Swordfish12345

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by Swordfish12345 2y ago
I'm in a similar boat. But I am resisting meds. I always think I can pull it together with the right system and discipline. I wouldn't trade the creativity and hyperfocus for anything. I feel I am on a journey and the one trick is
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by Swordfish12345 2y ago
> reviewed, retested, rechecked Think what this means though. You fit a criteria. Then ask why do we use this criteria? Trace the history of this criteria through the DSM. The criteria is arbitrary. There is no basis for it. The field
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by Swordfish12345 2y ago
I have ADHD. I don't medicate because I don't want to. Do I still struggle? Yes, a lot. For me, I keep getting stuck down rabbit holes despite what systems I put in place to avoid it. It is a constant whack-a-mole. My theory is th
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by Swordfish12345 2y ago
How do you know it was enough?
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by Swordfish12345 2y ago
I suggest you read the paper ( https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2022.81476 ) which you dismissed. I have found that it summarizes most of the realizations I had from my own research. Otherwise it ta
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by Swordfish12345 2y ago
> dependence https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2011.1... Your brain adapts. It's pretty obvious. If you give a mouse access to a button that triggers dopamine release, they keep pressin
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by Swordfish12345 2y ago
> Measuring consumption is NOT easy for someone with adhd There are ample tools like screen time. Imagine being on meds for 10 years and then realizing that what you really needed was to just block distractions more judiciously and set m
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by Swordfish12345 2y ago
May I ask: when you say you "tried everything and nothing worked"...was this before you knew about the existence of ADHD? The tragedy I find is that people first discover ADHD and then go straight on meds. They don't use this
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by Swordfish12345 2y ago
> You just go back to the absolutely disfunctional state you were in before when you stop taking them. Your brain adapts by creating more dopamine transporters...meaning you need more dopamine for same effect. This happens in an effort t
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by Swordfish12345 2y ago
You could have taken this advice for the opioid epidemic, and then it still would have affected you via family/friends. We've already been through this once.
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by Swordfish12345 2y ago
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2022.81476... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2626918/ https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.11
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by Swordfish12345 2y ago
> You cannot reasonably ban social media at this point You can block it and measure consumption. This is easy. > 2. antidepressant Originally stims weren't suppose to be used if someone is depressed. But now heaps of people are o
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by Swordfish12345 2y ago
> they need meds to function Once you start taking meds you develop dependence and so your definitely need them. But if there was a simpler environmental cause/solution, now that is out of reach entirely. It would take years for the
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by Swordfish12345 2y ago
> mostly you see news/social media amplifying ableistic... It's actually the opposite. It is now practically forbidden to criticize anything related with ADHD. After reading all the literature I concluded there were huge proble
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by Swordfish12345 2y ago
I would love to see a study on how banning social media impacts ADHD symptoms. The current wisdom is as soon as a diagnosis is made: go straight on the meds because there is minimal side-effects. So environmental modifications as treatment
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by Swordfish12345 3y ago
> What diagnoses are we talking about I've only looked into depression[1] and ADHD[2]. The symptoms are real. The impairment is real. But the cause is unknown. > Americans have been conditioned into believing various convenient l
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by Swordfish12345 3y ago
> _Emerging_ Neurobiology They key point is "emerging". You will find a lot of research, but there are no meta-analyses of brain imaging or gene studies showing any correlation to those diagnosed with ADHD. Even the diagnostic
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by Swordfish12345 3y ago
> Podcasts I used to be the same. But I find it just keeps me up more because there is so much potential for it to become interesting...even the most boring pods. Now I remove my bed from the bedroom and if anything I use a Calm sleep st
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by Swordfish12345 3y ago
> people with ADHD...because their brains don't work like this. You might be surprised to find out that there is actually no proof of this. The biggest thing impacting people with ADHD symptoms is the diagnosis. It implies they have
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by Swordfish12345 3y ago
> removing the phone from the room entirely. 100%. Started this recently. It works perfectly if you can withstand the withdrawals! The moment you start doing this, is the moment you have to confront how incredibly addicted you actually a
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by Swordfish12345 3y ago
The biggest problem of our modern age is the removal of agency. We are being pathologized by pseudo-science all around us. When people mention "willpower", everyone today is looking for a diagnosis as an excuse instead. Some thing
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by Swordfish12345 3y ago
> but now sleeps daily an average of 7-8hours What was the trick?
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by Swordfish12345 3y ago
Thanks for the perspective. Recently I've seen so many people being prescribed around me. And they are high-functioning people. And you have to question whether they actually need to jump on meds every day. Everyone is so happy to be a
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by Swordfish12345 3y ago
> some of the results of that can be seen in brain scans of ADHD vs regular brains, even if we don't know the exact cause of ADHD. And others don't... https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/imaging-study-s