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A casual community for people with ADHD
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I got to the part where it says Try being bored for 30 days, and it felt about that long by the time I got to that point, so I figure I’m cured now.
I thought “I’m always bored am I cured then?”
And my mind has always been like this even before social media.
If I read a book I hyperfixate on it and don’t put it down until I’m done which can be a whole 27 hours.
If I am talking with my partner or if I am trying to study my mind starts to wander thinking “Hmm. I wonder what we’ll fo for dinner tonight. Oh. But then we need the pan. I better clean the pan. Oh but these trash needs to be taken out but I don’t want to do that now I’ll just chill a bit. Oh were you talking to me?”
Existing is hard sometimes and it’s not because I’m looking at reels two times per month.
“Just try harder”
Evidently, that’s all it takes according to most people I know.
A very dear friend of mine, which unfortunately is a bit sheltered, couldn’t really understand how I can’t focus. “I also have to read a page several times to get the information to stick I don’t understand what you mean.”
And then I tried to explain that when I read a page my mind just thinks of other things and after several pages I realise that from like the 3rd sentence I have been thinking about other things. So I try to read them again and again and again. And It’s not like I’m actually reading I just go through the motions of turning the pages of my economy book while my brain is doing the equivalent of taking the ring to mordor.
This friend didn’t really understand how people could be depressed either “I mean. Just don’t be sad all the time. That’s what I do.”
@Tuss @Rhynoplaz I had a doctor tell me to just think happy thoughts.
Wait. Choosing your thoughts IS AN OPTION?!?
Later guys! Gotta use this and go turn my life around!
Having ADHD-like symptoms is not having ADHD. They’re different things. I appreciate you sharing, but this article, and the suggestions within it, will not help someone with actual ADHD. They may help someone who has developed ADHD-like symptoms due to a lifestyle not conducive of her/his neurotypical brain.
Dopamine detox is pseudoscience and the first suggestion of the article. Pass.
This article is weak sauce. The tips here might give you 5% improvement (made up number for illustrating) whereas proper treatment can get you a say 75% boost.
These tips aren’t wrong so much as just blaming your ADHD on behavioral or character flaws, something that in my and probably many other cases did as much harm as the actual disorder.
Bro just try the 30 day challenge. It’s the one trick that psychiatrists hate. Trust me bro.
Bro! I just tried the 30 day thing! It only took about ten minutes and now I don’t have ADHD anymore. Plus I now have two girlfriends that know about each other.
Damn bro, that’s whack! Turns out all we needed was the grindset mentality.
Definitely gonna read that later
This feels like it was written for neurotypicals that think they might have ADHD. If these tips help significantly, then they don’t have ADHD. Except therapy, we can all use therapy.
I have talked about VAST in a previous thread here but this bears repeating: a lot of neurotypicals, especially younger kids who grew up for several years on screen-based learning while the pandemic raged, have environmentally-caused ADHD-like symptoms, and we need to find ways to help them as well.
From ADHD 2.0 (highly recommend this book):
Their journey to addressing their brain issues will be different than ours but we can support each other in the meantime.
Identify the upside? Please give this a watch and reevaluate recommending a book claiming there are positives to ADHD. It is an expert, Dr Russell Barkley, whose career has been spent studying ADHD. https://youtu.be/26V6LCbKXJU?si=wPsq7S4iulu-cDQj
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/26V6LCbKXJU?si=wPsq7S4iulu-cDQj
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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Finally, I have a response to my BIL who believes “everyone has ADHD these days” 🙄 Frustrations aside, this is very informative. I’ll check out the book you recommended. My husband might actually have VAST, he sometimes feels like he might have ADHD but his symptoms aren’t consistent or severe, so he minimalises the problems he does have.
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This was definitely written by someone without ADHD who is tired of their “friends” not following their advice and still having ADHD
“Just don’t have the symptoms lol”
Yeah? Mmmkay…
I don’t mean to be an aggressive anti-capitalist (but I’m gonna), but the suggestion that the solution to “dopamine addiction” is to “throw yourself into your work” makes me extremely suspicious.