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I'm in a similar boat. But I am resisting meds. I always think I can pull it together with the right system and discipline. I wouldn't trade the creativity and hyperfocus for anyth…

> reviewed, retested, rechecked Think what this means though. You fit a criteria. Then ask why do we use this criteria? Trace the history of this criteria through the DSM. The crit…

I have ADHD. I don't medicate because I don't want to. Do I still struggle? Yes, a lot. For me, I keep getting stuck down rabbit holes despite what systems I put in place to avoid …

How do you know it was enough?

I suggest you read the paper ( https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2022.81476 ) which you dismissed. I have found that it summarizes most of the realizations I had fr…

> dependence https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2011.1... Your brain adapts. It's pretty obvious. If you give a mouse access to a button that triggers dopamine r…

> Measuring consumption is NOT easy for someone with adhd There are ample tools like screen time. Imagine being on meds for 10 years and then realizing that what you really needed …

May I ask: when you say you "tried everything and nothing worked"...was this before you knew about the existence of ADHD? The tragedy I find is that people first discover ADHD and …

> You just go back to the absolutely disfunctional state you were in before when you stop taking them. Your brain adapts by creating more dopamine transporters...meaning you need m…

You could have taken this advice for the opioid epidemic, and then it still would have affected you via family/friends. We've already been through this once.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2022.81476... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2626918/ https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2011.1..…

> You cannot reasonably ban social media at this point You can block it and measure consumption. This is easy. > 2. antidepressant Originally stims weren't suppose to be used if so…

> they need meds to function Once you start taking meds you develop dependence and so your definitely need them. But if there was a simpler environmental cause/solution, now that i…

> mostly you see news/social media amplifying ableistic... It's actually the opposite. It is now practically forbidden to criticize anything related with ADHD. After reading all th…

I would love to see a study on how banning social media impacts ADHD symptoms. The current wisdom is as soon as a diagnosis is made: go straight on the meds because there is minima…

> What diagnoses are we talking about I've only looked into depression[1] and ADHD[2]. The symptoms are real. The impairment is real. But the cause is unknown. > Americans have bee…

> _Emerging_ Neurobiology They key point is "emerging". You will find a lot of research, but there are no meta-analyses of brain imaging or gene studies showing any correlation to …

> Podcasts I used to be the same. But I find it just keeps me up more because there is so much potential for it to become interesting...even the most boring pods. Now I remove my b…

> people with ADHD...because their brains don't work like this. You might be surprised to find out that there is actually no proof of this. The biggest thing impacting people with …

> removing the phone from the room entirely. 100%. Started this recently. It works perfectly if you can withstand the withdrawals! The moment you start doing this, is the moment yo…

The biggest problem of our modern age is the removal of agency. We are being pathologized by pseudo-science all around us. When people mention "willpower", everyone today is lookin…

> but now sleeps daily an average of 7-8hours What was the trick?

Thanks for the perspective. Recently I've seen so many people being prescribed around me. And they are high-functioning people. And you have to question whether they actually need …

> some of the results of that can be seen in brain scans of ADHD vs regular brains, even if we don't know the exact cause of ADHD. And others don't... https://www.cam.ac.uk/researc…