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Re: For some with ADHD, the low rumble of brown noise quiets the brain

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Post by P_I_Staker »

samtho wrote: post #183
lynx23 wrote: post #155

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Legal tweaking?

It is only because of shit opinions like this that the stimulant medications (which many ADHD sufferers are prescribed) are still so difficult to get. Draconian laws based on racist and classist ideals by non-medical professionals created 50 years ago make these life-changing medications difficult to use uninterrupted due to the excessive amount of regulation surrounding just getting them filled at a pharmacy. These…

I'm so angry. Cut off from STIMs, maybe for life, and the psych basically just told me to give up my career.

Adderall is not a very good recreational stimulant.

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Post by ducharmdev »

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #207
etempleton wrote: post #54

I don't know if I have ADHD, but if I do an online survey it says I most probably definitely do. I was never diagnosed as a child because I largely functioned as a kid and was quiet and non-disruptive, but looking back the signs were all there. Fast forward as an adult I have a number of coping mechanisms and one of them is to have something on in the background. I have never associated the effectiveness with the noi…

> It is ideally something I already know. Yes. I've listened to some albums 100s of times and they are so familiar they aren't distracting but actually help me focus. If I listen to something interesting and new it's harder to focus. If I listen to primarily speech (Howard Stern, podcast, etc.) forget it.

For me it's the Twin Peaks soundtrack

Re: For some with ADHD, the low rumble of brown noise quiets the brain

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Post by sph »

etempleton wrote: post #54

I don't know if I have ADHD, but if I do an online survey it says I most probably definitely do. I was never diagnosed as a child because I largely functioned as a kid and was quiet and non-disruptive, but looking back the signs were all there. Fast forward as an adult I have a number of coping mechanisms and one of them is to have something on in the background. I have never associated the effectiveness with the noi…

> I was never diagnosed as a child because I largely functioned as a kid and was quiet and non-disruptive

Those pesky ADHD-Impulsive giving us a bad name.

Same here, diagnosed but I was the most calm and polite kid ever. The hyperactivity is inside my head. There's a hamster running in circles at 9000 RPM and it's never taken a break.

"You're overthinking it", people say to me. You have no idea.

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Post by justinclift »

k__ wrote: post #212
Gene_Parmesan wrote: post #145

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Same, except aged 28. I completely randomly happened to stumble upon a detailed description of inattentive ADHD, and had the thought, "Hmm, I wonder how doctors are able to differentiate between someone who has these symptoms and has ADHD, and someone like me who has these symptoms but doesn't have ADHD." Then it hit me like a brick wall. Now I understand the phrase "it was like time stopped." Blinders came off and I…

I thought about getting diagnosed too, but to be frank, while I certainly wanna try those meds, I don't wanna take them for the rest of my life, let alone pay for them on a regular basis.

Yeah. Also, some countries still treat anyone with any kind of official mental "unusualness" as needing to be thrown in a looney bin. :(

Additionally, it's an unknown how long the current acceptance of ADHD (etc) will last in modern / western countries. We could just be going through a limited-time golden period.

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Post by P_I_Staker »

sunjester wrote: post #113

I was diagnosed at 6, given several medicines, I stopped taking them around 12/13 because they just didn't help. Nothing helps but illegal drugs.

huh, do you mind elaborating on how you medicate? Legal substances can actually have beneficial effects: alcohol, caffeine, cannabis.

I'm guessing you would do coke or meth. MDMA would technically work. I'm in desperate need of stimulant medication, and if things are still bad in the next 5 years or so, I will have to get creative.

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Post by P_I_Staker »

eyelidlessness wrote: post #43
klysm wrote: post #28

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I don't think anybody is diagnosing themselves with ADHD over this, but if you have ADHD it seems like a good thing to know. I definitely agree smoothed brown noise > brown noise though.

I’m not an ADHD emissary but… please folks, self diagnose. Don’t self treat, that’s what we do anyway. If you think you have ADHD, take it seriously until you don’t. If you’re still taking it seriously, talk to a professional. We’re wildly underdiagnosed, and you’re probably right.

Yeah I would argue ADHD is almost self diagnoseable. The biggest issue is similarity with depression or bipolar.

ADHD people can seem more bipolar than bipolar people, because the average person doesn't understand these conditions. They would observe someone that's very mercurial and moody, and say it's definitely bipolar.

Bipolar is a state that lasts for and extended time, days to weeks. It doesn't mean you're euphoric in the morning, but depressed two hours later. That could be many things including ADHD.

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Post by SyzygistSix »

devmor wrote: post #136
annie_muss wrote: post #98

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I strongly disagree with this opinion, even though it is sadly common. Go speak to an adult with ADHD, listen to them and find out the real pain and anguish experienced by someone with ADHD. Many people desperately want to do well in school, have a career and successful relationships but are held back by their disorder. Instead, they experience joblessness, poor human relationships and unfulfilled dreams. People with…

I am halfway between agreeing with both of you. There are many symptoms of ADHD that I consider severe impairments - especially the short term memory loss. However there are symptoms of it that I prefer over my state of my mind while medicated. The freedom of direction of thought is much more pleasant than the drive to focus intensely on one task - but is simply at odds with the world around me driven by productivity…

That isn't an issue for me when I am medicated. When medicated I have the ability to choose whether to focus or not, unlike when I am not medicated and focus is elusive at best.

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Post by FollowingTheDao »

Acoustic white noise ameliorates reduced regional brain expression of CaMKII and ΔFosB in the spontaneously hypertensive rat model of ADHD https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S245183011...

Early continuous white noise exposure alters l-α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole propionic acid receptor subunit glutamate receptor 2 and γ-aminobutyric acid type a receptor subunit β3 protein expression in rat auditory cortex

White noise and ADHD https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C10&as_vi...

Noise Exposure Alters Glutamatergic and GABAergic Synaptic Connectivity in the Hippocampus and Its Relevance to Tinnitus https://www.hindawi.com/journals/np/2021/8833087/

Gene Expression Identifies Distinct Ascending Glutamatergic Pathways to Frequency-Organized Auditory Cortex in the Rat Brain https://www.jneurosci.org/content/32/45/15759.short https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jnr.22232

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Post by jackallis »

etempleton wrote: post #54

I don't know if I have ADHD, but if I do an online survey it says I most probably definitely do. I was never diagnosed as a child because I largely functioned as a kid and was quiet and non-disruptive, but looking back the signs were all there. Fast forward as an adult I have a number of coping mechanisms and one of them is to have something on in the background. I have never associated the effectiveness with the noi…

this is me 100%.
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