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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

For me it was hiding my emotions while dying of anxiety inside. I thought it was normal for people to have multiple streams of thought at once and to wake up with your mind immediately racing til bed. I did it though, college, kids, house, corporate IT career, until I couldn't handle the grind of daily life and burned out hardcore, several times. Also drank excessively for 20 years.

Thankfully, you can get treated for depression and anxiety for decades, then spend thousands of dollars to get an official ADHD diagnosis, maybe. And the stimulants make my anxiety and depression so much better, and they are super easy to get. Also, no one will question if you really have ADHD, support all the way. Then, back to the grind which you'll run right into with a smile everyday. I love it! It's the best!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Thanks, I hate it

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't it strange that we have a government-ran education system that seems to identify those with significant potential for social change/upheaval and then manages to turn them into aimless mental health cases without the necessary learned skills such as how to study, how to overcome challenge, etc? Surely that couldn't be by design to maintain the status quo and weed out or disenfranchise potential challengers to it before said challengers had a chance to inspire action, could it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 53 minutes ago (1 children)

Honestly, I don't think your thinking is correctly placed.

I do not think people with ADHD or other neurodivergencies are by design thought of, in first hand, as opposition Opposition that will be oppressors of the system. If anything, it's a second hand thought. Of course the surpressed will attempt to revolt on a personal or collective plane sooner or later. But really, I don't think people with ADHD are pre-identified as rebels by the system. I think it's more historicallly sensible that people with ADHD are just trouble inside school. They ask too much and remembers too little. It doesn't fit the practice of teaching. That's it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 minutes ago* (last edited 8 minutes ago)

I recognize the community, but I'm referring specifically to "gifted and talented" programs as referenced in the meme, not just ADHD.

I also recognize they were not originally intended to be filters for society and likely had good intentions at inception, so I'm suggested they have been co-opted as a means of social correction by evil actors over time

[–] [email protected] 15 points 12 hours ago

I'll be honest this makes me feel so much less alone. I should have completed my engineering degree by now, but honestly not blaming COVID itself but the situations around it and the isolation among other things sent me down a never ending spiral to the bottom. I come to learn I barely holding on by a thread most of my life and it started to unravel at 21-22. Getting ADHD takes forever in the UK, I just hope I can survive or find something to hold me up until that. I went from potential family top earner to a lost loser who is anxious when seeing people nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Wtf .. is this real?

I got diagnosed recently and don't want my job back. Freelancing is the way to go. Stay away from corporate culture, stay strong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

same, same, same, and same.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

Yeah I swear if they take away my meds and say just get over it

[–] [email protected] 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I'm my case it was an autism diagnosis but otherwise yes.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

For anyone reading this who may not be aware, there's a lot of overlap between the two diagnoses, and there's a chance you may have both.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

ADHD may actually be a spectrum disorder. I've seen a few studies over the last few years that suggest this.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

Sooo.. where do we go after stage 3? The meds just make me nap a lot :(

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

living out in the woods, getting dirt on your hands, and learning to work well with feelings again.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

Unmedicated, unemployed, and homeless. Like me.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 14 hours ago

Work with a therapist to improve coping strategies and improve your sleep hygiene. If the meds are making you nap, chances are it's because they're allowing you to relax enough to actually rest. Developing habits that help you to sleep better may help (I'm pretty terribad at it myself).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago

try different meds or take them at a different time of day, many people experience a "crash" when stimulance like adderall or medikinet where off.

I take part of my meds in the afternoon (unless i forget it again...) because that way they where off closer to bed time.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 minutes ago

Actually great advice, I need to brush my teeth

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Damn, brb, I'm gonna go put some stuff away even if I don't know where to put everything

[–] [email protected] 2 points 54 minutes ago

That was pretty good. I finally put away things that have been laying around for over a year.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Thanks. I’m going to get out of bed and socialize poorly tonight because of this.

Maybe I’ll report back tomorrow how poorly it went.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I just got back! It went well. I felt awkward half the time, but I got to have some real conversations with some old and new friends.

I have some new friends that I’ve only interacted with in really busy contexts, and it was nice to chat with them in a calmer space. I woulda missed the chance if I didn’t give it a shot tonight.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Happy for you partner!

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 22 hours ago

My psychotherapist often say to me (paraphrased) : What is worth doing is worth being done badly.

A thing done imperfectly is better than doing nothing at all.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

No some of us have been failures our whole lives, thank you very much.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah! There are dozens of us!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

Baker's dozens, even!

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 day ago (6 children)

If only we applied ourselves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 minutes ago* (last edited 17 minutes ago)

I do apply myself from 2-6 am until my eyes are dryaf and wont stay open

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, trying harder doesn’t work for us.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 16 hours ago

I think that's the joke. I heard this a lot growing up and it obviously didn't help.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

You shut your god damned accurate mouth.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago

NEVERRRRRRRR!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I've passed the third section and moved into the fourth, horrible section. "Diagnosed ADHD but no medication will work."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Went through most if not all of the stimulant treatments 15+ years ago. The most reaction I got was panic attacks for routine stuff at work. In the meantime depression has taken over, with similar lack of response to treatment.

I feel like I'm an onion inside of a Russian nesting doll stuck in a can of worms that tumbled out of Pandora's box and down the stairs to be kicked around the neighborhood by bored old timey kids before getting stuck in a storm drain and abandoned.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

Maybe what you're experiencing is an accurate emotional assessment of the state of our society.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I feel personally attacked, lol

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The funniest part is I had the diagnosis as a kid but no one did anything about it. They were just trying to figure out what was wrong with me. I got rediagnosed as an adult and got on medication.

I guess knowing about it meant I didn't have to spend years trying to figure out why I was considered gifted but couldn't get shit done.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 23 hours ago

I got told because I was good as a kid I couldn't have it. Our system is terrible at actually dealing with the issue.

Crazy part was I only started wondering if I had it after getting prescribed double Sudafed for bad cold/congestion and could suddenly focus

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