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I desperately want to be on medication. I've heard a lot of antidepressants make you feel "empty" but God emptiness would be better than this. But if I'm honest with any mental health professional at all, they have to tell my parents that I'm cutting, and they'll very likely hospitalize me (at least where I'm from if you say you're actively considering suicide they have to hospitalize you).
Is there any way to get help at all (note: I'm a minor) where you can be honest and not get hospitalized? I'm expecting a "no".
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depression
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Does anyone else have a weird want to tell everyone that is close to you about your mental illnesses? I know I find myself wanting to tell them frequently, but haven’t because the timing is inappropriate or unnecessary. I’m just curious if any else does it, and if they have any idea why they/we want to? I’ll probs bring it up in therapy this week(:
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Hello everyone, I’m kinda desperate with this one. I had a horrible mental breakdown and relapsed deep into my depression. I just feel absolutely drained and feel like I’m unable to do anything but I have work today, should I call in or just suck it up and get over it?
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Just a little levity…
Last night we started getting the lights and stuff ready for the tree, and my partner was finishing the lights on the outside of the house. I was supposed to be finding the bulbs that were out on the tree lights, but when I do this every year, I always play Christmas music and drink fancy beer. It’s tradition. None of the playlists were doing it for me, so I started building one that would suit my needs. Jump to a couple hours + later and no lights are fixed or on the tree, it’s late, beer’s gone, but I have a badass Christmas playlist for when I finally get lights on the tree.
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I'm just recently starting to jump back on board of researching adhd after I was given a negative diagnosis some time ago. After some thinking and talking with my therapist, I'm becoming convinced again that I have it. Though I wouldn't say I ever really believed I don't have it, I just gave up pursuing a diagnosis.
So I've been watching a lot of Dr. Barkley's videos and lectures again as I consider my symptoms and impairments. As I learn more though, I often question whether I actually have ADHD any time he says something about the disorder that I don't really struggle with. This is in spite of the many more things he describes that I relate to and cause significant problems in my life. I don't really know what the point of posting this is, but I was curious if other people get the same way
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last night i went to watch the new spider man movie, before it started i was anxious that i would miss out on something or not fully understand it so i was stressed the whole time, i definitely understood the plot but for some weird reason i keep replaying the movie in my head because i think i missed out on something or on a part that i didn’t get. I’m just feeling so empty for some reason. this is the reason why i can never watch movies. always thinking i missed out on an important detail or thinking i just don’t understand it
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I saw a trailer for the movie “OLD” and I got aroused when I saw the little girl’s belly(I have a belly kink). I’m not aroused by the girl but every time I think of the belly or see that trailer I get aroused. I’m having a panic attack right now...I’m a pedo aren’t I?
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A lot of my compulsions are rooted in stopping things I don't want to happen from happening or reassuring me of something, they're fucking exhausting and I want to be able to stop them and feel like something I don't want to happen is going to happen if I do.
Do you have any advice on how to do that because it's exhausting to have to go through these compulsions over and over and over again
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OCD
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My therapist thinks I have PTSD from my friend killing herself. Ever since I found out she did, I would go into these episodes of numbness, dissociation, everything just felt very off (like almost as if something major just happened in my life but I couldn’t tell what it was), mixed in with paranoia and alertness. I’m just really confused because I don’t have flashbacks, but after the incident I refuse to read anything about suicides or death because it triggers these episodes.
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Hey yall! The way anger is portrayed by NT's has never resonated with me. I'm wondering if this is a common experience or if I'm the odd one out.
I have for sure been upset plenty of times. I also feel like I get intellectually angry pretty often. However, the emotion experience of anger is a total head scratcher. Like, I don't think I have ever yelled at anyone in my adult life.
Is anger just the same thing as being upset or frustrated but super intense? I had a roommate who would get so angry that he punched a hole in the drywall once and that seemed so strange to me, I still have trouble accepting that it was not performative.
Sorry if that got rambling at the end. Hope yall are having a good one!
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Hey, so I am diagnosed with depression and anxiety - have been ever since I was like 16 (I am now 21) and recently someone I work with has mentioned that he thinks it might be ADHD / ADD. As I’m researching it I am relating to a lot of things women go through with it. Just wondering who I should go to (if anyone) if I have these suspicions? Sorry if this is a stupid post
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I can’t deal with this anymore. I’m so sick of barely being able to start things, let alone finish them. I’m so sick of being treated like a child all the time and constantly being spoken down to. I’m sick of my friends feeling like they have to coddle me because I’m so inept all the time that they think I can’t function on my own, but I’m just as sick of barely being able to function on my own. I’m sick of not being able to keep my emotions from taking me over or from spilling out everywhere to whoever will listen and having that be the downfall of all of my relationships. I’m sick of having to pretend that I can be a responsible adult without being on medication, and I’m sick of having to take medication because it always makes me miserable. I’m sick of not having a support system and feeling like the whole world is my therapist. I’m sick of feeling like it will never get better, and I’m sick of it never getting better. I’m sick of feeling like I have no real skills because I can’t commit myself to anything. I’m so sick of me. I just want to be treated like an adult for once.
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Hi I'm new here. Just recently diagnosed with obsessive thoughts. How do you guys deal with issues of being PC? I obviously don't want to hurt other people and I understand that it is the bare minimum of being a decent person, but lately I've been on social media and these days it seems too easy to make a mistake and be "cancelled". The thoughts bother me so much I can't get much work done.
On the topic of that, how do you guys deal with social media? I try to avoid it, but then I feel like a sort-of FOMO wherein I tell myself that I shouldn't avoid triggers and I need to "educate myself" so I can make the least offensive mistakes possible.
OCD sucks though in this regard. Hope you all continue fighting this beast. Hugs to you all 🤗
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OCD
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You are not your feelings.
People wrongly identify with their feelings. They feel anxious, so they tell themselves a story, ‘I’m anxious, I have anxiety.’ This leads to living a life in which we’re trying to avoid certain feelings or chasing others.
We reach a state of calm. Then we start to think about how to hold on to it. How to stay in this state forever. Then the calm is gone and we’re anxious again.
Understand: Your feelings are impermanent. You are meant to feel. Emotions exist so that we can feel them, the full range. Happy, sad, bored, discontent.
Stop thinking about your feelings as a permanent state and realize you have the power to change it.
When you think of Mike Tyson, ‘Iron Mike,’ ‘The Baddest Man on the Planet.’ A career record of 50-6, 44 knockouts, arrested more than 30 times before he was 13. You don’t think of someone who felt a lot of fear.
It’s hard to imagine him [in tears](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKjK95aRrhc) before a fight. Pacing around outside crying and overcome by anxiety and fear. Tyson’s trainer and adopted father, Cus D’Amato would say, “The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear.”
Tyson felt fear, it was a feeling he had. But then he moved forward. After those tears is a fight that was stopped in his favor after about 35 seconds. Thoughts, emotions, feelings. They’re like clouds, they come and go. Not here forever. Not gone forever.
In ***The Wisdom of Insecurity***, Alan Watts explains that if, “we are to be fully human and fully alive and aware, it seems that we must be willing to suffer for our pleasures.”
If you never want to feel sad. You’ll never feel happy. If you never want to feel anxious, you won’t know contentment. If you’ve never had a bad day, you won’t recognize a great one. The alternative to feeling is numbness. It’s bland, mediocre and average. It’s half alive.
You can’t control your feelings, but you can control how you react to them. Accept that your feelings are impermanent. They come and go. They’re feelings, not a life sentence.
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My therapist told me that my eating disorder is a physical manifestation of my ocd which makes sense given it’s nature. But now I’m locked in on the idea that my e.d is fake, like after enough intrusive thoughts about e.d’s I just started to believe it into existence one day.
Has anyone else ever experienced something similar?
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I cant do anything i just cost myself another job by staying home crying instead of going in. im 26 live at home all my friends have moved on with thier lives and im just stuck alone waiting to die nothing feels worth the effort anymore it feels like i have to choose beteween keeping this shit cycle going and just live hating life or just end it theres nothing i want to do anymore i feel like shit all the time why keep trying when i get nothing from it
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she believes i am being purposefully difficult towards her. Long story but we've been friends since 9th grade we are both in our 40's no children.
i grew up without a mother and she grew up in the foster system..both horrible families with zero support.
my PTSD comes from sexual trauma as a child and gin violence as an adult. I cant force myself to go back to that city, although all my family resides there. My brother died in 2015 and I had to bury him as my family is chocked full of heavy dope addicts and I couldn't see him buried in a wrong way.
this was the first time I'd been back home in 12 years...
before I left for good I lived with her and her fiance...she treated me very poorly, setting me up for conflict between friends, i didnt cut off the relationship but I vowed to focus on myself moving foward.
Her Fiance passes away and I didn't not go to the funeral nor the wedding. he was her Husband when he died accidentally. both occurred in the city I am.afriad of.
she was awarded a large sum of money,never once did i ask for anything. And never once did she offer to lift me up...She knows I suffer from PTSD
she is a partier and I am introverted...she loves bags, jewelry, shopping,
i enjoy books, reading, and researching.
now her Mother is sick and I need help with addressing what I should do to be there for her but keep my sanity. I cannot go back to that city.
please help with ideas
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So I have had depression for 14 years and over the last year and half I met a new friend and he would help me get through the hard times and I credit this person for why I am still here... But over the last few weeks I feel like he uses me to make himself feel better and puts me down and belittles my problems to make himself feel good. For instance I had a bad day yesterday and his response was "oh what little problem have you got now".
Should I stop talking to this person and carry on trying to help myself again, I can't help but feel he is pushing me backwards.
Any advice is greatly appreciated Tia.
Also hope you all have a good day.
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depression
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Would appreciate some tips to pull myself out of misery.
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OCD
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I obsess a lot. If I am obsessed with something I will think about it from the moment I wake up til the moment i go to sleep. After 5 years with OCD I have decided to start Prozac after previously being on no medication. I am wondering if Prozac stopped anyone from obsessing? And thinking about something all day every day then getting really anxious and depressed and ocd about it? Thank you
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Selfies and self recordings don't upset me but on the homepage there was a recording of two children driving a car. Feels creepy that people felt the need to "pimp" two kids out to the internet. Even when it's nonsexual it made my fight or flight go off
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My parents money, I feel like I’ve lost a lot of trust now and the general mood is pretty shitty rn...
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No matter what I do it's always wrong. Every relationship I have had I've messed up. Every friendship. Every decision. I am a massive fuck up and disappointment. My first love dumped me because I failed to communicate. I failed to relay what I felt, what she really meant to me and I lost her. I loved her so much and now she barely speaks to me. I failed to give her what she was asking for and now I'm paying for it. I lost my best friend because I did something very stupid and it costed our friendship. My parents are the only ones I love in my family and I feel like a disappointment of a son. I have failed the basic parts of knowledge. I don't want to give up. I don't want to die. But almost everyday day pushes me to not dealing with life anymore. I've seen, done and put up with a lot of stupid shit. I just want the regrets to go away, scars to fade, pain to heal, anger to extinguish, tiredness to disappear and my thoughts to be silent. I want peace and to be happy. I'm tired of ruining relationships. But pain, I'm afraid, is my curse.
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I live with my family and there’s 6 of us. Before the Pandemic we normally got whatever bug was going around work or school, whether it was a cold, stomach flu, or the flu. If someone was sick I didn’t think twice about it, I wouldn’t even think I was gonna get it, because truthfully sometimes I didn’t. With a cold or flu it’s just luck you don’t get it sometimes. For the past week everyone in my house but me is sick with a cold, it’s mild nobody was bed ridden or anything, but it’s freaking me out for a lot of reasons. First is I haven’t been sick since February of 2020 with a cold or flu so far, and I don’t remember what it feels like and I’m scared. I’ve been wiping every surface I touch with Lysol before touching it, and washing my hands every time I eat, touch my phone, or go to bed. As well I’ve been isolating myself from everyone in my house as much as possible. Secondly, my financial situation is a bit of a mess, and if I have to take time off for being sick, I’m gonna lose a lot of money so that’s at stake as well. Deep down I do not want to be this scared, but the anxiety and intrusive thoughts are seriously making me feel like shit.
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So I’m not diagnosed with OCD, but I have been diagnosed with anxiety when I was younger.
So long story short, I had a lot of warts spread all over my hands for awhile. It was kind of traumatizing and caused me severe anxiety. It’s been a little bit since I’ve had a new one (I’m very scared to type that incase I jinx anything). In the past few months, I’ve very frequently (1-2daily) gotten twinges/itches on my hands that have caused me to spend a lot of time (sometimes hours) staring at my hands in different kinds of light, sometimes with a magnifying glass. In the past, I have found warts on my hand this way; a twitch made me look down and then I found a real one. But now it’s frequent and causes me anxiety and makes me waste a lot of time that I should be spending studying. But I feel like I shouldn’t ignore those feeling in case it’s real, you know?
Sorry for the long stream of consciousness. Lately I was wondering if the twinges I feel are even real or are they fabricated by my paranoid, anxious mind?
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I've never once used my security cameras for actual 'security,' but if I lost something... to the video tape! It's like a super power in re-tracing your steps if you misplace something and can't remember where. Just now scrubbing through video to see what I did with my headphones. The next step would be to wear a bodycam 24/7, lol.
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Hey Everybody! So I have been on Adderall ODT for a couple months now and am not really into the correct swing with my medication. My biggest concern is with Caffeine. Celiac has already robbed me of so much of what I used to love, and I really dont want to let ADHD take the last semblance of a routine from me. Ive been doing morning Americano, 1 tab then 2 hours later into the afternoon i take my second tab. It has seemed to work best but it just seems so wrong? Sometimes the meds work, sometimes they dont, and sometimes i just feel jittery.
Im on Adzenys 3.1 mg. Any thought or advice on how to balance these things? Still in the figuring out what works stage. Thank you!
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I have a mock sales interview today to graduate from my bootcamp, but I hadn't done any preparation until Sunday.
Friday or Saturday, I realized why I had been procrastinating, engaging in ED behaviors, and getting high.
I had been self-sabotaging.
Last week, I suddenly didn't want to graduate anymore. I was looking for a way out of the interview, out of this situation. So, I procrastinated and delayed preparation to fail the interview and avoid change. I'm afraid of change. I'm afraid of the pressures of success.
I don't know if this is an ADHD thing, but I have a lot in common with all of you, so I thought maybe some of you might have this habit as well...
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Warning for imaginary self harm ig.
I've been thinking of past actions I've done as a kid that may have been a result from OCD. One of these things I remember that was sort of odd was where I'd have these images/videos stuck in my head. It was hard to get them out and it would be hard to imagine anything other than these.
The one I remember most vividly was when I was around 8-9 years old. I'd have this video i for some reason thought of that I couldn't help but keep accidentally obsessing over and playing over and over again that was related to my veins. Basically the veins on my wrist were really huge and bulging, and I'd then slit them with a razor blade and watch the blue blood leak out, and then it'd repeat. Another I remember (when i was a bit younger than when I had the previous one) was what I think was a still image of a tinker bell doll with brown braided hair that was stuck in my head. I remember this one was very distressing as I legitimately could not imagine anything other than this. Every time I tried to imagine someone else, it would quickly revert back to that image, and considering I was still a little kid with a very large imagination it was extremely annoying and frustrating.
I still sort of do this but it is a lot easier to control. Thanks for any advice
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So I have been on anti depressants for a bit over a year, life changing results.
However there are side effects and they have to do with my pp. Anyone else on here have the issue described below. How did you overcome it?
Backstory: So when I first started taking my meds, my super high sex drive remained, but my pp was confused and forgot how to cum, and short of filming pornography, ain’t no one got time for multiple hour banging sessions.
Eventually my pp and I got our shit together and it rediscovered how to achieve yoghurt with sufficient effort.
Aaaaaand that was about the time when my sex drive went out for a pack of smokes.
So my partner and I stopped having sex, we had a newborn so it wasn’t happening anyway, and I didn’t have any desire or stamina to sort my self out.
After about a month or so, I went to the loo to take a piss, and instead of urine, this super sticky, mostly clear stuff comes out my pp.
I had jizzed some weird ass jizz. No orgasm, literally felt like peeing, but it was jizz my friends.
Now it just… happens… at random intervals, every couple of weeks or so. And I know at some point I will be at a urinal next to some other bloke and I am not going to pee, but jizz into the trough.
So if you are taking a piss at a public bathroom or highway rest stop and the person next to you shoots his shot at the trough, don’t judge, it could be me or someone on these same drugs.
Unless they make eye contact, then it probably was.
So back to my question as I need to fix this before my fears come to pass, how do I fix this? Anyone else with similar experiences?
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Hi everyone. New poster here. I joined because I can't find any TV shows or movies on Netflix that aren't triggering. It seems like everything nowadays is related to violence, darkness, fighting. Maybe comedies and chickflicks would be better for me (never really been a fan of either, mostly just watch action) but I find now that shows like Stranger Things, Riverdale, Vampire Diaries, Cloak & Dagger, Jessica Jones.. really bother me at some point or another. So, what shows and/or movies have you all found enjoyable that don't trigger you? I probably need to order some DVDs, maybe of things I used to watch in the 90s before my trauma...
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So I went to a Meetup today - they seemed like a nice bunch of people. As usual I just cannot function in groups though - I have no idea when to talk, when to join in, how to start a new topic of conversation etc. I attempted a few times to join in and it just fell flat, or the talkers there carried on with their topics, so I ended up just sitting there and listening (which I don't mind, but kind of pointless going there for that). Towards the end I noticed one of the people there give me a weird look, almost of disgust it seemed, and so I became even more self-conscious that I was just sitting there not contributing. I stayed a tad longer, then made my excuses and left, and felt depressed all day afterwards.
This is pretty much the story of my life. At uni I joined about 15 societies, and all of them were complete fails. On very rare occasions I've managed to get into the swing of things and enjoy socialising (though have often relied on the crutch of alcohol), and even more rarely made friends (though often these were short-lived affairs which quickly fizzled out). Almost always these 'friendships' are with 'odd one out' types - possibly Aspies, foreigners, LGBT etc.
Honestly, I'm at the point I've just stopped caring about trying to connect with other humans. Asperger's makes it impossible anyway.
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Hi I'm (15m) not doing so great. I feel like an awful person all the time now. It kinda helped my obsession because instead of fighting the thoughts I just accept them instead usually. I dont have many friends im fat and honestly not remarkable. I've been feeling this way for a long time but just not to the same extent until these last couple months. Im thinking about suicide alot but I've come to a realization that I just can't do it. The pain is one thing but the finality of death makes me sad. I tried to write in my journal some kind of note but I got to sad with it all and threw the note away. I'm not diagnosed yet but im trying to get real professional help but its just taking so long. I think I'm suffering from real event ocd and pocd you can look back at my post history to see my reason for the real event ocd part. At this point I can't even play games today rn because I've just been(for the past 3 days) inside playing games so much and not eating right that it hurts to sit down.(chest pain.) I feel bad and I wish that I was normal and better than what I am now. I've never been the perfect student or kid or person. Others around my age are better than me. They have normal problems while I have to argue over and over im not a pedophile. I'm just putting words onto something to vent a feel and to feel a bit better. I'm watching squid game at the moment so thats nice. (still on ep 1) Thanks for reading.
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Before diagnosis i was in a near constant state of rage and depression, but I was still hopeful somehow. I told myself that, despite the trouble I was having, there was no tangible reason for me to be so far behind everyone else - that it was just a matter of time before I caught up and started experiencing life the way the people around me seemed to be. But then I get told I'm on the spectrum, and now it feels like there is a very real, very tangible (and in some ways objectively insurmountable) reason why I'm stuck in this dark, bitter, endlessly self reflective place. Not only am I unlikely to ever catch up, but its becoming more and more clear that I'm running a totally different kind of race. It makes me feel trapped and impotent. All I want is to feel normal. To have one day where in I'm not confronted with my own inability to exist. Before my diagnosis those things seemed unlikely as hell, but there was still a possibility. Now there is little to no hope. Its probably better that I know. But it feels so final. Feels like the rest of my life has been decided- I'll just desperately trying to ignore my darker, more insular instincts for the rest of my life. This is my life now. Oh fuck. This is my life. There is no cure. There isn't even a legitimate treatment. This is just my reality, regardless of how alone or hopeless it makes me feel. I know I will have to accept this on order to move forward but it seems so unfair, and it makes me so angry... I don't know if I have a point. Life is pain - this fact is universal - but I would love it if I had more in common with the rest of the world than my capacity for hurt.
P.s. to anyone who bothered to read this through, I apologise for any spelling of grammatical errors, I was improvising in the midst of q personal crisis and didn't have the heart to proof read.
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I feel like my PTSD has never been constant. Instead, it’ll flare up. Like I’ll go a month without symptoms or with minimal symptoms. Then I’ll suddenly go through a 2 week period where my symptoms are more severe. I started a new psychiatrist who says he doesn’t think I have PTSD. Which sounded alright to me because I don’t want this fucking disorder, right? But also I know it’s gonna end up flaring up again. Is this normal?
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My apartment burned down at 5:00 am one day last august and I lost everything, even my cat. I was placed in another unit on site, which is very close to identical. I am moving somewhere else in June and I literally can’t wait because being in the same complex is making me a nervous wreck. They could not determine the cause of the fire but I’m sure it was faulty wiring. Plus, the managers and the way they treated me after was absolutely terrible and resulted in more trauma. The unit being close to identical makes it difficult not to think about the fire and I can literally see my burned down unit when I go to get my mail. I was given tons of donations from people, which was amazing, but it was way too much and it makes me disassociate because nothing feels like mine. I was in college when this happened and because of having to be in classes and all the stress from what was going on, I was not able to organize anything. I don’t know where anything is and it is a two bedroom and the room in the back is overflowing with shit. Despite being so happy to move I don’t have any motivation to go through things. I have always had problems with getting rid of things because of how I was raised (but that’s a different story) and I can’t clean little by little I have to do a whole room at once, I don’t know why I just can’t it feels wrong and makes me super anxious. Thinking about going through all makes me feel like I’m going to throw up and I feel like I can’t breathe. When the apartment burned down I had to move to a hotel for a while and then eventually to the new apartment. Moving is associated now for me with all the trauma. The task seems to big and I just don’t know what to do. Thinking about makes me want to crawl in a hole and die. Does anyone have advice on what to do?
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I'm new here and I would like to know how to properly get treated for PTSD. I'm aware of having it but I don't know which type it is. So far I've dealt with it since 2011. It peaks throughout the whole month of December, which is a bad time for me.
I really want to know what to do 😣
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How do you do ERP when your main fears are homelessness and going to prison?
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Empathy is a word that gets thrown around all the time in regards to autism. It's time we looked at this word, and how it is damaging our community. Empathy is, "the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference." It is, by definition, not possible for an NT to understand autism from within the frame of reference of an autistic person. Our "lack-of-empathy" is a direct mirror of their own by virtue of semantics. It should be obvious that we are all incapable of feeling empathy for things we have no direct experience with. Thats why we use the word 'sympathy'; to describe these things. I feel empathy more strongly than anyone I have ever met. Every time I see a homeless person, I buy them food. Whenever I could help a customer I bent over backwards to do so, eventually losing my business do to the greed of my NT customers (NTs will gladly take the shirt off your back if you offer it). When it comes to being dishonest and manipulative, I have only ever seen this behaviour from NTs. Lying causes anxiety, so I don't do it.
I doubt every aspie is as void of empathy as they have been led to believe. This community gets shit on constantly by NTs who, as far as I can tell, are the actual problem with society, humanity, and community.
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Hey all, long time lurker; first time poster. Looking for a little insight into anyone else’s experience with this? Not sure if Im the only one but I never had any tics before starting adderrall, and while on it they were very uncontrollable. I would CONSTANTLY get made fun of or asked why im doing it; since being off the meds I still have them, though not as much (they are more prevalent when very anxious/stressed or tired) I dont get asked about them anymore and my S/O said she never even notices them. Ive been off it since I believe around 2014-15 and while the tics have gotten better, it still bothers me. so. f-ing. much. ESPECIALLY when they are bad, it literally interferes with the task at hand, and it’s almost like a something I need to do a certain amount of times to continue on with what im doing. anybody have any helpful advice or just a similar experience to share? T.I.A
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I cut myself so often now it seems. Almost everyday. I usually do it at night, right after I get back from my walk. But today, I did it early. I added so many to my left leg that I don’t even have the energy to try an count it. I haven’t even cleaned off the blood, it’s just sitting there. Cutting doesn’t even make me feel better but I know I deserve the pain, I deserve much more tho. Feeling this way sucks, tired of wanting to kill myself. The urge to grab the gun beside me and walk outside and blow my brains out is getting to me. It’s crazy how easy it would be. Not gonna do it right now tho, not part of the plan. Plus, I’m pretty sure that’ll be a shitty Christmas present.
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I have a severe phobia of throwing up so I’ve never tried EMDR because I’ve seen multiple people say it’s made them sick, does EFT cause this strong of a reaction too? Ironically my PTSD is from an HG pregnancy among other things so my phobia is part of my hyper vigilance but also the reason why I’m too scared to seek help 🙃
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Im taking immediate release focalin for newly diagnosed ADHD. I’m on a low dose once a day getting ready to go to twice a day Friday . I must take IR medication because of gastric bypass surgery last year so extended release focalin is not an option for me.
Sorry about rambling but I was wondering if anyone has rebound effect when coming down from their meds? I’ve noticed I do much better now with the medication. Will definitely need to increase dosage but as it wears off I start getting irritable, emotional, sort of blue ( not depressed ) and a little sleepy. It’s can last for 1 to 3 hours. Then I’m back to my normal non medicated self.
Do you all get rebound and how long can it last ?
Maybe once I go to 2x/day it will be better.
Any comments or suggestions would be helpful
Not looking for medical advice, just something to talk to my pdoc about in 2 weeks.
Thanks in advance !
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When I went to college I was focusing on everything but school. Eventually I was dismissed and I bounced from job to job learning to code on the side. That was 8 years ago and I finally got an AS in CS at another school, but it was so difficult. I've always had a problem with the structure of schooling. I love to learn but school destroys my ability to do things that would progress me further in life. I'm 30 and I still live with my mom and my uncle paying low rent in NYC. I was hit by a car earlier this year and still have yet to get the surgery. I feel like nothing compared to my friends and I spent a lot of time grinding but it hasn't panned out yet. Anyone here feel the same or had a similar experience?
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depression
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Does anyone look at a knife and wonder if you will get the pain relief when cutting. I heard that why people do it.
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depression
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I didn't think my mental state had improved *that* much. But since starting both antidepressants and group counselling sessions with friends, I've apparently been doing much better. I'm learning to be patient with myself, and I actually have found myself being positive towards myself a few times.
I decided to make a change to my medication (at least, to discuss it with my doctor), and filled out a form online to arrange an appointment. I got to the part that asks about how you've been doing the past two weeks. I realised my scores for that same questionnaire were much higher just a few months ago - I was answering things like "almost every day" to "I feel lost and hopeless".
I just wanted to share the progress I seem to have made. I don't feel fully content, and not exactly happy, but I have pushed away the darker parts of my mind. I'm kind of proud of myself, if that's okay to say.
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depression
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Does anyone else feel like this at times? Mostly stems from me thinking i haven't "gone through enough" to have ptsd. Which is strange because i know if someone else went through what i did i wouldn't think the same thing. Is this just a strange way of coping?
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ptsd
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A month ago I had surgery. According to my mother, upon waking up afterwards, I was extremely worried I acted rude, apologized to the nurse just in case, and told her I appreciated her and the rest of the staff. The nurse had to reassure me I didn't say or do anything wrong. I don't remember any of this.
My mom thought it was funny, and I can see the humor in it. But I think it's mostly just sad.
There's a general notion that people coming off of anesthesia reveal thoughts and secrets about themselves. I guess that's mine.
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aspergers
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What i mean is, that i don't like / remember to clean my house or go to shower when i should, and people just have to tell me to do those things many times, so i'm wondering if it is part of the asperger and/or ADHD, or am i just a lazy person?
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aspergers
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for example: i will have an intrusive thought will i’m wearing a particular shirt- and now that shirt is associated and contaminated with that thought. or i will have an intrusive thought while i’m drawing, and now my sketch book is contaminated.
or i heard a word that makes me uncomfortable while touching a blanket, now my blanket has that word attached to it and something bad will happen if i touch it again.
sometimes this will prevent me from touching the particular object for weeks or even months. i usually get over it eventually though.
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OCD
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The one person i thought loved and cared about me and gave me a little bit of hope in life apparently thinks im the most annoying and inconvenient thing in her life and i make her want to die. I gave her everything and never got anything in return, i constantly put my own problems behind her just to focus on her but im the worst person to enter her life now. I don’t know what to do anymore. She saved me and i now i feel completely broken and worthless and it sucks because after all the hurtful things she said to me i still want to apologize and i dont even know what for. She told me she never wants to see me again and she even told my new job i start next week I’m a crazy stalker and I don’t even know why she would make up lies like that it honestly destroys me that she would even do that. Now im back in the same hole i was in when i met her but now even more broken than i was. I feel like I’ll never trust again..
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depression
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Beware this is a long post and might have a lot of errors as im not a native english speaker
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I once read that one of the things that a human most needs is aprecciation, I realized that that was true, I think it all started after quarantine, but I was entertaining myself from the idea that I was sad, Youtube, Reddit, Discord, Videogames etc, all of those made me feel good, but after time, I just said fuck it, and left all of that, and when I left, I got time to think, and realized that none of those actually made me happy, and started to realize that i felt like shit, every morning when i woke up, I would start to ask myself, why do i have to live another one of these ?, When it started I just said to myself, "I would never kill myself" and it started going down to "Maybe" and then where I am now "A knife its too painful but if I had a gun" If i had a gun i wouldnt be here, and now i have to be careful for the day in which I decide that I dont care, life is more painful, so, why do I feel like shit ?, is one of the questions that I asked myself in these months,and I came to the conclusion that, nothing made me really happy, Videogames, Family, Going out maybe ?, No none of that made me feel happy, I havent been happy in a long fucking time, its like I forgot what happiness was, because I cant even remember if i ever felt actually happy, even if I had all the money or whatever in the world, i would still not be happy because nothing in this world seems like I want it, but I knew I had to get out of this state as soon as possible, so I made a list, I called that list my "Dream" its a list of things that would maybe make me happy if i made them, and, at least I can be proud that im doing it wonderfully, I deleted all my games, I deleted all my social media, I stopped watching youtube, and this is the first time I use reddit in months, because I deleted my old account, I realized that, one of the benefits of hating it all was that I could abandon anything for my dream easily, so I started learning programming, doing exercise, reading books, etc, Its the biggest effor I have ever made to do something, but, I still wasnt happy, but, I knew that I would not be, this list of things, this "Dream" is just fighting for the possibility to be happy, I started analysing my list of things, and I realized, that I just wanted to be someone who I, myself, could be proud of, but if one of the things that a human most needs is aprecciation, then, that could be one of the reasons why I was not happy, and, it is, Its hard to do all of this, Its hard to do all of this efford and no one there to tell me how big of a step I made, it might be selfishness but in fact, it is, I want there to be someone that aprecciates all of this, all of this that im doing, hell I might only be 16, and maybe someday Ill drop this because I only have been doing this for 2 months, but do you know how hard it is to do all of this efford, and that no one recognizes it ? Tell it to your friends maybe, if I had true friends, I have 4 friends, 3 of them which I consider to be more of relatives, because they only talk about themselves, and I listen, I am proud of them for the things they do, no matter if it is small or big, but I want for once to be the person that is being listened, I wish my friends actually asked me how was my day in a sincere way, it feels like im doing all of this alone (and I am) the only thing that keeps me from doing it is that list that I made, but even then, if i keep going down the way I am, maybe someday ill do it
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depression
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I'm so sick and tired of my obsessions and compulsions because of the country I'm from it'll probably take fucking years to see a professional about my ocd so I'm trying to take to doing exposures by myself in the meantime but it's not working because everytime I try every thought I have I know very well is an obsession and so it doesn't work and the ones I don't I just give into my compulsions because they feel so real, I don't know what to do, please help me try and succeed in doing my exposures because they're just so physically and mentally taxing.
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OCD
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I know that sounds kind of funny, but it’s been a big issue over the last week. Pride and Prejudice has always been my comfort movie, and lately I’d been watching it once a month. My depression and anxiety have gotten really bad lately, so I started watching it a little bit more.
Last Friday I watched it as a comfort as usual, but then on Saturday I watched it again, then Anna Karenina because it’s a cycle I get into sometimes, and then PnP *again*, and I’m not sure why. On Sunday I had a lot of plans for the day and a lot to do, but I genuinely could not stop thinking about PnP, and watched it again. And that’s been the cycle all week.
It’s constantly on my mind and I don’t know what to do with it. I keep thinking that watching it will make me feel better and get it off my mind but it just makes it worse. But every time I think it will be different, and it isn’t.
I know this sounds so mundane, but it takes up at least 2 hours of my day, everyday, and I just keep quoting it and thinking about it. I feel like if I could just find a way to get it out of my head I’d be fine.
Does this happen to anyone else? I feel like I’m going crazy.
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OCD
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I don’t have the strength to say no. I just want to be gone. I’m not good enough to prevent absolute catastrophe. I’ve lost everything about myself. It’s time to go.
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depression
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So ever since I joined this sub, I’ve felt like my struggles are validated (even though I’m not diagnosed, I’m still trying to see if I have it or not). I’ve come once again to see if others are struggling with this too.
I’m back in person. I understand the material and everything, but when it comes to tests, I find that I often don’t read the whole question or make extremely stupid mistakes that cost me the entire mark.
Does anyone else do this? Is there a way to get better at paying attention to small details?
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ADHD
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Everything was going good for the most part and then out of the blue she told me she wanted to break up to "find herself", how I didn't make her feel like my priority and that I wasn't really intimate in the relationship. I'm not a fan of touching all that much due to my sensory issues but a hug, kiss, cuddling sometimes was fine to me but that wasn't enough I guess. I don't really know how to process this. Into confused. I loved her. I'm so heartbroken and I don't know what to do. I guess I'm just venting...thank you for reading. If you have any advice it would be much appreciated.
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aspergers
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before i even start this i want to say, this is not me looking for therapy on the internet and that i’m speaking in past tense.
i know that more often that not, especially for the women on here, that the diagnosing process is the longest and most invalidating time. I’ve never felt so hopeless. There were times were i thought it was never going to get better. you don’t even realise how lonely that it makes you feel until everyone around you doesn’t understand why you’re so frustrated and you’re the only one who can help yourself.
Especially when you jump between different specialists and struggle to be taken seriously.
i just want to know, what is your experience with getting diagnosed and did anyone else become really quite depressed? for a while i was going to bed every night feeling useless and not worthy of anything. I didn’t see a point in living with the knowledge that i was never going to get help. was anyone else the same?
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ADHD
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Me and my doctor are planning to try Intuniv+stimulant, most research are focused on Intuniv combined with an extended-release methylphenidate or amphetamine, I currently have a good response with Dexedrine IR (mediocre experience with vyvanse and all methylphenidates). Are the any safety reasons why Intuniv should not be combined with instant release stimulant medication? Any resources help a great deal!
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ADHD
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This is mainly a rant because I have some feelings I need to get out and I am going nuts.
I have medical PTSD from my own traumas regarding surgery. Now, my mom is facing a procedure tomorrow that is arguably worse than the one I ever faced. And I know she's terrified but trying to hold it together for me, because she doesn't want to scare me. I feel so bad and told her that she doesn't need to worry about me, now is the time to take care of herself.
I can't be there for her surgery (Stage 2 bladder cancer we found a month ago, they are removing the bladder), for obvious reasons but also no one in my family wanted me to go. I understand, I'd be a burden. I just feel the need to help my mom I just don't know how and I just feel hollow. I don't know what to do. I am so scared of thinking of tomorrow that I am just medicating with some Ativan. And that makes me feel hollow..... but that's probably better than the sheer terror I otherwise would be feeling.
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ptsd
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since i was a kid i’ve had horrible thoughts about hurting me and others, i never told anyone mainly because i thought it was normal or i was crazy. but i opened up about those thoughts to my psychiatrist and she diagnosed me with ocd. i feel like no one understands me and i am all alone. i hate this feeling and i hate more the fact that i have a mental disorder and i’m going to live like this for the rest of my life.
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OCD
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I switched from T-Mobile to Verizon back in mid-September. As part of the promotion, you could trade in your current device and it would essentially pay for the entire cost of the new iPhone that was released. However, to claim this promotion you were supposed to send in your trade-in device no later than 30 days from the purchase date, which would've been 10/18).
Of course, I kept putting this off day after day after day. I didn't end up sending the phone back until this Monday, a full three weeks late. I totally thought I was going to have to pay an ADHD tax and lose out on the promotion, but I just got an email saying they inspected my phone and my trade-in value will still be applied!I don't know how I got lucky (I read on forums that they won't accept it even if it's a couple of days late) but I'm taking the win and will work harder to not put myself in that position again!
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ADHD
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When I am not in school, and thus don't have a dedicated lunch period, I often forget to eat.
I am typically not hungry for lunch due to the medication, so I don't really have a natural reminder, but I am usually okay with forcing myself to eat if I remember.
Or sometimes I will remember at like 4:00, suddenly feel hungry, eat and mess up my schedule for the rest of the day.
Does anyone else do this? Anyone have suggetions?
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ADHD
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Like the title says, my doctor has ADHD as well. He understands the symptoms and the struggle.
But perhaps more importantly, he understands the irony of having to remember how many refills it's been and when you have to come back to the office when you have a brain that doesn't like to remember stuff.
Whenever I call for a refill and I'm on my last one, I always get told that the next refill will require an appointment. This way I can put a note on the bottle and/or set a calendar reminder to do so.
(Plus he's just a really cool dude. You'd have to be if you dress up like Loki to show off your own private practice opening near Halloween.)
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ADHD
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Hello r/OCD! I hope everybody is staying healthy.
I’m not diagnosed with OCD, but I don’t really know where else to talk about my problem.
Anyways, I have trouble typing. But not just writing my thoughts, but looking at my thoughts? I won’t use words that I don’t like to look at, I need to make sure that my sentences align, I’ll capitalize random words. I’ve resorted to capitalizing my essays to avoid getting hung up on the way a word or sentence looks like. It’s incredibly debilitating, especially with my coursework. I need to set aside ample time to complete simple tasks and assignments, and I can’t really explain my problem to my friends or family.
I was wondering if anybody has felt or heard of others facing similar problems? How did they get over it? I’m starting to get concerned. Really appreciate it.
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OCD
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Apologies for the roller coaster. Buckle up.
Until high school, I was pretty normal. Had friends, helped my dad in the yard, did some sports. Then I turned 14. I was balding by about 16, had pretty bad acne, and had a terrrrible stutter. Like every word. Everyone wondered why I didn't talk and acted like I dont exist. Ya I basically couldn't talk so why bother. I wasn't exactly desirable. I got pity invites from some people at my church who really just felt sorry for me. Great people. But who really wants to deal with an honestly probably 2/10 acne ridden kid who was essentially mute half the time. Until college, I had 2 genuine friends we will call Ryan and Sam. Ryan is a brother to me. I have known him since i was like 6 years old. In high school, my church friends were the cool guys. Just people magnets. Everyone wanted to be there friend. I threw a party at my house and didn't invite Ryan. It really hurt him, he was always loyal to me, I wasn't loyal to him. After that, he stayed loyal. He was still my best friend, still a brother.
Buckle up butter cup
Fast forward 6 years. Ryan and I are 24. I am depressed asf and with covid have no realistic way of meeting women. Have bright idea. Who do I know who is single. Know one single girl who shows up at my church I'll call Debbie. We grew up together, I know she is amazing and perfect. Hit her up on Facebook, hey wanna hangout and meet my friends? She says yes. Wonderful girl. I ask her out, we date for a while.
I can feel my soul leaving my body as I write this.
Debbie has this gorgeous friend. I really like her friend. Text Debbie hey, I like you, but as a friend.
I hate myself for saying that. It gets wayyyyyyy worse.
I really like Debbie alot. Do genuinely kinda feel weird, I've known this girl my whole life and I don't have any real sisters. Take Debbie to go hangout with my friends and me, on car ride, she asks why I don't want to date her.
I can barely type through the tears. It hurts. So badly .
I make up some bs about how her and her sister were the closest things to sisters I had growing up. A little bit of truth, but not really. Pretty much lie to her. I did feel weird but just wanted to date her friend. Threw Debbie away on a lie.
Oh boy, it gets worse
So, Debbie and i talk and she acts happy I said that. Says I dont want to date you.. Honestly I think there was some merit to that, but she was interested enough in me to go meet my friends and ask to begin with. It was salvageable.
Remember Ryan? Oh boy.
So Debbies friend Sheila hits me up on Instagram. Says she wants to go hiking. I like Debbie, she's hot. Take Ryan (still my best pal), Sheila and some other friends hiking. Turns out Sheila has a crush on Ryan. Not me. Uhoh.png
Get to know Sheila through Ryan. Really don't like Sheila. Alpha female, 5'9". I'm like 5'6". No clue why I didn't see that sooner. She's always gotta 1 up you. She's annoying. Debbie is best friends with Sheila, so see Debbie from time to time. Debbie and I stay friends and talk some. Debbie comes to my house for a few cookouts. I love everything about Debbie. Why was I so blind. Why did I lie to her. Tell her how I feel. She says nah bruh we aren't compatible. I hate myself. Why did I mess up so bad. Why was I so blind. Proceed to be so depressed I can't work or do much of everything. I always think about Debbie. I knew her my entire life, I know pretty much everything about her. Perfect match.
Fast forward 5 months. Ryan and Sheila literally get married. I see Debbie a few weeks after at a friend's giving. Tell her you stand out, I was wrong, etc. She is more gorgeous to me then Sheila by a long shot. What was wrong with me I wonder. Debbie says she will always think of me like a brother. Realization occurs. She will never love me. What little interest she had, I shattered. It hurts to much to think about. Now, I can't even go to events with my best friend since 7 anymore. I can't even go to his house, because he is literally married to Sheila, who is best friends with Debbie. Debbie is at every event they have. I have a hard time connecting with anyone now because it hurts. I threw away a perfect match because of a pretty face on someone I don't even like at all. I want my best friend back. I want Debbie back. She was one of a kind.
Tldr
I lost the only girl I have ever genuinely liked ever, and my very best friend who was a brother to me, on a lie because I thought I could could better with a girl I don't even like.
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depression
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I set up a cute lil tasks chart with basic things (clean your teeth, drink water, go outside.) My short term memory is shockingly bad so I'm hoping this helps.
At the end of the week, I'm going to count up how many tasks I did overall so I can "earn" rewards for myself.
Buuut I'm having trouble thinking of things that would actually motivate me so I'm trying to crowdsource ideas haha.
All I have is "get a massage" but that's the top tier bc it's $$$. And I don't want it all to be food because I'm trying to be more healthy.
So, what do YOU do to reward/motivate yourself for doing a boring/unrewarding task? Or to put another way, how make dopamine for brain?
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ADHD
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TW: Pest infestation
Hello there! I am a 25 yr old female living with adhd and moderate ocd. I rent an apartment and within the last couple months, I’ve started having an issue with cockroaches in my kitchen. This started after a water leak that wasn’t properly taken care of by maintenance. I have been staying on management to get it taken care of. Being a renter, I’m not able to make the repairs or call pest control myself as outlined by my lease. I’ve done everything I can think of within my power to help.
My question is, have any of you ever had to deal with something this and how did you cope? I cannot stop stressing about it. I’m spending hours cleaning and it’s really affecting me negatively.
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OCD
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I’ve never been diagnosed with ADHD but I’ve seen a lot of things about ADHD that I relate with. One thing is out of sight out of mind. I have simply just forgotten that people and things exist. I forget that I have brothers and sisters because I don’t see them. So sometimes my gf will be at work and I just forget she exists.
This leads to today. I was looking through my drawers and found a jacket that I haven’t worn in awhile and my gf asks “why haven’t you worn that to work?” And I responded with “I forgot I had this because I haven’t seen or worn it in awhile.” This then lead me to tell her that I have literally forgotten that I have siblings and then I said sometimes I forget you exist. This made her extremely sad and upset because she has bpd and thinks that she is forgetful or that I don’t love her anymore. Now I feel horrible and hate that I told her. I know it’s not her fault she thinks that way and I support her no matter what, but it makes me feel so bad about myself because I don’t even know if it is ADHD. I hate making her feel bad about herself but I just want to talk about what I struggle with.
Please no one hate on her it’s not her fault she thinks that way. I love her so much and she loves me it’s just hard sometimes.
Side note I want to get tested but idk how or even where to start.
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ADHD
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I'm sorry that the fact that I haven't done my laundry in a month inconveniences you. I'm sorry that the fact that sometimes I struggle to figure out how I can even begin to structure my day and most days I don't even end up doing something productive inconveniences you.
Im tired of being told by my parents, friends, and even therapist (who I legitimately love, btw) that I just have to get over it. Yes I realize ADHD is mental, and a lot of it is on me to overcome. But having a constant mental battle in my head for the simplest things, whether it's getting up to do something I genuinely want to do, or even use the bathroom, and most importantly, do any sort of work, is tiring. I'm tired of hating myself for the fact that all of my clothes smell because I haven't done my laundry in so long. I'm tired of being told by my parents that it's entirely y fault, and that I just need to tell myself to do it. I'm tired of my medication not working.
I'm tired of my mom helping me get medication and then getting MAD at me when I tell her anything wrong with it.
I'm tired of people in my life viewing everything I do or don't do is laziness. I'm tired of having all of the mentally tolling struggles of ADHD to deal with, and then having to be invalidated every 5 seconds. I'm tired of people fake supporting me with my ADHD, and the second that it inconveniences them they question the validity of my inconvenience.
I make sure to never fully blame ADHD for anything I do or don't do, but I can't even mention it. My mom acted like she went through hell to get me meds and a diagnosis when in reality it was as simple as a 30 minute visit and a prescription. I'm also tired of her then leveraging her exaggeration perception of the process as a weapon against me, preventing me from discussing any further problems I have. Like my meds not working.
I'm just over it all. I want to be normal. I want to watch youtube videos all the way through. I want to be able to wake up and stick to a plan. I got so frustrated with myself two nights ago that I cried because I didn't do my laundry, and yesterday when I had the opportunity to I never did. I'm tired of all of it.
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ADHD
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I have been very tight on money the past few months, and very well aware of it. I recently got a bit of extra money and was so glad for the help; it would allow me to live with more ease and start building my savings back.
By the time I paid my credit card bills (which weren’t much more than my usual monthly payments of insurance and groceries), and subtracted for upcoming rent, I wasn’t left with much.
Despite being hyperaware of all of this, I could not stop myself from coming home and immediate spending nearly $150 on things I don’t need.
WHy do u betray me, brain? * cries in ADHD*
Are you able to make sure you have enough money for things you need, have some savings, and that you don’t spend with reckless abandon?
Do you have any tips to share?
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ADHD
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I look at my pictures and I don’t know who that person is. It makes me physically upset. I feel like I look different. I think I’ve always felt prettier but only to be disappointed.
I don’t have an inflated ego. More low self esteem. So I don’t know why I’m surprised. But I look at my pictures and ask who is that.
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OCD
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I just wanted say that today has so far been good. I took my little brother out for lunch and had a picnic at a nearby park and just chilled. I then took him to get a slushie nearby and went to a different park in the center of town where their was a lot of people. It seems the best way for me is social interaction because I feel so good. Besides me feeling good, the reason for the post was to tell you all that is possible to be happy. Getting out of your comfort zone always fucking works like a charm. Get out there and live!!!!
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OCD
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Context: It was mentioned to me by my Dad that one of his acquaintances heard that I fix certain things and would like to send me his so I can take a look and potentially fix them. I replied to my Dad that I'm by no means a professional but know enough to get by. He didn't actually ask and I didn't actually say yes but the feeling after the conversation was that I'd pretty much agreed.
So today, a week later, I get a text saying the things are being dropped off tonight at 7pm. No contact from the person who actually wants the favour, who I know from over 20 years ago but haven't spoken to in all those years. I was planning just to chill tonight, not to have to greet/catch up with someone I haven't seen in decades and feel obligated to fix their shit right away. So I replied saying the things can be dropped off there (Dad's) and I'll collect them tomorrow morning. I just know he and my Mum will now be saying I'm 'difficult' and 'awkward' even though they know I have ASD and I explain to them regularly what this entails. I really shouldn't feel guilty for wanting a heads-up in advance and putting a boundary up when mine weren't respected or even acknowledged. Does anyone else encounter this problem?
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aspergers
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Hi yall!
I‘m very happy and excited to announce that tomorrow I‘ll have my first appointment at the psychologist‘s to get diagnosed.
I‘ve been struggling a lot lately and finally got enough courage built up to talk to my doctor. He didn‘t want to prescribe any medication/diagnose me given that it‘s pretty hard to interpret the symptoms right so he admitted me to a psychologist.
I am pretty certain that i have ADD. If i look up the symptoms online i can check pretty much every box. Nevertheless, I‘m actually pretty scared to „fuck“ up there. Anything i need to know before going? Should I write down what I‘m experiencing and how those symptoms affect me? Should I just go there?
I‘m currently a student at a university and know that a lot of students abuse drugs used to treat ADD/ADHD. I‘m kinda scared to be labled as that, even though I‘m actually struggling. In addition, I‘ll probably forget half of the thing I want to tell him/her if i don‘t write them down.
I‘m really appreciative of any tips u could give me :)
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ADHD
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I've been struggling to brush my teeth for so long as I never thought I was gonna make it past 19 and now I'm nearly 20 and I have braces that need to come off too and theyve been starting to hurt so bad but I'm scared since my bill isn't paid off and my teeth and braces are in such bad condition and I don't know what I'm gonna do
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depression
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Last week for the first time in a very long time, I laughed genuinely but it suddenly turned into crying.
I don't even know what I'm crying about anymore. I fall asleep crying, I cry as soon as I wake up. I can't do anything without suddenly bursting into tears nor do I even have the strength to do anything. When I'm not crying, I feel so miserable, I can barely breathe.
I can't seem to stomach anything. Whatever I eat I throw up.
I can't stand silence.
I know I can't kill myself because I care too much about my mother.
Medication is actually the last thing I want to do but how long can I go on this way?
I just want some semblance of happiness.
Will medication be better?
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depression
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Hi everyone, I am a 20 y/o female who just reached out to her primary doctor about wanting to seek counseling. I am seeking counseling because I struggle with POCD and other intrusive thoughts. And after reaching out to my doctor, I flipped the hell out because how am I supposed to tell a therapist about my intrusive thoughts without them thinking that I am that person? And then I got stuck in a loop hole of wondering if I was doing this to seek validation that I wasn’t a monster or if I truly needed help. I was just hoping someone with the same problem as me could shed some light on how to approach therapy with this problem. Thanks!!
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OCD
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I finally got the courage to seek help and found a psychiatrist that I want to make an appointment with.
The thing is I'm scared of what she will ask me. I tend to start crying when talking sensitive topics and I'm afraid I'll burst into tears when she will ask me something.
How was your first appointment?!
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depression
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So I'd taken my first dose (20mg) yesterday morning, and other then feel a bit hyper and nausea it was fine. Only problem, I didn't really sleep at all last night. Will this go way over time? I suffer from very poor sleep as it it (usually from rapid thoughts) so we were hoping this can help with sleep as well as my adhd.
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TLDR; I can remember a lot about my childhood, but there is a huge gap between the ages of 4 and 5 when my trauma occurred. I know this is normal, but I just realized how much I was missing last night and it feels like I’m missing a complete part of my person. Does anyone have any advice as to how to process this realization? I know there is no one specific thing that helps everyone, but anything is useful.
When I was younger, my parents would argue a lot. My dad would never listen to my mom, he always seemed to treat her like she didn’t know anything. Anytime my mom would try to call him out on how he treated her, he would make himself cry and play the victim. It all came to a head, when my dad was afraid that my mom was going to leave and take me with her. He called his dad (who did not like my mom because she was “too dark” and had different (more progressive) beliefs) and they called the cops on my mom. I was four, I had been at my cousin’s house. I would be picked up and brought to my grandparent’s where my parents were waiting for me. Not even a mile away from my grandparent’s house, the cops pulled us over. I remember them asking my parents to step out of the car and after a long time I remember only my dad getting back in. Everything after that starts to blur. I know I was brought back to my grandparent’s house and I remember crying and screaming and I didn’t want anyone near me, I just wanted my mom. I found out from my mom yesterday that this occurred right after Christmas. After she was taken (she was not arrested), they just brought her to the station and her brother picked her up. I had no idea of this at the time. There is a whole section of my life after that moment I can’t remember. My mom was gone for 3 months after that. The only memory I have of those 3 months is when I got to visit my mom again in secret after my dad realized I wasn’t doing well. I turned 5 during those 3 months, I have no memory of this. I don’t remember school, or my grandparents, or my dad, or any of my dance classes (which I loved). After those 3 months, my dad let her come back, but she was locked in the house and my grandparents could not know she was there until 3 months later. I also have very little memory of this period. After this all took place, my dad told me not to talk about it. I still had no idea why any of it happened. It wouldn’t be until several years later I would ask my mom and find out many of the details I had missed out on or just could not remember. Apparently DHS had gotten involved, and the case worker (who talked to me at school at one point and I do vaguely remember that) who was in charge of the case closed it after looking into the situation and realizing that my mom had not done anything wrong. I know my dad was frustrated and said some things to the case worker because I’ve been told that the worker told him he needed to “grow up” and that my grandfather should “mind his own business.” There is so much more to this. My dad has constantly made me feel like I was wrong for feeling how I do about all of this and even has tried to make it out as though he had “no other choice.”
I could go on, but my main thing is this. I thought I remembered a lot from my childhood, and I do. I can tell you all about every birthday I’ve had starting with my 3rd, except my 5th. I can tell you about the only time I had to write lines for a teacher when I spoke too much in class in 2nd grade. I can tell you about sitting in the loft in my 1st grade classroom with two girls that were new that year and what their names were (Elvia & Sky). I can remember so much, but I realized last night that I’m missing and entire portion of my childhood. I’m not really sure how to process this. Does anyone have any tips for dealing with this realization?
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i’ve had an adhd diagnosis for as long as i can remember but i’ve always kind of ignored it. i’ve been mostly fine in school outside of ignoring some assignments while doing really well on others. lately though i’ve found it super hard to make myself do much of anything. everything feels overwhelming and i feel like a lazy bitch over it. right now i’m sitting on the floor on my phone while my classmates fill out a form i can’t do and hoping no one notices me. is this adhd or is it my fault that i’m like this
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Sorry in advance lol This is probably gonna be long-winded and laced with profanities :/ I just needed to vent.
February of this year, my brother-in-law was going through a separation and needed a place to stay. I've known him since he was a little kid (his older brother married into my family) and we've always gotten along, so I invited him to stay at my place in exchange for $300 a month.
We hadn't spoken to each other in nearly 3 years. When he arrives, I tell him that I've been recently diagnosed with ADHD. He says, "Duh." We have a laugh. He knows me pretty well.
I didn't ask about his marital issues cuz frankly it's none of my business. I just wanted to give him enough time and space to get his shit together and do what he needed to do. An extra $300 a month doesn't hurt and I figured it shouldn't take him too long considering he's a full time nurse.
Fast forward to early August: I've finally found a med that works for me and I've been on it for 2 months. I'm doing better and people are noticing. I can almost see a light on the other side of years of frustration and falling short. This is the best I've felt about myself in a long time.
On the other hand, my living arrangement was growing less comfortable by the day. Little inconsiderate bullshit had been piling up and I was coming to the end of my rope. Fortunately for him, he couldn't have picked a better time to try my patience.
I attributed a lot of his behavior to him being young (he's 26ish?, I'm 35). It was never anything major, just stupid shit like not cleaning up after himself, using my stuff, etc. He mentioned in July that he may have found an apartment, but it fell through. At least I knew he was looking.
Then one morning I go to take my meds, and notice they look a little low. Sure enough, I count and I'm 7 short. What the actual fuck? My wheels start turning. I begin to do the math. Who's been in my house and when? Who knew where/what my medication was? When I added it all up, there was no other possible option but my brother-in-law.
My inner circle is pretty small. I don't keep people around me that I don't trust and there are few things that I have more distaste for than a liar or a thief. Never would I have brought him into my home if I had thought for 1 second that he would steal from me.
He was away for the weekend. I immediately text him.
"I promise i didnt touch them sorry"
I inform him that I know who comes and goes from my house, and that I can't think of who else it could have been. He stops texting. Monday is gonna be awkward.
I think he was gonna try to blame my friends husband, or his niece? They had been here mid July for my birthday. I didn't know him very well as my friend had only recently moved back after living out of state for a while. This was my 2nd time meeting his 11 year old niece.
The only other people who had been in my house over the past month were my brother in law, his mother, my immediate family, and my closest friends.
None of that actually matters. My script was filled after my birthday in late July, narrowing the suspect pool down substantially.
Monday, he arrives after work and goes into the kitchen. I stand in the doorway and crunch the numbers. It all adds up to him. My grandmother didn't take them. His mother didn't take them. My sister wasn't even in the same room as them. A burglar certainly wouldn't break in, take 7 of my pills and nothing else. Unless he's had people in my house that I didn't know about while I was sleeping, I can't think of anyone else who could have done it. And if that were the case, he'd still be the one responsible.
I asked if he could think of any possible scenario that I hadn't considered. If he had another theory, I'd be happy to hear it. He did not.
Everything about his demeanor was incongruent with that of someone who was being falsely accused of something. He backed himself into my cabinets as far across the room as he could get from me, lowered his head and shoulders and crossed his hands in front of himself. He looked like a guy who just got caught trying to suck his own dick.
His affect was flat and his responses were glib. It actually kinda creeped me out. He offered nothing but "I didn't do it." "I'm sorry." "No." "I know it doesn't make any sense." "I'm sorry.
Dude's apologizing an awful lot for something he didn't do, and that's coming from someone who apologizes all the time.
Now that I'm thinking about it, a cologne of mine went missing a few months back. I'm a lady, but I like a masculine scent from time to time. When he moved in, I put some of my more manly smells in the medicine cabinet and told him he could use them if he liked. One day I went to use one in particular and it was gone. Now I'm not the best at keeping track of things so I figured I had put it somewhere else and forgot about it. I have yet to find it.
Me: "While we're here, I'm missing a cologne. You wouldn't happen to know anything about that, would you?
Him: "I don't wear cologne."
Me: "That's not what I asked."
Hold up.... Is dude really trying to gaslight my nose right now? I know he's left my house on a number of occasions smelling like a man-whore. I noted what he was wearing several times.
I've come to the conclusion that dude must straight up think I'm a moron. This is a major miscalculation on his part. I may be an idiot, but I'm no fool. 2+2=4 and as Judge Judy says, if it doesn't make sense, it isn't true.
"This is where we stand. You say you didn't do it, but I believe you did. I need you to find a place by September."
He left that night and only came back 2 times to get his things. Miraculously, he found an apartment within days.
If I hadn't been medicated, this exchange would have went very differently. I'm liable to do all manner of terrible violent thing when provoked and I've kicked people out of my house on the spot for much less. I am, in fact, not the one.
After he found a place, I sent his soon-to-be-ex-wife a message. I wanted her to know that he didn't leave of his own accord, that I had kicked him out for stealing from me. She said that's crazy cuz every time they'd got together during their seperation he had stolen from her. Fun.
I would later come to find out that he had been doing all sorts of skeezy, conniving shit to an assortment of people.
More than a month later and I'm still discovering things that are missing.
So there you have it. Idk lol hopefully that was coherent. I just had to get it out.
I must say I'm glad I was on my meds when having to deal with somebody stealing my meds. I was a whole lot cooler and calmer than I would have been otherwise. He's witnessed this first hand so it's extra funny to me that he'd try me.
I'm sure this is really common. Just sucks. I'll be much more careful from now on.
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I wish i could be like everyone else and my instrusive thoughts dont end up being true. Almost all of mine have, i just think my life is going to get worse and worse nothing will ever improve
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🚫⚠️Trigger warning contents of rape⚠️🚫
Backstory (relavent):
Romance was the name of the game growing up. From the age of 4-8 I was sexually molested. When I moved into 3rd grade to a new state and school, a year later, my neighbor violently raped me from the age of 8-15. Ergo, ptsd trauma. Throughout my life, guys would use me to get their T off of themselves whether it was "passionately" kissing me, holding me hostage, molesting me etc. Later throughout college I experienced something similar though relationships. One relationship resulting in $750.00 later of constant plan B's and resulted in at least 1 (most likely at least 3) pregnancies that I terminated via machines at hospitals like MRI, ctscans, x-rays, etc (anything to kill a zygote).
Another relationship ended badly because after having sex (which I wasn't really into), the guy said he felt like he was raping me so he dumped me the next day (after getting really pissed off at me *right* after sex).
Then I got I to several unhealthy and manipulative relationships.
Ergo: I have been diagnosed by *several* (way more than 7) therapists, doctors, and psychs together, that I have PTSD, High Anxiety and depression.
Point of this:
Whenever I have sex, especially the first time with someone. I get "triggered" per se, and my body completely locks up like an arachnid and then my mind is stuck in the memory of being violently raped. After I come out of it, I'm very hazy, my head is like a dense fog, I can't think straight, and I can't talk right or remember anything. This lasts for a few hours.
Is this a trauma attack/reaction or ptsd attack? Or panic attack? What's the difference of each?
And how do I deal with this? I've been in therapy with various therapists (who have get to help) since 2017 and yet I have no way to fix this
Also sorry if this post isn't making much sense. I'm still coming out of a fog
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Hello guys,
I was wondering if you are familiar with the situation that something good happens to you, and then intrusive thoughts start to kick in and somehow ruin the whole situation for you.
I have been accepted into med school a few days ago, something I worked a lot for, and now I constantly have thoughts about certain things I did ruining my life and career. Do you have any advice for that?
Thanks
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OCD
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Do you have some tips that can help with intrusive thoughts and false memory ocd
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OCD
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I'm constantly doing something that makes someone mad or puts me in a far worse situation than I ever think it would without realizing it and it's hard to handle. Have adhd and some level of autism and regularly stressed but on occasions I get too comfortable with people and it just goes south a lot and I feel being on places like twitter, tik tok, 4chan etc. might be making my impulses far worse. Sometimes I talk so much to the point I don't realize I say something wrong and fucked up but also there are moments I get called out on things I don't even remember and generally freak out.
Once made a joke about wanting to hurt someone to another person for breaking something of mine and stated I was playing and months later the person I joked to was telling people I'm a violent psychopath even though they didn't know the person I was talking about.
Recently I got blocked on everything the other day by a friend when I mentioned casually I went to this specific person he didn't like for advice not knowing how serious their feud was and I actually started crying when I realized he blocked me texting him how I didn't know shit between them was serious.
This was bad: I was showing a female friend stuff i saw online when I ran into her working at our college that was a bit too pornographic and thought it was funny/weird thing to talk about talked about it with another friend and showed him and we were laughing. Thought we were fine but she was upset and complained to the staff and I understand now thinking about it because I got a plain email saying not to bother people while they're working and thought that was for something else but another female friend who has looked out for me told me she complained to her and classmates after reporting me and that that woman isn't my friend because she could've just told me since I've known here for 3 year and even used to regularly give her rides and hang out.
And that was from a few weeks ago but the conversation between me and my other female friend was today and she is telling me I didn't do anything wrong since I thought me and that girl were close and that she could've just messaged me and talked because I've briefly ran into her twice and we said hi both times but I was in a hurry both times so I didn't think she was mad.
I keep acting stupid or fucking up and that last one I actually understand her reporting me but my friend says she should've just talked to me that I should stay away from her, she was the one out of line and that I'm lucky to get a slap on the wrist because it could've been far worse as this isn't her first round of accusing some guy of shit and that I'm clearly oblivious and wouldn't have done it again if she talked to me but after fully understanding what I did I would like to go to her and apologize. Should I do nothing or tell her I'm sorry next time I see her?
After that conversation today I've been feeling physically sick and anxious to the point where I want to throw up and this is a feeling I get in a lot of theses situations. I also relate back to the fact almost every big mistake has something to do with my phone recently that I say and act far worsr when I text, post on my phone or even pull up and save weird things I see out of too much interest on anything I see that I wouldn't do on my desktop. I'm so grossed out with myself how do I stop this
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ADHD
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Does anyone have a period of time without many or almost any compulsions, and it makes you wonder if you even have OCD in the first place? This just happened to me and it kinda stressed me out bc what if I’m just labeling things as ocd but they really aren’t. Like I haven’t had bad compulsions in a while or thought about it, can ocd come in waves?
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OCD
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I don’t know if it’s because I was sexually abused as a child and always felt I had to hypersexualiZe myself or if it’s mainly just because of my Enfp personality. Probably a both/and type of situation.
I know as an ENFPs, I can be very passionate, childlike, kind and enthusiastic. I was at a support meeting with three men and I became really engaged in the topic. I started making empathic, embodied, and affirming, passionate sounds while saying “yes,” “mmm,” and “‘mmmhmm.” At one point I said mmm and maybe it sounded like a moan or something because one of the men looked up and kinda looked aroused. During the meeting, one of the men lustfully stared at me which I shut down by turning by body away from him. He looked mad and sad during the rest of the meeting and ignored me. And then when we left the meeting two of the men checked out my body parts and seemed to have crushes on me. I haven’t been to a support meeting since and avoided them.
I feel guilt and shame (which I know I shouldn’t) like I brought on the sexualization because my passionate nature may have aroused them. I also then felt unsafe once I realized the men are interested. I wonder if they thought my passion was flirting? This happens to me a lot where I feel men get the wrong idea and feel like I led them on and they feel rejected/sad/mad when They find out I’m not really interested. Then I feel guilty like it is my fault for being sexualized. So then I’ll hide my personality especially feminine traits which is not good to do either.
Has anyone experienced this as well?
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ptsd
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So for awhile I played these virtual games . And I was addicted to it because you can sell and buy virtual “items”. They had virtual rooms were u can chat . They had random rooms like “rave spot” “sugar daddy” “daddy club” “singles” etc... I would join them to seek entertainment . And if someone flirted I ignored them or would say thanks etc. but I fear going in there was wrong or me playing it . My bf dosent care but I do .
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OCD
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Hi i am a 15M since I was little I have been conscious about blinking constantly to the point I blink to much and I try to do it the right way but can't but lately I have experience the need to breath like blinking but with breathing I experience it constantly like I fell that I'm breathing and from that point I need to start breathing by myself is not longer automatic and I start feeling like I need to fix the way I breathe like If I was breathing to slow or not enough but I just can't usually I have developed a need to have something in my hand or touch something or do a movement with my feet or jaw and that is like inevitable I had never talked with anyone before and the time I did she told me to just breath like try to controll my breathing but like I have been doing that for a long time ago like in random moments I start getting the feeling of like breathing manually and that I'm doing it wrong please if someone can give me some advice I will thank it.
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OCD
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Is it another way to say obsessive compulsive disorder? I have tried looking it up but it just comes up with disorder and not ideation
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OCD
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hey fellas, got a bit of an embarrassing one today, hence the alt
So I'm a 16 year old guy, and I've been on 30mg Vyvanse for \~2 years now, works pretty OK. However, I've been trying to have sex with my girlfriend for a little while, And while I don't have a problem getting hard, I do have a pretty major problem staying hard. Additionally, I've been unable to climax, or even really feel good? It's to the point where I have to not only fake orgasms, but any sort of pleasure. As a result, I've been avoiding sex, And it's clearly Hurting our relationship.
I've only just recently equated this to Vyvanse, prior I was worrying that it was entirely my own fault since I unfortunately discovered porn at a fairly Young age. However, I'm not a frequent masturbator, so I'm pretty sure that's not it. Either way, if anyone could leave any advice, point me in the way of any resources, even tell me I'm delusional for blaming the meds. Anything helps
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ADHD
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Hello All. I have complex PTSD. I was diagnosed at 14 and am now 27. I'm looking at going to college (an online program) and am trying to find funding outside of the general scholarship applications. Do any of you know of any scholarships for people with PTSD? I haven't found any that aren't for veterans. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but my PTSD is not combat related so I dont qualify for those.
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ptsd
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TW for sexual assault/abuse
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hi reddit, longtime lurker here! i’ve (26F) recently started sleeping with someone new (29M) and he’s really great. truly the most communicative guy i’ve ever slept with, is always asking before moving onto new sexual acts, checking in during, asking what i like, and even talks about how the sex was with me after. he takes sexual rejection super super well, does not make a fuss whatsoever. i really appreciate this because both of my previous serious relationships were both abusive (first repeatedly assaulted me, the second gaslit and sexually coerced me) and most sexual encounters I’ve had have had some serious missteps (i.e. non consensual choking is super common these days!). I also have OCD, which causes me to obsess about sexual encounters and assault/abuse. this leads me to my current state. there were a few things during sex that this person did without asking that i wasnt crazy about. in one instance, i was blowing him and he pulled me up for a kiss. he then pushed a bit on my shoulders to indicate he wanted em to continue. i didnt like this because it reminded me of my ex who would forcefully push me down while i was actively struggling against him and i hadnt even indicated if i was interested in blowing him yet. i really think these situations were very different, especially with the new guy i was already blowing him and was happy to continue. the other things were he lightly and very playfully and gently slapped my arm/boobs. to me this is no different from a playful smack on the ass, not an indicator of a dangerous, violent partner. however, as i stated above my PTSD and OCD can make me hypervigilant and obsess. i know its fine to dislike things during sex, i’m not trying to convince myself that i loved that stuff, but i’m always afraid that something someone did is sexual abuse. i have obsessed about whether i was being sexually abused by every single sexual partner i’ve had since my initial abusive relationship and do not feel that way about those encounters now. i just really like this guy and i’ve never had someone care so much about my experience during sex. what do you guys think, does this seem like my hyper vigilance or am i giving this guy too much credit? any and all advice is appreciated!
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ptsd
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My 15M son is going through it all. Depression, anxiety, not eating or sleeping and now a huge self induced cut down his arm.
Even with being home during covid shutdown, he did well. Back in FT school and he has a newer group of friends. He still hangs with some of his older friends but there’s a few girls that are new. He said one is helpful because she “goes through the same stuff” and so he feels comfortable sharing with her. But the more I heard her name coming up, the more I saw his issues coming up.
He had a bad 8ish months summer going into 5th grade (freshman now). Started with not eating going into anxiety then depression. Met a great therapist and things got better. Past few years was just anxiety issues that we all learned to work with and help with.
He started off this school year really well. Then I started hearing about these 2 girls added in with the friend group and now all of these issues are back along with cutting.
Could it just be him? Am I wrong to worry about these friends? He says they encourage him to talk to me & school counselor, but the timing of it all makes me question things. He is back with his therapist and we’ll start Zoloft this week
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depression
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Alright, so I’ve just recently been diagnosed with ADHD, and that diagnosis has led me down a path of ‘what other mental disorders might i have’. Which means that I’ve been educating myself about OCD as well, and it really seems to match what I’m feeling.
I’m wondering now how my (diagnosed) ADHD might influence my (undiagnosed) OCD. For example, I don’t clean my room very often because of my ADHD, but when I do I have to do it very thoroughly or otherwise it’s just not good enough for me. I personally think it would make sense for ADHD and OCD to both overlap and also go against one another.
Does anyone have any experiences with that, how OCD manifests when you (also) have ADHD?
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OCD
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So my interest level in various subjects varies a lot. When I’m hanging out with someone who’s interested in something it can be infectious and I get interested too, even if it’s not normally something I care about. Depends on the topic though, sometimes I still have zero interest in it.
Anyway when it comes to things like school and work, I’m usually either interested in something to the max or I have zero interest in it. It makes it hard to be a well-rounded person because if I don’t have any interest in something I can’t muster any energy to improve in that area.
Does anyone else behave the same way? How do you all deal with this?
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aspergers
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Warning…. This is a long one 🤦🏽♀️
I was diagnosed with ADHD at the beginning of this year. I also had a baby at the beginning of the year. I was breastfeeding so I started on a low dose of Ritalin. I absolutely hated it. I stopped breastfeeding last month so I started 20mg of generic adderall extended release. The first day was great. I cleaned my home and felt great. The second day I sat in bed all day. I didn’t have any motivation to do anything. I continued to take it for a few more days. I was able to do some cleaning here and there but nothing compared to the first day. I noticed it would start to wear off around noon. When I was supposed to be getting baby to sleep for a nap, I would get in bed and not have the energy or motivation to do anything else. I decided that I wouldn’t take any on the weekends. I guess I didn’t want my body to start a tolerance and I just feel like everyday that I take it, the less I feel it’s actually helping me. Yesterday, my doctor tells me to start taking 2 20mg capsules of generic adderall in the morning. Again, the first day of the 40mg I felt great. I again was able to clean and get a lot of stuff done. Today is the second day of 40mg and I was able to get get my kids to their appointments but now I’m sitting on the couch. Doing absolutely nothing. There are two baskets of laundry next to me and for the life of me can not make myself fold them. I was able to eat a snack. I’m just so confused. Usually when I feel like this, I stop taking it for a few days. Then when I take it again, I have a great day of getting a lot accomplished. I don’t know what to expect. I don’t really understand how one day I take it and I’m able to but the next day I can’t even formulate a plan to do anything that needs to be done. This is my first time posting here. I’m sorry for the rant. I just have no clue what I’m doing. I have no idea why I feel like this on a medication that is supposed to help me. Has anyone ever dealt with this? Does anyone have any advice? I feel so defeated but thanks for reading 😔
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ADHD
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