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walkawaytall · 3 months

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I really wish there was more interest in how to handle ADHD other than just addressing the symptoms that affect the people around us.

Like, the best pharmaceutical treatment we have right now is stimulants, and I agree that being on stimulants 24 hours a day, 365 days a year is probably not good for your body. Hell, I’m on a less-than-ideal dose of my medication from a concentration perspective because the ideal dose had my resting heart rate sitting at a cool 115BPM. I know taking med holidays is important. I know all of this.

But because ADHD isn’t just an attention problem (or may not actually be an attention problem at all at its core), it sucks that the only time period medical professionals seem to be concerned about treating are the “important” times: the length of a school or workday. Forget the fact that ADHD affects executive function, forget the fact that people with ADHD often experience chronic and unending anxiety and/or depression as a result of the ADHD, forget that there are important times that have nothing to do with an 8-hour school or work day, forget the rejection sensitivity dysphoria, the sensory issues that make things like clothing, food, and group situations a nightmare to try to navigate, the household stuff that has to be taken care of outside of the 8-hour school or work day. It feels like none of that matters because it doesn’t affect a group of fifteen or more people.

On top of ADHD, I have been plagued with anxiety-related issues for the majority of my life. I likely have a form of OCD and I have a history with a restrictive eating disorder; both of those conditions are very closely associated with high levels of anxiety. I’ve been on anxiety medications before. I was first given an as-needed medication that took the edge off but also made everything feel a little fuzzy, like there was a pane of glass between me and the rest of the world; I was put on an SSRI that somehow made my OCD-related intrusive thoughts about 50x worse than usual and had me wondering at one point if I should be hospitalized; and I’m currently on buspirone, which is doing what it’s supposed to do without the side effects of the others thankfully. But nothing, and I mean nothing, has reduced my anxiety as much as my ADHD medication.

Two hours after my first stimulant dosage, I just suddenly didn’t feel on-edge any more. I estimate that being on ADHD medication has reduced my anxiety by about 70% (buspirone’s for the other 30%). I started taking it in the summer of 2020 and I remember, in 2021, when I saw my boss in person for the first time since lockdown, he remarked on how much more confident I seemed, how I was more likely to speak up in meetings, etc. And I was like…yeah, man, it’s a wonder what not feeling anxious every second of every day will do for someone.

ADHD affects so much more of my life than just attention and anxiety, too. I have sensory issues with mine, which is pretty common, and they make eating — an already sometimes-complicated task due to the ED history — difficult at times because, while I can eat foods that I don’t particularly like, if something is what I call “the bad texture”, I will gag no matter how hard I work to overcome it (believe me, I’ve tried). And my brain sometimes decides that foods that were previously fine are now “the bad texture” and they may or may not shift back to being okay eventually; I don’t know.

The sensory issues affect me socially. My therapist and I have recently come to the conclusion that I’m probably not actually an introvert, but if I’m around larger groups, that means noise and movement and probably being touched, and too much of that causes my brain to either freak out or shut down. I used to always say, “I love people, but when I’m done, I’m done.” And that was likely because the overstimulation was building and building in the background, and at a certain point, my brain would just be like, “We gotta get outta here.” I was Queen of Irish Goodbyes for a very long time because of this.

And the executive dysfunction affects…well..everything? Not just work, not just school (but also those because if my environment is chaotic, my brain feels chaotic, and it is difficult to maintain a non-chaotic environment if you keep getting stuck on order of operations when picking up a room).

I’m not saying that I want to be on longer-lasting stimulants or that I want to be on the higher dose that I know helps my concentration more, cardiovascular system by damned. What I’m saying is, I wish treatment research had been more holistic rather than just figuring out what would give teachers and managers an easier time despite what the person with ADHD might be dealing with as soon as their meds wear off.

Maybe current research is working on it; I don’t know. I just know that, the older I get, the more frustrated I am with my brain and the more apparent the deficiencies I used to be able to counteract with pre-chronic-illness energy and crushing perfectionism become, and I wish there was an answer to this that actually helped me most of the time rather than forcing me to pick which parts of my day/week is “important” and making sure I’m medicated for those parts.

#adhd #adult adhd #adhd combined #adhd problems #actually adhd #adhd treatment

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butterfly-in-progress · 4 months

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I cried over the dishes today

Happy tears, mind you

It's been about a month on this new ADHD medication. The stimulants weren't working out for me. One gave me heart palpitations, the other I couldn't remember to take reliably.

But I've been on a new medication for a little over a month now, one that I take every day like my antidepressant. It's supposed to increase the precursor to dopamine, which ADHD people struggle to regulate. Like an antidepressant is supposed to give me the ability to make my own serotonin, this is supposed to just give me the ability to make my own dopamine.

It's a rainy day, I've been productive and pushing myself all week, I was going to take a rest day. But I still did the dishes, because the dishes needed doing.

And as I almost finished, I realized I felt satisfied. I felt good about it. I did the dishes.

For so long I thought the "good" feeling you got when finishing something was relief. Relief that it wasn't hanging over your head, the loss of shame that you felt for Not Doing the Thing. It was a passive sort of thing, the removal of an ongoing internal punishment rather than a reward.

It wasn't a high, it wasn't like I felt elated doing the dishes. I was just... satisfied. I was glad I had gotten that out of the way. It felt nice.

And I went to my mom, and I asked her, "is this how it feels for everyone?"

She held me, and we cried together, cried that I had missed out for so long, cried that I was buried in shame for so long thinking I was lazy and broken, cried for joy that things are looking up.

To think I spent my life without this basic neurotransmitter doing its job properly. It's like putting on glasses for the first time.

I wasn't faking. I wasn't lazy.

I'm. Not. Broken.

#adhd #adhd feels #actually adhd #my writing #adhd treatment #neurodivergent #audhd

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ineedfairypee · 6 months

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Fml 🙃

Trying to study without meds feels like trying to build a house without mortar. It can work on a day when the weather's really good but even then it can all fall apart so easily, let alone if there's wind and rain!

I've studied med free before and I'm sure I can do it again but whether I'll achieve all that im capable of is another thing entirely!

Time to stock up on good diet and exercise and other compensatory strategies, take cover and hope for the best! 😩

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alulapop · 7 months

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New ADHD meds just came in let’s hope they help!

#adhd #adhd brain #adhd struggles #adhd things #adhd problems #living with adhd #adhd stuff #adhd memes #adhd meds #new medicine #adhd awareness #adhd thoughts #adhd tax #adhd time #adhd tumblr #adhd treatment

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sir-klauz · 1 year

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“Do your chores!”

Me: “ok..!” *adhd brain possession midway thru washing a bowl* *5 hours later* “how did I get up here”

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sillycourtjester · 1 month

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How did i function before adhd meds. If I am off of it for one day I will pass out with exhaustion and get incredibly emotional.

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mossy-petrichor · 5 months

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Does anyone else's ADHD meds (stimulants) make their suicidal thoughts vanish?? It's SUCH a clear thing it drives me insane because I've never seen anyone talk about this??

#ive had constant suicidal thoughts for like ten years #and then my meds immediately stopped it??#like that hopelessness is gone as soon as i take them??#i spent two days without taking them and i was feeling suicidal for the first time since i started then #and now i took it again and im just not getting suicidal thoughts once again??#please does ANYONE relate to that. what's going on #adhd #actually adhd #adhd brain #stimulants #adhd treatment #adhd meds #mental health

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this-is-me19 · 7 months

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Depression stole my memory

I started with postpartum depression that didn’t get caught. I was lying to myself, and with my first child breastfed him, eating one meal a day, and lost 25lbs. I eventually, like 18 months later got a full neurological psychological exam by a neuropsychiatrist. I was depression and had adhd.

I chose to treat the adhd only for two or three years. I don’t barely remember my eldest child’s first two years of life.

It helped but wasn’t until a few months after my Mom passed away that I finally saw a Psychiatrist and got treated for Depression and anxiety. I’ve been on medication since and I will be for the rest of my life.

I was medicated while pregnant with my second and it was much better, easier than I felt with my first. I wasn’t so stressed or agitated when he got fussy and I remember it all, pretty much.

Want to know more about memory loss and depression? Click here to read about the science of it.

#it’s ok to take medication for the rest of your life #depression #anxiety #postpartum depression #memory loss #memory retention #depression treatment #adhd #adhd treatment

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homeo-care-clinic · 5 months

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ADHD

ADHD is the most common neuromuscular dysfunction. ADHD is termed Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder. Children are more prone to these abnormalities. About 30 percent of children in the US suffer from this disorder. ADHD was first diagnosed in the year 1798 by a Scottish Doctor named Alexander Crichton. Later in the year 1902 British pediatrician Sir George Fredric further gave an opinion saying children who are diagnosed with ADHD due to their abnormal moral behavior are still said to be intelligent enough to progress in life.

Causes

Trauma to brain

Exposure to lead poisoning after the first trimester.

Pre-term labor

Low birth weight

Sugar

Excessive alcohol during pregnancy

Drug overdose

Stress

Anxiety

Symptoms

Inattentiveness in class

Laziness in doing studies

Forgetting things immediately

Incomplete daily tasks

Not able to perform daily routine things

Not able to follow any instructions

Having problems getting involved with others at school

Do not remember words during any conversation or speech

Read more: Preventive Tips

#adhd problems #adhd brain #adhd treat #adhd treatment

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oddishfeeling · 1 year

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how do we feel abt ritalin. please weigh in

#ritalin #adhd treatment #adhd meds #adhd

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hu5kay · 2 years

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✨ Autism & ADHD with Plants 🌱

This isn’t meant to be any sort of rant or “life hack” for people like me. You know, my spicy autistic homies.

But! I recently got back into a full dive into caring and growing plants and let me tell y’all, it’s fucking amazing. I will constantly recommend it to people. Us autistic folk love to talk but we don’t necessarily like talking to people. I frequently talk to my plants and it something that really isn’t weird to say or tell people cause everyone who knows anything about plants knows it’s normal.

There’s absolutely no shame, there’s no worrying about tripping over your words cause the plants don’t care! Plants want attention and attention is what we seem to want to give.

Not to even mention, watching plants grow over time is fucking amazing in itself; even for people without autism. Learning tricks, grow styles, potting tricks, propagating, different types of plants and their needs REALLY gets the ADHD part of my brain some of that spicy serotonin. Also, us autistic people love collecting shit. Plants do that! And they are functional beings. Also collecting different tools or reusing or candle jars we kept around for some reason now have a purpose.

12/10 would recommend

#autistic adult #actually autistic #autism #my adhd #propagating plants #plants of tumblr #plantcore #autistic culture #actually adhd #adhd problems #adhd treatment #autistic pride #home plants #plantlover #house plant

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cilawarncke · 1 year

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On ADHD and Exercise

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash When I was 12 or 13, an older girl at my school taught me to run. Like any kid, I was familiar with the concept of moving my feet faster when being chased, but she taught me to run with intent, to pick up my knees and let my body slope on uphills, to relax on the downhills, to keep my elbows light and my shoulders back. Like the givers of most priceless gift,…

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#ADHD exercise #ADHD treatment #Cila Warncke #education #mental health #mind-body education #student wellness #teaching

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inovize · 1 year

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A Short Guide to ADHD

If you are a teenager struggling with hyperactivity, mood difficulties, behavioral issues, or sleep problems, you may have ADHD. (This is not a diagnosis, please see a doctor if you are interested in a diagnosis of any medical condition.)

🌐 healthyteen.org/shorts 🌐

#ADHD #Health #Treatment #ADHD Treatment

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galactic-spec-of-dust · 2 years

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I have ADHD. Like the usual, I have so many unfinished ideas and projects with diffused efforts. It impedes my potential. For that, the concept of “essentialism” is helping me.

Read about it. Your life will change. It’s like minimalism but for your mind.

It entails focusing on what’s essential and only that. And leaving out all the rest. Resting in the knowing that you will not be able to do everything. And that it’s better to focus on only a few things than have diffused efforts in a million directions.

Try it out and tell me how it goes.

#essentialism #adhd #adhd cure #adhd treatment #adhd tips #adhd advice #disability #mental health #mental health advice #disabled

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queendomcosplay · 1 year

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It’s taken literal years but I finally have an appointment for an ADHD assessment. I’ve been trying for so long to see someone about this, but everyone is either super booked out, way too expensive, or don’t do assessments, only treatment. I’m legitimately crying because after years of looking, I’m finally able to get some help.

Being undiagnosed means I’ve been left untreated, which has heavily affected my life. I haven’t been able to go to college, I have issues communicating and keeping friendships, I work dead end job after deadens job, just trying to make it through the day. I have issues sleeping at night because my thoughts are so loud it wakes me up, I neglect my health and well-being because I get so hyperfocused on things that I will forget to eat for days sometimes. I’ve had my life destroyed by this for years, and I’ve been trying to find help, but it’s been so difficult. The fact I’ve found someone is such a blessing.

I don’t have to live like this anymore. I am getting help now. I can go to college and have a fucking future. I can get medicated and finally have something helping me manage this. I know it’s not a cure all and I know it’s something I’ll have to live with, but I’m finally getting treated and I don’t have to suffer with this anymore.

#personal #mental health #adult adhd #adhd treatment

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mossy-petrichor · 4 months

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I love you ADHD meds! I love you stimulants!

My baseline used to be constant lowkey depression and intense mood swings and suicidal thoughts!

I've been on my meds for almost three months now and I feel so much more alive than I've ever had! I'm not constantly suicidal, my mood is stable, most of the time I feel okay!

My meds are helping me heal and that doesn't make my healing any less worthy and real!

I love you ADHD meds!

#also people who say “haha sorry i did this weird thing out of impulse i didnt take my adhd meds” are so funny to me because #if i ever do a weird impulsive thing #you KNOW it's because ive taken my meds #adhd meds #adhd treatment #adhd brain #adhd #actually adhd #tw sui ideation #tw sui

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