• wren@feddit.uk
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    2 months ago

    AuDHD and completely caffeine free (and stimulant/meds/drugs free too). Caffeine definitely doesn’t work for me like it does for other people - makes me sleepy and headachey. I’d rather just work with what I’ve got, (noise cancelling headphones + being inflexible) even if it has limitations

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    2 months ago

    I feel that. Without caffeine and anger I would just be a sad, highly compressed ball of sadness and stress and sadness.

    • Loulou@lemmy.mindoki.com
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      2 months ago

      Is there online tests or something similar to see if you are possibly on the spectrum as they say ?

      You seems to know what you are talking about and I always feel like well yes of course that’s how life is.

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        2 months ago

        It’s hard though. A key criteria (at least in the UK) how much it affects you day-to-day. My father probably has it and passed along a lot of guidance that I now recognise as coping mechanisms/symptom management strategies. Day to day I’ve got it in hand, it’s only when the big storms come that I struggle, and that doesn’t fit with the diagnostic approach.

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      2 months ago

      Me too. Wish my wife would understand, when I’m being productive and … crotchety, its basically never because she’s done anything wrong, and forcing me to calm down is going to leave us all disappointed.

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        2 months ago

        Psychiatrists in my area have long waiting lists, and most of them don’t even have a website where I can look up if they know anything about ADHD. It takes a lot of willpower for me to get over my anxiety and call even one of them, and naturally it never leads anywhere. It seems like all my mental health problems are working against me making this appointment, and the psychiatrists aren’t doing anything to help with the process.

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      2 months ago

      Same… It’s like 20 minutes of focus and then I need a nap 🤷‍♀️ When I was younger, I’d just inhale energy drinks, but the crashes just kept coming faster and faster.

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        2 months ago

        I get sleepy at around noon no matter what i do. I have medication but it doesn’t do shit anymore. I need a nap.

        The ONLY thing that works is if I’m either really busy or really upset. That is the only way i don’t feel tired. 😩

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          2 months ago

          Have you tried taking a break from your medication to reset? Mine even recommends doing that every now and then in the leaflet.

          Just make sure not to simply stop taking it, and talk to your doctor first.

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      2 months ago

      It’s like a horsekick of a sedative for me. Don’t get me wrong it feels nice floating on a bed. But on that day, absolutely nothings gets done.

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      2 months ago

      Can’t fucking stand it. Oh, yeah, make me both completely unable to pay attention to anything and unable to be truly frustrated by that. Don’t even get the dopamine people say you’re supposed to get more of than the normies, it just makes everything worse.

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    2 months ago

    If you want extra difficulty, I can recommend you Valproic-acid. It’s essentially an ADHD worsener, except you’re not really allowed to talk about that due to some people showing toxic positivity to psychiatric medication, in this case it’s also an anti-seizure medication.

    • addictedtochaos@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      probably high, and the rate of unwarrented diagnoses also must be high. and people that get misdiagnosed as bipolar. borderline, and binge eaters. must be high among women, as far as i understood.

      met one chick that was clear as day 100 % adhd, I sniffed that out the second time i met her. they said she was bipolar and put her on bipolar meds she absolutely hated to take.

      i tried to explain it to hear, and had to give it up, she was in total adhd denial,. and i knew it was pointless.

      if you would need a picture for an adhd book, you would take her. everything fit, she also had a chaotic raging alcolholic as father, and would self medicate with canabis and alcohol.