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  • odelik@lemmy.todaytoADHD memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comOnly the tip of it
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    8 days ago

    Adderall works great for me for pushing through the focus issues and inattention. However, my anxiety and rumination kept building and building until I had an anxiety attack and have since gone on an SSRI as well and after a week of upset stomach, and 3-4 weeks of feeling nothing, my anxiety melted away. The funny thing is, I honestly didnt know how fucking bad my anxiety was. I am an extremely self-relfective person, but that shit was hiding behind everything, and it took the attack for me to identify it.

    So, my advice is once you’re on a med that’s working for you, after about 2-3 months work with your psych and therapist to analyze whether you have anything else impacting you on top of the ADHD. Depression, anxiety and a few other mental health issues are comorbidities to ADHD and if you don’t treat those effectively, or let them hide behind you unknowingly like I did, you could suffer a mental health episode like I did.

    Medication is working great for me. The clarity and focus have been astounding. And I only was partially the way there with adderall alone.









  • But they don’t. They just formm small communities and slowly work their way back up to power.

    Might take 50+ years, but it’ll happen again and again until crushed out.

    I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, “no. get out.”

    And the dude next to me says, “hey i’m not doing anything, i’m a paying customer.” and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, “out. now.” and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed

    Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, “you didn’t see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them.”

    And i was like, ohok and he continues.

    "you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it’s always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don’t want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.

    And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it’s too late because they’re entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.

    And i was like, ‘oh damn.’ and he said “yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people.”

    And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven’t forgotten that at all.

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  • Man, if it wasn’t for the antagonistic shit riddled throughout that post I’d engage and cheer him on. And the way he talks about his girlfriend in that post is a little worrisome. He’s doing that same antagonistic shit when talking about her.

    He’s so clearly got main character syndrome and believes the world is out to get him. If he took the time to be self reflective in his personal interactions as much as he did about his physical health he might be a person I could actually engage with.


  • Do not treat neuro divgerent people with training wheels.

    I’m neuro divgerent and it pisses me off when people treat me differently. Yeah, I’ve got my shit, and I often need things explained to me with clear guidelines, rules, and expectations.

    But one thing my neuro divergence doesn’t grant me is the ability to act like a shit stain and get away with it while prodding everybody around me antagonisticly.