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Re: Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?

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SpeedilyDamage wrote: post #359
kennedywm wrote: post #356

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Here's what a typical primary care physician will do: prescribe you non-stimulant ADHD medication with potentially terrible side effects and since those don't work for a lot of people, they will move on to prescribing amphetamines with terrible side effects. Most physicians receive little training in nutrition (I believe one class is standard). You should consider reevaluating your blind faith in physicians (they wer…

People like you kill others because of your ego. You should feel deep, profound shame and guilt for how much damage you cause to society. Your ideas are how we got the Ivermectin craze, for example. Shame on you.

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Re: Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?

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Post by martin82 »

Stop eating carbs alltogether. Try carnivore diet for a few weeks and introduce some veggies, buts, berries, cheese after that.

ADHD was non existent 30 years ago. Now suddenly everyone and their kids get diagnosed for it. What has changed is a complete sedentary lifestyle and a ridiculous overdose on carbs.

Do not believe your docs for one second that there is something inherently broken with you that definitely requires medication. Your body and brain are fine. You must tweak your diet.

Re: Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?

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Post by 1123581321 »

SpeedilyDamage wrote: post #360
rocqua wrote: post #294

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A suggestion to look into something, with links to start the research, on a forum like this. Totally fine. People can do their own research on this forum, if someone is on special meds, they are smart enough to check with doctor before implementing something weird. Besides, a dietary change is going to have slow effects, plenty of time for correcting mistakes.

It's not "totally fine" it's wildly irresponsible and dangerous, and frankly should be banned.

I was glad that he shared what helped him, and after reading your plea to prevent people from accessing this information, doubly so. You should especially be ashamed for trying to keep people struggling with mental health issues in that state.

Re: Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?

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Post by stephenitis »

edavis wrote: post #101
NotPractical wrote: post #92

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How do you remove the desktop-switching animation on macOS? I'd like to use the virtual desktops feature but the animation is unbearably slow, and I was unable to find a way to disable it online even after extensive searching. Afaik "just use Linux" still isn't an option on my 2019 (Intel) MBP due to lack of support for basic stuff like Wi-Fi and keyboard :(

System Preferences > Accessibility > Display > enable "Reduce motion" Though I think this reduces motion on everything, not just the virtual desktop animations. I don't mind that but YMMV.

Wow. Thank you so much too!

Re: Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?

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Post by SpeedilyDamage »

1123581321 wrote: post #373
SpeedilyDamage wrote: post #360

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It's not "totally fine" it's wildly irresponsible and dangerous, and frankly should be banned.

I was glad that he shared what helped him, and after reading your plea to prevent people from accessing this information, doubly so. You should especially be ashamed for trying to keep people struggling with mental health issues in that state.

Talk to a medical professional before engaging in any change to your diet or medication, especially if you have mental health issues.

This kind of thing is how you spiral out of control, I've seen it dozens of times. You and anyone else struggling need to find QUALIFIED people to help you, not random Internet people.

Your life literally depends on doing what I'm saying here, not in experimenting with fad diets and snake oil medications.

Re: Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?

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Post by locopati »

Push for changes within your organization to make Slack more functional. Maybe the kinds of requests that happen in Slack need to happen from a webform that automagically creates tickets that get triaged. Maybe Slackbots can help automate some things that are requiring manual responses. I bet you're not the only one struggling with this. ADHD is like the early warning system for dysfunctional environments.

Re: Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?

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Post by aussieshibe »

gingerlime wrote: post #337
zztop44 wrote: post #144

I don’t have ADHD but I get very distracted by Slack. Here’s what worked for me. 1. Slack app uninstalled on my phone. If I need it for something, I install it, use it, then delete again. 2. Slack app on my laptop fully closed by default. 3. Set times (about 5 a day) to check in and respond to notifications and scan channels. When I was a senior manager with lots of actually important messages these blocks were about…

Fantastic advice! one (optional, but highly recommended) to add: turn off your presence/away status. Just because you’re online does not automatically give permission to bug you. This however goes both ways. So make sure you do eventually respond to others. But there’s no expectation of replying right now.

I turned off presence in early 2020 and I've never looked back. Far fewer people ping me about things I don't care about now.

I think expecting to get a reply instantly is a big part of why people bother you on Slack. Having to wait for a reply seems to cut out much of the noise.

Re: Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?

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Post by junon »

To be honest, this isn't an ADD thing. This is poor management. Don't think you're an outlier here, I'd be shocked if anyone was getting anything done.

First, uninstall work comms from your phone and from personal devices (unless explicitly mandatory of course).

Second, mute all channels except the ones you actually need notifications for. Mentions will still show bubbles and can still show notifications but messages that are irrelevant will not.

Put a permanent slack status that reads something like "Ping me if you need me, otherwise I probably won't see it!" with a :warning: emoji as the icon.

Finally, if you're still getting too many notifications, talk to your manager about the productivity and distractions problem. Do not make it about your ADD. It won't matter to them in the typical case, and doesn't actually signal to them it's a problem they can solve. Instead, speak about it in the context of a team distraction. I guarantee you with that many channels, you're definitely not the only one thinking this.

Just a tip about the muting: You can manage the channel categories in slack, putting most of the channels into their own category, and then muting the entire category by right clicking on the category title.

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