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  • AddLemmus@lemmy.mltoADHD memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comOh dear
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    6 days ago

    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!




  • AddLemmus@lemmy.mltoADHD memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comEvery day
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    13 days ago

    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).




  • 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.