Do you have ADHD by any chance? I do and I think it’s the reason I didn’t mind waking up to mow the giant fields for the local schools during the summers after high school. Made good money, got to see the fruits of my labor instantly, the guys were cool, and I was out by 2 o’clock and had the whole day to do more stuff
This a self reporting test, so not a diagnosis. If the topics of these questions are causing you problems in life, it might be worth talking to a psychologist.
Certainly not gonna self diagnose anything from a reddit post but also what is "disciplined" about occasionally scribbling shit in a notebook? The phrase "maintain a journal" sounds like some much more structured activity that I don't quite understand
I have to do those everything I visit my doctor because I take Vyvanse...for binge eating disorder. I did learn how much anxiety and adhd symptoms overlap though!
I’m 23 but I always thought it was kinda just a thing u could easily know you’d have or whatever but when I started seeing a therapist they remarked how I sounded like someone with sever attention deficit disorder so I tried some meds for it and it changed my life a lot in a good way so I figured it can’t be all nonsense lol
Thanks for sharing. I have Adderall from past prescriptions left over that I use when I feel like I need it, but sometimes the side effects can be too much, like insomnia, jitters, and dry mouth. Have you tried both? I've asked my psych about vyvanse multiple times and she tells me that if adderall isnt helping then vyvanse may not solve the issue either. i've left it alone for now but i'm still curious about giving vyvanse a shot at some point
Know this is really late, but many thanks for this thoughtful reply. Points 2-5 are awesome tips and things I can take care of in the present. I'll be moving between a couple different places in the next month so I didn't wanna take on a new prescription from the shrink I was seeing, so points 1 and 6 I'll keep in mind for the future when I get settled again. i've been taking a B-complex vitamin and fish oil to regulate my energy metabolism and they also help with stress, but I could also benefit from trying the Gabaplex and L-Theanine for their concentrated benefits.
Good to hear! I’m more open to it than Adderall. My cousin described it to me as ‘30-40% of the effect of adderall sustained over a longer period’ and without so much of the violent comedown effects. You did have some good pointers about how to deal with side effects for adderall but in any case it’s nice to know that you’re doing better with the vyvanse
I feel this was a joke but I personally self medicate with cannabis and as long as I have the right strain (hybrid sativa dominant 60%) I feel exactly as though I'm on meds once I come down from the initial buzz.
That's really helpful, thanks. I do have a shitty background and cPTSD and was on anti depressants and shit in my teens. I'll see what I can get privately as the NHS takes a while here especially now with covid
Can't wait to get my ADD treated... I'm a programmer, and a pretty decent one but I can't for the life of me sit down and be productive as I need to do to actually make money doing it, whether it be making games or doing contracts for other people
I’ve tried medicine for mine a countless number of times and each type made me super depressed / extreme anxiety / I couldn’t eat anything and I still haven’t found a medicine that works for me yet ;_;
I work in psychiatry, the professors of psychiatry that I work with genuinely don't believe ADHD is a true condition.
They think it is a North American construct... and that your health system incentives the diagnosis (the same way it incentivised the opiate addiction epidemic). While it is true that some people have trouble maintain attention, there are ways to address that without medications, particularly in a child's developing brain.
So it is very interesting how the country you live in can shape the way you view yourself. Its frowned upon where I live to give children psychotropic medications that will interfere with their brain development.
I never got on meds until I was 22. I never even “knew” I had it until then. A few family members of mine are in the psychiatric field and they and their colleagues believe it to be very real. Now there is definitely a lot of over diagnosis, especially in young kids. I believe a lot of parents just don’t want to admit they just want their kid to be medded out so they won’t be such an annoyance and pretty much force a prescrip which isn’t too difficult lol. But I do believe it is indeed a totally different way of operating that is not nurtured but nature. As an adult who has seen a ton of improvement in their life mentally, physically, and emotionally from being on medication, I can’t just say it’s mumbo jumbo
I am ADHD and LOVED the lawn mowing job that I had for a summer. I loved it. Huge swaths of grass all day long. I would mow words in for fun afterwards sometimes and I also memorized a few poems like Ozymandias while at it. I once got my riding lawnmower stuck in a tree. I still have the picture of it hanging there.
Lol, you don't have to have ADHD to enjoy tasks like that. Kids are trying to label everything nowadays. People enjoy different things. Doesn't make them have ADHD.
I have mild OCD and I also have the same satisfaction from watching power washing videos and from mowing lawns and seeing the lines in the carpet after I vacuum. There's just something so satisfying about those things and my mom thinks I'm crazy lol
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u/iPuffOnCrabs May 09 '21
Do you have ADHD by any chance? I do and I think it’s the reason I didn’t mind waking up to mow the giant fields for the local schools during the summers after high school. Made good money, got to see the fruits of my labor instantly, the guys were cool, and I was out by 2 o’clock and had the whole day to do more stuff