Something felt off: ADHD, depression, and slow processing speed (Matt Klein’s story)

Matt Klein thought he was dealing with depression. After a job
change and the arrival of a new baby, he found himself in a fog.
Listless. Unmotivated. And vaguely “off.” He just didn’t want to
do anything. His wife noticed the shift, too. But the depression
diagnosis never fully explained it. It wasn’t until he was
evaluated as an adult that inattentive ADHD and slow processing
speed brought his story into focus.


Matt, a software engineer, shares a story about a door that hung
slightly askew — and how intensely it bothered him. He
couldn’t stop thinking about it. That crooked door became a
metaphor for his experience with undiagnosed ADHD: the mental
friction, the fixation, the sense that something was out of
alignment. 


For more on this topic 


Read: What is slow processing speed? 

Listen: ADHD and emotions in men (Marc’s story) 



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