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[-] SparrowHawk@feddit.it 5 points 2 weeks ago

I have a diagnosis but meds didn't work, possibly because i live a pretty much sheltered life and was never forced into work, i did some jobs but i never lasted more than a year. The last 3 years i spent smoking weed and postponing my waking up. Now i'm trying psychotherapy again and i've been prescribed efexor.

But i feel more hopeless and spent than ever. I can't feel interest nor curiosity about anything. Social interactions are pain, and what's worse is that even with my closest friends it is now like that. I just feel like I'm not interested or capable of conversing with them, cause I feel no interest in any thing anymore....

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

So maybe you need to artificially create some sort of panic in your life. I look at your life and am jealous of the things discribe but you seem to be wanting in on what Im going through. So if that's the case just need to be constantly panicked about something.

[-] SparrowHawk@feddit.it 2 points 1 week ago

But i am panicked about everything, about my brain fog, my incapability of communicating or even wanting to comunicate with people, inability to cope with the world materially and morally crumbling down.

And mostly, panicked about my inability to not feel numb constantly about my panic

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Im not a medical professional, first off. I dont really think you need to be panicked Im just saying you need something inside telling you this is urgent. That thing needs to float above all other things. For me, its easy because from the moment I wake up and its not there I will immediately lose my job and spiral out. Its an exaggeration, but really its not. If that drive isn't there every waking moment its like letting go of the wheel while Im driving through the mountains. Sure I might make it 10-20ft.

But Id also say, its not great.

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[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I’m not a doctor, but what you’re describing sounds very much like clinical depression to me. So I’m wondering if maybe your dose of Effexorneeds to be adjusted. Again, I am not a medical professional in any way shape or form also, for me personally, I was smoking weedfor the first six months after I got diagnosed in addition to taking the Adderall. The weed almost completely Counteracted all the beneficial effects of the Adderall. Once I got off it, I am now my best self that I have ever been. I don’t drink, I don’t smoke. I don’t do any of that stuff anymore and I no longer feel the urge.

[-] SparrowHawk@feddit.it 2 points 1 week ago

I don't know if i have depression, but i starter to get curious about gender dysphoria and many things seem to resonate. Depersonalization and derealization mostly...i know there are comorbidities but it feels like a rouge to investigate

I havent gotten the chance to start efexor yet. Tomorrow ill have it tho.

Also your feedback on weed was helpful, when i start stimulants again i will do my best not to smoke

Thank you

[-] nialv7@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

live your life to its fullest is overrated, cringe and government propaganda.

[-] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think it is, as long as you are the one deciding what "fullest" is.

It could even be spending the most amount of time possible with family and friends, or the most amount of time learning LOTR lore.

[-] nialv7@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

good point, i think i agree. i was half joking anyway, but on the other hand it's also good to introspect from time to time to understand where my idea of "fullest" came from.

[-] Nangijala@feddit.dk 5 points 2 weeks ago

Lol literally me until a year and a half ago when my boyfriend told me he thinks I have ADHD.

Now I'm more like "tomorrow I will do my best and when it fails, I'll try again". It doesn't really fix anything at all, but at least it has given me a tiny bit more peace of mind to finally accept that I don't actually fail on purpose.

[-] MTK@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Wrong! I was only 27 when I got diagnosed 💪💪

[-] zenforyen@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

Haha, about the same. Now 32 and feel like I'm the best I've ever been since diagnosis and medication 💪

[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yep. I wasn’t diagnosed until I was like 35.

[-] Ataraxia@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Oh well.

[-] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

Damn. The ADHD memes need to chill.

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[-] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

Only 30? I'm still waiting at 42...

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, and what's difficult is that real improvement is possible, but you get stuck in this rut where you view attempts to improve yourself as pointless.

[-] Boppel@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

37 just diagnosed. Knew it all the time.

[-] lowered_lifted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

but ADHD meds don't work on me

[-] astropenguin5@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

How many have you tried? Also it never fixes everything, like for me it mostly just helps with maintaining focus on things, but executive function is still fucked.