I want to know how people deal with them.

  • CADmonkey@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I was diagnosed with it back when it was called “ADD”. I’ve spent the past couple of decades just making sure that stuff I need every day is in the same place (or I will lose it forever) and making sure I know what I need to get done today, and it sort-of made me into a person who can cosplay as a responsible adult for 8 hours at a time.

    Various medications have been tried and discarded as useless, including Ritalin and wellbutrin. The only thing that has helped is marijuana, which was a wild thing to accidentally figure out in my 40s. Imagine if a lovely woman gave you a little piece of gummy candy and it made it where you could think straight and focus for the first time in your life.

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      1 year ago

      I spent 20 years on cannabis. It has its own negatives. It will slowly steal your ability to cope emotionally with stress. I’m back to zero meds. I also trialed Ritalin and Wellbutrin. Wellbutrin made me feel like I wasn’t myself and Ritalin took away my appetite to the point I would have low energy and headaches from not eating.

      Cannabis is my drug of choice but I like it too much

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        1 year ago

        Ritalin did basically nothing, from what I remember. Wellbutrin turned me into a teenage rage monster. I hated it and finally used that anger to convince my parents I shouldn’t be taking it.

        I haven’t had marijuana slowly steal my ability to deal with stress, but I’ve noticed that it’s not something I have to do every day, or to excess, to get the positive effects on my ability to focus.