TIL using calendars and to-do lists means you have ADHD
Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer
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#82The 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…
Great idea, where can I buy one?
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#83ADHD is medicalizing a set of mental habits that many smart people form early in life partly out of boredom, and partly because they can get away with it. The criteria for diagnosing it in adults are impossibly vague and ad-hoc, and I have yet to meet anyone who went through the evaluation process who wasn't diagnosed with it. By all means have at it if you enjoy legal access to terrific stimulants (they really do he…
May we know where you got your Psychology, Psychiatry or Neuroscience degree?
At Appeal to Authority University
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have been personally diagnosed with ADHD and have benefited from medication but it doesn't come without its costs. My wife was diagnosed when she was very young and we've had a lot of time to run self experiments and discuss ideas. I don't think people want to hear this but I believe so many people think they have ADHD because of a lack of discipline. Even people with ADHD will understand what I'm talking about. So…
Yep, I know a lot of people who have the most horrible lifestyles who claim to have ADHD. I had previously been entirely useless in my life and claimed to be depressed. As soon as I made an effort to be happy and implement healthy coping mechanisms I quickly became a much more functional human being. I have found myself recently wondering if I have ADHD a lot. I'm starting to realise this may be the same thing and I…
> As soon as I made an effort to be happy and implement healthy coping mechanisms
What are some of the "healthy coping mechanisms"? Other than "diet and exercise" panacea nonsense?
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#85ADHD is medicalizing a set of mental habits that many smart people form early in life partly out of boredom, and partly because they can get away with it. The criteria for diagnosing it in adults are impossibly vague and ad-hoc, and I have yet to meet anyone who went through the evaluation process who wasn't diagnosed with it. By all means have at it if you enjoy legal access to terrific stimulants (they really do he…
>ADHD is medicalizing a set of mental habits that many smart people form early in life partly out of boredom, and partly because they can get away with it.
Spoken like a bona fide "bro" with no professional qualifications on the matter, not familiar with the research (except perhaps cherry-picked outlier stuff to reincorce their preconceived notion), and no personal experience of the devastating effects it has on the individual on all aspects of life (the very opposite of "getting away with it": professional and academic failure, social isolation, and other such outcomes, from the kindergadern -e.g. the "weird" stimming kid everybody bullies- to the grave).
But they sure do know some people claim to have it on TikTok when they don't, so the condition surely must not exist.
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#86ADHD is medicalizing a set of mental habits that many smart people form early in life partly out of boredom, and partly because they can get away with it. The criteria for diagnosing it in adults are impossibly vague and ad-hoc, and I have yet to meet anyone who went through the evaluation process who wasn't diagnosed with it. By all means have at it if you enjoy legal access to terrific stimulants (they really do he…
I get tired of hearing everyone claim they have ADHD. Or are sensitive to gluten. Or get sick from msg. Not realising the people who do actually suffer from these things are so few. But now it’s mainstream and cool.
https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_do_schools_kill_c...
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have been personally diagnosed with ADHD and have benefited from medication but it doesn't come without its costs. My wife was diagnosed when she was very young and we've had a lot of time to run self experiments and discuss ideas. I don't think people want to hear this but I believe so many people think they have ADHD because of a lack of discipline. Even people with ADHD will understand what I'm talking about. So…
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.
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
May we know where you got your Psychology, Psychiatry or Neuroscience degree?
At Appeal to Authority University
That's why we have universities, so that people can get legitimate claim to authority and familiarity with the subject and its nuances based on years of study and research.
Imperfect? Sure. But it sure beats the "trust me bro" university.
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#89A little off topic, but I recently realized I've been stimming for decades. I don't fidget or do any of the standard stimming techniques. What I do instead is explore the space I'm in with my eyes. Like right now, staring at a pen on my desk, after a few seconds my eyes start to explore other objects on my desk.
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#90ADHD is medicalizing a set of mental habits that many smart people form early in life partly out of boredom, and partly because they can get away with it. The criteria for diagnosing it in adults are impossibly vague and ad-hoc, and I have yet to meet anyone who went through the evaluation process who wasn't diagnosed with it. By all means have at it if you enjoy legal access to terrific stimulants (they really do he…
> ADHD is medicalizing a set of mental habits that many smart people form early in life partly out of boredom, and partly because they can get away with it. Spoken like a bona fide "bro" with no professional qualifications on the matter, not familiar with the research (except perhaps cherry-picked outlier stuff to reincorce their preconceived notion), and no personal experience of the devastating effects it has on th…
Considering doctors hand out Ritalin like skittles then you have to be pretty stupid to truly believe 75% of the population magically developed adhd over the last 70 years.