I feel that. Without caffeine and anger I would just be a sad, highly compressed ball of sadness and stress and sadness.
I'm in this comment and I dont like it
It's not just you, don't take all the credit
I literally made a custom shirt that says "Fueled by caffeine and spite".
This post is forgetting the alcohol
Gotta calm the nerves some how
Did someone say weed?
Alcohol makes me angry at the world. Weed glues me to the couch.
Nicotine and generational trauma seems to work, too.
I've been on all kinds of medications from age 7 to 26.
Ritallin sped up my heart and I couldn't keep up in gym class because I was constantly catching my breath.
Concerta/dexadrine took away my appetite. One bite every meal, then I was full. I was pathetically skinny and got called anorexic all the time.
Straterra made me tired and drousy all day, I was sexually frustrated because my dick would REFUSE to get hard, and then I would wake up at night, not being able to sleep.
I'm 31 and madication free for 6 years, and have learned to overcome my ADHD on my own. Never swallowing a other ADHD pill again, fuck that shit entirely.
Glad you got it under control without the pills that made you feel bad. Happy for you
Thank you!
I wish I could get diagnosed
Me too. Wish my wife would understand, when I'm being productive and ... crotchety, its basically never because she's done anything wrong, and forcing me to calm down is going to leave us all disappointed.
I'm sorry for that :/
Caffeine makes me sleepy. :(
Same... It's like 20 minutes of focus and then I need a nap 🤷♀️ When I was younger, I'd just inhale energy drinks, but the crashes just kept coming faster and faster.
I get sleepy at around noon no matter what i do. I have medication but it doesn't do shit anymore. I need a nap.
The ONLY thing that works is if I'm either really busy or really upset. That is the only way i don't feel tired. 😩
I live by the rule of 200 mg to go slow, 400 mg to go fast.
Yeah, that first pot of coffee is just for lulz and keeps me just coherent long enough for my Adderall to kick in.
If you want extra difficulty, I can recommend you Valproic-acid. It's essentially an ADHD worsener, except you're not really allowed to talk about that due to some people showing toxic positivity to psychiatric medication, in this case it's also an anti-seizure medication.
i use weed
I wish weed helped me but it makes me so much worse.
Can't fucking stand it. Oh, yeah, make me both completely unable to pay attention to anything and unable to be truly frustrated by that. Don't even get the dopamine people say you're supposed to get more of than the normies, it just makes everything worse.
Ah, is that where my anger problems come from?
Caffeine & Daily Exercise & a job that is flexible about how we do things. I have only worked at startups and places that change systems a lot, that seems to suit my nature better somehow.
But my favorite T-shirt says
Whiskey and Yoga
I so badly want to be medicated again. However I'll require yet another diagnosis even though I have 3 throughout the years. Problem is, it's too difficult for me to get all my ducks in a triangle to get the process moving
Anyways I hear meth works pretty much the same plus it's easier to get so yeah imma check that out
... Uh.... Your mileage may vary.
Dr's across the Midwest hate this one hack
nothing helped me in life like ritalin and elvanse did.
ritalin speaks to me.
Ritalin was the worst one for me; gave me headaches and was a little too "unstable" or "rough" for me. Elvanse, on the other hand, has been my favorite... smooth as butter. Thinking about switching now that they have a generic version that my insurance will probably cover
Caffeine, anger, and a commitment to the bit.
Huh, so THAT's the reason why I listen to so much Punk Rock
AuDHD and completely caffeine free (and stimulant/meds/drugs free too). Caffeine definitely doesn't work for me like it does for other people - makes me sleepy and headachey. I'd rather just work with what I've got, (noise cancelling headphones + being inflexible) even if it has limitations
I wish I could afford therapy.
My health insurance only pays for 2 psych vists/y. This is in "socialist utopia" W-EUR.
We shouldn't mock the US healthcare system, ours is only marginally better.
You wanna know something cool though? If I was alcoholic instead of depressed, I could get help for free.
I hate this entire world and every human being on it, and my parents most of all for bringing me into it.
This might be a bit sensitive of a question to ask, but what country are you in? Because I've lived in several western European countries and the access to healthcare wildly varies between them. Especially countries that've "enjoyed" a multitude of conservative/right wing governments over the past three decades seem to have really embraced enshittifying healthcare access and affordability while pushing an American-style private system as the "solution".
Flanders, Belgium. We've been ruled by right-wing austerity hawks for a good decade now, so you hit the nail on the head.
I'm sorry to hear that. And yes, it's depressing to see these "privitization will save us all" types destroy public services using the same old playbook of "defund, defund, defund, point out the issues after decades of defunding, then start to slow-roll private options until the public service has been fully hollowed out" everywhere.
Caffeine worsens my existential panics, so I got that going for me, which is not nice.
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