When it prevents you from doing day to day tasks, or even tormenting enough to make you depressed most of the time, then it clearly starts being a disorder. Otherwise, it’s just normal human behaviour.
I think I should emphasize the “clearly” part but yeah, the symptoms can appear from before it being a disorder. If you have any suspicion that you may need help, it’s never hurt to check with professional. After all, having a false positive is better in this case than speculation.
So every personality is ADHD?
When it prevents you from doing day to day tasks, or even tormenting enough to make you depressed most of the time, then it clearly starts being a disorder. Otherwise, it’s just normal human behaviour.
“Starts”, heh. 😅😶
I think I should emphasize the “clearly” part but yeah, the symptoms can appear from before it being a disorder. If you have any suspicion that you may need help, it’s never hurt to check with professional. After all, having a false positive is better in this case than speculation.
An ex of mine, working as a therapist once stated: “It’s a personality trait until it causes disorder, at that point it’s a disorder.”
The pun only translates semi well from German, but yeah, while oversimplifying it’s a nice rule of thumb.
it works fairly well in english, but I cant imagine the german original
“Es ist ein Persönlichkeitsmerkmal bis es stört, dann isses ne Störung.”