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Could be Adhd, could be bipolar, could be malnourishment. What you need to do truthfully is touch grass, eat something, and let a doctor make the formal diagnosis.

I don’t want to discourage you from asking other people what their thoughts are, but by all means get seen by a medical professional. That’s the only way to be sure.

No.

Go get an official diagnosis from a professional, including a physician.

You may have more severe issues than ADHD.

I mean, it sounds like you're malnourished, so that does affect how your brain functions.

Fucking eat calorie dense and nutritious foods until you are at a healthy weight. Then if you still have these issues the ADHD conversation can happen.

Don’t forget if you are having a hard time eating for whatever reason reach out to a medical professional so they can help get you the assistance you need.

All of these could be signs of adhd, but none of these are definitive without more details.

If you want to be sure you need to talk to a professional.

If you want to compare with diagnosed neurodivergents for reference. About the trouble focusing:

Every single school report i took home, from first grade to the end of highschool with no exceptions had a variation of a single added comment. “never pays attention in class”

ADHD refers to a spectrum of symptoms, it's not necessarily a disease in itself. This is a very misunderstood concept, and I'm sure I will get pushback here on it because we get really used to our labels, but I've been through the system so many times and talked to a lot of doctors and have connected with the consensus. The DSM5, the manual from which we get all these terms and diagnosis talk, is always in a state of flux and is used as a guide for identifying symptom clusters and forming plans to ease harmful effects of those clusters, not labeling people's identities or diseases, nor curing anything.

What's all this have to do with your trouble focusing? That there is likely an underlying issue causing your ADHD symptoms, and this could be anything from an actual innate disorder like autism spectrum disorder, or it could be an effect of life experiences like PTSD from stress or abuse, or it could be your current lifestyle and living situation, it could be clinical anxiety/depression, or it could be something else entirely.

This is why the boring answer, which is most often the correct answer, is to consult an actual professional, not rely on asocial, sheltered, internet strangers because you will unconsciously seek out what you want to hear, not what you need to do to address the problem, which may in fact be something you really don't want to hear.

You might have ADHD, and some other stuff as well.

There is the Executive Skills Questionnaire (ESQ-R), the Diagnostic Interview for ADHD in Adults (DIVA-5), tests for mood disorders, etc. that a professional could do to inch closer.

The speaking out loud, mood shifts, lack of sleep and low appetite sounds like mania, maybe pre-psychosis states, and any related disorders, like borderline, bipolar, or schizophrenia to me. If you're in the middle east, it should be really easy to find a doctor to prescribe you some antipsychotics for it. In my experience, describing symptoms like that, they pretty much all are eager to prescribe them. And I am not a professional, the message is just "maybe, have a look at this" :)

Should antipsychotics be right for you, there's also another upside with most of them: weight gain. The only time in my life I put on weight was on antipsychotics and it was quite dramatic.

And yeah, I don't think you're healthy enough for Ramadan. I imagine showing them Suras about who should not do Ramadan could shut them up.

Yes. Don't think the BMI has anything to do with it but speaking out loud before you can think about it stands out, and sleep problems + trouble organising + hyper focus definitely line up.

Now you have to go and ask doctors for a diagnosis.

Sure. Lots of those are also things that people just do sometimes.