What’s up with the hardhat and glasses on Mac here?
He’s an electrician
And is that related to adhd?
It’s a repurposed construction meme
Ohhhhhh ok. Thanks for that.
Until you either crash or die of a heart attack.
Unrelenting anger can counter attack the heart and nullify it /s
lol sounds like whoever created this would actually believe that
This post is forgetting the alcohol
Gotta calm the nerves some how
Did someone say weed?
Alcohol makes me angry at the world. Weed glues me to the couch.
So alcohol for productivity
All the above plus an unhealthy amount of isolation and hardcore computer addiction got me through life “unmedicated” 🥹
Caffeine worsens my existential panics, so I got that going for me, which is not nice.
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.
Wonder how the rate of undiagnosed ADHD is…
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.
Too damn high.
I literally made a custom shirt that says “Fueled by caffeine and spite”.
You got an Etsy? Lmao
Huh, so THAT’s the reason why I listen to so much Punk Rock
I so badly want to be medicated again. However I’ll require yet another diagnosis even though I have 3 throughout the years. Problem is, it’s too difficult for me to get all my ducks in a triangle to get the process moving
Anyways I hear meth works pretty much the same plus it’s easier to get so yeah imma check that out
… Uh… Your mileage may vary.
Dr’s across the Midwest hate this one hack
Methamphetamine is literally used as a treatment for ADHD. It’s also fairly easy to get a hold of amphetamine on the darknet which is used in things like Adderall. It honestly isn’t that bad of an idea to try amphetamine or even methamphetamine if you actually know the correct dosage range. Recreational users would typically start at a higher dosage than someone looking for medicinal effects. Over time though medical users can end up on a similar dosage to a recreational user due to tolerance.
The problem is that the purity of the drug you’re getting is not guaranteed or regulated at all. For a lot of recreational/street drugs, the bigger problem is often the filler and crap they get cut with. If you’re paying enough for actually reliably pure drugs, you might as well just pay out of pocket for the psychiatrist and avoid the risk of drug charges.
Yes it’s not an ideal solution. If it’s between self medicating with other drugs versus getting the thing you should be prescribed with through illicit means I would choose the latter. Ideally healthcare would be free everywhere and getting a diagnosis wouldn’t take literal years or even a decade. That’s unfortunately not the world we live in. I have friends that were referred years ago on the NHS and are still waiting.
I would recommend against using street drugs in place of prescriptions because of the aforementioned reasons. I’ve seen what street drugs do to people while working in ERs and in a clinical setting, and it’s just not worth it.
Maybe I haven’t explained myself well enough. For many people it’s a choice not between prescription vs illicit. It’s a choice between illicit Adderall vs illicit cannabis, alcohol, nicotine, and anything else they can get their hands on. That’s what happens when people aren’t getting the medication and healthcare that they need. They take their problems to other substances and behaviors.
I’m saying that getting methamphetamine as a replacement for Adderall is a terrible idea because of the problems with contamination and legal repercussions. If you don’t have access to the psychiatric care, getting started with drugs that are cut with god knows what at highly unreliable doses is not likely to make things much better, definitely not in the long run.
This isnt a good thing like you think it is
Care to explain this statement?
You are saying how easy it is to get meth and how good it is, think bro.
I am more talking about amphetamine rather than methamphetamine. Chemically it’s the same as Adderall, and you can find actual Adderall from the darknet or dealers as well.
Everyone’s different but I’ll just tell you I had the exact same thoughts and fast forward 5-6 years after that thought I was literally shooting up meth in socal under bridges homeless as fuck…I was terrified of needles too, hated getting shots could barely stand it but amphetamines can super duper take you soooo many places you don’t want to go.
Be careful and talk your plans over with a mentor/someone you trust please
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
Same, also makes me shit myself
i just quit coffee. was way harder than quitting smoking and alcohol. i am not sure. i have the impression that my nose is less congested, and i am more up beat in the morning.
I wish I could afford therapy.
My health insurance only pays for 2 psych vists/y. This is in “socialist utopia” W-EUR.
We shouldn’t mock the US healthcare system, ours is only marginally better.
You wanna know something cool though? If I was alcoholic instead of depressed, I could get help for free.
I hate this entire world and every human being on it, and my parents most of all for bringing me into it.
A psychologist/psychiatrist is not a therapist, it’s a very different pay grade.
A therapist will usually consult with a psychologist to get you recommendations, and will help you work through your ADHD. It may take a couple of attempts to get a good one, though.
This might be a bit sensitive of a question to ask, but what country are you in? Because I’ve lived in several western European countries and the access to healthcare wildly varies between them. Especially countries that’ve “enjoyed” a multitude of conservative/right wing governments over the past three decades seem to have really embraced enshittifying healthcare access and affordability while pushing an American-style private system as the “solution”.
Flanders, Belgium. We’ve been ruled by right-wing austerity hawks for a good decade now, so you hit the nail on the head.
I’m sorry to hear that. And yes, it’s depressing to see these “privitization will save us all” types destroy public services using the same old playbook of “defund, defund, defund, point out the issues after decades of defunding, then start to slow-roll private options until the public service has been fully hollowed out” everywhere.
I wish I could get diagnosed
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.
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.
Thank you!
Would you share some if those mechanisms please?
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.
I’m sorry for that :/
Why can’t you?
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.
Ah, is that where my anger problems come from?
Caffeine & Daily Exercise & a job that is flexible about how we do things. I have only worked at startups and places that change systems a lot, that seems to suit my nature better somehow.
But my favorite T-shirt says
Whiskey and Yoga
i use weed
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.
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.
I wish weed helped me but it makes me so much worse.
