Dear Banananananner:

“It’s like the moment I detect that I have even an iota of unhappiness within a job, from that point on I can no longer force myself to stay… I have pretty bad social anxiety… I was recently diagnosed with ADHD-PI“-

– reads to me that the problem is that you have a low tolerance to discomfort/ distress. So, while other people are able to tolerate and endure distress for a whole week, a month.. a year and even years, you are able to endure it for a much shorter time. When a person’s anxiety has been severe and prolonged, it weakens the nervous system leading it to overreacts to small amounts of discomfort and distress.

This is what happened to me. By the way, although I didn’t seek the diagnosis and was not diagnosed with Predominantly Inattentive Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD-PI), I have no doubt that I fit the diagnosis since childhood and for most of my life.

anita