To everyone talking about medication in this thread: I have always had ADHD but was intelligent enough to get by through my schooling with bad study habits. I

To everyone talking about medication in this thread: I have always had ADHD but was intelligent enough to get by through my schooling with bad study habits. I "got away" with it so to speak, with cramming at the last minute and being able to retain lots of information while my peers had to put more dedication into it. It seemed up front like a solution but in reality I was only cheating myself. Once I got out into real software development world, I just couldnt sit down at a screen for all the hours I needed to without wandering away, so I got an official diagnosis of ADHD and a perscription of Vyvanse. I spent 5 years going off and on the medication. There is nothing else but vyvanse that will let me sit down and churn out code for hours and hours on end, but it makes your mental state absolute hell and you will burn out. It was a short sighted solution and the amphetamine dependency and withdrawls I experienced. When I finally managed to quit I was such a mental mess I had to take 6 weeks away from work with mood swings. Additionally to note, the amphetamines make it more difficult to learn new thing but make it easier to churn out what you already know, which isn't the most effective thing in our field. In the end, what do I use now to medicate? Intense physical excersize. Daily. Lots of it. Tire out your body. Seriously. Fight against every one of your urges to lose focus and stay on task for generated short bursts then switch tasks and environments. There is not feeling in the world better than being able to be productive without amphetamines after feeling you 'need' them because you 'have ADHD'.