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A casual community for people with ADHD

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Neurodivergent Life Hacks

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It's amazing how much more functional we are as a whole when we're medicated (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Leilys@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/adhd@lemmy.world

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I take Ritalin 10mg on a needs basis since I generally have functioned 'alright' into adulthood.

Just took one to get some work done today and it still amazes me how normal I feel about doing work once I'm medicated. Like there's no massive hurdle to even starting. No massive reluctance and task paralysis to fight.

Coming from a whole week where I've been procrastinating on whatever isn't urgent, suddenly it's so easy to just... do.

I also get incredibly chatty (hence the post, lol), but yeah. I can't imagine how life changing it must be for people who struggle even worse with executive dysfunction.

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[–] FredericChopin_@feddit.uk 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have heard that ADHD is only a problem on modern society and in the past we were the hunters as opposed to the farmers. We needed the ability to hyper focus on the landscape and watch for threats but suck at farming as it requires long term effort.

That said, what is the alternative to being medicated if we have to live in this society?

For the first 39 years of my life I was a failure and only when medicated has my life improved infinitely.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reference? This seems backwards.

[–] FredericChopin_@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

I think, but I’m not sure, that the first place I heard about it was the podcast ADHD reWired.

shoudl be able to find the origin here

[–] cactusupyourbutt@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

you can do a lot with therapy alone supposedly, but not sure havent tried that yet