A D H D

[0bleak]

On the other hand I think gaming does help and is somewhat underappreciated

I was just having an argument with an aunt about gaming because she thinks it has had deleterious effects on her university students and one of her sons.
I'm not a gamer myself, but the way I look at it, it's at least a lot more active and engaging than watching tv.
Furthermore, her son being such a gamer, and that being the reason his studies suffered when he was younger, I think that he would have found something else besides games to take his mind off what was causing him so many problems.
That's something that still, to this day, people don't understand about me- how I can intensely focus on something music related, but not much else - people don't get that it's also a coping mechanism.

 

[kid charlemagne]

i rexently started taking antidepressants that i dont want to take but my doctors begged me..... i am seeing a psychiatrist in a week, should i ask them for ritalin and they will give it to me? can adhd meds and ssris not go hand in hand?

 

[0bleak]

have you been diagnosed with adhd?
I'm obviously in no position to give medical advice, but keep in mind there are also non-stimulant adhd meds like I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, Atomoxetine, commonly known as Strattera.
It's a snri - I also take an ssri as I have most of my life, and a couple of (mostly unrelated to mental health) medications.

 

[Murphy]

took an snri for nerve damage but had to bin it after a month, vicious compound

insulin resistance was tucked way way deeper into the small print than most human eyes could make out and this is 20 years ago for an even older injury

once a colleague confirmed insulin resistance, it had to stay in the bin

 

[shakahislop]

i rexently started taking antidepressants that i dont want to take but my doctors begged me..... i am seeing a psychiatrist in a week, should i ask them for ritalin and they will give it to me? can adhd meds and ssris not go hand in hand?

I applaud you in ramping up your requests for advice from romance to medical treatment

 

[sus]

Some specialists have suggested the following as a list of symptoms associated with ADHD in adults:

I don't believe in any of these. They sound like normal things an ape would experience if you asked him to work an office job. Maybe the problem is neotenous primates arent meant to make spreadsheets all day? They find it tedious and the ones we call adhd are the ones who arent willing to subject themselves to internal control regimes?

 

[0bleak]

I don't know, but what I do know is (besides feeling like I'm about to sound like an advertisement), is that I got to the point where I didn't even have mental energy to do things I really wanted to do, much less anything else, before I started taking Straterra, and it's not because I also had a job (and when I did have a job, I never had mental energy for anything else - I'd often just come home and crash before having to get up again the next morning - unless I was also "in love" at the time - that gave me an extra boost).
For example, I hadn't released any dj mixes in almost 10 years before I started taking it.

 

[kid charlemagne]

have you been diagnosed with adhd?
I'm obviously in no position to give medical advice, but keep in mind there are also non-stimulant adhd meds like I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, Atomoxetine, commonly known as Strattera.
It's a snri - I also take an ssri as I have most of my life, and a couple of (mostly unrelated to mental health) medications.

no ive never been diagnosed for anything like that... and i read the list of symptoms posted here and i genuinely dont believe i have a lot of those in life..... i just wanted to post and ask because what are the downsides to taking a drug that would make me hyper focused and more efficient if i have easy access to it?

 

[kid charlemagne]

I applaud you in ramping up your requests for advice from romance to medical treatment

i feel at a point in life where i can just ask people what to do and ill try doing it and see what happens.... i feel very unchained and unafraid of death and consequence right now

 

[line b]

I think I have it and it's more legit than the version everyone else has

 

[Corpsey]

americans all have it, that's why they're all on adderall and all shoot up their schools cos they're so bored and elect donald trump cos they're so bored

 

[0bleak]

i know you're kinda joking, but adhd doesn't necessarily = boredom
i'm actually pretty hard to bore - my mom even actually took me to the doctor as a toddler because she could just sit me down somewhere and i would just stay there indefinitely (besides that I didn't do any kind of talking to people, not until I was ready for full sentences)

 

[Corpsey]

I am of course joking

I think for a long long time in the UK ADHD was seen as something American children were told they had so they could be dosed up with ritalin and stop misbehaving

It's all changing now, though, it's the first thing most people will talk to you about in the street

I think I might have it or something like it because I find it extremely difficult to direct my attention—I'm capable (lamentably so) of focusing intensely on activities (e.g. compiling massive playlists on spotify that nobody including me will ever listen to), but anything that is remotely boring or hard is agony to me.

ofc 'finding it hard to concentrate on boring/challenging things' is kind of a universal human thing but I know a lot of people who are quite capable of doing this and don't procrastinate endlessly etc...

 

[luka]

ADHD is your superpower!

Remember when Mr Tea said autism didn't a superpower it's a disability

 

[Mr. Tea]

I think for a long long time in the UK ADHD was seen as something American children were told they had so they could be dosed up with ritalin and stop misbehaving

There's surely a middle ground between dismissing it as a made-up disorder intended to medicalize normal misbehaviour, or even just normal behaviour full stop, in young kids (and probably young boys especially, let's be honest), and casting the net of possible symptoms so wide that nearly everybody could be said to have it to at least some degree, and should therefore presumably be put on a regimen of powerful mood-altering drugs for the rest of their life.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Remember when Mr Tea said autism didn't a superpower it's a disability

This is like the tenth time you've brought this up. And you always neglect to mention that woops backed me up. I said it to HMG because he was perpetuating the inaccurate stereotype that everyone with autism is Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man.

 

[0bleak]

Remember when Mr Tea said autism didn't a superpower it's a disability

i do think it's kinda lame when people say that shit
that's one of the things that made me grimace so much and want to slap that guy tim walz's family and tell them to shut the fuck up when they were talking about their son with nvld and adhd

 

[0bleak]

altho i guess it's maybe the kind of thing you would say to a small child to cheer them up or something

 

[Mr. Tea]

i do think it's kinda lame when people say that shit
that's one of the things that made me grimace so much and want to slap that guy tim walz's family and tell them to shut the fuck up when they were talking about their son with nvld and adhd

You mean the 'superpower' stuff?

 

[0bleak]

yeah