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Re: Ask HN: Feeling guilty for doing the bare minimum at work

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Post by throwaway389983 »

borski wrote: post #194
kdkdkskdn wrote: post #190

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Yeah seriously, what's the secret? I'm 32 and I was diagnosed when I was 20 but the drugs make me anorexic and mute my personality and knowing I have ADHD has not proven particularly useful, especially given that I already knew my tendencies and behaviors and had long since developing coping strategies The only way my life changed when I was diagnosed was that I got paid for the study I had signed up for, which requi…

Therapy/coaching, and don't give up on trying to adjust the medication. Finding the right dosage, and specific med that works for you, is tricky (I haven't found it yet, but am closer), but can be life-changing. There are a ton of new types of medications for ADHD now; far more than there used to be, when we basically knew stimulants helped but didn't know why. Still, for about 20% of people, medication simply doesn'…

I also recommend Scott Alexander's blog post on ADHD medication:

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/know-your-amphetamines

If you're not familiar with the author, he's an incredibly talented blogger whose day job is as a psychiatrist.

Re: Ask HN: Feeling guilty for doing the bare minimum at work

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Post by codpiece »

unicornfinder wrote: post #188
throwaway389983 wrote: post #174

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Same story. Founder, early 30s, a couple kids, just got diagnosed last year. Life-changing. Loved the Suster blog posts you linked. The book I liked was "A New Understanding of ADHD in Children and Adults".

As someone who highly suspects they may have ADHD, how was the diagnosis life changing? Was it through medication, or simply through understanding yourself better?

Just asked last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27514005

Re: Ask HN: Feeling guilty for doing the bare minimum at work

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Post by joombaga »

granshaw wrote: post #215
gryn wrote: post #161

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work from home has been great for me in that I can compress work into non 9-5 bursts. instead of slacking trough 8hours per day with an effective 2-3 hours of work for 5 days I take the 1 day(and/or night) were I work full concentration until exhausted (with small breaks) and take next day "off" (I'm connected still reachable in communication tools) to do personal stuff, side projects, watch TV, exercise, or just cho…

Daily stand ups that ask for updates kindof kills this, unless you purposely have uncommitted work and suddenly commit+push it during your “off” days

Why? Can't you be honest about how you work in your daily stand ups?

Re: Ask HN: Feeling guilty for doing the bare minimum at work

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Post by Aeolun »

garciasn wrote: post #230
nebula8804 wrote: post #198

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What did you do to solve it? I recently saw this Reddit post [1] and immediately booked an appointment with my doctor. He gave me the run around and asked me to book a 15 min call with another doctor to get an anxiety assessment. As soon as the call began they asked if I felt like I had ADHD. I said maybe and they stopped and said that they only diagnose anxiety. Now I am 200$ poorer(thanks American healthcare) and a…

Lexapro made me feel like I was on the come up for LSD or MDMA for the first two weeks I took it. It was, for lack of better explanation, as if I were plugged into an electric socket. After the first two weeks or so, things evened out and I felt much more normal but all of the good things Lexapro brought to me remained. This, from my understanding, is normal and you simply did not give your body/mind enough time to a…

I don’t think Lexapro did anything to me other than reduce my anxiety. Certainly no side effects in the first few weeks. I started at the lowest possible dose though.

I was also told that the effects only trigger after 2-3 weeks, so to not stop during the first.

Re: Ask HN: Feeling guilty for doing the bare minimum at work

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Post by Sophistifunk »

kdkdkskdn wrote: post #190
unicornfinder wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who highly suspects they may have ADHD, how was the diagnosis life changing? Was it through medication, or simply through understanding yourself better?

Yeah seriously, what's the secret? I'm 32 and I was diagnosed when I was 20 but the drugs make me anorexic and mute my personality and knowing I have ADHD has not proven particularly useful, especially given that I already knew my tendencies and behaviors and had long since developing coping strategies The only way my life changed when I was diagnosed was that I got paid for the study I had signed up for, which requi…

Try changing medication, although they're nearly all slightly different forms of amph, the differences are significant. For me, ritalin is just headaches, modafinil is less effective but wonderfully free of most side-effects, and dex is the most useful thing I can legally get.

Unfortunately modafinil is almost 10x the price of dex in Australia if you don't have narcolepsy, and the drug that I suspect would benefit me the most (adderall, a mix of dex and meth) is simply illegal.

Re: Ask HN: Feeling guilty for doing the bare minimum at work

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Post by Sophistifunk »

williamtwild wrote: post #183
borski wrote: post #150

Read up a bit on ADHD. That 'hyperfocus' that occurs either with deadlines or on a passion project is a symptom, as is the inability to get excited about projects you simply don't want to do - especially given your otherwise positive reviews and your ability to clear your mind and hyperfocus near a deadline, it's something to consider. I was diagnosed at 33, and it changed my life infinitely for the better. YMMV, and…

"as is the inability to get excited about projects you simply don't want to do - " Why is this ADHD and not just being human? This sounds so basic I have a hard time believing this is because of a condition.

The difference is that even if you want to do something, often you simply cannot if the rest of your brain isn't playing along.

Re: Ask HN: Feeling guilty for doing the bare minimum at work

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Post by gknoy »

masukomi wrote: post #171
uh_uh wrote: post #170

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Isn't it just rational not to get excited about boring stuff that is rewarded by a fix monetary ceiling? Economically it completely makes sense: why put more energy into something that yields the same result either way? Or maybe I have ADHD too.

it's not about not getting excited. It's the result of being "not excited". Neurotypicals can work on things that are uninteresting to them. ADHD people can sit there yelling at themselves to "do the thing" that they _know_ they need to do and still be completely incapable of starting regardless of how "easy" it is to actually do it once something forces them to actually start. this video does a good job of explainin…

Completely off topic (I think?), thanks for posting that video. Her entire channel seems full of things that can be useful to me.

Re: Ask HN: Feeling guilty for doing the bare minimum at work

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Post by gryn »

granshaw wrote: post #215
gryn wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

work from home has been great for me in that I can compress work into non 9-5 bursts. instead of slacking trough 8hours per day with an effective 2-3 hours of work for 5 days I take the 1 day(and/or night) were I work full concentration until exhausted (with small breaks) and take next day "off" (I'm connected still reachable in communication tools) to do personal stuff, side projects, watch TV, exercise, or just cho…

Daily stand ups that ask for updates kindof kills this, unless you purposely have uncommitted work and suddenly commit+push it during your “off” days

I do have daily standups toward the end of the day, and I just report the progress for the task at hand so far. I haven't told anyone that this is how I work but I don't bother to cook up the commit dates either.

it's not like I commit multiple times every single day, sometimes I'm working the conceptual design of the solution, doing some manual tests, finding representative datasets / test cases.

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