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_velvetthunderr | [removed] | 2021-12-02T02:57:27.000Z | r6wy5u | 1 | 1 | ADHD | How to tell parents? | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6wy5u/how_to_tell_parents/ |
[deleted] | [deleted] | 2021-12-02T02:51:00.000Z | r6wtf5 | 101 | 150 | ADHD | I got prescribed mood stabilizers for ADHD | 0.99 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6wtf5/i_got_prescribed_mood_stabilizers_for_adhd/ |
yAyeetgonnadelete | [removed] | 2021-12-02T02:50:20.000Z | r6wsy8 | 1 | 3 | ADHD | I am upset | 0.81 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6wsy8/i_am_upset/ |
Rare-Back-1615 | So I’ve been on my adderal for about 1 1/2 years. I used to be 25mg extended release in the morn and 10mg in the afternoon so I didn’t crash at work. I live quite a stressful life being a diesel mechanic in an understaffed shop working 11 hour days 6 days a week.
Recently stress has been hitting me hard along with sometimes deep depression. My doctor decided to drop my adderal dosage to 10&10 and put me on bupropion. I handled the adderal dose drop surprisingly well (no severe withdrawals besides a couple headaches).
But now I feel it’s gotten worse as well m losing tools at work forgetting everything which stresses me out more and it becomes a vicious circle of overwhelming lack of emotional control and depression and I don’t really have a good stress coping mechanism and I believe it caused me to gain quite the amount of weight which adds to my already low self esteem.
I don’t want to be on adderal forever and I want to know if anyone has had these impairments and if they found a successful medication to help.
**My doctor won’t change meds now until I see a psychologist but none in my area are taking patients in house or virtual and the nearest one that will is a 45 minute drive.
So I have to wait until a spot opens.
Sorry for the long rambling Novel, hopefully it makes sense. | 2021-12-02T02:49:20.000Z | r6ws8l | 1 | 1 | ADHD | What meds do you take for ADHD/Depression | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6ws8l/what_meds_do_you_take_for_adhddepression/ |
[deleted] | [removed] | 2021-12-02T02:35:06.000Z | r6whhm | 1 | 1 | ADHD | Is anyone else sensitive to sounds? | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6whhm/is_anyone_else_sensitive_to_sounds/ |
imbadatusernames_47 | ###Edit: Feel free to comment but I’ve definitely had my question sufficiently answered by now, thanks everyone!
know this is a broad question because there’s different forms of stimulants with different release times, but the consensus from some people is absolutely no caffeine ever. Is that true? Strattera just isn’t working, and she said we’d discuss further options at my next appointment.
I get constant bad headaches due to some health issues and Excedrin is by far the best OTC medicine for it, that’s Tylenol and about 65mg of caffeine. I also have a soda habit that I should kick regardless, but I’m more worried about this.
*But yes, I will ultimately ask my psychiatrist for a yes or no. I’m just looking for personal anecdotes from people here before my appointment on Friday* | 2021-12-02T02:25:44.000Z | r6walk | 488 | 612 | ADHD | I’m likely going on stimulants, do I likely have to cut all caffeine? | 0.98 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6walk/im_likely_going_on_stimulants_do_i_likely_have_to/ |
Candid-Comparison760 | I don’t think of my memory as a physical place, but I more like a mist that comes and goes. It can carry different things, and even take different shapes.
For example:
I need to take my dog to the groomer, and then I could go to Walmart. I need to go there to pick up more hand sanitizer and I could use gloves for when I make hamburgers. I also should schedule a Covid booster appointment. When do I have a day off? Speaking of shopping, maybe I should check Amazon for any deliveries.
I mean, I know that probably sounds familiar, but I was wondering if my ‘mist’ analogy made any more sense to anybody over a mind palace. | 2021-12-02T02:23:29.000Z | r6w8z6 | 5 | 2 | ADHD | I saw a tik tok today about a child describing her mind palace, and it got me thinking… | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6w8z6/i_saw_a_tik_tok_today_about_a_child_describing/ |
imabettafish | This applies to everyone, even if you don't take meds you must drink plenty of water. But for the love of God, DRINK YOUR DAMN WATER!
I'm gonna share my intake but before that... **TAKE CAUTION:**
**Yes, you can drink too much water**. There's this thing called "hyponatremia" where too much water distrupts the body's electrolyte balance.
Some points:
* Essentially the level of sodium in the blood is too low and your cells start to swell which causes the brain to swell and can cause death.
* This is part of why sport drinks like Gatorade and Powerade are used in high intensity sports because they have electrolytes (essentially sodium + other minerals) *and* have a hydrating aspect.
* This does not mean you must drink sport drinks and salt water all the time.
* I'm assuming a lot of you get plenty of sodium and other essential nutrients in your diet, but this is just your fair warning.
* Do your research on healthy water intake. **You should only be worried this will happen to you if you're drinking water excessively and avoiding salt/sodium.**
* TRY NOT TO THINK TOO HARD ABOUT THIS I JUST DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO HYPERFOCUS ON DRINKING WATER AND THINK ABOUT DRINKING WATER TOO MUCH, YOU REALLY DON'T HAVE TO THINK THAT HARD IT'S JUST WATER, BUT FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE IMPULSIVE AND WILL READ THIS AND THEN GO TRY TO DOWN 10 L OF WATER WITH GOOD INTENTIONS (trust me I think we've all experienced that type of over-indulgent impulsivity), PLEASE DO NOT DO THAT.
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The reason I made this post:
So for those of you who might not be drinking very much water, watch your hydration. When I'm dehydrated, it feels like my meds aren't even working.
I've experienced this a few times where I just feel off and forget to drink water. Today, I remembered I had not had water in a few hours and was feeling rather thirsty.
I usually drink about 4-6 L per day, but today I've kind of been slacking.
I took a huge sip of water (more like I downed 600 mLs super quick, what can I say, I love water), and BOOM. It's like my meds were good as new!
I don't have a source to cite but I just know proper hydration is a HUGE part of not only your overall health but the effect of your medication.
Water is awesome!
I'm a subscriber of r/HydroHomies (not super active), but for all my other water lovers out there who haven't visited this yet, you might chuckle at some of the stuff you find there.
DRINK YOUR WATER (but not too much lol). | 2021-12-02T02:17:36.000Z | r6w4k6 | 26 | 35 | ADHD | Reminder to STAY VERY HYDRATED with your meds | 0.94 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6w4k6/reminder_to_stay_very_hydrated_with_your_meds/ |
IveGotIssues9918 | It was the day that I got into my dream college.
I was the typical gifted child; I was reading and writing by the time I was 3, and it wasn't until 4th grade that I got below a 90 on any assignment ever. But, even though I was always the subject of much praise by my teachers, they also always said that I had organizational problems. My desk and backpack were always a mess. On my first grade report card, which I still have, my teacher wrote that I "did not participate in class discussions but had the right answer when called on'' and "appeared to be daydreaming most of the time". I first read about ADHD in a pamphlet at the doctor's office when I was 8, and immediately began suspecting that I had it. I brought it up to my parents, but our lives were descending into chaos at that point, with my mother's behavior becoming more and more bizarre, and nothing was done about it.
When I was in 4th grade, my mother was diagnosed with a brain tumor. I also began to get bullied at school. My academics suffered, mostly in the form of missing or incomplete assignments. I moved school districts in 6th grade, and on my first progress report at my new school, I was nearly failing science. Before I started 7th grade, I decided that I was going to return to my former glory. My average was in the low 90s for the rest of middle school, and I was even inducted into Arista in 7th grade. But all those projects I got As on were done at the absolute last minute, and I didn't even know the meaning of the word "studying". I remember many Sunday afternoons trying to physically force myself to do the homework I'd been putting off all weekend. I missed many opportunities that, unbeknownst to me, could have changed the trajectory of my life- I didn't study for the SHSAT until two days in advance, and was *12 points away* from getting into my first choice high school. I ended up going to my second choice school, where I continued to succeed by pulling off amazing feats at the last minute. There were so many essays that I started writing at 10 PM the day before they were due, so many tests that I did all my studying for at lunch literally minutes before I took them. Sometimes I didn't pull it off, and I had assignments that I turned in a few days late or just didn't do at all, but there were enough assignments in total that those zeros didn't have a huge effect on my average.
By the time I started 10th grade, I was preparing for college. My introduction to Reddit was actually r/ApplyingtoCollege (on a different account), and like most of the applicants on there, I was shooting for the stars. I decided on my dream school, an Ivy League institution, after taking a tour there on a whim my junior year. For the next 10 months, everything I did was in pursuit of that dream. But I still could not overcome the heavy shackles of procrastination. I almost didn't get to apply to my dream school, because I waited until the day they were due to write my supplemental essays. I literally sent in my application 7 minutes before the deadline. I had to take my SATs later than expected because I procrastinated registering for them, and I still didn't study for them until the last-minute panic set in (although I did take a prep course for several months, which is the reason I scored a 1490 out of 1600). Just 3 weeks before the happiest day of my life, I didn't complete an essay that I had months to do. I sat in class with tears in my eyes as everyone turned theirs in, thinking that maybe I wasn't ready for college at all.
I wasn't expecting the happiest day of my life at all. Everything about my application process had been last minute, and while part of me dared to dream, I was pretty much certain that, while I *might* get into one of my lower ranked schools, my dream school was a lost cause. The results came in at around 3:30 PM on December 1, 2017, but I, true to form, procrastinated looking at them. I always did this with big news, prolonging the suspense for as long as I could, but I had *another* application for a *different* college that was due that day that I'd waited until the day before to start, and I wanted to finish that before I received this potentially life-changing news. At around 6:05 PM on December 1, 2017, I finally checked my application status. Even writing this four years later, I can feel the pure shock and elation that I felt in that moment. I called my entire family to tell them. When I got back to school and delivered the news, I was the talk of the school. I felt that this was the vindication of everything I'd been through, that my entire life would be on an upward trajectory from that point forward.
But the demon of procrastination was still there.
I started sabotaging my time at my dream school from basically the moment I got in. After I was betrayed by my high school "friends" that spring, I checked out of everything, whether related to high school or college. My school has "pre-orientation programs" where incoming freshmen can stay on campus for the summer, but I didn't apply to any of them. When the time came to pre-register for courses, I did not set up an appointment with my advisor until the second to last day of the pre-registration period, at which point it was too late. I had to pick up courses in the free-for-all after everyone else had picked theirs. One of those courses was Intro to Calculus, which I had never taken, but everyone else was taking a math course and I hadn't given myself time to think about which courses I *wanted* to take. When classes began, I realized that I couldn't understand calculus for the life of me. I horrifically bombed the first two exams and ended up having to withdraw from the course (on the deadline), which meant that I didn't have enough credits to participate in sorority rush. I was barely getting by in my remaining three courses- there was one course that had video assignments, and I finished the first two on the morning that they were due and didn't do the third one at all. My "finals" my first semester were projects, and I locked myself in my room, not eating, on the days that they were due in order to frantically finish them with hours to spare. The final outcome of my first semester was three Bs and one W.
After I got out of the hospital during winter break (I was having odd neurological symptoms similar to those my mother had before she was diagnosed), I vowed to turn my life around. I even decided on my major while I was in the hospital. My second semester courses required a lot of reading, which had always been hell for me- I spent many nights taking notes in the study lounge in my dorm, watching the crowd thin out as the night wore on, until it was 4 AM and I finally gave up. But I was still going to my classes, paying attention, trying my best. Until my neurological symptoms came back. I spent a week paralyzed in pain and fear, too weak to venture out of my room, wondering if I really was dying. I went back home for an MRI that weekend and ended up being readmitted to the ER. Thankfully, there were no signs of a brain tumor or anything else abnormal, and I was able to return to school the next day. But the downward spiral had been set in motion. I never recovered from falling behind that week, but if I'm honest, I didn't try. I had many conversations with my professors where I promised to make up the work, then promptly went on and forgot all about it until the next conversation. I kept lying to myself that I still had time to turn it all around, but I never did. My professor in the course I was doing worst in told me there was no way I could avoid failing, and I went into a panic, trying to do well enough on my finals to pass my other courses so I wouldn't be in danger of being "dropped". I had three final exams in a period of 24 hours and did *all my studying for them* in the 3 days before the first exam, after a semester of barely paying attention. I managed to pass those three courses, but failed my other two, so I went "under review" by the committee on academic standing to see if I would be "dropped" from the school for a year. Miraculously, I wasn't, but was put on "deferred drop probation".
I came back to campus the following semester prepared to do whatever it took to not lose the greatest opportunity of my life. I devised an intricate note-taking system and study schedule. The first week of the semester went off without a hitch, but that first weekend, my friends all blocked me without warning. Several days later, they cornered me in my apartment and accused me of something awful that I had no memory of doing. I was left hurt and confused and scared, but even though the schedule I'd created fell to pieces after that (because I had devised the schedule with them so we could study together), I white-knuckled my way through my probation semester the same way I white-knuckled my way through high school- by being lost in my maladaptive daydream world, pulling off amazing feats at the absolute last minute (I got a perfect score on the final for the intro course for my major with *one day* of studying), and believing that the future would be better. Having lost the people I spent my freshman year with, I spent my weekends alone in my apartment, but I was looking forward to *finally* getting to rush a sorority after I got off of probation. The promise of that sorority, and of a twenties that was nothing like the misery of my teens, was the only thing that kept me going. I got As in all my courses that semester, including the two I had to retake after failing. But as the new decade began, I was beginning to realize that that might not be enough. As I was preparing my schedule for my spring semester, I started crying because I didn't want to go back. The first weekend of the semester, as I was trying to do my homework, I was overwhelmed with a feeling of frustrated depression. I didn't want to do my work, but I didn't want to do any of my usual procrastination activities either. I didn't want to exist. Still, the second week of the semester I was at rush, trying to convince myself that it would all be better once I was in the sorority.
And I didn't get in.
I realized that I couldn't keep living like I had in high school, locked up in my room alone, having nothing but my academics, fantasizing about a better future that was never coming as life passed me by. I couldn't white-knuckle my way through the rest of my degree, or the rest of my life. The next day, I checked myself into the campus counseling center. I started using this Reddit- my "mental health account"- much more often, subscribing to a bunch of subreddits that pertained to me. I searched for a trauma-informed therapist, and within a month I was seeing one. And I was working with resources on campus to get diagnosed with ADHD. But my academics were suffering as I sought help. Again I was showing up to classes 30 minutes late, submitting assignments at 11:52 PM after barely skimming the readings. On my last day on campus, I showed up to class without the essay that was due that day. I promised my professor that I would make it up during spring break.
Little did I know that "spring break" would last two and a half years, if not forever.
COVID-19 was declared a pandemic that week. All my classes moved online. When I woke up on the first day of online class after my first lecture had already happened, I lied to myself that I could just watch it later. And that's what I did for the next two months, for all my classes. I showed up to take exams, which I got the answers for out of the books, but that was it. The virus claimed my grandmother's life in April, and my final was on the day of her funeral. I had frantic, tearful Zoom appointments with my academic advisor, as we discussed what could be done about my imminent failure for the second time. I ended the semester with one B, two incompletes, and two failures. Rather than be "dropped", I went on a voluntary leave of absence, intending to return in the fall of 2021. And I completely forgot about school. The incompletes turned to failures as I did absolutely nothing about them. I did manage to get several virtual internships while I was on leave, but I wasn't able to keep up with my work for those either- it was just like school, promising things that I never delivered. I lost one internship because of this, and ended up leaving the other because a conflict of interest arose with another job that I took (both the internship and the job were political in nature). That job, which ended in June, was the last job I had. I was supposed to be preparing to return to school, but I did nothing about it- missed the deadline to apply for housing, missed the deadline to pre-register for courses. I received the form to apply for return from LOA in early April, and did not send it back until *July*, the last day to be considered for return for the fall semester. On the form, I was honest with them that I was not at all prepared to return, and they granted me an extension. And I haven't. Done. Anything. Since. Then. I haven't even gotten a job, even though I know there's a labor shortage right now. I spend literal weeks on end not leaving my house, wasting my life on Reddit and YouTube.
Now it's been four years since the happiest day of my life. I still get emails addressed to the Class of 2022, talking about upcoming senior events. I don't even look at my school email anymore because otherwise I'll cry. The other day, I heard "Nothing New" by Taylor Swift while in the grocery store: *"How can a person know everything at 18, but nothing at 22?"* I was barely able to keep from bawling in the middle of the store, even though I know I didn't know anything at 18 either. I was just sort of able to pretend back then. Procrastination almost prevented the happiest day of my life from ever happening… and now, because of procrastination, I fear that December 1, 2017 will always be the peak of my life. | 2021-12-02T02:16:53.000Z | r6w412 | 6 | 4 | ADHD | Four years ago today was the happiest day of my life. | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6w412/four_years_ago_today_was_the_happiest_day_of_my/ |
redfezzedcoco | Hi everyone! I posted this once before and was very grateful for the feedback I received! I am going to link it one more time for anyone who didn't have a chance to see it the first time. Thank you all again!
My name is Correna, and I am a psychology undergraduate student at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky. For my senior thesis, I am researching adults with ADHD, and specifically those who are involved in online communities for people with ADHD, such as this group.
If you have 15-20 minutes, I would greatly appreciate if you would consider taking [this brief, completely anonymous survey](https://forms.office.com/r/9VmNgELw5F) to help with my research.
The opinions and perceptions of the members of this community will be incredibly valuable in this exploratory research. Thank you very much!
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Survey link: [https://forms.office.com/r/9VmNgELw5F](https://forms.office.com/r/9VmNgELw5F)
**Who can fill out this survey?**
Any adult (18 years or older) with a formal or self-diagnosis of ADHD, especially those who are involved in online communities for adults with ADHD, such as this group.
**How long will it take to fill out?**
Approximately 15-20 minutes.
**Will any personal information be collected about me?**
No identifying information will be asked of you, and the survey is considered anonymous. Although absolute confidentiality cannot be guaranteed with any online data collection, your responses will be stored securely and held in confidence. Additionally, you are free to skip any question.
**What is this research for?**
I am exploring the identity of individuals with ADHD and how they are impacted by involvement with online communities for people with ADHD.
**Who is conducting this research?**
Correna Tate, senior psychology student at Bellarmine University in Louisville, KY, in conjunction with faculty member Dr. Stella Kanchewa, PhD.
**Will I gain anything for participating in this survey?**
There is no reward or compensation for participation. The goal of the research is to bring more awareness to the ADHD online community in the psychology field. You may or may not be affected by the outcomes of the research.
**Who can I contact if I need extra help?**
Should you experience any discomfort during or after taking this survey and feel that you require additional help, you are encouraged to contact the Bellarmine Counseling Center at +1 502-272-8480, or to seek the help of a certified therapist in your region [https://www.psychologytoday.com/therapists](https://www.psychologytoday.com/therapists).
If you have any questions about the study, please contact the investigators, Dr. Stella Kanchewa ([skanchewa@bellarmine.edu](mailto:skanchewa@bellarmine.edu)) or Correna Tate ([ctate@bellarmine.edu](mailto:ctate@bellarmine.edu)).
If you have any questions about your rights as a research subject, you may call the Institutional Review Board (IRB) office at +1 502-272-8032. You will be given the opportunity to discuss any questions about your rights as a research subject, in confidence, with a member of the committee. | 2021-12-02T02:16:51.000Z | r6w40c | 0 | 3 | ADHD | ADHD & Identity Research | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6w40c/adhd_identity_research/ |
UrsusCinaedus | What the fuck?
How can you present someone with a problem (especially when it concerns laziness) and then not expect them to do something about it right now?
There is either *now* or *not now*, and *not now* doesn't ever happen, so if you want something done about it, **let me do it now!**
I've been down this path before, I know every possible outcome. Here's what's going to happen if I don't do something about it now.
I either:
Don't do anything about it now,
* but keep stressing about it continuously until I can work on it, knowing that if I'm not constantly thinking about it, I will forget to do it. Stressing about something for hours is very... well, stressful!
* and *don't* stress about it continuously, and then completely forget to do anything about it at all, making it seem like I don't care, which makes you even more mad at me and makes me go immediately into full-blown panic mode, plus brings us back to square one of you stating a problem and expecting me to not fix it immediately.
* fully realize that once again, this person is going to say "Oh but I don't mean for you to do anything about it now," and stress for days trying to play 4D chess figuring out the "appropriate" amount of work to do to fix this and how often to do it
BONUS: Each of these comes with added stress of knowing that you're already unhappy with me and I could be doing something to fix it, but instead I'm not doing anything about it.
Why won't you just let me take the easy route and fix the issue and make both of us happy, hmm?
Also: No I don't have an attitude. I'm not annoyed with you, I'm annoyed with myself for every single long-term person in my life eventually getting mad at me for not doing my part and me not even realizing I've been slacking. I say I'll do better to assuage your irritation knowing full well that this is going to happen again eventually no matter what, which makes me even more mad at myself. I can't hide my intense frustration when this happens, despite how hard I try (which also makes me that much more frustrated that I can't - yet another thing I can't fucking do right) | 2021-12-02T02:12:32.000Z | r6w0v9 | 2 | 3 | ADHD | Hey, here's this problem, yeah? Oh but no, don't actually do anything about it right now. | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6w0v9/hey_heres_this_problem_yeah_oh_but_no_dont/ |
Electronic_Heart1696 | [removed] | 2021-12-02T02:10:18.000Z | r6vz64 | 1 | 1 | ADHD | ADHD as a disability | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6vz64/adhd_as_a_disability/ |
spoontraveler | [removed] | 2021-12-02T02:08:27.000Z | r6vxsg | 1 | 1 | ADHD | Had phone in hand, remembered I was just looking for my phone, using the same hand I used my watch to ping the sound on it | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6vxsg/had_phone_in_hand_remembered_i_was_just_looking/ |
[deleted] | [removed] | 2021-12-02T02:06:11.000Z | r6vw42 | 0 | 1 | ADHD | What is adhd in your view and how does it differ from other illnesses | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6vw42/what_is_adhd_in_your_view_and_how_does_it_differ/ |
[deleted] | [removed] | 2021-12-02T02:05:12.000Z | r6vvfs | 0 | 1 | ADHD | What is adhd? How does it differ to other illnesses? Don’t wanna get misdiagnosed | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6vvfs/what_is_adhd_how_does_it_differ_to_other/ |
poorething | So this is my first ever Reddit post so in typical ADHD fashion I will completely over share with strangers, but bare with me, there is a true point to all of this. Just probably a little heavy on the character development and beating a horse dead and then some to make sure you understand where I’m coming from.
Also- there’s a lot of side notes in this but please give advice on any and all topics. I’m pouring my heart out with the hope to either get pointers for myself or help others who can relate and get answers too.
Okay - I (24/F) got diagnosed for the first time/sought out any sort of professional psychiatric treatment at 23 in April of this year. I adore my psychiatrist, he’s wonderful and I’m so thankful that I am finally validated in my diagnosis. I have/ am finding answers to life long questions of mine and I’m on the road to understanding myself better.
Since April 2021 I have found my community, somewhat of a support system, and so many like minded people, but I cannot afford to see my psychiatrist as often as I would like. I am planning to see him later this month but I am limited to mostly emails with him while in between visits for the usual things or one off questions- prescription refills, ESA letter for my apartment complex, and adjusting my dosage blah blah blah…
Right now I am experiencing and going through each stage of diagnosis grief and I have been really struggling for the past few days. I have been in a really overwhelming head space and last night I was flirting with the idea of s/h and wanting to just give up.
I suffer from RLS and it’s exacerbated with my ADHD. I have leg cramps and muscle pain and charlie horses to the point where my legs seize up for 10+ minutes at a time. I cannot sleep, or it will wake me up from my sleep. It’s painful and it’s been worsening with my anxiety and desk job. (I work from home and I tend to sit criss cross for 8 hours a day. I will hyper focus and not realize my ankle is being crushed or my knee is hyperextended or what have you.
I do exercise often, I stay very well hydrated (classic 3-5 beverage options at my disposal at all times.) Although, I do drink coffee pretty frequently, but not daily- otherwise I get very addicted and get horrible caffeine withdrawals. I take magnesium and potassium supplements, Vitamin D, propranolol at night(prescribed for anxiety - non addictive and an adrenaline blocker), I am anemic so I am going to start taking iron supplements but nervous because they can make some people sick. I’m trying to incorporate getting massages maybe every 1-2 months and I see my chiropractor fairly often.
Last night I was so overly stimulated and agitated trying to soothe my legs from my RLS that I just had a full breakdown and spiraled into this dark mental state. The concerning thing is that it only took me about 7 minutes to go from laying in bed in pain to hyperventilating and over-examining my entire life and feeling so insanely limited by my obnoxiously loud brain and intrusive thoughts. I felt helpless- I started going down this rabbit hole thinking about all my short comings and dreams I gave up on because of those hurdles that were just too high. Or the limitations that made me fall behind and I gave up because it didn’t come naturally to me. I felt like such an oxymoron.
This hyper-passionate person who loves trying new things yet is too scared to initiate the first step in the process to even see if they like it or not. This Jill of all trades- master of none. I looked around my apartment seeing this eclectic mish mosh of things I enjoy or that I used to enjoy but they hold too much sentimental value to get rid of even though I am no longer interested in it.
My belongings represent me but don’t reflect me accurately if that makes sense…
I felt like to the common eye someone would genuinely be so confused trying to understand me if they looked through my belongings. Like in a morbid sense- like if I attempt and I die and my things are gone through afterwards people would be so surprised by the things I kept, or hobbies I picked up for a month and then dropped like a hot potato. The realization that people don’t understand me or are not “like me” and also that I don’t even understand myself yet.
I’ve always been described as this giddy joyful, passionate, happy/sweet/silly girl with a zest for like and can do any thing she puts her mind to. But I don’t relate to that description- in my head I am Eore. I am negative, I’m melancholy and self criticizing. I am wildly insecure (which I’ve made a lot of progress on but still full of self doubt.) I’ve always felt this deep connection to being sad, like that is my normal resting emotion. I romanticize the beauty in sadness and it pulls me under a lot of the time. I have tried anti depressants in highschool- prior to knowing I had ADHD and was prescribed them by my PCP but they made me incredibly suicidal and I actually attempted at 17.
When I was 16 I got S/A’d and I dropped out of highschool. I got my GED because I was so anxious and depressed and struggled with completing school work to the point where I was failing a couple classes. I took the GED test without studying and passed it on the first try. I won’t ever look at the positive of that situation. Yeah I passed without even really trying but in my head I think “I didn’t graduate. I took the easy way out.” That is one of my biggest shames I carry. I felt this societal pressure to achieve that, wear a cap and gown, make your parents proud- I didn’t do any of that. My “diploma” came in the mail creased and dirty and I have it hidden away in a document box. I so badly wish I had know I had adhd back then and I often wonder what version of myself would I be today if I can gotten diagnosed much earlier in life.
Now I know some of this may sound very cliche, the whole: “you’re in your mid twenties and still figuring yourself out, that’s normal to not know what to do with your life, and what you like or enjoy anymore.” But I would really like to hear perspectives of others on their diagnosis and life afterwards.
I do plan on seeing a therapist, I already have a referral because my psychiatrist can only do so much and I’m not necessarily looking to be medicated further. But I have been putting it off seemingly for an unnecessary amount of time. Almost as if I want myself to be without help because in my head if I ask for help that means I wasn’t good enough to do it on my own. Another unhealthy but luckily life saving (literally) reason I didn’t attempt is the sheer thought of, if I kms that makes me a failure, like as if I couldn’t handle life and I took the easy way out (which I know in reality is very f*ucked up, and obviously the way I am allowing myself to think about myself is not the easy way either) but for some reason out of spite, I stuck around and didn’t relapse with self harm or do something irreversible.
As I type all this out as a form of my own personal therapy session I realize I definitely need to seek help, but how does one come to terms with realizing there are no days off from having adhd. I’m a highly emotional person and feel very deeply and can easily get lost in my own head. So to some people their diagnosis might have been liberating and life changing (it was for me at first), but I think I had this underlying denial of “okay well now I know ‘what’s wrong with me’, now it’s just time to fix it.” And there is no “fixing” ADHD it’s a lifelong thing.
How do you accept it and work with it and not against it? How do you find yourself in the midst of it all and understand who you really are when you mind is constantly active and overwhelmed and unorganized. How do you find happiness when your interests and passions are constantly fleeting?
I am truly thankful for anyone that reads even a paragraph of this, and TIA for any advice.
-Jilly | 2021-12-02T02:04:54.000Z | r6vv91 | 0 | 3 | ADHD | Adhd and lack of self identity: TW- Self Harm ideation. | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6vv91/adhd_and_lack_of_self_identity_tw_self_harm/ |
[deleted] | [deleted] | 2021-12-02T02:04:40.000Z | r6vv2j | 2 | 3 | ADHD | Tips for work? | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6vv2j/tips_for_work/ |
yAyeetgonnadelete | [removed] | 2021-12-02T02:02:38.000Z | r6vtk6 | 1 | 2 | ADHD | Anyone else kinda resent their parents for not medicating you when you were younger? | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6vtk6/anyone_else_kinda_resent_their_parents_for_not/ |
[deleted] | [deleted] | 2021-12-02T01:58:31.000Z | r6vqbv | 2 | 2 | ADHD | Worried about training for a new job next week | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6vqbv/worried_about_training_for_a_new_job_next_week/ |
Tandy-lion | Hey everyone.
I have recently been diagnosed with Adult ADHD (m26) and have started taking medication starting with Dexamfetamines and currently Ritalin (40mg current).
When you speak to doctors and read articles/ resources on the internet you are told that the medication improves X,Y,Z but does this differ from person to person?.
When you look at what stimulant based medication functionality it is supposed to keep you focused, on task, prevent fidgetting and distraction.
I took Dex for 1 month to trial it's effectiveness. I felt like sometime it worked and sometimes it didn't. I was finding that I was able to focus better but sometimes I would still find myself fidgetting with objects/my hands, pacing when I was talking to people on the phone and getting distracted by technology/procrastinating.
Is this normal when starting treatment or is this cause for a medication change?. I have also been considering that these things may also be engrained behaivours I have created for myself. No one writes a guide for this.
You get told by everyone that medication is life changing like flicking a light switch in a dark lit room. But I haven't had this light bulb moment, is there something wrong with me?
I feel I should also note that during my one month trial, I was flitting about dosages because I thought it was on demand focus (eg. take 10mg one day and 25mg on another), I think I took 20mg for a maximum of 5 days during the month and paused medication on weekends and a 4 day holiday off. I have changed this to a much more controlled treatment starting at the lowest dosage and increasing every 5 days.
Comparing Ritalin with the Dex, I feel like it's less effective for me. Did I jump to a conclusion too quickly for switching treatment and would it be worth revisiting medication? | 2021-12-02T01:57:38.000Z | r6vppw | 11 | 1 | ADHD | Medication and Symptoms - When is it time to questions it's effectiveness and try a new medication | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6vppw/medication_and_symptoms_when_is_it_time_to/ |
DrAcula_MD | [removed] | 2021-12-02T01:47:40.000Z | r6vig1 | 1 | 1 | ADHD | Do you guys just like run or jog everywhere for no reason? | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6vig1/do_you_guys_just_like_run_or_jog_everywhere_for/ |
[deleted] | [deleted] | 2021-12-02T01:43:43.000Z | r6vfp1 | 4 | 9 | ADHD | Never too old | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6vfp1/never_too_old/ |
nicbentulan | [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=340A40L9PgA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=340A40L9PgA)
GM eric hansen says e has adhd and talks about h adhd and how it relates to chess.
the acronym is apparently TDAH for both spanish and french
spanish: trastorno por déficit de atención e hiperactividad.
french: Trouble Déficit de l’Attention avec ou sans Hyperactivité
source is from a March 2016 video not on youtube. see the youtube video description for the source. | 2021-12-02T01:38:52.000Z | r6vc8x | 1 | 1 | ADHD | chess grandmaster eric hansen says e has adhd | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6vc8x/chess_grandmaster_eric_hansen_says_e_has_adhd/ |
Throwintobasket | [removed] | 2021-12-02T01:38:41.000Z | r6vc4h | 1 | 1 | ADHD | Possibility if stimulants and SNDRI didn't work: Vortioxetine (Brintellix / Trintellix) | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6vc4h/possibility_if_stimulants_and_sndri_didnt_work/ |
AprilGG | [removed] | 2021-12-02T01:36:31.000Z | r6vajh | 1 | 1 | ADHD | How do you get ‘tested’ for adhd? | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6vajh/how_do_you_get_tested_for_adhd/ |
[deleted] | [removed] | 2021-12-02T01:36:01.000Z | r6va64 | 1 | 1 | ADHD | Never too old | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6va64/never_too_old/ |
Bernard2001 | I don’t think I have ever been more stressed about money in my entire life. I have never been more worried about access to medications. I used to have someone to help me edit my papers and help me with my problems tied to ADHD.
They can no longer help me because of time restrictions and they can’t handle doing it anymore. I feel like my grad school career is going to end before it begins.
I’m smart I swear but I can’t write a sentence isn’t a winning argument. I speak English first it just always sounds like word vomit.
I’m moving towards worse grades. No financial security. And just being cold for the foreseeable future. I’ve never had stress so bad I couldn’t hold down food.
With the normal disorganization, inability to focus, my ability to misplace thing, and my ability to never shut up. Add that to the stress of my financial life and the fact that I had to sell my bike just to manage. Social services where I live is a joke. Therapy won’t start up until after the holidays.
What can they do anyway? I’m a mess | 2021-12-02T01:35:57.000Z | r6va3z | 3 | 3 | ADHD | Stressful end of the semester | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6va3z/stressful_end_of_the_semester/ |
crispysorrows | [removed] | 2021-12-02T01:35:13.000Z | r6v9l1 | 1 | 1 | ADHD | Eye pressure remedy? | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6v9l1/eye_pressure_remedy/ |
crispysorrows | [removed] | 2021-12-02T01:32:49.000Z | r6v7us | 1 | 1 | ADHD | Ocular Hypertension/Eye Pressure from stimulants | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6v7us/ocular_hypertensioneye_pressure_from_stimulants/ |
blong217 | So as is common with ADHD, memory problems persist. I am married and my wife has been forever understanding of my issues with memory that come with ADHD, as well as my lack of ability to find things even when they are right in front of my face.
Tonight I was looking for my Switch Lite. I looked in some places I had figured it would be but could not find it. I then started looking elsewhere but after about 30-45 minutes I told my wife I was unable to find it. She asked me if I had looked in some places that I knew they most likely had to be. I told her yes but couldn't find it. She started looking as well and by this point I had given up and turned my attention elsewhere. She then asked again if I had looked in this one place, which was the most likely. I told her that was the first place I looked and could not find it. She then went there to look and only a few seconds later declared she had found it.
She teased me a bit for using the "man look" and not seeing something that was obviously there. I thanked her, took the carrying case and then realized I had made another mistake. I thought my case was yellow when in fact it was green. I told her this laughing realizing that I had spent the 30-45 minutes looking for a yellow Switch Lite case, definitely saw my case, and completely omitted it as not being mine because it was green and not yellow.
I just kept laughing about it as she just narrow eyed me. I can't help it when my ADHD decides to act exactly like ADHD. | 2021-12-02T01:31:34.000Z | r6v6xg | 2 | 2 | ADHD | A Comical moment with my ADHD | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6v6xg/a_comical_moment_with_my_adhd/ |
[deleted] | [removed] | 2021-12-02T01:27:46.000Z | r6v45n | 1 | 1 | ADHD | My mother got diagnosed today with adhd at 71 | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6v45n/my_mother_got_diagnosed_today_with_adhd_at_71/ |
[deleted] | [removed] | 2021-12-02T01:27:40.000Z | r6v42t | 1 | 1 | ADHD | Productivity is absolutely impossible | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6v42t/productivity_is_absolutely_impossible/ |
[deleted] | [deleted] | 2021-12-02T01:24:12.000Z | r6v1iz | 5 | 1 | ADHD | GRE and Looking Grad Schools | 0.99 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6v1iz/gre_and_looking_grad_schools/ |
_o_h_n_o_ | [removed] | 2021-12-02T01:23:27.000Z | r6v0z6 | 1 | 1 | ADHD | Being away from my medication made me appreciate it that much more | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6v0z6/being_away_from_my_medication_made_me_appreciate/ |
TheStinkyRebel | Just curious what pet peeves, or OCD tendencies, some of you guys might have that seem to help your ADHD. For example, one of my pet peeves is clutter. I absolutely hate it. However, I am terrible at keeping my areas (kitchen/dishes, clean clothes, desk, etc.) continuously clean. But when it gets to a point that it just really bothers me, I HAVE to clean it, and I can actually hyperfocus on that cleaning until it is done to my standards. It might take a week or more to finally get to it, but at least I get it done, and it's a massive relief. | 2021-12-02T01:18:27.000Z | r6uxej | 3 | 2 | ADHD | Pet Peeves that help your ADHD | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6uxej/pet_peeves_that_help_your_adhd/ |
Ok-Snow-4592 | for context im a 15 year old female. most of my friends and one of my teachers have said they think i have adhd. i think i have adhd. all the symptoms just fit how i think and act. but my stepbrother has adhd, and he didn’t do the best in school. i have good grades and adhd presents itself differently in boys and girls. so it would make sense that i don’t act the same as my brother. i’ve explained that to my stepmom that adhd presents itself differently in boys and girls and explained some of the symptoms more present in girls and she was like “yeah thats you” but still refuses to even consider that i might have adhd. | 2021-12-02T01:17:42.000Z | r6uwva | 3 | 4 | ADHD | my parents won’t test me for adhd | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6uwva/my_parents_wont_test_me_for_adhd/ |
Unhappy-Activity402 | 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 | 2021-12-02T01:14:25.000Z | r6uuhj | 4 | 5 | ADHD | My impulsive behavior keeps putting me in awful situations and it's terrifying (Also Accountability) | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6uuhj/my_impulsive_behavior_keeps_putting_me_in_awful/ |
abelabelabel | [Here's the one I use.](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/read-aloud-a-text-to-spee/hdhinadidafjejdhmfkjgnolgimiaplp?hl=en) It's also available for Firefox.
It adds a 3rd rail to the struggle of focusing while reading. The premium voices have great inflection, and are designed to be very easy to understand. | 2021-12-02T01:14:05.000Z | r6uu90 | 1 | 2 | ADHD | Get a Speech-To-Text voice reader for your browser, and pay for the premium voices! | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6uu90/get_a_speechtotext_voice_reader_for_your_browser/ |
Nabassu4MeAndYou | I decided I'd finally try the fidget toy trend this fine month of December 2021. This one looked intriguing, but from reading Amazon reviews, it looks like there are either a ton of knockoffs or the quality control is bad.
I looked up the Antsy company website, and it looks like you can order them directly. Does anyone have experience with these? Are they smooth and satisfying, or kind of a ripoff? I'd also welcome other suggestions. Thanks! | 2021-12-02T01:02:56.000Z | r6ulzi | 8 | 0 | ADHD | Where can I find an authentic fidget cube? Are they good? | 0.5 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6ulzi/where_can_i_find_an_authentic_fidget_cube_are/ |
[deleted] | [deleted] | 2021-12-02T01:02:50.000Z | r6ulwu | 3 | 3 | ADHD | Eliminating nausea when taking Adderall | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6ulwu/eliminating_nausea_when_taking_adderall/ |
deadkane1987 | [removed] | 2021-12-02T01:02:04.000Z | r6uldf | 1 | 1 | ADHD | Been stuck in a bad loop of taking meds around 8am, staying awake until midnight and having to take a sleeping pill to fall asleep. | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6uldf/been_stuck_in_a_bad_loop_of_taking_meds_around/ |
[deleted] | [deleted] | 2021-12-02T00:58:57.000Z | r6uit8 | 6 | 7 | ADHD | bf annoyed with my messes | 0.89 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6uit8/bf_annoyed_with_my_messes/ |
[deleted] | [deleted] | 2021-12-02T00:55:08.000Z | r6ufvu | 1 | 1 | ADHD | Rate your **** 1-10 | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6ufvu/rate_your_110/ |
Xminous | [removed] | 2021-12-02T00:52:50.000Z | r6ue4k | 1 | 1 | ADHD | Question about medication | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6ue4k/question_about_medication/ |
AbnormalQuality | My OCD/ADHD makes me pick a lot, mostly picking my nose, so I was wondering who else’s ADHD makes them have similar urges. I’ve had many, many embarrassing predicaments because of it but I kinda don’t want to stop, but it would make my parents not yell at me so much and my experiences in public less humiliating, so I don’t know, if anyone had any advice or someone else who has the nose picking urges but doesn’t want to give it up either or somehow did then I’d love to hear it. I’ve had really bad nose picking urges all my life and probably lost a lot of potential friendships from it so yeah. | 2021-12-02T00:49:44.000Z | r6ubq1 | 4 | 2 | ADHD | My ADHD picking habits | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6ubq1/my_adhd_picking_habits/ |
lilprincessofmars | Hi everyone
I have very very severe adhd symptoms which, if a bunch of things are not all going really well- I am extremely prone to depression and constant anxiety. I also have PMDD so 1-2 weeks I am extremely out of control emotionally and have suicidal ideation.
I have worked so hard every day. I fight every day to do the right things to improve my mental health but I always end up drowning.
I cannot quickly get on disability and it would be too little for my bills unfortunately
Having a job has been a struggle. I've only been able to get full time administrative roles which involve the skills in which I face the most challenges. I am likely to be let go soon because of things I've forgotten/lost at my current job and from having to take some days off and come in late on really bad panic attack suicidal type days.
What I need to survive is about 12.50 or 13 per hour, 40 hours.
The only jobs I can ever seem to find are retail which are almost all part time. I am praying I can get full time retail and be okay. But in general wondering about tips. I have no savings or anything. I wouldn't say I spend like crazy, I don't really buy that much, but it can be a struggle to be extremely strict and not eat out, etc. Or but things on impulse when I have to go to stores. Now, I will never save much on this income but my goal is just to be safe for right now
Please any advice? Im also unmedicated because my current insurance won't pay for Vyvanse (which is rhe only one so far that helped and is LIFE CHANGING) I'm in the process but my knsurance expired and I has to try so many other meds first so there are still two more I have to try before my doctor can even appeal for vyvanse
I am pretty scared because it's hard for me to complete basic tasks each day like showering, getting to my current job, such that I can barely do one other thing each day and it's not enough to keep my life from falling apart
Also I've been repeatedly extremely Ill recently and both grandparents are dying from covid
I'm not sure how I can take this. I can't get therapy or other resources right now | 2021-12-02T00:49:41.000Z | r6ubol | 1 | 1 | ADHD | I'm drowning | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6ubol/im_drowning/ |
lemonboyhope | I finally got medicated after 4 months and my doctor only prescribed me 10mg. It hasn’t done anything and literally hasn’t helped me in any aspect. I accidentally missed a dose and knowingly took 20mg today so I could get my paper done. The 20mg really helped and I was super focused. I told my friend that I did it and she got upset and told me I was abusing my meds. I thought it was good because it was helping and I wouldn’t do it everyday… I dunno. | 2021-12-02T00:48:39.000Z | r6uaww | 4 | 1 | ADHD | Am I in the wrong? | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6uaww/am_i_in_the_wrong/ |
nazarnith | I have done some research about generic vs brand name DextroAmphetamine
Commonly you will see a lot of push for us to get the best quality medication for our ADHD and rightfully so.!
The crazy part that blows my mind is that the fillers and patent/release mechanism makes a huge difference for how we benefit from these meds with bio availability and efficacy being a huge factor.
I live in Canada/Ontario and was curious if anyone has had a good experience with AA PHARMA as a brand. (Kindly comment below what generics I should ask pharmacist for)
DIN: 0 2443236
Also if you wouldn’t mind sharing what dosage are you on for IR, and any tips or advice you could give for this specific medication that you found helpful.
I know typing takes some solid dopamine and dedication so thanks in advance for the effort you wonderful ADHD brothers and sister let me know 😂 | 2021-12-02T00:45:58.000Z | r6u8xe | 4 | 2 | ADHD | AA Pharma Generic IR Dextroamphetamine | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6u8xe/aa_pharma_generic_ir_dextroamphetamine/ |
[deleted] | [deleted] | 2021-12-02T00:44:07.000Z | r6u7ii | 2 | 1 | ADHD | Trying to get a diagnostic as an adult | 0.67 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6u7ii/trying_to_get_a_diagnostic_as_an_adult/ |
jkern441 | [removed] | 2021-12-02T00:38:43.000Z | r6u3ew | 1 | 1 | ADHD | Has anyone been able to somewhat manage their weight while on Vyvanse/Adderall? getting concerning | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6u3ew/has_anyone_been_able_to_somewhat_manage_their/ |
sdhill006 | [removed] | 2021-12-02T00:36:08.000Z | r6u1h3 | 1 | 1 | ADHD | Returning impulse buys from March 2021 | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6u1h3/returning_impulse_buys_from_march_2021/ |
neribb | [removed] | 2021-12-02T00:34:25.000Z | r6u04d | 2 | 1 | ADHD | Can antidepressants lessen the effects of Vyvanse/Stims? | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6u04d/can_antidepressants_lessen_the_effects_of/ |
[deleted] | [deleted] | 2021-12-02T00:32:41.000Z | r6tyrl | 2 | 2 | ADHD | Hyperfixations | 0.67 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6tyrl/hyperfixations/ |
[deleted] | [deleted] | 2021-12-02T00:32:23.000Z | r6tyjl | 2 | 1 | ADHD | Eye issues from adderall | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6tyjl/eye_issues_from_adderall/ |
[deleted] | [removed] | 2021-12-02T00:31:21.000Z | r6txq6 | 1 | 1 | ADHD | Is there a considerable difference going from 10mg of Methylphenidate to 20mg? | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6txq6/is_there_a_considerable_difference_going_from/ |
Chabi911 | [removed] | 2021-12-02T00:24:33.000Z | r6ts7m | 4 | 0 | ADHD | Adderall/vyvanse should be illegal | 0.08 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6ts7m/adderallvyvanse_should_be_illegal/ |
minarimimosa | For people who are on meds, specifically those who have tried multiple types and doses, what was your experience with them?
I am trying to find the right medication for myself and would find it helpful to hear others experiences!
I used to take Dex two years ago (went off of them for personal reasons) recently decided to go back on meds but doc suggested Concerta. I also take Ritalin in the evenings.
With Dex, I found it suddenly gave me motivation. I was able to make myself focus on tasks that needed to be done that I rlyyyy didn’t feel like doing. I felt tho I might’ve upped my dose too much bc I stopped feeling myself & felt like a robot a bit. But it was so long ago I forget rlly how it was
With Concerta, it helps me focus on one thing, and not get distracted as much. But, almost makes me feel like I lost my ability to multi task rlly well? Also concerta makes me really anxious and easily agitated, don’t know if anyone else had that experience
I just got Ritalin perscribed for the evenings bc Concerta only works 10 hours for me, and I find it a bit more helpful than Concerta, but it puts me in a low mood also.
What did you guys try/feel with them?
I am considering trying going back on Dex
Thanks for your time :))) | 2021-12-02T00:24:04.000Z | r6trsz | 2 | 2 | ADHD | What was your experience trying different ADHD meds till you found the right one? | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6trsz/what_was_your_experience_trying_different_adhd/ |
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joaquinreno_84 | Please see r/ProcrastinationRCVRY if you think it may be helpful to you or you think you might be able to contribute something that may help someone else. It sounds like there could be a positive correlation between ADHD and procrastination. Hoping to learn more. For now, I'm framing the issue in terms of addiction recovery, although I'm not entirely sure that is appropriate. Again, hoping to learn more.
Thank you!
Peace,
Joaquin | 2021-12-02T00:21:40.000Z | r6tpz0 | 1 | 2 | ADHD | A Reddit group for Procrastination Recovery | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6tpz0/a_reddit_group_for_procrastination_recovery/ |
Competitive_Monk2954 | Hi,
I’m a 21 year old female, and to date I’ve been asked out twice. Once when I was like 8 or 9, and I gave the poor kid a hard no…..because we were practically smart toddlers lol. And once more recently, but said no due to the guy having some very scary anger issues, and he seemed to want me because I treated him like a person (he has Asperger’s). I did not want that to be the foundation of any relationship.
I’m not some boy crazy chic, but I’ve grown up in a family where I’ve been criticized and belittles for my weight, looks, clothes, personality, interests, friends, and even my mental illnesses sometimes. I’ve always tried to ignore my family and do my own thing, trusting that what they’ve said isn’t true. So, not having people see me as someone who could make a good partner hits a pretty soft spot.
I don’t base my worth on this, I’ve had to put a lot of time and effort to understand where I’ve come from and try to heal the best I can. However, this does bother me quite frequently, and has been more frequent since my younger sister started dating.
Now, I don’t really look like I’d like men, I got short funky colored hair, and I rarely dress nicer than a nice graphics tee, jeans, and combat boots. But I talk a lot! And I’m an extremely open person, so it’s pretty clear that I’m straight after only a conversation or two. And if it’s not, most people won’t hesitate to ask.
It bothers me I guess, I see all these people getting married, and dating, or maybe they have some stranger spit some game at them occasionally.
I have some issues with intimacy that stem from my emotional abuse, so I have a hard time being physically close to people until I trust them. After I’m able to trust them it’s all hugs and fist bumps and all that though. Personally I’m not sure I could go past some heavy cuddling, I’ve been made so ashamed of my body that I’m not sure I’d be comfortable having sex with anyone even after marriage. Im of the mindset that sex comes after marriage, so that really shouldn’t be a problem right now, right? It’s not like I intentionally broadcast that to people?
But im always finding myself surrounded by people who love to have conversations with me, whether I’m ar work, church, or wherever. I don’t lead a very eccentric life as a college student, but I have a wide array of knowledge and have interesting hobbies, so I can be an interesting person to talk to. I also love listening to others, I like stories, I may not be able to add on to what you’re saying, but I’m happy that I get to listen.
Despite the fact that my mouth could run nonstop, Im an extreme introvert so I don’t go many places nowadays. When I was 18-20, though, I was out and invested in so many different groups of people. And not one person asked me out….. like I don’t even get hit on by people my age… before I cut and dyed my hair I got hit on by old men, and now I get hit on by old women…..who have there husbands with them???!?!?!!!!?!??
That’s kind of besides the point, but I just don’t know why I’m not asked out? It’s not my life mission to be a wife, but I’m person who would like someone to share a life with, you know?
Is having adhd, or any other mental issues, just some kind of turn off????? Or does my adhd make me seem like too much??? Is this something other people experience? | 2021-12-02T00:20:25.000Z | r6toy7 | 12 | 2 | ADHD | Is there a correlation between adhd (or any mental illness) and not being asked out? | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6toy7/is_there_a_correlation_between_adhd_or_any_mental/ |
MIGMIG24 | ​
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You have to give them bits,” says Ravin. “They all have ADD. They can’t sit through two hours of coaching theory. Not one kid wants coaching theory.” Instead Ravin makes everything interactive. “I have ADD too,” he says. “As a player I’d rather do it and fail, do it and fail, than have a coach move my hand to \[show me\] what to do. These guys learn by movement.”
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[http://danielcoyle.com/2009/11/09/great-teachers-part-i-the-hoops-whisperer/#:\~:text=You%20have%20to,learn%20by%20movement.%E2%80%9D](http://danielcoyle.com/2009/11/09/great-teachers-part-i-the-hoops-whisperer/#:~:text=You%20have%20to,learn%20by%20movement.%E2%80%9D) | 2021-12-02T00:18:22.000Z | r6tncm | 2 | 1 | ADHD | THIS, ME. .. . | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6tncm/this_me/ |
Elexxys | Does anyone else feel like they get way more accomplished when they have the house to themselves? I never used to really think about this, but I lived alone for many years. It didn't matter what time of day, or what day, I did laundry, or cleaned, or did the dishes, or cooked, or did completely absolutely zero things. I found this freedom to be very helpful, and my home was generally clean and I ate healthy.
Now, I rent a room from a friend. Said friend monopolizes everything, and her kitchen habits are gross. Her house cleaning habits are weird (she doesn't seem to understand basics, like even that you have to mix Murphy's Oil Soap with water to clean floors, she put it full concentrate in her spray mop so it doesn't squirt cuz it's too thick). When she goes away, or is out for the day and I am home, I get SO much done. I can play music (definitely a life saver for me), not worry about clothing, and be my weird self while cooking up a storm (after cleaning it thoroughly from her gross habits), scrubbing my bathroom, or overhauling my bedroom, vacuuming etc. When she is home for long spurts, I become a hermit, stay in my room, eat out way too much, and my bathroom hasn't been properly scrubbed in weeks. I also put laundry off for as long as possible. Am I alone in this? Or is this common for others? | 2021-12-02T00:15:50.000Z | r6tlci | 26 | 9 | ADHD | More Productive Alone? | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6tlci/more_productive_alone/ |
[deleted] | [removed] | 2021-12-02T00:13:25.000Z | r6tjb7 | 1 | 1 | ADHD | If anyone is interested or thinks it may be helpful, I've created a group aimed at "recovery" from procrastination | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6tjb7/if_anyone_is_interested_or_thinks_it_may_be/ |
Nizuni | So I got a promotion and a significant raise today! Really excited about this!! I work really hard and half of my day is battling my adhd just to be able to work really hard and it’s finally paying off!
But now my boss (who understands the adhd brain cause her kids have it) is talking about grooming me for leadership because this new promotion means I could have people working under me one day. *gulp!* She wants to spend a half hour a week with me working on the subject and she’s given me a couple of books that I need to choose between that we’ll work on together. Let’s see, there’s “The One Thing” by Gary Keller (which she described as being more conceptual) and “The 4 Disciplines of Execution” by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, and Jim Huling (which she described as more granular and probably not about actual executions, which might be more interesting).
Does anyone have any good recommendations for management-type books for people like us with our distract-able minds that can’t focus on long paragraphs? | 2021-12-02T00:11:14.000Z | r6thja | 16 | 28 | ADHD | Got a promotion and a significant raise today!! Yay!! But wait, what do you mean “leadership”?? | 0.95 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6thja/got_a_promotion_and_a_significant_raise_today_yay/ |
B0ss0fTheW0rld | When I was a kid I always say spend money now because when I become an adult and get a job I have save. So I had a very bad impulsive spending habit which I would just spend money as soon as I got it. But when ever I wanted or needed something for like everytime my earbuds/headset dies, I would have to wait till christmas or my bday for a new one. I even did the same in college when I got my the rest of aid checks. But I always said once I got a job ill start saving.
On dec 3rd it be 3 months since I got a job at Stop & Shop and it been helping me save. I just said well I gotta keep my word as a kid now time to save. Once I got the job my impulsive spending habit went away, or it could been I was a kid and didn't understand how to save back then. But since I do save I want give tips with examples on how I been saving.
1. When you get paid if its weekly, bi-weekly or monthly limit on how much you can spend for yourself after bills and anything else you need to buy. Example: I always tell my self I can spend up to the 100 a week since I get paid weekly.
2. Split up bills/gifts or anything else you want buy. Example: For years as a kid I always wanted to buy other wrestling PPVs then just WWE so the week of the ppv It with that paycheck. Also what I mean by spilt bills is decided what week to pay them.
3. Pay bills online, I know some people want use a checks to pay but I feel what if by mistake I spend too much or have an emergency and a check is out so I forget it is and pay for an emergency and that check could bounce. Example: my new and old glasses broke like 3 weeks ago and thank god I saved the money for it because it costed me like a little over $900.
4. When buying something like an streaming service or game or anything think if I buy it will I really have time to watch it or is it just going be waste or money or time. Example: I always wanted to get 1st membership for Achievement Hunter but realized because of work and everything else I do in my free time I wouldn't have much time for that.
5. If one area your spending too much cut back on it. Example: sometimes at work I want buy sushi or a sub sandwhich but that can be too expensive so I gotta buy something cheaper to eat.
6. Don't look at sites that temp you to buy things, then you go overboard. I got no example for this because I never had this problem.
I hope this can help others save and if anyone else have any saving tips they can just put them in the comments. | 2021-12-02T00:06:11.000Z | r6tdg8 | 0 | 1 | ADHD | I finally saving money and tips | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6tdg8/i_finally_saving_money_and_tips/ |
calibore | Whenever I’m stuck in a situation that feels understimulating (like at school during a lecture or on a therapy call) I always suddenly get the urge and motivation to work on stuff that I couldn’t get over my executive dysfunction to work on before. **But I need to act on it *Right Then* or else it goes away after.**
Like when I’m put in such a forced situation my mind immediately goes to “I could be doing this instead right now” and I suddenly gain the motivation to work on something that’s been looming over me that I couldn’t find the motivation or get into the mental zone for for days or even months, which I can only assume is because my brain finds it more stimulating than being “trapped” in something that is understimulating/undesireable??
This doesn’t happen when I have nothing to do at home, because I’m not really trapped in boredom against my will. I can find fun stuff to do. But when I’m in a setting or situation where I’m trapped and reminded of those things I have to do (biggest culprit is school) I suddenly get the motivation to work on them at the expense of being “present” in the underwhelming situation itself.
So
1.) Does anyone else experience this (and why have I never seen it talked about before? Are there any studies/research on it?), and
2.) Is there a name for this specific experience because I need an easy way to refer to it | 2021-12-02T00:05:56.000Z | r6td9g | 19 | 134 | ADHD | Overcoming executive dysfunction when feeling “trapped” — does this experience have a name? | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6td9g/overcoming_executive_dysfunction_when_feeling/ |
exhxw | My husband clearly has ADHD. He has the inattentive type with chronically executive dysfunction. He’s talked to 2 therapists who both agree he has ADHD. He answered questions from the DSM-5 and met the criteria both times. However, they won’t proceed with actually diagnosing him. I don’t know what it takes to get diagnosed but neither of them would do anything other than “yeah you meet the criteria.” He’s asked about getting an official diagnosis multiple times and they just blow him off. It’s so frustrating. | 2021-12-02T00:04:52.000Z | r6tccc | 15 | 2 | ADHD | Why is it so hard for an adult to get a diagnosis? | 0.76 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6tccc/why_is_it_so_hard_for_an_adult_to_get_a_diagnosis/ |
ScawedyCat | I mentioned how I struggle with motivation and my therapist asked me what my life goals are… “what am are you passionate about?” he said
how do i tell him that i dont have the answer he’s looking for. He gets annoyed when I say “i don’t know” but the most acceptable answer would be nothing (aka playing video games, crocheting, or whatever hobby I have at the moment)
Is a life goal necessary? can’t I just want to get through the week?? | 2021-12-01T23:59:50.000Z | r6t7vu | 8 | 3 | ADHD | My life goals | 0.81 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6t7vu/my_life_goals/ |
Purcival_ | As I mentioned in my previous post (and I'm sure you are already aware), people with ADHD have an issue with time. Me especially.
When I was attempting to be productive if I wasted any time I would become depressed and discouraged easily. How can I possibly get any of this done? I've wasted the very little energy I do have pacing around my room rambling about random things as soon as I think about them.
Being medicated has taught me how to just "get over it." Got distracted by my phone for 5 minutes? So what? Just focus. Played The Witcher for 4 hours straight without realizing,? No big deal, time to work. I get more done now in 10 minutes than I used to in one hour because I can just focus on whatever it is I need to do. Even if it's writing a Reddit post while I should be building a website for my client. 🤣
**I'm still not perfect. I'll be too lazy to floss, I'll leave my laundry in the corner of my room, I won't make my bed etc. The difference is that:**
1. **I recognize it.**
2. **I don't get stuck on it.**
3. **I work at it every single day.**
**I hope this helps you.** | 2021-12-01T23:58:40.000Z | r6t6we | 7 | 39 | ADHD | You've wasted some time, so what? | 0.96 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6t6we/youve_wasted_some_time_so_what/ |
spamihnea | I am asking this because i am not diagnosed, simply curious.
So, is it a sign of ADHD thinking about absolutely random stuff with no point whatsoever like actual gibberish when i'm tired?
It's so hard to describe it..
it's not happening only when i'm tired, only more...prominent then
Thank you for reading
Hope you have a awesome day! | 2021-12-01T23:53:48.000Z | r6t2yz | 4 | 2 | ADHD | Thinking about random stuff | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6t2yz/thinking_about_random_stuff/ |
assfuck1911 | [removed] | 2021-12-01T23:51:52.000Z | r6t1fl | 1 | 1 | ADHD | Anyone Else Break Stuff Out of Anger? | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6t1fl/anyone_else_break_stuff_out_of_anger/ |
throw-away-sad-sack | Posting this here too, hope that's okay.
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I'm having a tough time. It's not that I *want* to die, I just don't want to do this\* anymore.
\*picture me gesturing vaguely around at myself, my life, the world, being in it, and everything else.
You don't have to read all of the rest, but if you're reading this and have felt this way before, please tell me what kept you going.
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In high school I was *smart.* I took AP classes and excelled, I was really good at school.
After I graduated high school I went off to college, where I studied theater for three and half years before I dropped out. I was failing classes - which I'd never done before - because I was oversleeping and missing classes. It wasn't even that my grades were bad, I was failing due to attendance requirements. I couldn't afford the tuition, and I felt that I couldn't survive in the world of professional acting. I felt like I'd wasted years and thousands of dollars. I felt like an idiot for thinking I could ever become an actor. I also began to suspect that I had ADHD.
I decided to switch to community college for the more affordable tuition, and to study IT, another area I've always loved. I made it through three more semesters before I burnt out again. I still couldn't wake up on time for class, and I *really* couldn't keep up working part time and going to school full time. The longer I did both the more I fell into debt, and I'd already been at it for about five years.
I decided to start working full time. I had to pay my bills. But I still couldn't reduce my debt working full time, because I couldn't get a job that would pay me enough without a degree, and I couldn't get a degree while working, and I couldn't pay my bills without working, but I also can't make enough money to pay off my debt by working without a job that requires a degree.
I began to work full time as a night baker. I *really* liked that job, I worked with a team I loved, I got to make beautiful pastries and bread from scratch, I didn't have to talk to customers, and it paid more than any of my prior jobs. It wasn't an easy job though, and I sacrificed my body and my sleep and put everything I had into being amazing at my job - but I still couldn't wake up to my alarm. I'd stay up for two-three days at a time for fear of oversleeping on a work night.
I started having panic attacks, which lead me to finally getting a primary care doctor. I told her everything, and she diagnosed me with ADHD and started me on Adderall. Folks, I was myself again, at *last*. I was suddenly capable showing the world the person I am inside my head. It helped me wake up if I could get to it in the morning, but I still couldn't wake up consistently for work.
In May I was fired from my job (again) for oversleeping (again). A week or two later I got the results back from a sleep study, and found out that I have sleep apnea, which is probably why I can't wake up to alarm clocks and haven't had a restful night of sleep since I was a child. Turns out I'm not broken! - Well I mean, I kind of am, but it's fixable!
I didn't have a job, and I couldn't see a way to get back into school, but I did have a sister a few states away who invited me to move in with her, and parents who paid for my moving expenses so I could get out of the town I'd been stuck in since I moved there for college nearly eight years ago. So I moved, and found another job as a night baker.
The only downside of moving was having to find a new doctor. I still am working on that, but I couldn't continue getting my Adderall prescription, and have been unmedicated since June.
So, night after night, I went in to this new job - it was still night baking, but by myself all night, where most of my work was to put the pre-made stuff into an oven and make sure it didn't burn. It paid slightly less than my previous job - so still not enough to pay off my debt, and my rent increased in the move, so I couldn't even pay my bills anymore either. I hated the monotony of it, the lack of any meaningful work or connection, I hated how it made me too tired to look for a better job in my off time, and I hated that the hours kept me from forming a social life in this new city. I began to fantasize about walking out mid-shift and never coming back. I didn't want to let anyone there down, or to be a source of stress to my managers, so I quit.
Last week I finally had a doctor's appointment to get set up as a new patient. It felt like I had to start all over again, explaining my many failures, mistakes, and regrets. Trying to explain that I'd been through treatment for depression and anxiety, and that they were band-aids that didn't help, because the source of my anxiety and depression is my ADHD and sleep apnea.
They have to get my records from my previous doctor before they can begin prescribing Adderall or treating my sleep apnea.
Fine, of course, I understand.
Would I like an anti-anxiety medication in the meantime?
I guess so, I don't want to have panic attacks again and I'm breaking down sobbing in the doctor's office so maybe it'll help?
Folks, it hasn't helped.
I can't get anything done, I'm a constant drain of money for my sister and parents who have kept me from starving or becoming homeless. I haven't found a new job yet, and even if do, the thought of going into work makes me want to break down crying again. Nothing seems to bring me any joy or motivation. I feel like I've been spinning my wheels for eight years, and every time I start to get traction I get shoved back again. I just don't want to do this anymore. I can't find a purpose. I feel like all I do is disappoint the people who love me, and I don't feel like I'm contributing anything to the world by being here. I've become increasingly convinced that I am inherently replaceable and unnecessary.
I know I need to get therapy, but I also can't afford it. I can't afford anything until/unless I work.
So, anyone need a neurotic human disaster with extensive education but no degree to do IT in Orlando, FL? Are you also willing to pay me enough to break out of my eternal spiral into debt? No? Understood.
I've begun to wish that I were dying so I'd have an appropriate excuse to do nothing, and to know that this will be over soon.
It's not that I *want* to die. I just don't want to do this anymore. | 2021-12-01T23:50:08.000Z | r6t00i | 3 | 7 | ADHD | Reposting from TwoXADHD: Bad day, bad week, bad month, bad year. TW: Depression/Suicidal Thoughts | 0.89 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6t00i/reposting_from_twoxadhd_bad_day_bad_week_bad/ |
[deleted] | [removed] | 2021-12-01T23:48:09.000Z | r6syeq | 1 | 1 | ADHD | Genuine question | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6syeq/genuine_question/ |
DartTimeTime | Today I got prescribed Atomoxetine. (Brand name: Strattera) I can Google side effects and a bunch of different pieces of official information. Like what medications might cause undesirable interactions. It is much harder, on the other hand, to see what people think of its efficacy.
If you have experience with this medication, I'd like to hear what your story is. Is there anything you wished someone had told you about it beforehand? Is there anything you learned about dealing with it that someone might need to know? I'd like to hear whatever there there is to hear, about it.
Thank you in advance for your time. | 2021-12-01T23:47:19.000Z | r6sxpl | 3 | 2 | ADHD | What's your story with or about Strattera? | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6sxpl/whats_your_story_with_or_about_strattera/ |
LCDRtomdodge | Like the title says.... I'm having trouble focusing on my work today because of some pretty strong stomach pain, likely triggered by an increase in my Adderall dosage. Any recommendations for relieving that discomfort between right now and when my Dr. will get back to me in a few days?
And because I think this is more than enough characters to promote the kind of conversation I think will help me solve my problem here's a really long sentence about nothing so that the automod doesn't decide that my question shouldn't see the light of day while insulting me by telling me that my question about a very real pain that I am experiencing is a low effort post. | 2021-12-01T23:46:14.000Z | r6swtg | 9 | 4 | ADHD | I don't have time to call my doctor today.... We upped my adderall dosage and my stomach is not happy about it. Any suggestions? Tums? | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6swtg/i_dont_have_time_to_call_my_doctor_today_we_upped/ |
FluffyTheif | Hey I'm a 20 year old female diagnosed with Autism And ADHD since childhood
So ever since I've been diagnosed with my diagnosis I've never be told or been explained what they mean or what it is about I honestly have no idea what autistic traits I've since I've never been informed what it actually means to be autistic and have these things my doctors psychologist therapist etc never explained or told me what these means what difficulties I would have and etc they just slapped diagnosis on me without any explanation | 2021-12-01T23:44:50.000Z | r6svp9 | 1 | 1 | ADHD | What defines adhd? | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6svp9/what_defines_adhd/ |
[deleted] | [deleted] | 2021-12-01T23:44:34.000Z | r6svgx | 1 | 1 | ADHD | Help - I don’t k ow how to score my WFIRS | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6svgx/help_i_dont_k_ow_how_to_score_my_wfirs/ |
whimsical_femme | Anyone have any recommendations? I have a tendency to pick at and destroy all of mine, even otter boxes. Something about the soft silicone is just begging to be dug into with my nails, especially once the surface starts getting a little damaged, it’s like impulse city. I’m not looking for anything that will last me years and years as I know that will be impossible with my tendencies to destroy everything but hopefully something a little cute that lasts longer than my current one, which is dying after a few months. | 2021-12-01T23:42:57.000Z | r6su6l | 3 | 1 | ADHD | Looking for an ADHD proof phone case for iPhone 8 | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6su6l/looking_for_an_adhd_proof_phone_case_for_iphone_8/ |
deadlyfrost273 | My therapist said today that I need to be an adult and put in effort to make a choice. Because he believes I just don't make an effort and that he knows I can do better. But I feel like I do try, I do choose. I'm just really bad at it. And I freeze.
The problem is, I don't know what I can do to describe that. It maybe I am just the problem in my way. I have been working on not seeking certainty. But I don't know why I can't just do it. Like I want to. But I haven't. I just sit and stare at the wall. I have class work to do but I just haven't done it. I want to. But I just stare at the work. | 2021-12-01T23:41:12.000Z | r6sspi | 79 | 180 | ADHD | My therapist says that my adhd is not my problem. But that I seek certainty in failure | 0.98 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6sspi/my_therapist_says_that_my_adhd_is_not_my_problem/ |
harmreductiononly | [removed] | 2021-12-01T23:41:00.000Z | r6ssjy | 1 | 1 | ADHD | Do cardiovascular side effects get tolerance quicker than mental positive effects for methylphenidate? Can using every day better for cardiovascular health? | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6ssjy/do_cardiovascular_side_effects_get_tolerance/ |
[deleted] | [deleted] | 2021-12-01T23:40:18.000Z | r6srzo | 2 | 2 | ADHD | Will I ever stop correlating my worth to my success/accomplishments? | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6srzo/will_i_ever_stop_correlating_my_worth_to_my/ |
[deleted] | [deleted] | 2021-12-01T23:38:53.000Z | r6squl | 4 | 16 | ADHD | I feel so incompetent at everything in my life | 0.95 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6squl/i_feel_so_incompetent_at_everything_in_my_life/ |
stelliferous7 | Like, do NT people have emotions that feel less intense? Or do their emotions last shorter? Does it take those with ADHD longer to stop feeling the emotion they are feeling at the moment? I guess I wonder how our emotions compare to the average neurotypical...I am curious. Thank you in advance for your reply, especially if it includes hypotheticals, etc. | 2021-12-01T23:37:52.000Z | r6sq10 | 2 | 5 | ADHD | NT emotional regulation vs ADHD emotional regulation | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6sq10/nt_emotional_regulation_vs_adhd_emotional/ |
[deleted] | [removed] | 2021-12-01T23:37:21.000Z | r6spmu | 1 | 1 | ADHD | I have just been prescribed Strattera | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6spmu/i_have_just_been_prescribed_strattera/ |
[deleted] | [deleted] | 2021-12-01T23:33:57.000Z | r6smyn | 1 | 1 | ADHD | My browser tabs reveal just how bad my ADHD gets when life is extra stressful | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6smyn/my_browser_tabs_reveal_just_how_bad_my_adhd_gets/ |
Ovrzealous | I did it again - I procrastinated on my project and now have 20 hours of work to do in 24 hours. I took an entire 8 week medical leave and went to an intensive outpatient program to stop doing this shit. I learned about dialectics and “acting opposite” to my feelings. I learned things like problem solving and doing pros and cons. And I still. Did this shit. Again. I have made ZERO progress.
Mental breakdown yesterday. Cried and cried about NOT WORKING. I didn’t work. I cried about NOT WORKING instead. And here I am doing it again. Crying about not working instead of just working.
I have tried stimulants. I have tried non-stimulants. I have tried turning my phone and computer off. I have tried breaking it up into 1000 tiny pieces. I have iced my neck and face to oblivion. I have tried therapy. And I have tried my old method of crying and beating myself up and having a panic attack to get started. I have even tried “just do it.”
Nothing has worked. I look at my laptop and time freezes. I blink and 30 minutes have gone by and I have done 3 problems. I need to do 1300 by tomorrow. I am fucking hopeless. I just want to die. | 2021-12-01T23:32:31.000Z | r6slw3 | 17 | 6 | ADHD | i am supposed to be better | 0.88 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6slw3/i_am_supposed_to_be_better/ |
[deleted] | [deleted] | 2021-12-01T23:32:03.000Z | r6slj5 | 1 | 1 | ADHD | Apathy and Exhaustion | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6slj5/apathy_and_exhaustion/ |
EchoedWinds | If I’m essentially always having things tailored to me, how do the needs of my spouse entwine or get met? It’s almost like living arrangements with a person like me is just like living in an abusive environment because of how tailored to one person it is? The complexity of rules and regulations is just overbearing for most I would say. And that’s just to be a FUNCTIONAL adult - let alone one that can complete tasks like organising social events, dates, life scheduling, parenting. Does anyone have any advice for managing their condition alongside committed relationships? | 2021-12-01T23:28:03.000Z | r6sief | 2 | 2 | ADHD | How do you manage ADHD without your relationship becoming one-sided due to management accomodations? | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6sief/how_do_you_manage_adhd_without_your_relationship/ |
Implantexplant | I think is just for people based in the US. I did an assessment online with a company called Cerebral a few months ago. They diagnosed me as having ADHD as well as very high anxiety. They prescribed me a non-stimulant ASHD medication and set up an appointment with a therapist for a month later.
I picked up the prescription but within a few days, stopped taking the pills because they made me feel as if something was sitting on my chest. I messaged the help desk to let them know. I never heard anything back from my point of contact. I stopped paying for the service and threw the pills away. Anyway, they kept messaging me. They sent the next prescription to the same pharmacy. Then the following month, they mailed it directly to my home. I assume because I hadn’t picked up the last one.
I am wrong in thinking this all seems very shady? Not sure if the company is legit although Simone Biles seems to be their spokesperson. | 2021-12-01T23:27:25.000Z | r6shxt | 3 | 2 | ADHD | Have any of you had any experience with Cerebral? | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6shxt/have_any_of_you_had_any_experience_with_cerebral/ |
timedragonchan | I'm a first-year in college, and whenever I try to do my assignments or plan out how I want to tackle them, I just get hit with this wave of anxiety and it doesn't allow me to focus. I had dealt with this in high school but it has gotten worse and my normal ways (dancing to a song, taking a shower, watching a short funny video, deep breaths) of dealing with it & getting over it aren't working anymore. Usually, when the due date of an assignment was getting close the anxiety would also disappear and I would be able to knock it out, but that isn't the case anymore.
Whenever I try to do my assignments, I just get super nervous and I get a sort of tightness in my chest (maybe fear?). My mind goes kinda blank, and it's just me trying to motivate myself to work on it, but I just can't.
I have ADHD and at the end of high school switched medications which I believe is causing this extra anxiety, but I don't have the ability to switch meds or go back to my old ones and I need to get my final projects done, but I am too anxious to focus. What should I do? | 2021-12-01T23:27:12.000Z | r6shrl | 6 | 3 | ADHD | Anxiety interfering with HW | 0.81 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6shrl/anxiety_interfering_with_hw/ |
I_AMA_Loser67 | My mother passed away this year sadly but growing up and even in college, she would say that me going to school was a mistake because I'm not as intelligent as my brother and sister. I can recall being described by teachers in school as being extremely smart but I just don't apply myself. The kindergarten teacher wanted to hold me back because I would never participate and just wanted to nap more than anything. But I aced the test that would allow me to move on to 1st grade. I know I drug my feet at the beginning because I couldn't handle the loss of my mom but I started taking antidepressants. But even without depressing thoughts, I couldn't motivate myself to get up to do things I knew I should have been doing or things I absolutely wanted to do. It was like some wall was holding me back.Even this semester as it ends in two weeks, I studied my ass off for a midterm. I knew every type of question that could've been asked on it. I knew the material. Somehow, ended up getting a 65 because I couldn't focus my thoughts during the test. Had a million things going off in my head at once. Also, it doesn't help that my sister and father don't acknowledge adhd as a real disorder. They just say I should try different techniques of studying and that I should visit an herb shop for remedies to boost thinking. But I remember taking natural stuff in school and I didn't like it at all. It didn't even help at all. I am considering getting myself a diagnosis soon but I just wanted to be sure that I truly am not as incompetent as my mother believed. Hearing my mother say these things growing up really hasn't given me the love for academics that my brother and sister have so I have kinda internalized that I may not be as smart as others. I know everything my classmates know in the class but I'm still somehow, underperforming in comparison to them when it comes to the test. | 2021-12-01T23:26:12.000Z | r6sgzb | 1 | 2 | ADHD | Afraid that my mother was correct | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6sgzb/afraid_that_my_mother_was_correct/ |
Bitter-Tea4882 | [removed] | 2021-12-01T23:23:48.000Z | r6sf42 | 1 | 1 | ADHD | I get that energy drinks give us “energy” but why do they make me focus so much more? | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6sf42/i_get_that_energy_drinks_give_us_energy_but_why/ |
not_another_feminazi | [removed] | 2021-12-01T23:19:41.000Z | r6sbuw | 1 | 1 | ADHD | 4 people called my name simultaneously, 2 of them started talking over each other with completely different issues. | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6sbuw/4_people_called_my_name_simultaneously_2_of_them/ |
[deleted] | [deleted] | 2021-12-01T23:18:30.000Z | r6sawv | 1 | 1 | ADHD | Adhd family frustrations | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6sawv/adhd_family_frustrations/ |
[deleted] | [removed] | 2021-12-01T23:12:25.000Z | r6s68t | 1 | 1 | ADHD | WHY CAN’T I STOP | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6s68t/why_cant_i_stop/ |
xiaogoucat | [removed] | 2021-12-01T23:07:57.000Z | r6s2rc | 1 | 1 | ADHD | It’s the first of the month! Don’t forget to pay your rent! | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6s2rc/its_the_first_of_the_month_dont_forget_to_pay/ |
[deleted] | [deleted] | 2021-12-01T23:05:52.000Z | r6s16c | 2 | 1 | ADHD | I feel so incompetent at everything in my life | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6s16c/i_feel_so_incompetent_at_everything_in_my_life/ |
__This___Guy__ | Hi everyone, when I (23M) was 15/16, I realised that I display the majority of the symptoms for someone with ADHD. I put it to the back of my mind for a while, until 3 or so years ago when I started realising that these symptoms have become much worse.
For the last 3 or so years, I've been trying to make myself book an assessment with my GP in the hopes of getting a referral. But, due to the extremely long process of getting a diagnosis, and not being registered with a GP (registering seemed like a bigger deal than it ended up being), I kept putting it off once again.
Fast forward to April / May this year, I finally registered with a GP. Called and booked a telephone appointment and ended up not being able to take the call because I forgot about it... and never booked it again.
I'm just putting this post out there in the hopes that it inspires me to call again tomorrow morning and book my appointment, book the day off of work, and then to put it in my phone's calendar so it reminds me on the day.
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\*\*UPDATE\*\*
I booked my appointment! Now I just have to pick up the phone in a couple of weeks... | 2021-12-01T23:04:44.000Z | r6s09i | 11 | 1 | ADHD | Hoping this will motivate me to actually book and attend assessment with GP | 0.67 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6s09i/hoping_this_will_motivate_me_to_actually_book_and/ |
LastandLeast | [removed] | 2021-12-01T23:04:13.000Z | r6rzsr | 1 | 1 | ADHD | REMEMBER IT'S THE FIRST PAY YOUR BILLS. | 1 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6rzsr/remember_its_the_first_pay_your_bills/ |
FreshestMilk | I (M24) had an appointment with a professional psychiatrist last Wednesday over a video call to discuss if I have ADHD or not. He asked a lot of generic “getting to know you” kind of questions and other questions trying to rule out whether I had depression or not. After that he asked roughly 20 ADHD related questions and told me to answer on the scale of Never - Always (1-5) as to whether the questions sounds like me. After answering most with either 4 or 5 he said that I meet all the criteria for combined type ADHD and prescribed me Strattera. The whole process seemed pretty informal and he seemed annoyed when I would ramble on and talk too much (kinda like he was just trying to get this done and over with). Is this considered a diagnosis or am I just overthinking it? The word diagnosis was never said and I read a lot of people on here had much more rigorous experiences with diagnosis’s. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated thank you :) | 2021-12-01T23:03:51.000Z | r6rzii | 24 | 9 | ADHD | Is this considered an official diagnosis? | 0.92 | https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/r6rzii/is_this_considered_an_official_diagnosis/ |
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