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[Wikipedia]

Tips for people with ADHD

 

 

I noticed that there's a lot of ATRLers that have ADHD so I thought I'd make a thread for us 

 

Some online resources:

ADHD subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/

Women with ADHD: https://www.reddit.com/r/adhdwomen/

Another women with ADHD subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXADHD/

How to ADHD: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-nPM1_kSZf91ZGkcgy_95Q

Dani Donovan: 

ADHD Alien: (She has more comics than the ones in this thread below btw)

 

CHADD: https://chadd.org/

[JoeAg]

got prescribed vyvanse last week, and just took it for the first time 10 minutes ago 

 

this is exciting for me because this is the first thing I’m taking chiefly for my ADHD that’s been prescribed to me in almost 8 years. I was on adderall in high school and while that helped, it also did some harm. I quit it february of my senior year of high school, and have only taken it recreationally 6 or 7 times throughout college to help me with final exams 

 

so to me vyvanse is feeling like a new chapter. excited for how today’s gonna go!

[poki]

I already know I have depression, anxiety, OCD, Autism.

I check off literally all of these symptoms. Could it be overlap from my other diagnoses or do I really have ADHD as well 

 

 

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-adhd/symptoms/

 

• carelessness and lack of attention to detail
• continually starting new tasks before finishing old ones
• poor organisational skills
• inability to focus or prioritise
• continually losing or misplacing things
• forgetfulness
• restlessness and edginess
• difficulty keeping quiet, and speaking out of turn
• blurting out responses and often interrupting others
• mood swings, irritability and a quick temper
• inability to deal with stress
• extreme impatience
• taking risks in activities, often with little or no regard for personal safety or the safety of others – for example, driving dangerously

Edited November 21, 2023 by Hey Dude
Autism as well.

[AMIT]

thank you for this thread. 

 

anyways the system sucks for us similar to how it does for every other disabled/neurodivergent person out there. Venvanse is expensive as **** (Ritalin SUCKS) and that makes me MAD. from school to college to the job market... everything is even more **** for us than they are for neurotypical people and we should all radicalize ourselves accordingly. trying to ''adjust'' ourselves to this ****** up reality is a losing game and many people are going to continue to be left behind if we continue this way. ''doing well'' in this kind of system is by no means a sign of virtue and we should not let ourselves forget that. 

 

I'm tired and angry and more people should be too, especially the people most affected by this violent system we all live under which includes every neurodivergent person.

[Kern]

Well I already accepted that my ADHD will be the reason I will never have a career I just wish people would show more empathy 

[flower moon]

i would be shocked if i didnt have this but i feel kinda like embarrassed to go for an assessment (and its so expensive) so yeah. ill suffer

[JoeAg]

I am so f*cking irritable and sh*tty lately because I was given generic lisdexamfetamine a few days before Christmas instead of my brand name vyvanse. the brand name was incredible and made me feel so unbelievably motivated and focused and just in such a good state for the entire month I was on it. and then this generic bullsh*t is bringing me back to where I was before I started vyvanse, but even worse. I'm irritable, I'm not focused, I have headaches (which I NEVER get, like I'm one of those people who never gets headaches), I have misophonia sometimes now for some reason, and I feel disgusting in general. I kept seeing sh*t on reddit about how generic is just extremely inferior to brand-name, and I was like "eh, won't happen for me!" GOD was I wrong. this SUCKS ASS dude. I want out! I want to be back on brand name so badly  I'm about to email my psychiatrist for the second time about it (they didn't answer the first time for some reason) so wish me luck lol

[JoeAg]

vyvanse is such a slay i'm so glad i'm back on brand name!

 

me after my vyvanse kicks in:

[JoeAg]

I'm so glad I have the job I have, especially because I was unemployed for about 15 months before I got hired (I started in late july) but my god, everyone in this BUILDING is such a yapper 24/7?? i'm a concierge at a very swanky apartment building and I work from 11 pm to 7 am, and it's super chill and amazing but as someone who literally still has a hard time organizing his own thoughts cause of his ADHD, people just expect me to listen to them and play therapist all the time  and it's both residents AND my security coworkers. like ?? yes, my openness makes me a good listener a lot of the time but this is the part of the day when I kinda want to be left alone to my work lmao

[Homebrand]

On 11/23/2023 at 3:00 PM, flower moon said:

i would be shocked if i didnt have this but i feel kinda like embarrassed to go for an assessment (and its so expensive) so yeah. ill suffer

mte 

 

and also a 5 month wait time for the psychiatrist my gp recommended. whatever