A bit like https://goblin.tools/?
Cognitive AI for ADHD
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Re: Cognitive AI for ADHD
#192It's a nice idea, but I suspect I'll use it once and completely forget it exists. Herein lies the problem with systems and products for ADHD, it relies on someone like me, with ADHD to actually remember to use it in the first place. That being said, I will play around with this and see what I think, but I'm coming from a place of scepticism with regards to apps and processes, because in my experience, I've tried probably hundreds of things, and they all went out of the window after a few days. I'm speaking from my own experience though, so maybe some folks with ADHD will get more out of this kind of thing
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
> isn't helping ADHD people be productive the same thing? Sure, if you believe the meaning of life is working as hard as you possibly can for no benefit until you die. Real people in the real world have passions, desires, hobbies. Chores, relationships, responsibilities. We have lives . If you've ever met someone with severe ADHD, you'd see that it affects your life deeply and can greatly decrease your quality of lif…
I'm not sure which part of what I wrote got you so triggered. I have ADHD, among other things. My ADHD isn't the same as your ADHD. Medicated, I'm able to do things and have a life. I have hobbies . Without it, my apartment's a mess and my life is in shambles and all I can do is scroll Reddit. I'm not sure why you took my comment so poorly, could you help me understand why? I'm sorry you have it too.
He and the other person explained in detail why each of your takes was bad, and your only response is "dude, you're triggered lol."
And you understand that as them "taking your comment poorly"?
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#194I have moderately severe ADHD, and have good reasons to not use medication. My first response to this is that it solves problems that I don't have, and ignores the ones I do have. Organizing my day on paper is trivial. I'm also married to someone with a good partnership, and we offload different types of tasks to each other. She might enjoy having software assistants to be more productive, but I don't need that. I ha…
I didn't know up until the last few years that I had ADHD, and had just always assumed that I was just crap at organisation and lazy. I've been through a degree, a masters and years of work using every trick in the book to force myself to work and not get distracted. I have super detailed plans, all of my work is accountable, I write down everything I have to do. It goes on and on how I micro-manage my day just to fo…
I assumed I wasn’t applying myself, or didn’t use the right learning style, or whatever else was being offered as a suggestion. It didn’t help that I was a kid in the early 90s, when Ritalin was getting big, and some parents (like mine) were staunchly opposed to medicating kids for supposed normal behavior.
I found much later in life that the only things that consistently motivated me were a looming deadline, or severe consequences to failure. The lone exception was computer puzzles, by which I mean things like “how do I get this obscure Chinese sound card running in Gentoo,” or “how does a file actually get written to a drive? oh look blkparse…”
About a year ago, I got an ADHD diagnosis for primarily inattentive type, and my life changed. There have been some tweaks here and there to medication and dosage, but the amount of focus I can now devote to tasks which previously would be monstrously difficult - like writing Jira stories - is amazing.
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
I prefer the procedure from 20 years ago. Where ADHD was defined by having the systems, and then testing every other thing that it could be. It took my son 2 months to be officially diagnosed. A real pain? Sure. But a heck of a lot better than the situation today where kids with chronic sleep deprivation are given an ADHD diagnosis, then sent home with a medication that masks the sleep deprivation while giving them i…
My ADHD medication (yes, stimulants - and a pretty high dosage in my case) causes me to slow down and sleep. Then I wake up about an hour or so after taking it and am a normal person. I was diagnosed as an adult, but this was always the case for me - as a teen I drank 3 redbulls in the evening and went to sleep, because I finally could as my brain stopped keeping me awake with millions of thoughts.
I would drink about a pot of coffee per day as a teenager, throughout the day. Never had any impact on my sleep either, which I always assumed was just tolerance.
Turns out once medicated, if I have caffeine after about 15:00 I’m in for a bad night. Brains are extremely weird.
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#196What's cognitive about this AI any more than other AIs?
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#197I have moderately severe ADHD, and have good reasons to not use medication. My first response to this is that it solves problems that I don't have, and ignores the ones I do have. Organizing my day on paper is trivial. I'm also married to someone with a good partnership, and we offload different types of tasks to each other. She might enjoy having software assistants to be more productive, but I don't need that. I ha…
Do you have any comorbidities with ADHD? My issue is moderate ADHD with severe anxiety. Wonderful combo.
This is also hard because effective treatment of the ADHD with medication may negatively affect the anxiety or worsen it.
Stimulants especially in some people can increase anxiety and so on. And the worst would probably be sleeplessness as a aide effect of the stimulants that would affect the anxiety.
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#198I have moderately severe ADHD, and have good reasons to not use medication. My first response to this is that it solves problems that I don't have, and ignores the ones I do have. Organizing my day on paper is trivial. I'm also married to someone with a good partnership, and we offload different types of tasks to each other. She might enjoy having software assistants to be more productive, but I don't need that. I ha…
In reading your replies.. you've got it straight, from another long time ADHDer. Tools are useful in as much as they help you control your attention. The only ones I've found truly useful are ER4SRs. (In ear monitors, -35DB to the environment. I listen to music while I work, at ~70DB. If you do the math about the only thing I can hear is a fire alarm... and that's about right. :) )
Can you really work while listening to music?
Having ADHD also, I can only perfectly focus if there is silence. Luckily I have over ear headphones that do noise cancellation when nothing is playing.
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
"all you need to do is focus" is what I read when I see an "ADHD help" tool/article/lifestyle/pleasegiveusmoneyscheme about 90% of the time. not just that it's made by people that don't have adhd, but people that haven't even read the modern science literature on the treatment and condition itself. it's frustrating!
So... ATTENTION is all you need?
AD(H)D: Attention Deficit (Hyperactive) Disorder
And yes, attention is all we need because we lacked it so much
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm hesitant to make any assumptions about your decision to not medicate, but if it has anything to do with addictive properties, you should look into guanfacine. I have very severe ADHD and was unable to use the common medications for the reason listed. This last year I stumbled upon guanfacine, which is usually a blood pressure reduction med, but is prescribed off-label as an ADHD med. It has no noticeable effects…
There are many more offlabel meds for ADHD eg Bupropion. Daniel Amen gives tailored recommendations for meds and supplements for each type in his book Healing ADD. There is one type he called Ring Of Fire, which can only be helped without meds. Highly recommended! https://www.amazon.com/dp/0425269973 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWnJ4wjVu9k
Ring of fire is BS and exists to marginalize certain people with ADHD in order to consider them a lost cause. Bupropion is not effective for ADHD.
Just want to warn people here. Follow-up warning: Don't trust psychs. Much like cops they're actively trying to ruin your life.