Gea's ADD and high sensitivity came in handy in healthcare

Submitted life story of Gea on her life in care with ADD and HSP

Gea worked for a long time in care and welfare where her ADD and HSP characteristics came in handy

Hello Jochem,

Today you newsletter received for which many thanks. I too have come to the conclusion that I suffer from a number of ADD and HSP characteristics fulfilled. The difference is that I have not entered the help circuit and have adjusted (tried to adjust) my life in such a way that I am very content with my quality of life.

It all started 20 years ago with (gifted) autistic people where I noticed that they regularly had paranormal experiences. Before that, like many, a burnout where the psychologist told me he couldn't help me because I had to fill in some questionnaires and I knew immediately which way it would go... a psychiatric diagnosis and for that I thanked him. I came to self-reflection from the spiritual angle and had a weblog between 2004 and 2011. There I posted channelings and lots of info about indigo children/crystal children, as well as adult indigos and HSP. At one point, I too came Garret John Leporto against with his Wayseers Manifesto in which he reaffirmed for me what I already knew ;)

I am now 48 years old and have now spent 28 years working within care and welfare where I worked as a group leader, personal supervisor/coach. Psychiatry, justice, care for the mentally handicapped, shelters ect. It mainly concerned people with behavioural disorders as it is often called. I myself call it behaviour that is difficult to understand. I discovered 1 big common thread and that was despite all those beautiful diagnoses, all these people were in my eyes high-sensitivity with a lot of creative potential. Most of their potential could be lifted through gentle teaching .

I still work in healthcare (reluctantly) after being unemployed for a year. However I want to share my views, I still run into a wall. GPs, psychologists, colleagues are not very familiar with this phenomenon. Especially not when you add a dose of sprirituality. But also my high level of emphatic ability is not recognised or recognised or acknowledged by many because it can be confrontational for others. I am very honest and transparent and do not judge but observe. This does not make things easier for my employers, colleagues and myself. As a result, I get thrown out of my job and not taken seriously ect.

I'm at a bit of a dead end now, society is pulling at me and wants me to conform to market forces within healthcare. It is sad there, small-scale companies manipulate clients, snatch them away, bribe them ect. and nothing is allowed to cost money. So there is no longer any depth in counselling.

For a client, I did a quick google search and came across your site and saw the possibility of guest blogging. I want to think about it some more but possibly sign up for it.

What I am very happy about is that you have a natural alternative to medication gives on your site because most of the people I have worked with have mostly ended up in the drug scene because they started self-medicating because counselling has fallen short. So I hope you will be very successful with your site and your thing, which I wholeheartedly support. You are sowing a lot of good here so your harvest will be flabbergasting.... :>) have a good time, Gea