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Follow Jesse Anderson's Extra Focus substack (there's a book too), his newsletter helps you understand ADHD much more than anything I know of. And there are useful tips too. Remember, if it works for you, it's not weird :)
Thanks!! I don't trust every Jesse Anderson's advice on adhd https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Anderson
Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer
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#692As someone with ADHD, i found the horrible illustrations so distracting I couldnt finish the article...
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The good thing is that while getting started sucks, if you're consistent with it you can train your mind to seek out and crave long term goal progress and completion in the same way you can train your body. Just don't forget to be in the present.
> if you're consistent with it you can train your mind to seek out and crave long term goal progress and completion in the same way you can train your body. How? I mean, one of my major symptoms is that I can't for life do either! "Training my body" doesn't feel like something natural or within range of possibility.
If you force yourself to do something that sucks for long enough, you start to at-minimum get used to it, and at-best you start to need it.
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Paradoxical effects are not uncommon. My DNA is weird. I have lots of them. One example, is opiates make me MOVE. Most people they zonk out, not me. I'm ready to move your house, one brick at a time, with my bare hands and feel like I could knock it out in about an hour. Proton Pump inhibitors are common meds for acid reflux. About 10 years ago, I did a genetics study (I worked at the lab, and my data stayed mine) an…
New research doesn't seem to support that stimulants have a paradoxical affect on those with ADHD (the sources cited were pretty interesting in my opinion). I'm not saying it's not possible for some, but it seems like people make it out to be far more common that perhaps it truly is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradoxical_reaction
In my specific case, it's a simple fact.
It may not be everyone's issue, but cases like mine do exist. It's not better or worse, it's just how it is.
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I have migrated toward process and disaster recovery/avoidance over time. In the last ten years I have spent a lot of time thinking about the latter because everywhere I have ever worked, if an emergency goes on long enough I am one of the last three people still having a coherent thought at the end, and often the only person with enough brain cells to summarize what just happened and propose a 5 Why’s theory. Which…
I’m using chunk of my A-game days to improve the results of my B- and C-days. This means automating and simplifying things as much as possible. In work, hobbies and life in general. A-days are rare, and even though they are very productive, the output is mostly generated on B and C. Being able to progress even on the bad days shies away the meltdowns and burning out.
Maybe half the time o slay dragons on those A game days, but if there is not some big problem needling me I’ll work on smaller things.
I suppose this is true of lots of people, I just have different categorizations for what constitutes a dragon.
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#696Whoa. This is the first article on ADHD that wasn’t a flaming pile of shit. Only thing I would add to this is “don’t forget to use your wheelchair aka adhd meds. No sense making your life more difficult than it needs to be.”
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#697The Blinking LED, A simple Hack that still works for me after years: 1. Place a tiny LED (red or yellow) by the side of your monitor or virtually on the screen corner. Basically anywhere almost bordering your field of view. 2. Make it blink like a fast heartbeat (120-150 bpm) and gradually slowdown to around 60 bpm (or your slow heartbeat base). Make the slope approx 20 to 60 minutes (you can adjust the best rate by…
Bruh, I think you’re onto something here. Definitely going to try this. Thanks a mil
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The fact you lost the paperwork should be a pretty damn good indicator and this part made me laugh out loud. I'm glad to have been simply diagnosed by someone who just accepted my story as true. All this talk about diagnosis is just bizarre. It's not a 0-1 sort of thing, they have to trust you. Unfortunately you have to be confident and assertive because they will gas-light you in the name of being 'careful'. Sports…
Now do remembering to fill your medicine when you're off your medicine :) you need extreme executive loading to argue with insurance and RXs especially with the supply chain issues.
This has caused so many extremes in my life that I know actively avoid stimulant medications even though they objectively improve my quality of life. I wish excruciating agony upon the DEA and anyone who supports the current schedule system. It is just torturing the ill so that mediocre busybodies can feel superior without actually accomplishing anything.
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Now do remembering to fill your medicine when you're off your medicine :) you need extreme executive loading to argue with insurance and RXs especially with the supply chain issues.
It always bothers me how the procedure for getting ADHD meds is the single most ADHD unfriendly procedure in existence.
Blame the War on Drugs and our asinine DEA with drug scheduling that is completely decoupled from science and reality. Never vote Republican, they just enjoy torturing the sick.
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Exactly. So so so many people do not understand this element of psychological disorders
The D in ADHD is “disorder”, which normally means you can’t function socially, at work, and/or take care of yourself. Normally I don’t consider scatterbrained knowledge workers in the top 5% of the income distribution to be in that category. It is kind of fun so do work on speed though!
Others have responded to you as if you weren’t being disingenuous, so I will respond as one should to people like you: go fuck yourself.
Anyone that dismisses this as being a scatterbrained person that likes to do speed is clearly not trying to help anyone and are only here to tear them down and make them hate themselves more than they already do. The world would be a better place if trash like you was collected and disposed of. Grow up, asshole.