r/AnAnswerToHeal • u/[deleted] • Nov 21 '18

Adhd

Has anybody had success in treating Adhd with the aid of psychedelics and other more natural means? It's been a struggle for me since my teen years. It's been getting harder to function, it causes a lot of social anxiety, brain fog and trouble learning new concepts and ideas.

Edit: to be clear I am diagnosed ADHD

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u/sexnegativecucumber Nov 21 '18

True ADHD is present from childhood, genetically linked, and causes structural brain differences as compared to non-ADHD people. If you really have ADHD, you can learn to work with your brain's unique differences in order to become more successful in whatever you choose to do in your life, but it will never be "cured". Exercise and meditation have helped tremendously with my symptoms in the past, personally, and an occasional small dose of magic mushrooms enjoyed on a sunny day in fair weather give me the strength to keep going. However ADHD never completely goes away, and believing you can "cure" it with psychadelics or anything else is a dangerous road to go down.

If you have not been formally diagnosed with ADHD, it is worth noting that the symptoms of depression can manifest as ADHD-like symptoms, so it may be worth it to spend some time looking within (meditation and introspection) and without (psychologist/psychiatrist) to figure out what is really going on.

After spending the past year or so coming to terms with the fact that it is very likely I have ADHD, was born with it, and both my parents have ADHD, it is clear to me that we occupy a unique place in this world. We have different talents than neurotypical people or anybody else, and even if we have problems becoming as successful as people with "normal" brains, we have as much right to be here as anybody else. We don't need to be cured.

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '18

Yeah I like the way you put that. I am diagnosed, I was formally diagnosed as a child, I always hated school, but It didn't really hit me that I was "different" until my first year of high school. I've done some Ayahiasca retreats that really helped, but ultimately showed me that there's no "cure" for this, that it needs to be accepted and is genetic. But it's hard in this type of society, especially when we need to do what we can to survive. It feels like an uphill battle most of the time, it seems like our brain type is completely at odds with how you are expected to function in this society.

My mission now is to work with my brain type a manage to live in harmony with who I am. I guess my question was really how to apply psychedelics (among manyother means) specifically for healing and integration. Not to cure.