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Yaknow the first thing i realised about ADHD medication? (hexbear.net)
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The feeling I assumed was anxiety my whole life was gone. The uneasy feeling of dread or that I was forgetting something of terminal importance. The way stuff bounced around in my head and made me ruminate on unnecessary things. I just never had a word for it before now.

This whole time I've been in SNRIs that are supposed to help with the same things, but never quite did enough.

I'm only 2 weeks in and it isnt like taking the limitless pill or anything but even just that is a relief rn 🥹

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[-] FedPosterman5000@hexbear.net 1 points 4 hours ago

Yay - glad you got that feeling! Keep it rolling by taking care of yourself and drinking lots of water 😎

Unsolicited advice that you’re probably already doing- but it’s a good time to find a therapist (and less so a psychiatrist) familiar with ADHD and with whom you connect.

Like you said, the changes in neurochemistry cause pretty major shifts in how one approaches life and, as someone diagnosed later in life, I’ve appreciated the guidance in navigating those shifts. Also, having a professional to consistently talk with has helped with med management (e.g. watching for more manic or depressed moods over time).

[-] FedPosterman5000@hexbear.net 1 points 4 hours ago

Oh also “acceptance and commitment therapy” has been what’s clicked best with me - and that was outside of professional therapy- but ymmv on what works and doesn’t. (It kinda feels like a weird secular Buddhism but hey whatever works lol)

[-] FedPosterman5000@hexbear.net 1 points 4 hours ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KauRG6s50dM

^ and this is how I generally feel as a reluctant therapy-goer

[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 4 hours ago

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[-] Barabas@hexbear.net 3 points 8 hours ago

Taking the limitless pill that turns off 10% of my brain so I can focus on doing my work reports.

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 3 points 8 hours ago

For me it was first really awesome, I had suddenly way more time (I don’t feel time normally straight and sometimes I kinda freezed in place thinking stuff without really realising), after about two weeks, I realised what tasks and actions I always wanted or had to do but neglected as they faded away in my neurodivergence brain, they don’t do that, while I am on medication. But that let to a an overload and I had burn out symptoms for two weeks. Since yesterday, I feel awesome after a break of medication in the weekend (I suppose my sender neurons where too empty from a MD trip and because of medication the refill process of the botebstoffe was too slow.. who knows, but in the end, I think, it had a positive after effect after all.

[-] peeonyou@hexbear.net 9 points 12 hours ago

yeah.. someone at work gave me one of her pills and suddenly my mind went quiet and i could focus.. it was a stunning moment for me. I eventually got a dr to rx me adderall and I took it for a couple years until I lost my job and couldn't afford either the dr or the medication anymore

now i can't find a dr who will prescribe it again

[-] AcidLeaves@hexbear.net 2 points 7 hours ago

Try Wellbutrin, much easier to get prescribed

[-] very_poggers_gay@hexbear.net 3 points 7 hours ago

that's a strange recommendation, imo. wellbutrin is a different kind of drug than adderall, so responding well to adderall doesn't say much/anything about how they might respond to wellburin. according to google, it's not approved by the FDA for treating ADHD, so idk how easy it would be to get it prescribed for off-label use

[-] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 24 points 15 hours ago

Those first few weeks are like being given wings. Then your brain gets used to the meds and tries to go back to being the lazy little shithead that it's always been.

[-] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 7 points 11 hours ago

The next realization is that the meds are not meant to allow you to hyperfocus 100% of the time but to moderate your attention to a steady baseline somewhere between hyperfocus and dead to the world.

[-] FishLake@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 14 hours ago

It’s kind of like spending a few decades with shackles around your legs and finally getting them taken off. Problem is you now have to learn to walk. And you’re much past the age where people will show you how.

ADHD meds are great, but you have to exercise your executive functioning in order to get the full benefit. It sucks.

[-] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 14 points 14 hours ago

Yeah, I tell people that medication alone won't fix your bad unproductive habits but it definitely can make you way better and more focused at those bad habits.

[-] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 2 points 8 hours ago

My psychiatrist recommended I take about 5 days off every month, to kind of reset the brain's sensibility to the pharmaceutical, and to have the same effect as at the beginning. I'm on the last day of my very first break, so if it works I'll let y'all know.

[-] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 2 points 4 hours ago

That advice is common but outdated. Skipping days can make a psychological difference because the contrast between medicated and unmedicated is so stark but you don't actually restore pharmacological sensitivity in a week or two.

You never get that first superhero feeling back because you can't go from being non-functional to functional for the first time in your life again. Being medicated starts to feel normal (which is good) and being unmedicated starts to feel really horrible (which it is but you didn't have context for how bad it was before). For me I skip doses solely to build up a back stock for when there is inevitably a shortage or prescription delay.

A lot of people think that the meds aren't helping after a while because of that first incredible phase where you feel like you can do anything. That's not what they're supposed to do for you. They're supposed to make it possible for you to control what you focus on. The actual work of completely rewiring your brain is intensive and exhausting and realistically can only go so far. Somehow that doesn't get properly communicated to people who are recently diagnosed.

[-] Aradino@hexbear.net 19 points 15 hours ago

Half the struggle of having ADHD and being medicated is suppressing the urge to just play cookie clicker all day every day

[-] o_d@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 15 hours ago

I am suppressing the urge to learn about cookie clicker. Whatever it is, keep it away! 😬🤣

[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 4 points 11 hours ago

oh look, it's a post about me doggirl-kiss

[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 2 points 11 hours ago

pristiq and rits gang wya?

[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 11 points 15 hours ago

huh i got a horrible anxiety spike. glad it's going good for someone

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 13 points 16 hours ago

Yeah same, for me it was like fitting in the molecule I was missing my whole life. Transformative

[-] propter_hog@hexbear.net 9 points 16 hours ago

What med?

[-] quickenparalysespunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 16 hours ago

what's "yaknow"?

I've never seen a real yak (in person) neither now nor any other time

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 8 points 13 hours ago

smells like yaknow in here

[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 3 points 11 hours ago

who's steve jobs?

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 10 points 14 hours ago

I was saying Yak NowI-was-saying

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