LyonsLions posted:

My question to the people in the thread is, what can your employers and bosses do to make it easier for you to do your job? I know it's different for everyone, but do you have some general suggestions? In the case I mentioned, I felt really bad that I wasn't as understanding as I should have been, because at first I didn't realize she had a problem, and thought she was just a flighty slacker.

Rushputin posted:

Dolemite posted:

Cool. I ended up going with a small cup of tea that says to have about 46mg of caffeine in it. So far, I feel fine. No withdrawal symptoms. I may just try not having any coffee or anything tomorrow and see how that goes.

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I don't know if it's placebo or not, but I think I am feeling a difference already on the Adderall (this morning I literally took my first dose ever). The focused, ability to concentrate feeling I drink a ton of coffee to get, I am feeling that right now.

But, the ability to focus feels 'stronger'. But, in a smooth way. It's hard to describe. But it's like a stronger ability to concentrate than I get from 3 cups of coffee, without the nasty jitters, upset stomach, and crashing that comes from coffee.

I feel that I can still wander off task, but now I am able to recognize that I have wandered off task and go back to what I was doing with no issues. Before, it took a LOT of effort to resume work after I started loving off on the internet. Then, when I resume work, I can work with the intensity that I could only muster when working on the VERY narrow list of things I enjoy doing.

TheGopher posted:

As time goes on, you'll notice less of "HOLY poo poo I FEEL loving UNSTOPPABLE. COME AT ME BROS!" and more of, "Ugh I hate my job, but I have a ton of work to do and I can stay focused on the job at hand so I can get to other tasks later." You will have a more subtle reaction to the medication as time goes on, but there is a striking difference between being on Adderall and being off it, even when it's not completely

TheGopher posted:

Um, 30mg is the maximum dose for adderall. This is what I take twice a day, and I've been taking it for like 8 months now.

TheBigBad posted:

Have you guys seen the movie with Bradley Cooper called Limitless?

Effexxor posted:

learn some good coping mechanisms.

Thunder from Down Under posted:

I never experienced any crashes like what I hear people talk about.

Whalley posted:

It's a shame it doesn't pay well at all, because being a barista was great for me, what with constantly changing people, staff, and only having super short tasks to do, each one being slightly different. Since I've started taking meds, I've been learning programming, and I can see web development being something I will do for a long time, because ultimately, technologies are constantly changing and you get near-instant gratification with your work, but I've also talked to other people with ADHD who loving despise the idea of coding a web app and all the weird little controllers and dependencies you wind up shifting around for every single project.

Marv Albert posted:

You need to get your ADHD well medicated before you should even ponder the question "what's a good ADHD job?"

Begby posted:

When I am really into something, like hyper focusing and really kicking rear end, then I know its time to set back and do something else. This is actually pretty hard for me to do and takes some will power, because at that point whatever I am doing is fun as hell, even cleaning a sewer could be fun if you are focused and just getting poo poo done. However if I force myself to stop, the next day I find that model tank to still be compelling, or that coding project for work is easy to dive back into. When that wall comes, its really hard to get back into it.

Horrible Smutbeast posted:

http://imgur.com/gallery/nVJqnSl

Does anybody else find this kinda worrying? The jist of the story is the 7 year old kid can't fit in due to his Adhd and other disabilities so the parents got him into starcraft and streaming. He's now 9 years old and still playing them, from the sounds of it, several hours a day. The parents basically use it as a reward for when he does chores.

I understand it's a kid thing where it's fun and hopefully harmless, but on the other hand I basically was left to my own devices with games and grew up to be so addicted to mmo's that I've lost probably over a year of my life to them alone. It also feels like they're setting him up to fail instead of getting him interested in something more useful later in life, even just physical exercise or some sort of hands on hobby away from the computer. The OP even admits that the kid is still struggling to fit in at school. To me it sounds like the kid is just going to get even more stunted socially as time goes on and will waste a lot of his more important years developing into a 4chan online nerd.

I'm probably projecting my own failures on the kid's future so what does everyone else think about it?

Baby Babbeh posted:

On therapy: Yes. CBT is great for ADHD — it helps you to recognize when your mind is going off in unproductive directions and reign it in before it's too late. It's not a replacement for medication, in my opinion, because when you're not medicated you might not have the capacity to pull yourself out of a dive even if you notice it happening. But it can help you to make the best use of the space that medication affords you. Try to find a therapist who specializes in ADHD, because they can also usually help you with organizational strategies and suggest small tweaks to your routines that will make a big difference. If your psych does a lot of ADHD treatment, they might have suggestions of local people who are good.

Mechafunkzilla posted:

Trying to treat ADHD by training your working memory is like trying to treat muscular dystrophy by doing pushups.

You might be better of than you would be without doing it, but it's not going to solve your issues. You're probably going to be happier accepting your limitations and finding ways to work around them than by putting in ten times as much effort to make something that's broken slightly more functional.

Mechafunkzilla posted:

What I mean is that when you have organizational problems due to ADHD, trying to fix them by improving your working memory rather than finding organizational strategies that acknowledge your impairment and work around it is like swimming upstream.

Horrible Smutbeast posted:

Does anyone have any way to budget?

AllPraiseToAllah posted:

So uh, what's a good job for someone with ADD?