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I completely relate. One thing that has helped me is to employ the following workflow: 1. Use the "Add to reading list" feature in Safari. 2. Reward myself* 3. Before bed, I use a TTS** app to listen to those articles. *Important step to give yourself a hit of dopamine, however small. The lack of which is the reason for not being able to control this impulsivity in the first place. **Text to speech
Find a job you truly love and allow it to take all your attention.
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I think some people need to go very puritanical to survive and to succeed in the modern world with its almost-constant easy access to entertainments, distractions and mental stimulations. I'm probably one of them. And the meds I have tried typically prescribed for ADHD have done more harm than good. Specifically I've tried Ritalin, Adderal and modafinil. Actually that is not true: modafinil did more good than harm, a…
I'm not denying that some people have a harder time than others, but to restrict an ADHD brain is not unlike repressing a child. The "distractions" are only distractions to an orderly system - it does not imply that your brain is inherently disorderly, only that it doesn't mesh with the order defined by our society. Learning to reconcile the gap between your natural strengths as an ADHD individual and those needed to…
I think that that is just how the human motivational system works: there is a set point, and if for example I get hit by a car and lose the use of my legs, my life gets much suckier for a while, but a month or so after I have settled in to being paralyzed (i.e., I have gained enough experience with it to have a practical understanding or knowledge-grounded-in-lived-experience of all the significant new constraints on my life) I will be about as happy or as miserable as I am now.
Would you agree with my theory of the set point?
If so, what I am missing? I don't see anything wrong or irrational about the manner of living described in the original comment that you disagreed with, namely,
Pi Hole with my own blocklist. That is, I block all of my problem sites, then let someone else set my pihole password and then I delete my ssh key off the server. Then on the phone, remove all apps that allows consumption (social media, games, readers, youtube, even the browser). Debloat it with adb too. Switch off all notification except for your main chat app (like whatsapp) and alarms. If still too distracting, se…
I would also add to all of this if you have the ability to work in person with your screen visible it may help you to keep on track if you feel pressure of being "caught" slacking. Research "body doubling" multiple approaches to this.
Above might seem extreme but some tricks like this can help you use your other psychological traits as a stick against your adhd trait (because we all know the carrot only lasts temporarily).
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Everyone who doesn't have it talks about it more or less like the way you did, "oh... why don't they just learn to control it like me instead of having all these rules". My comment is highly presumptive because your comment was extremely stereotypical of people who make light of it, maybe stop using words like 'puritanical' when describing what works for other people. Your impairments might be light to non-existent,…
Once again, you're being presumptive. I have a rather severe case of ADHD co-morbid with PTSD, and nothing that I've stated as a solution is easy. If anything, it requires more discipline than simply cutting out temptations. You will need to learn to recognize when "it's time" and step away to re-calibrate. This requires knowing oneself and being transparent about your problems with others. The routes described prior…
What works for someone else may not work for you and vice versa, that's okay, it doesn't have to turn into you two being condescending assholes to each other or accusing the other of faking ADHD.
The question was how you personally deal with your ADHD and they answered with what they do personally to deal with their ADHD, stop shitting all over them and talking down to them for being on topic. If you wanna give constructive advice you can do without being a jerk about it.
Drugs.
Indeed. Not necessarily the drugs everybody thinks though. Zolpidem (5mg taken in the morning when you are well-rested) apparently does magic - totally nails ADHD. I have never been nearly this alive, present (attentive, mindful), concentrated, non-lazy for the whole day. Better than anything (I have experimented with almost everything in light doses) to enhance my day. I suspect ADHD has something to do with GABA de…
Set "noprocrast" to yes, "maxvisit" to 30 and "minaway" to 1000.
You'll basically get one 30-minute session per day that way, before the site kicks you out.
For funsies, I recommend setting "showdead" to yes too. Get some really weird unhinged shit, mostly from this one guy who keeps blaming the world's problems on the Jews.
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Indeed. Not necessarily the drugs everybody thinks though. Zolpidem (5mg taken in the morning when you are well-rested) apparently does magic - totally nails ADHD. I have never been nearly this alive, present (attentive, mindful), concentrated, non-lazy for the whole day. Better than anything (I have experimented with almost everything in light doses) to enhance my day. I suspect ADHD has something to do with GABA de…
Have you been taking it long-term? I see that it's only recommended for short-term usage.
I also don't drive (at all - this is Ok in the EU). Don't try daytime zolpidem if you do - even the theoretical risk is too much because you are not risking health issues, you are risking death in such a case, also of random innocent people.
Oh, by the way, I probably should have mentioned this for sake of potential reproducibility: I currently am on the daily piracetam + lion's mane + vitamins&minerals stack and I also took royal jelly the days I experimented with zolpidem. Perhaps zolpidem wouldn't cure ADHD and would just make me sleepy if taken alone (the substances mentioned didn't have such an anti-ADHD effect without zolpidem though).