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My wife suffers from this. It's called clinical anxiety and depression, with a heavy dose of ADHD. She needs medication to keep it in check, and some days, even that's not enough. Trying to get her out of the house every few days is like pulling teeth.
On top of that, my wife is an introvert by nature, but you'd never know in a social setting, as she will talk everyone's ear off all night long. I found out that's her nervous tick; when she feels the social anxiety kicking in, she just lets the ADHD take charge and will run her mouth non-stop. When she gets home from any social event, even just a quiet evening hanging out with a close friend, she'll collapse from exhaustion and sleep for half a day afterward.
You bring up a good point. ADHD is often comorbid with other things, usually anxiety and/or depression. Often, those with ADHD, are only treated for those depression/anxiety symptoms and the provider misses the ADHD.
Ask a counselor, therapist, or psychiatrist what they think. They'll be the best person to suggest a treatment plan or path to diagnosis. It might take several sessions, but it's so worth it.
You're basically describing me, except with the genders flipped and depression in stead of bipolar with most tendency towards hypomania, which goes just SWELL with anxiety and becoming fake extrovert when my social anxiety is bad!
Basically can't make myself shut up for two seconds around people when the hypomania is at its worst and people are always exhausting and stressful to be around too much, even my favourite ones ๐ฎโ๐จ๐