting a brand new roommate, the excess responsibilities, alteration of
routine and stress can gradually sink in and leave you overwhelmed and unable to cope as
you have previously. It is so an easy task to start to think you're terrible mom, unfit for the
necessary a family group or may be destined to living alone. It's not YOU, you were thrown
off-balance, as well as your ability to pay for your ADHD with your old routine, structures or
systems is no more working. But instead of seeing the truth, that it isn't anything you must
have done wrong, or understand that you'll be able to fix this, you're stuffed with undeserved
guilt and shame.
Warning Sign #5: Physical Injury. People often experience their "tipping point" when an
ADHD-management strategy like exercise decreases or activity level changes. Unbeknownst
to many those with ADHD, participation in sports and/or daily exercise provides some
additional Dopamine to our brain and helps to create structure and routine in your lives that
assist to higher manage ADHD symptoms. autism toys Tipping points" are common for high
school graduation athletes who have earned success with their sports but academically, and
then head off to college and experience failure for the first time. Without the rigorous physical
training and structure of high school graduation, they begin to slowly break apart. Another
common "tipping point" for people with ADHD occurs when they've got experienced a
personal injury and possess to lower their activity or exercise level. This change in routine
and absence of daily Dopamine boosts can challenge previous steadiness, energy and
capability to focus and life starts to wobble.
As you are able to see, there are many reasons, often outside your control, which may lead
you for a "tipping point." Watch for your next issue of my e-zine, that can share ways you'll be
able to stay from tipping over the edge. But, in the meantime in case you recognize yourself
of these "tipping point" symptoms and so are ready to get help, consider a "Succeed With
ADHD" Strategy Session. Because remember, a "tipping point" means that you are in a
crossroads so you have an alternative which way you will react- you can continue down that
route to chaos and overwhelm, or you can get restructured and relearn ways to to manage
and obtain back on track!