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AddLemmus

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  • Anyone else do this?

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  • Odd enough, this is among the things I can only relate to AFTER starting meds. Before that, unthinkable.

    My own diagnosis: I had super-ADD, and thanks to meds, I now have normal ADD.

  • If only people knew (anti-AI edition)

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  • At least in Germany, it's hopeless. I just paid the whole thing out of picked, in addition to my EUR 1,100 insurance premiums.

  • If only people knew (anti-AI edition)

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  • I knew memes can save a life! Just need to up the dose and try to scroll 3 % more every day.

  • If only people knew (anti-AI edition)

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  • Me in executive dysfunction, imagining how sweet it would be to be done with the task:

  • what would it be like being neurotypical?

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  • What I do then is to observe myself making the list, or to observe the thoughts involved in making the list as they swim past me.

    This could lead to an infinite chain, where I then observe myself observing and so on. But with practice and methods beyond normal thought and expression, that can fade into nothingness.

  • what would it be like being neurotypical?

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  • Sometimes I wonder if my "advanced" meditation skills from a decade of training is just what neurotypicals always experience when they meditate, even with just like 10 times of "practice".

  • looking for earplug recommendations

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  • I know it's not what you asked, but for when size does not matter (e. g. nap at home), I just use the big over-ear things for construction workers. Very cheap and very effective.

  • Introspection: What I THINK I can do doesn't take attention disorder into account.

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  • I recurring problem is that I keep thinking "It's just 3 things, plus that other one that happens on the way to #2 anyway, no need to write a list". Then I keep wondering why I fall behind.

    Only when I make a list, I realise how much there is to do, and that my plan is entirely impossible for one day!

    On the other hand, it's surprising how even the biggest "backlog" melts away like snow when I really do one backlog thing per day. In addition to "the dailies", of course.

  • Introspection: What I THINK I can do doesn't take attention disorder into account.

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  • Well, overall, I'm glad about the hoarding, because on treatment, I actually work through that 4 year stack of put off tasks, and it's very satisfying.

  • Introspection: What I THINK I can do doesn't take attention disorder into account.

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  • Wow, so different for everybody! For me, it went from the feeling of giving myself a cigarette burn to "eager to start".

  • Introspection: What I THINK I can do doesn't take attention disorder into account.

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  • Yes, essential. I like to do it in an electronic mindmap, so in order to have it always visible, I needed to attach an extra screen where it's always visible.

    "Mental effort" to get on the task that needs to be done is a different matter. I still needed to push through the pain to star. That got much better with treatment.

    Like the whiteboard though; not as easy to shift things around and make changes, but advantages might outweigh that.

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  • That is also my understanding: You may or may not a "habit person" almost regardless of ADHD, but starting it is harder, and losing it easier with ADHD.

    I hope that was the only problem in my case, and we'll see in a couple of weeks.

    During therapy it might be best to start, so there is someone who supervises it and calls you out. Maybe being active in a community like x-effect. Any kind of accountability entity.

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  • Understandable, and my additional simplification from an already simplified youtube video doesn't help. He also says that habits don't work well for some people in a DIFFERENT video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVvYn9jkZYQ

    Here is the one I talked about where he says they DO work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq6K7yxaNaM

    That's always been the curse of TV doctors long before the internet. Simplification & telling what they want to hear wins the biggest audience.

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  • I don't see how how "neurotransmitters work across the whole brain" disproves this; it's still neurotransmitter dysfunction in the prefrontal cortex that are mostly responsible for ADHD. (Could be very wrong there, not an expert.)

    Here is the context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq6K7yxaNaM&t=266s

  • Oh dear

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  • When I suddenly fixate on a food, the shelf is not restocked, and even 2 or 3 days later, I can't buy it again.

    Feel like "Truman Show", as if the store and other shoppers are just some illusion for me and they can only restock in great numbers what I usually buy.

    Edit: Can't believe it's happening to so many others here!

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  • Dr. K. put it like this in a video: Habit forming is not in the frontal lobe, and is not directly affected by ADHD.

    It has not worked for me yet, but I'm currently trying again. I suspect that, indirectly, ADHD does play a role, and additional tricks are needed, but I have hope.

  • Have you found any non-prescription supplements that help your ADHD?

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  • afaik, 25µg D3 in combination with 20µg K2 should cover it in theory, even when there is hardly any natural source. Some supplement nerds have some reasoning for 100µg, which is near the upper bound of "harmless".

    Much more than that can be quite dangerous, though! One drop of the stuff I have is 25, so it's not just theoretical.

    EDEKA are the ones where too much is harmful.

  • Have you found any non-prescription supplements that help your ADHD?

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  • Magnesium, D and Omega 3 are, as far as I know, all things where you gain a lot if you have a deficit that they compensate, otherwise nothing.

    I too took shots in the dark, as I didn't find a doc who was willing to do some more tests. But recently I found out that in some countries, you can just go to a lab directly and they'll draw the blood.

    Currently on Magnesium, too (Carbonate though), paused the D due to long times in the sun recently, Omega 3 currently through engineered staple foods & rape oil.

  • Have you found any non-prescription supplements that help your ADHD?

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  • Doesn't seem to be that much evidence, but I'm in the mood for a new supplement obsession - on it!