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AddLemmus

@ AddLemmus @lemmy.ml

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  • Medicated folks: What are your go-to meals to take with your medication?

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  • That's nice, I want to get there! Currently, I'm stuck with engineered staple foods as a fallback. Jimmy Joy, This is Food, etc.

    It is a lifesaver, though. Especially before getting treatment, I cancelled wonderful ideas to do outside with the excuse that this would require portable food which would be too hard to make. Now it's just one grab.

    On stims, the hard bars don't work anymore as my digestion is already way too hard now. But "This is Food" drinks work great when I have 0 appetite but need a whole meal worth of calories. It's the easiest thing to jug down when you really really don't want to eat but have to.

    As for my other vice, binge eating when the meds wear off: I just prepare some raw carrots, peppers, cucumbers etc. and set them up at the desk. Usually, they disappear into my mouth without putting any thought into it.

  • Off my meds and I can't keep a thought in my head for two goddamn seconds

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  • Did you get diagnosed recently? It's now very hard to find a therapist or psychiatrist for treatment with a "Kassensitz", even when already diagnosed. For diagnostic, it was truly hopeless; however, I should be able to switch to a psychiatrist within 6 months and a therapist within 9 months when I really try. 5 or 10 years ago, it was much easier. With a therapist, people wait many months, and if it turns out to be a bad fit, the wait starts all over.

    The many contradicting experiences are just chance, I think. For example for my kid, I did ONE single call and got an appointment for ADHD diagnostic within 4 months. But I am fully aware that this is was very lucky. For his occupational therapy, I did about 10 calls, until I found one who is just opening a new practice, which was also very lucky. Paid 0 out of pocket for very good treatment. If you say it can get better than that, you are lying.

    My own experience was the other extreme so far, but you are right that it is absolutely possible to get it paid for on insurance IF already diagnosed.

  • My GP is an angel

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  • Nice! My GP listens, takes time and does the extra mile for me. Despite my crappy insurance that pays him very little for it.

    But sometimes I blame him for not catching the ADD earlier. He prescribed me benzos as early as 2009 when things were repeatedly getting "too much" in every job or relationship after a couple of months. On the other hand, when he finally did refer me to a psychiatrist, he didn't catch it either.

  • Handling overwhelming emotions?

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  • It isn't always instant-relief, but helps a lot in the long run: Have time to think without being blasted by media. A walk, run or biking without music, any workout without music (or video; for me working only in an outside workout park or my home, not a gym with all the noise and people), work in the garden, simple work like painting a wall, again, without music.

    Dr. K also strongly advises this, and it works for me, but I understand that understimulation can be hard for some. He says that it also helps with poor dreams and nightmares, as the brain gets a chance to process stuff. If we don't let it, it gets its chance anyway - at night. And it will take it, leading to poor sleep with additional problems and possibly increased ADHD symptoms the next day.

  • Ill start soon

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  • For me, it actually started working a couple of years ago. E. g. cleaning the apartment feels overwhelming, but when I ask myself "What CAN you do?" - "I can put ONE piece of garbage into the bin." it works.

    But I understand that different things work for different people. For my child, this method does not work as well, for others not at all.

  • Off my meds and I can't keep a thought in my head for two goddamn seconds

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  • It's 17% of income, capped at 1.1k, including nursing care insurance. So it sounds like you need to make good money, before you even reach the 1.1k. But the problem is that you can't write off a lot here. E. g. I pay for my own meds, doctor and therapy entirely out of pocked, since I can't get appointments in my insurance network, which is an additional 600 per month. And that is not a write-off, so it doesn't reduce taxes or the 1.1k insurance. Also, you can get unlucky with other things. I have a child, but they said there was a formal error with the city-run daycare receipt, so they counted daycare costs at 0 for calculating taxes.

    So what I expect is that they move heaven and hell to make the 40 cent pill for my son available, even on a health ministry level.

  • Often.

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  • I have this trick in meetings when they suddenly go: AddLemmus, what are your thoughts on that?

    I just revert my last mental steps before they jumped the shark, and say: "Actually, I was still thinking about [topic 10 minutes ago], which requires more attention. Especially ..."

    And it works! They think I'm thorough and thoughtful, the one who catches the important details that would have been overlooked otherwise.

  • Off my meds and I can't keep a thought in my head for two goddamn seconds

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  • Got to make a stash over time. But I get it; it's not exactly the kind of thing we excel at.

    Germany here, and I just learned that for the past month, my kid did actually not do so great at school, after his meds (Medikinet removed) were unavailable and he got a generic one with a completely different extended-release profile. Decided by pharmacist against doctor's orders. Can't believe it! Health insurance is EUR/USD 1100 per month here, and you're not allowed to quit. Least I can expect is that he gets the 40 cents / day meds that help, after waiting a year to get diagnosed and treated!

  • What if need this exact thing? Where would I find it again if I carelessly threw it out now?

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  • thanks, sounds like XLPE, then! Big glass pieces were shipped with it.

  • What's it like to switch from lisdexamfetamine to methylphenidate?

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  • Exactly the kind of experience I need to hear from, thanks!

  • What's it like to switch from lisdexamfetamine to methylphenidate?

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  • I see. Modafinil was decent at getting things started & done without the "high", but it is certainly not shy of risks and side effects itself.

  • What's it like to switch from lisdexamfetamine to methylphenidate?

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  • Interesting, thanks! What was the reason go get off?

  • What if need this exact thing? Where would I find it again if I carelessly threw it out now?

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  • omg, would keep forever!

  • What if need this exact thing? Where would I find it again if I carelessly threw it out now?

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  • Can be squished a little bit with force.

  • What if need this exact thing? Where would I find it again if I carelessly threw it out now?

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  • See? The plain white ones are gigantic in size, wouldn't find them easily, and the black one seems line one of a kind!

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  • At least in Firefox, when it comes to ordering in terms of ctrl+tab cycle order, it's just a setting now; used to need an add-on.

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  • Absolutely; setting tab cycle by most recent is essential when you go > 100.

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  • Back from the days when people switched browsers several times in 5 years, I still use a .txt file. Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, Firefox ... there was a time of rapid improvement by switching about 27 - 20 years ago.

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  • A mix of the two would be useful: Close the oldest (by last visit) tab when there are more than 12, but only when it is at least 2 hours hold. That way, it doesn't interrupt a research frenzy, such as when I make a major shopping decision. That's the only time I ever regret my # tab limit.