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  • I had to go into a partial psych care program because I literally was only eating like 1 meal a day, I was very underweight, and it was making the depression really bad because my body had nothing to work with. Even when the ADHD med wore off I had so little energy that I didn’t want to find food before bed. The psychiatrist ended up switching me from Vyvanse back to Adderall, and then a month later lowering my dosage of Adderall from 30mg to 20mg. I definitely feel like my ADHD is harder to manage, but it seems to be the happiest medium I’ve found for the moment.


  • For desktop, I’ve liked Lato, Source Sans Pro, and Inter to name three.

    For terminal, I used Iosevka’s customizer to create a gorgeous Fira Mono-like variant that I call Iosevka Firesque:

    [buildPlans.IosevkaFiresque]
    family = "Iosevka Firesque"
    spacing = "term"
    serifs = "sans"
    noCvSs = true
    exportGlyphNames = false
    
      [buildPlans.IosevkaFiresque.variants]
      inherits = "ss05"
    
        [buildPlans.IosevkaFiresque.variants.design]
        capital-g = "toothless-corner-serifless-hooked"
        capital-q = "crossing-baseline"
        g = "single-storey-serifed"
        long-s = "bent-hook-tailed"
        cyrl-a = "single-storey-earless-corner-serifed"
        cyrl-ve = "standard-interrupted-serifless"
        cyrl-capital-ze = "unilateral-serifed"
        cyrl-ze = "unilateral-serifed"
        cyrl-capital-en = "top-left-bottom-right-serifed"
        cyrl-en = "top-left-bottom-right-serifed"
        cyrl-capital-er = "open-serifless"
        cyrl-er = "earless-corner-serifless"
        cyrl-capital-u = "cursive-flat-hook-serifless"
        cyrl-u = "curly-motion-serifed"
        cyrl-capital-e = "unilateral-bottom-serifed"
        cyrl-e = "unilateral-bottom-serifed"
        brace = "straight"
        ampersand = "upper-open"
        at = "threefold"
        cent = "open"
    
    





  • cravl@slrpnk.nettoADHD@lemmy.worldCoffee and ADHD
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    2 months ago

    The way caffeine works is that it blocks the receptors in the brain for adenosine, which is responsible for slowing down the neurons in your brain, making you feel sleepy. It also causes the release of adrenaline, which is a stimulant and thus can help ADHD brains focus. Additionally, it makes your blood vessels (especially in your brain) constrict, which can make other stimulants take effect faster. As if that weren’t enough, it also slows dopamine reabsorption, which feels rewarding (the major contributor to caffeine addiction).

    These are the upsides, but caffeine comes with serious downsides if you use it regularly (i.e. more than twice a week). In particular, it seriously inhibits your ability to get truly deep, restorative sleep, even if you only have it in the morning.

    Tl;dr: It can make you feel more awake, but it can’t replenish your energy stores. It basically puts a pin below the needle of your mental fuel gauge so it can’t drop below half a tank, but doesn’t actually fill the tank.

    Read more in this fantastic piece: https://science.howstuffworks.com/caffeine.htm






  • cravl@slrpnk.nettoFuck Cars@lemmy.worldInsanity
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    3 months ago

    I don’t feel like you can rank all of these on the same level, they aim to solve different problems in different contexts.

    I’m not going to walk across the country, I’m going to take a train if possible, or a plane if the trains don’t exist or I’m on a really tight schedule. But I won’t take a train, a plane, or even a bus to go a couple blocks to the corner store, I’ll walk. If it’s storming, however, I might take the bus or a tram despite the short distance and the wait for it to show up.

    If I’m going eight blocks to a doctor’s appointment and it’s nice out, I might bike, unless it’s raining literal cats and dogs, because then I’ll absolutely leave super extra early and walk so I can pet each and every one of them on the way (and still be late, because priorities).

    If I’m going to visit a nearby city, I might take a train or a bus, but if I’m moving to a nearby city, I’m going to rent a moving truck and drive. It’s all contextual.