#to go on ADHD medication. If that could help...

[8rujaa]

my therapist really saved me….

[aaravos-answers]

Hello Aaravos, this is not a question, but I have been thinking about this for a while and do not exactly know how to handle it. I have been researching about ADHD lately, and I personally think i have it. I do not want to self-diagnose myself in case I am wrong, but I do not know how to talk to someone about it.

Do you maybe have any advice on what to do? I am scared to tell someone about it in case I am seen differently or treated differently if I do have it...

I am not sure I am the best person to ask, starling. My world is vastly different from yours in how we understand our minds and treat such differences. However, I do know from experience that if someone was going to treat you differently because of something outside your control, then they likely already have.

Do not be held back by fear, starling. If this is important to you, then do not hold back on the truth. Find the help and resources you need.

[high-voltage-rat]

Vyvanse is such a silly little drug. I get up at 11, take it at noon, what's a normal sleep phase I don't know her.

The first hour passes and I'm like "dude nothings happening except me getting sweaty and my heart's going a bit faster" and then I blink and it's another 2 hours later and I've just blitzed doing every chore available to me, organized all my shit for the day, read through 500 tumblr posts, watched some random-ass YouTube clips, and made myself food I don't want to eat because my appetite is suppressed but I know food consumption is a task. It's like all of my ADHD bullshit for the entire day happens at light speed over a few hours.

Then I sit down and can do The Big Task of the day for 5 hours or more and, unlike with a hyperfocus, can remain focused on it even after taking breaks to go do other stuff.

Then the end of the day hits and I'm tired and need to go to sleep but I still feel the Productivity Need so for some reason I watch 50 more "Educational" YouTube videos until it subsides and then finally fall asleep at 2am.

Like. Does it cure my ADHD? Absolutely not. Does it make me less chaotic? No. But does it allow me to consistently channel my ADHD energy productively? Oh, yeah. I'm not 100% sure that's what my doctors were going for when they prescribed it, but I gotta be honest I kinda love it.

[soupforstars]

I find it genuinely hilarious how many signs there were pointing to us being a system from ages ago... As the host whos been here the longest I'm surprised I didn't look into it sooner, like I SERIOUSLY wondered on MORE THAN TWO SEPERATE OCCASIONS as a teen whether I had DID, but brushed it off both times because I thought "oh I'm not traumatised enough" and "you have to experience blackouts and time jumps and I haven't so I can't" (spoiler alert, I definitely was incredibly traumatised and I definitley have had blackouts before but even then I didn't know that those weren't fully necessary for a diagnosis).

And this is without getting into "my" love of any media that involved characters with alter egos, "multiple personalities", etc. Like I LOVED the Jekyll and Hyde musical when I found it, my favourite Total Drama character was Mike (the one with DID but like. when people still knew it as MPD. also he wasnt the best rep lol), I loved the Markiplier and Jacksepticeye egos, for a short time I was into Sander Sides, I had full on "characters" that were "aspects of my personality" but also next to them was just. My actual sona? Completely seperate from them, which actually represented me?

I just really thought I liked media with alternate egos/personalities but methinks the call was coming from inside the house sdjshsnsjsbdjdb

[tesco-finest-aromantics]

[mostbeautifulsoundyouveeverseen]

🧠 -> 🗑

[theygender]

I'm on antibiotics and prescription pain meds and steroids while recovering from surgery and I've been too lazy so far to look up which of my 7 daily meds are safe to take with all of those things so I've been out here just completely rawdogging life these past few days and let me tell you. It's not fun!

[threecheersmaka]

Pretty sure I made my pharmacists think I’m a fucking junkie so that’s great 😐

[fullandfairones]

tried adhd medication for the first time in my life today and ??? i don’t want to speak too soon but it might be a game changer

[elftwink]

kind of think i might have some form of long covid but it’s a little hard to tell given i did spend the 2 years prior to catching it having brain fog and fatigue due to being in the worst mental state of my life, owing to. you know. it all.

[clockworkzombies]

Yo girl is getting more diagnoses

[lesbiansanemi]

I have started to accept I am a bit more (re a lot more) psychologically unstable than I thought for a long time and man…. I’m tired of it

[jvten]

oh yeah i'm fine no big deal i just learned that i only have BORDERLINE autism/adhd- meaning i don't even KNOW MYSELF anymore and I WAS PROBABLY LYING TO MYSELF ALL THIS TIME. perfectly fucking fine.

maybe it was a misdiagnosis. maybe it wasn't. but i'm having a fucking crisis.

[yawnderu]

Fully becoming the fun police because the tiktok hc devil got some of you believing hcs are canon 😭

No, Soap doesn't have ADHD. As a sniper and demolitions expert, someone with ADHD wouldn't be able to do the work effectively, it requires extreme focus for extended periods of time, and literally nothing in the game or his behavior indicates he has ADHD.

Yes, Ghost passes his psych evals. He NEEDS to be mentally stable in order to be part of the SAS, otherwise he'd be pulled out no matter how much Price likes him. There are no indications in the game or voice lines that show otherwise, he's able to hold his own weight and is likely on therapy and medication to help with his trauma and nightmares.

No, Soap doesn't have 10 sisters. He doesn't even have a family.

Yes, comic Ghost is canon to 22 Ghost. Literally nothing indicates otherwise, every single character in the remake kept their canon pasts, why would Ghost be an exception?

No, König isn't shy. He's snarky and cocky in all his voice lines, not a single trace of shyness in this man.

No, none of these grown men need a pink blanket from their childhood to sleep.💀 Infantilizing grown men is weird enough as it is, and I feel like some of you forget these men are soldiers— the best of the best, used to extreme conditions that could break regular people, they're not babies or mentally unstable teenagers, it's weird to treat them as such.

While we're at it, some of you make Price act like a fucking nonce and it's weird. No, he wouldn't date an 18 year old child. Probably the youngest he'd go to is 30s, some of you forget the huge difference in maturity age gaps always have and how he wouldn't want to date a pouty child, especially with his line of work and how often he's gone. A relationship with this man would require plenty of mutual understanding, communication skills, trust, and maturity.

ANYWAY NSOSNWLSMALQ

[alagaisia]

Thank god my doctors appointment is this week and there is an end in sight to this utter hell

Not that I’m particularly productive and on top of things even when I do have my adderall, but when I’m off it I just get so painfully restlessly bored and I sleep so much because I can’t do anything else and then I’m too tired to even try to fight through it and in the last two weeks I have not applied for a single job and my room has gone from lightly cluttered to having a big huge pile of clothes on the floor in the doorway of my closet that I have to wade through when I muster myself to get dressed at two in the afternoon

And I have no patience at all for things that bother me like Christmas taking up two full months or people who don’t wear masks (or recreational adderall jokes, so don’t even think about it)

It’s a little easier on days when I work and there’s a little bit of external structure to my day, but I don’t get to work often enough for that to really make a difference

[fabulouslygaybean]

mannnnn. why is my brain so fucked