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The silent struggles of workers with ADHD
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are non-amphetamine medications available now that might work for your brother, and cognitive-behavioural therapy can really help too.
While this is true, it is also true that Amphetamine is the Powerhouse of the Cell
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Re: The silent struggles of workers with ADHD
#103This article is basically just one giant pharmaceutical advertisement. Consider this excerpt:
“I had a tough time grappling with the sorts of executive functioning that our world operates by, like being able to set up meetings, follow through with things, focus and be detail oriented,” he says. His manager had pointed out these failings for months, which is why his termination was hardly shocking.
Folks, learn how to use the tools that are available to you in order to schedule your workday. And if you are a manager then you have an obligation to train your staff in the use of tracking tools, which can be something as simple as post-it notes.
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#104This article feels like it was written for my brother. He's been fired, sequentially, 4 times in roles of progressively narrower scope/salary. From project manager (80k+) at a large NYC-BASED structured-cabling company to a billing coordinator position ( It makes me want to put my head into a pillow and scream because he's an intelligent, sociable and kind person but his mind just sits so juxtaposed from what these c…
There are non-amphetamine medications available now that might work for your brother, and cognitive-behavioural therapy can really help too.
+1
After 30+ years, I have found the non-amphetamine medications work a lot more consistently and helpfully than the amphetamine ones.
The one downside is that if your brother also ends up on SSRI's, he won't be able to use most of the non-amphetamine medications until he is done with SSRI's.
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#105>If I struggle with timeliness, you’re going to think I don’t care about my job. If I forget something, you might just conclude I’m dumb. If you struggle with timeliness or forget about things frequently I don't care what the reason is, you are out anyway. If I needed things done on time, it wouldn't matter to me if you were late frequently because you are careless or because you have an illness.
Oh, we know.
I often feel like a colorblind person who keeps getting reprimanded for mixing up green and red. As if, if they just penalized me a little bit more, I'd stop mixing them up.
The world is cruel and ok, it's not fair, but sometimes you just can't do anything but suffer and struggle on. Certainly it's the nature of the world that your strengths are usually ignored while your weaknesses are always thrown into sharp relief.
What else can you do? I'm certainly not going to just curl up and die.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
I went in an ADHD rabbit hole a week ago. I never considered my self suffering from it, my quirks were individual parts of my character! But now I highly suspect I have it. I lose focus all the time. For example, Going from doing laundry, to gathering dishes, and bringing out trash without finishing one of them. Or I can't read long articles with topics that are important for me but don't tickle one of my interests.…
> Or I can't read long articles with topics that are important for me but don't tickle one of my interests. Can't concentrate on boring things - surely that's normal? It feels like they're casting the ADHD net wider and wider and from reading the internet I'm starting to question whether my behavior fits into the ADHD category. And part of me wants it to so that I have a label that explains and excuses me. But how do…
> Can't concentrate on boring things - surely that's normal?
Normal people can concentrate if you pay them money to concentrate. ADHD people can't concentrate with such incentives, they are people who require intrinsic motivation to concentrate and money/other rewards aren't enough.
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#108I recently came across Tracy Marks' channel on YouTube [0]. I've been programming for a long time, but I only got neuropsych testing about 10 years ago. I was unambiguously diagnosed with ADHD, and I've been on stimulants ever since. Despite all that personal experience, I still found that her ADHD videos connected a lot of dots for me. The videos also give some practical advice that's working well for me. [0] https:…
How do you get neuropsych testing and how does it differ from the normal testing for ADHD? I have been diagnosed multiple times but I always wonder if I really have it. I was on medication for a while but stopped taking it.
Re: The silent struggles of workers with ADHD
#109This article feels like it was written for my brother. He's been fired, sequentially, 4 times in roles of progressively narrower scope/salary. From project manager (80k+) at a large NYC-BASED structured-cabling company to a billing coordinator position ( It makes me want to put my head into a pillow and scream because he's an intelligent, sociable and kind person but his mind just sits so juxtaposed from what these c…
Hey. Sorry to hear this. I have also been fired a bunch of times, and people describe interacting with me in the exact same way as you just described it. Your brother is consistently going for the wrong kind of job, from the sound of it. Operations jobs. I eventually succeeded when I switched to work that is more strategic and creative. I got really into language learning, blogging, website building, and then just fo…
I also run a bootstrapped company around with $10M reve as an ADHD founder. Drop an email to lucjan at surferseo.com, I’d love to chat and share experiences.
Re: The silent struggles of workers with ADHD
#110This article is basically just one giant pharmaceutical advertisement. Consider this excerpt: “I had a tough time grappling with the sorts of executive functioning that our world operates by, like being able to set up meetings, follow through with things, focus and be detail oriented,” he says. His manager had pointed out these failings for months, which is why his termination was hardly shocking. Folks, learn how to…
How effective would you be if someone stood behind you all day and interrupted you every minute or so on tasks that you found uninteresting? Would you perform at the same level as you would if someone wasn't interrupting you all the time? Would tools eliminate this problem or just mitigate it?