166 // The Power of Hope in ADHD

Now, where this came from, in total honesty, recently I was trying to find new topics to talk about on the podcast, and I was struggling with finding some ideas to talk about, feeling a little discouraged.

I decided I should go look at statistics on ADHD, bring you some science, and, and some research.

And instead what I found was that a lot of the statistics on ADHD are kind of depressing.

And keep in mind, this is going to be a positive episode, I promise, but this is where it started.

A lot of these statistics were telling me, you know, how I was not gonna do as well at different things or how I would struggle with all these different things, and all these comorbidities that go along with A- ADHD.

And that's when I realized, I think a better statistic, a better thing to look at is the power of hope.

Because when you look at it and you tell somebody, "Hey, you have this diagnosis.

This is now who you are," which it isn't, by the way.

You are not defined by a label or a diagnosis.

It's simply to help you understand who you are.

But there is so much power in hope.

It even says in an article that I'll link below, but it said they found a strong link between high levels of hope and better contemporary and future outcomes in the wellbeing, economic health, and social arenas.

Now, my point with this today is, and stick around to the end where I'll- I'll give you some questions to think about for how you can have and choose more hope in your life.

But essentially, I think sometimes it's important for us to know our unique ADHD brains, but recognize that we are not a statistic.

We are not just some article that somebody put together.

We are human beings.

We are made in the image of God, and we are not made wrong.

We are not made deficient.

We are made exactly as we're supposed to be, and I believe that it is finding out how we can live a life that matches us.

Is it going to resonate with everybody that we meet? No, of course not.

Are there gonna be some people who we rub the wrong way? Of course, just as they are for us.

But that doesn't mean that we are in the wrong.

It doesn't mean we're doing things wrong.

And so I want to be, if you are feeling discouraged, I want to be that voice of encouragement that is telling you, "You are enough.

You are good enough.