If I could get over the problem of over-listening to a song, I could live in eternal bliss.

Odd enough, this is among the things I can only relate to AFTER starting meds. Before that, unthinkable.

My own diagnosis: I had super-ADD, and thanks to meds, I now have normal ADD.

At least in Germany, it’s hopeless. I just paid the whole thing out of picked, in addition to my EUR 1,100 insurance premiums.

I knew memes can save a life! Just need to up the dose and try to scroll 3 % more every day.

Me in executive dysfunction, imagining how sweet it would be to be done with the task:

That is also my understanding: You may or may not a “habit person” almost regardless of ADHD, but starting it is harder, and losing it easier with ADHD.

I hope that was the only problem in my case, and we’ll see in a couple of weeks.

During therapy it might be best to start, so there is someone who supervises it and calls you out. Maybe being active in a community like x-effect. Any kind of accountability entity.

Understandable, and my additional simplification from an already simplified youtube video doesn’t help. He also says that habits don’t work well for some people in a DIFFERENT video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVvYn9jkZYQ

Here is the one I talked about where he says they DO work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq6K7yxaNaM

That’s always been the curse of TV doctors long before the internet. Simplification & telling what they want to hear wins the biggest audience.

I don’t see how how “neurotransmitters work across the whole brain” disproves this; it’s still neurotransmitter dysfunction in the prefrontal cortex that are mostly responsible for ADHD. (Could be very wrong there, not an expert.)

Here is the context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq6K7yxaNaM&t=266s

When I suddenly fixate on a food, the shelf is not restocked, and even 2 or 3 days later, I can’t buy it again.

Feel like “Truman Show”, as if the store and other shoppers are just some illusion for me and they can only restock in great numbers what I usually buy.

Edit: Can’t believe it’s happening to so many others here!

Dr. K. put it like this in a video: Habit forming is not in the frontal lobe, and is not directly affected by ADHD.

It has not worked for me yet, but I’m currently trying again. I suspect that, indirectly, ADHD does play a role, and additional tricks are needed, but I have hope.

Oh she might be me.

It is with great grievance that I had to put an end to this and install a plugin that closes the oldest one when I get over 15 (Limit Tabs). (Actually, that is only great, unless I’m in a shopping decision frenzy and actually need this.)

I find that it belongs here, as anxiety and ADHD can play right into each other.

ADHD will very typically lead to missed deadlines, for example: Already getting the 2nd demand note on something you had to file, apartment is a mess but the landlord comes over in a few hours to inspect something, work.

Now anxiety can trigger when there is nothing to be anxious about, that’s what makes it pathological, but it does NOT get better when there really IS something to be anxious about.

And when anxiety peaks, ADHD can make it feel differently. Just like a regular task that becomes an unmanageable tangle of unordered steps and potential escalations and obstacles rather than a clear series of steps, ADHD can also make the perceived consequences of a missed deadline more chaotic and harder to process, reason and think yourself out of.

I agree that it’s not a good answer to the question “What does it feel like to have ADHD?”, but microblogging is all about simplifying and giving one example, from a layman perspective who will not be able to draw a clear line between the related ailments she has.

https://lemmy.ml/post/4902066

Pets are so nice, and I think about them every day. But after the last 8 year period where I took care of them every day, I had to take a break and stopped getting new ones.

It’s this one extra thing. A day has you beat down completely, you feel like you could just pass out on the floor, but the pets need the full program with cage cleaning and everything. Vet appointments that can hit any time. A dying, suffering pet and the vets are closed on weekends and holidays (we have no clinics here, just ONE emergency vet for 250,000 people).

It is very, very likely that there is a better option for you. Just to name one: You could get methylphenidate (or even Vyvanse again) and use it only as needed. A lot can get done in 10 or 20 “power-days” per year, even when you just drag along for the rest of it.

I didn’t love feeling drained at the end of the day when I crashed

That can be eliminated completely: Don’t let the loss of appetite fool you, eat by exact calorie count & clock, against all instincts. Don’t take it in the morning without enough food either. After anything that would require a rest otherwise, such as a long walk, even after lunch when you didn’t have enough sleep at night, certainly after a workout, take as much rest as you’d normally need, even when you don’t feel like it. Even 20 minutes cleaning, 10 minutes rest; don’t go into a cleaning frenzy.

It goes to zero. (Experiences may vary, but I went from crashing after 3 - 4 hours to no crashes at all, being happy and productive after 14 minutes awake, then fall asleep instantly.)

I did NOT get medicated. The problem is that it resulted in a huge number of minor traumatic experiences: Isolated in class, because I don’t keep up with topics of conversation such as trading cards, games, sports. Less successful even with the things I’m passionate about, sometimes due to trivial things such as missing training day or forgetting my equipment. Delaying things until they become a huge problem, then doing them in a painful adrenaline-filled frenzy. Pain from forcing myself to just do something such as homework or cleaning.

You did a great thing getting your son diagnosed so early! I can’t even imagine where I would be if I had that asset in my life, to just know.

I suggest to go with the science rather than anecdotes of strangers. Is the diagnosis certain, and is the benefit of medication clear? Is it the best option? From what I read, it often is, but not always.

For my own child, as it so happens also 7 years old, I’m going to do it. There are significant problems at school that make the choice easier. But I’m also using other means such as fidget toys in class and a wobble cushion.

Not looking forward to that … I slowly increased the dose over 6 months as effects were fading, but I’m near the normal adult dose.

Would Modafinil work during the “holidays”? It has a very decent effect on me, although with huge side effects, but things get done and it should not (as I understand the matter) have cross-tolerance with a stimulant.

Worst mistake I keep making: I think “I did it 2 days ago, don’t need to today.”

The reality is: Having less than one load of dirty laundry is a theoretical state that is rarely reached.

It’s an illusion, caused by stacks of laundry that “don’t count”, because they are wool and I’m waiting for a full load of wool (in reality, they add up already), or they have some other kind of “special status”.

Or heck, let’s just only ever start when there is nothing to wear, or the laundry bin is overflowing.

That is a method which actually worked out, for years! Just now, with a child, I use a dishwasher.

One big regret: As a single, I should have bought one of those tiny dishwashers that don’t need installing and can just be filled with water on top.

Which ones do you find bad?