All the steps were extremely practical and useful and I wish this was a success story...it's not. Not yet anyway...

  I am a perfectionist with ADHD, grown in a family where love, praise and acceptance was earned, while failure was physically punished. I am very skilled but at the same time I don't believe I am enough. I know I am not, since I have failed continuously and I just recently discovered I have ADHD. My failures where always credited to irresponsibility or immaturness. I knew I was not but if the whole world tells you otherwise, you are either crazy or wrong. I wanted to be humble so I accepted I was wrong.

 

  The 5th step calls me to accept failure, but I can't. It's like asking someone having a panic attack, stop panicking. At least that's what it feels like. So, I pick things I am guaranteed to succeed, condemning me in a life where I will never reach the potential that I know I have, but I "know" I can't reach. How can anyne be happy with such a life...?

  If I ever make it through, I will come back and post my success story. Hopefully...