But you don’t understand. This is the Internet. You are either a saint or the anti-christ. There is nothing In-between and nuance is propaganda. And if you don’t agree with my currently held emotionally charged position, you are what’s wrong with (fill in the blank).
I think a group of people found a dead horse they like beating. They enjoy it, so they will keep going.
I’m not on a stimulant beside caffeine. But I have noticed a similar issue. 3 things I do to help:
My Dad was a truck driver and died from bladder cancer. Please don’t hold it when you don’t have to.
Yeah. Human memory evolved to keep us alive not happy. Brain assumes anything that stressful must be life threatening and we obviously should remember that so we can avoid it in the future.
I personally find having a rational understanding of the utility of emotions helps me process them.
It’s bell curves all the way down.
Sorry my statement was ambiguous. I mean we send those people to prison instead of trying to help them. So then prisons become the those things, but shittier.
Pretty sure those are prison a lot of the time.
More like: Windows + Linux + Android + FreeBSD = ADHD
Personally I have been microdoseing anxiety for years. Sure, it’s a bad solution but it is a “functioning” solution.
Good insights. I will need to spend some pondering how much of this applies to myself. Thanks for sharing your experience.
I have started to mentally replace “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” with “every hurt you heal makes you stronger”. I am sorry you got hurt, I wish you the best on your journey to heal.
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It depends on what your doing. Caffeine, exercise, diet, and sleep are all reasonable. But if your using stronger drugs without doctor supervision, that’s a bad idea.
That’s just what everyone should do.
Have you used Google lately? At least chatGPT doesn’t make me scroll past a full page of ads before giving me a half wrong answer.
Maybe if you wrote better code …
/Jk
I found passive activitys can help with that. Just sit down and watch a good show that is engaging. Even going to bed early but listening to an audio book or podcast.
Gotta meet the customer where they are, not where you would like them to be. Most people don’t want to learn a new thing.
My understanding is that depression and anxiety are not uncommon for people with untreated ADHD. So it might be that your struggles with ADHD are causing depression.