You guys are drinking coffee?
I only started drinking coffee within the last 5 years or so, but it semi-helps! Puts you on the toilet a lot more so you’re exposed to more shit and less bullshit! (Unless you doom scroll Lemmy like me…)
In my 20s, I decided that ADHD wasn’t real and I didn’t need my med. I also went through eight cups of coffee and a pack of cigarettes a day. Went back on my meds in my thirties, it’s easier and cheaper.
coffee and cigarettes is a popular combo with schizophrenia too
Caffeine helps how exactly? I skip that part and raw dog it all day.
ADHD wants stimulation. Caffeine is a stimulant.
As a pharmacy worker who also has ADHD, I simultaneously feel bad for every fellow neurodivergent who relies on prescriptions - especially the controlled ones - and am so resentful that our system (US) makes getting meds so difficult that, crippled as I am, I find it better to go without prescription treatments than to rely on something that I know is going to be full of disruptions.
I also made the executive decision years ago to avoid prescription dependence after hearing about all the reports of Occupy protesters having their medications confiscated by police. Our healthcare system is weaponized.
The worst thing for me is the meds require being consistent. Something that is fucking hard to do with ADHD. It’s cruel.
I didn’t know about ADHD growing up and neither did my parents, grandparents or my teachers apparently so my first 2 years in school meant that if i was unruly in class then me and anyone else would be pulled up by our sideburns in front of the whole class by a 70 year old fat whore which i still hate to this day and then there was also a possibility i would face the wrath of the belt when i got home.
This was in the Balkans and being a kid around some of the rednecks there in the 90s was a fucking nightmare.
Some of you may think i am being harsh on them but nah fuck off, the only thing i got from that was self loathing and suicidal thoughts and even though they tell me now that they are proud of me and how i managed to get a good life together i still have the same thoughts as i did back then that i am a worthless piece of shit that they should have strangled when i was born and when life gets tough i think about slitting my throat or some other suicidal shit to CALM MYSELF DOWN because that means i would be free of this shitty existence and the worst part is i have gotten used to that.
Live with your demons until they kill you.
Also i don’t smoke, drink or take meds.
Next year i’ll be 40, wonder how long i can keep bulldozing my way through life like this.
For the real advice, watch this hour long video…
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don’t forget an almost fanatical devotion to marijuana
I say neurotypical people should be on drugs so they are more tolerable to interact with. Then i can do less drugs.
What, does this not work going the other way? Interesting…
I like this idea.
Caffeine? For ADHDers? Idk about the rest of you, but that doesn’t help me accomplish anything. Anger in the other hand …
The trick is to drink seven cups of coffee over the course of an hour. You skip straight from feeling nothing to jittery limbs and an acute awareness that you have a heart and it is straining far more than it should.
It doesn’t help anything, but you DO feel it.
9 shots of espresso suuuuuucks if you have nothing to actually do for the hour or so it lasts.
Ask me how i know 🙃
From experience, everyone else starts talking intolerably slowly, and giving you worried looks. You have time to plan your entire project between their sentences, and come up with at least three major revelations before they’ve finished their point, but when you escape, you’re so focused on the task in front of you that you forget them all. Caffeine giveth and caffeine taketh away.
Just say it once and then grab their cart and move it yourself. They won’t say anything, ever. If they did, you might be able to say something like, “Ohim sorry I thought you were deaf, I didn’t realize you’re just an asshole.” Unfortunately you’ll never get to say it.
Possible? Sure. Easy? Hell no.
spite is my sole motivation. caffeine is my sleeping aid
Spite. Don’t forget the spite.
spite has literally saved my life. it’s my second favorite emotion!
I just got my meds TODAY! After 7 years of trying to get on them again. I miss normal life. Gonna go get it.
I did this for 45 years. Wouldn’t recommend it.
