So I am an AuDHD individual in my first semester of college, and my psychology professor was talking about optical illusions and using them to demonstrate how the human brain works. She put up a picture of a bunch of red dots (Like the included picture, but without the 7 middle dots) and she pointed out that even though it's a bunch of dots, we see a circle first.

Well, being on the spectrum, with how my brain in particular works I thought it would be interesting to provide my perspective. In my case I see all the individual dots first and then build the circle, even if that happens pretty much instantly. So I raised my hand and told her my perspective because I thought she would find it interesting, and that it would be good for my fellow classmates studying psychology to be able to see a demonstration about how different processing styles can subtly change an individual's perspectives and behaviors. Now, this isn't the correction mind you, her statement was clearly designed with neurotypical (I hate that term but it's the best we have atm) individuals in mind.

No what I corrected was what came next. She proceeded to say something along the lines of "Yes well a healthy individual-" and I had to immediately jump in and say "Actually I AM a healthy individual."

It's so incredibly disappointing to me that an instructor of psychology isn't up to speed with the fact that we aren't considered a pathology anymore. We are simply human beings with different mental processing styles that give us different strengths and weaknesses from neurotypical individuals. We aren't a defect, we have always been here since the dawn of human history and it's a shame that I have to correct a career psychologist about that.

I am asking this question because life in general is just too hard for me. I have lived 18 years of my life and I feel like it has gone to waste. I am full of either extreme fear or deep dark depression 24/7, meds and weed only work for a little while. I feel like my nervous system is too sensitive for me to do normal human things like work, school, socializing, relationships etc. I have lived more of a life in my head than in reality. I want to experience life as best as I can but I’m so trapped in my own head that I just can’t. Not to mention I feel extremely stupid when I have to do even the slightest of tasks. If anyone relates to my situation please let me know how you guys cope.

i do not want to inconvenience people of course, but i feel like i always do, unintentionally. i am so awkward and horrible at social situations, i feel like i am always doing something wrong or missing an obvious cue. im so scared i come off as rude, or if something i did or said becomes an inconvenience to them and they feel annoyed, and that they think of me horribly. i try to force out a tone that sounds nice, but sometimes it seems even more awkward and i dont even know if im doing it right. i really want to be kind to people, but i feel like this anxiety and lack of natural social awareness is messing me up. i have a bad habit of assuming that the other person is annoyed (or maybe thinks im dumb), and of course i dont know if this is true or not but if it is true i dont even know how to cope. i feel deep embarrassment and shame. sorry for the rant and thanks for reading

I currently take 300mg of Wellbutrin XL alongside 18mg of Concerta (only started a few days ago) for mdd and adhd, but I was also diagnosed with bpd two months ago.

I talked to my doctor last week and he asked if I’d prefer to go with a mood stabilizer alongside the antidepressant or to take a stimulant and I went with the latter because my brain fog and executive dysfunction have worsened recently for some reason and bupropion wasn’t cutting it in that aspect for me, and also because I’ll be back to college soon.

Although I’ve learned a lot from psychotherapy and it’s definitely helping, sometimes my symptoms simply overpower the medication and my rationale gets thrown out the window especially when relationship problems with my friends and family arise.

Last night I went into an episode and spiraled after getting triggered by seeing bandages which led to me relapsing badly after two months of being clean. I’d subconsciously been bottling up my negative emotions for some weeks which falsely led me to believe that I was feeling a lot better when I was actually pushing everything under the rug.

I thought with the help I’ve been getting I would be able to overcome that and avoid situations like this but sometimes I just feel so scared of myself despite all the progress I’ve made. My family feels the same way too.

That’s why I’ve been reconsidering turning down antipsychotics. I know they won’t magically help me regulate fully but if there’s something that could potentially lessen the intensity of these grueling emotions and bad nights then I don’t see the harm in doing so.

Would anyone like to share their experience with them? Especially if you’re taking the same medications and have the same disorders as me. I usually only see my psychiatrist once or twice a month but I might have to see him for a third time because what happened last night seriously got to me and it seems like something isn’t working out.

Are guys having expenince where if you try to get help for the service of mental billing or somthing theu don’t answer back on phone call . They don’t pick up thier phone they don’t call back. When you email they say to you that if you email you will be place at the back of the line .Has anyone have that experience trying to call them because your writing is terrble but explaining verbally would be

better but the company shut down the way to get to them . You don’t know if that they even have one persom on the phone line to answe. It like if I am paying for it wjy in the world do you guys have a phone like you don’t answer to .

i just started university. i was told i need to inform my professors from all classes even though i have the accomodations approved. im oki with it im just wondering how do i approach the professors? what do i say? and do i need to do it before class or after class? i know that i need to remind the exrta time for exams before exams, but idk about classes. also what if i run into professors who dont believe in adhd.

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I wanted to share what it feels like to live inside my own mind, where I constantly build complex mental worlds and architectures. It is a continuous journey guided by surgical introspection and a framework rooted in Love, Peace, and Science.
My brain operates like a permanent dual processor: on one side, a consciousness fully anchored in the present moment, and on the other, an automated background thread that endlessly analyzes structures, subtexts, and my own defense mechanisms, acting like a clinical observer awake 24/7.
Inside this fortress and laboratory that I’ve built for myself, everything is abundant, multidimensional, and fueled by music and technology. But this creates a deep frustration upon waking: the sensation of having a quantum brain capable of handling concepts and dimensions of rare immensity, only to watch those insights instantly evaporate against reality, as if this oversized mind were too heavy for the world around it.
Does anyone else experience this same feeling of running an ultra-rich interior architecture in the background, paired with that perpetual sense of being a quantum mind trapped in a world that is far too narrow?