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AtomikKrab posted:As a question I'd like to ask. Do any of you all experience daytime sleepiness? IE: Not tired, but not doing anything or moving and just... sorta pass out and can't stop it? I would like to get other people's takes on it. Huh, that's interesting. I used to pass out in class in high school and university. It would happen even when I was interested in the lecture topic and when I wasn't feeling particularly tired. I'd be able to wake up and be at 100% basically instantly when there was stimuli, such as someone saying my name. When that would happen I would generally remember the last minute or two prior to waking. I always blamed poor sleep habits and probable low blood sugar from not eating lunch. Now that I've been diagnosed with ADHD, that might be an alternate explanation. I also now suspect that the undiagnosed ADHD caused my poor sleep habits. I hated lying in bed staring at the ceiling with my brain racing through anxiety states. So I got in the habit of staying awake until I was tired enough to sleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.
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taiyoko posted:Now, to be fair, I'm not yet officially diagnosed because I don't get have insurance from my job due to a 90-day waiting period. Oh hey, a job that sounds like literal hell for my brain!
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At one point about six months after starting my medication, I was trying to articulate to my doctor how things were going. I landed on something close to "I can't really fully explain how I do or do not feel different while I'm taking these, I just know I do. What I can tell you is that if I think about not taking them anymore I get scared." This was apparently an acceptable answer. To be fair, if I forget to take my dose in the morning (which fortunately isn't often) I end up halfway into the afternoon wondering why I feel so poo poo and discombobulated. 
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I've been thinking recently about how many unconscious coping mechanisms I developed growing up, some healthier than others. For instance, I was realizing that so many ways I've developed of managing things in my life involves removing as many impediments as possible, regardless of how small. That way, if my brain suddenly flips the switch that makes me think I could do dishes right now, I can just do them. If there's anything I'd have to do first, even really minor things, it creates a false barrier for my brain and I often just wouldn't do the thing. Basically, having to take advantage of my impulsivity to actually start something before my brain changes tack again. Once I started I would generally be fine, because I'd focus in and finish the thing to the exclusion of all else, so long as it wasn't really turning my brain off. Things are a bit better with the medication, though not perfect. Might try to ask my doctor to test a higher dosage and see what happens.
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Aug 15, 2021 21:08
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poo poo, don't doxx me like that.
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ThePopeOfFun posted:I feel vindicated. Obviously I have internalized some “initially promising, now a fuckup” messaging. I also wish someone had caught it earlier as it’s hard to bot imagine all the wasted time. Regardless, I’m glad to have some answers in-hand moving forward. I feel like this is a pretty universal response when getting diagnosed as an adult. I know it was for both my spouse and I. Personally, I find it difficult to get past that mindset of just being intrinsically unable to carry through on stuff, even now that I have a better idea of what exactly is going on.
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I just want to take a moment to say gently caress you RSD. You suuuuuck. I'd applied for a job (a whole fun ADHD thing in itself, looking at you cover letters), was a bit of a long shot since I was missing some of the required experience. I think I had some solid equivalency arguments and felt semi confident about at least getting an interview. Obviously, from the above, got a rejection letter this morning. It's stupid, the rejection letter is very polite and was clearly written by someone who actually read the application, since it referenced some positive points they had. But, of course, my brain decides to focus on the bit where they said that they actually had a bunch of competitive applications and I was currently lacking some of the experience they were looking for. I've never even met this person and my brain decides to feel embarrassed, like I've made an idiot of myself for even bothering them with my application and they're just looking at it going "why did this unqualified rando decide to apply?" This wasn't even some sort of dream job that I wanted to stay in forever, just a decent looking position at a decent looking organization. It feels so dumb that I can't just be kind of disappointed it didn't work out and move on. You know, took a gamble and it didn't pan out, c'est la vie. Instead I have to fixate on it and feel distracted all day.
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