shakahislop
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people need drugs to deal with the strange world we're living in now the old ones booze and fags were well suited to their times but they're not right anymore
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The older I get the more I think a lot of diagnosis is a large scam akin to the opiate painkiller mess in the states. Any old symptom of stress or eccentricity gets categorised as a symptom of adhd or autism or "the spectrum," a regimen of pills to sort you out. Load of shite.
My mates lad is a lovely kid, bit eccentric and gets bored in school, but harmless and really intelligent. The school are trying to get him diagnosed with adhd or similar because he's difficult in class. Then what? A lifetime of medication?
Very weary of it. Very weary of the SSRI contagion. Think the wellness industry is a scam along with it, that the constant barrage of "the modern world is fucking us up" is meant to be pushing you into a corner where you become financially invested in making yourself "fit in"
I know a lot of people disagree with me on this but whatever. Not saying it doesn't exist or that people aren't suffering, but is it as widespread as the world is telling you it is?
My mates lad is a lovely kid, bit eccentric and gets bored in school, but harmless and really intelligent. The school are trying to get him diagnosed with adhd or similar because he's difficult in class. Then what? A lifetime of medication?
Very weary of it. Very weary of the SSRI contagion. Think the wellness industry is a scam along with it, that the constant barrage of "the modern world is fucking us up" is meant to be pushing you into a corner where you become financially invested in making yourself "fit in"
I know a lot of people disagree with me on this but whatever. Not saying it doesn't exist or that people aren't suffering, but is it as widespread as the world is telling you it is?
luka
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Isn't there a mark fisher quote you like something like "of course none of my students could read, their post-literate humans their synapses fire too fast, they live at too great a velocity"
shiels
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The bit on anhedonia? It has some good bits. Ignoring all real world data and medical experts since none of you or me know wha the fuck you’re talking about! Are you also that numbed and distracted that you haven’t noticed a shift WITHIN YOURSELF?
Me? No, I'm in Essex mostly
mixed_biscuits
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ADHD compels people to avoid some kinds of activity and do other kinds with those other kinds being the sorts of things that exacerbate the problem.
mixed_biscuits
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First person shooter games are in my instance the absolute worst thing for those symptoms. Dual n Back is best obviously.
shakahislop
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booze isn't a good drug for the internet and being on a phone, we need better ones more suited to the times
shakahislop
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vapes have kicked out fags coz you can vape on your bed on your computer they go together, even the curves on the devices are the same
mixed_biscuits
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ADHD can be very annoying and inconvenient to the person with it, because they're not able to control themselves as they wish to: it's like a normal person being on a caffeine drip non-stop.
mixed_biscuits
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ADHD people need a high level of stimulation and they misbehave in order to create action around them. Just look at the ADHD behaviour of one person on here, enough to make the whole forum feel overwhelmed because there's too much stimulation for them.
mixed_biscuits
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Drink lots of green tea, bin WhatsApp, rest in the dark for 30 minutes each day processing your thoughts for the day (you may also thereby come up with genuinely novel thoughts that no-one else would understand because they have no processing power left from running the Internet app in their mind all day).
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
something ironic about all of the information out there about autism is that is actually held me back from getting a diagnosis - particularly when I would read about people that would process information visually like Temple Grandin, and also because there was next-to-nothing about nvld out there especially 25-30 years ago.
I would be reading about autism, or something like Temple Grandin's biography, and I would be like "that's so me!" and then come to a part where she's visually processing or visually imagining a solution, and then I would get really frustrated because that was a _major_ thing that didn't line up.*
finally, one day, when a lot of stuff was crashing down around me, I decided that, well, I don't have anything to lose, right?
*I'm not saying that I don't have a mind's eye - but it's of limited use.
If you give me the choice between a map and verbal/written directions, I'll take the latter every time.
Granted, that will be my one and only route from those A to B points until the end of time.
Construction ahead? Road closed - take alternate route? er, well I have no idea what to do now (obviously this would be less of a problem now with all of phone apps)
I would be reading about autism, or something like Temple Grandin's biography, and I would be like "that's so me!" and then come to a part where she's visually processing or visually imagining a solution, and then I would get really frustrated because that was a _major_ thing that didn't line up.*
finally, one day, when a lot of stuff was crashing down around me, I decided that, well, I don't have anything to lose, right?
*I'm not saying that I don't have a mind's eye - but it's of limited use.
If you give me the choice between a map and verbal/written directions, I'll take the latter every time.
Granted, that will be my one and only route from those A to B points until the end of time.
Construction ahead? Road closed - take alternate route? er, well I have no idea what to do now (obviously this would be less of a problem now with all of phone apps)
sus
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Yes it unlocks reptile brain. Some antidepressants do this too. I have to find a post one sec