I don't know IF having ADD (the "H" isn't usually part of the adult experience in the way it is for kids) is a block.
What I do know is that SINCE I was on the medication -- and it's a very low dose -- I "see" things much more clearly. And let me just point out that I'm not referring to the D there -- I started on the med before the bomb.
As I reflected on the state of my M -- which was poor, I admit -- I began to see things I didn't see before. I didn't know they were as bad as they are (this was also pre-bomb).
W used to always complain that I wasn't listening. She'd be talking and I'd drift away. I denied it, of course, because I could hear and recall her words. But she was right (I now know) -- I wasn't listening. But I didn't know I wasn't listening -- my brain just moved along.
Whenever I tried to concentrate I had to work at it. The IC I consult with on this, who specializes in Adult ADD -- and always starts from the presumption you DON'T have it -- describes it as "brain m*sturbation." Your brain gets pleasure out of bouncing around, this is what it wants, so when you let it (subconsciously) you feel "right," but when you try to force yourself to sit and concentrate you get any one or a number of negative feelings. Frustration mostly.
There was certainly other stuff that led to the bomb, but that was an important part of it.
