Low Frustration Intolerance=Immaturity

[Vikkttoorr99]

I've had very problematic ADD symptoms all of my life of the inattentive variety. I'm fairly calm and laid back until I have to do something I don't know how to do. Or something that I knew how to do just a short time ago but I've forgotten and I have to learn it all over again. Or something that requires having to shift from one thing to another. Or basically it seems I'm just pissed off and disappointed in myself all of the time because I can't understand how to keep up. I have a lifetime of feeling stupid feelings I have to reprogram and to accept and blah blah blah. I try to have that cheer-little-buckaroo positive spin but the only thing that comes out of my face is anger and frustration. I yelled at my wife again tonight for the billionth time. I feel like such an immature idiot. A baby crying kicking and screaming. To me this is the worst part of it. I just needed a place to put this. Thank you.

[Sandman2]

I don't know if they all have difficulty dealing with these issues.  I do know that having ADHD/ADD can lead to immense frustration.  How to deal with that is I guess the question.

[benjimom]

So it sounds like people with ADD /ADHD have difficulty dealing with frustration and anger issues.  

[Sandman2]

   The trouble with ADD is that if you have intelligence, you get frustrated!  If ya ain't that smart, you don't notice that other people are doing what you know that you could/should be able to do.  Even with little kids, my best clue to the fact they might have ADD was the frustration they were showing.
   The problem is that you can't keep frustration inside of you.  That creates really harmful effects both physically and emotionally.  I really can't tell you how to handle frustration because we all do it differently (exercise, counting to 10 backwards, drinking, etc.), but if you can figure out how to express it constructively, and understand that doing so is a way of dealing with ADD- I think it will help you.