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I gotta say, the attention economy also harms me, given I specifically have attention deficit disorder and spend a huge percentage of my income on treating it,

I gotta say, the attention economy also harms me, given I specifically have attention deficit disorder and spend a huge percentage of my income on treating it, really adhere to the treatment. In fact I'm trying to find cortisol blood tests, like the glucose tests diabetics use after pricking their finger, prick my finger too, to test for cortisol ie stress. I have no other way of knowing if I'm stressed! And demanding attention creates stress, and stress is physically harmful, and for me there's no benefit. The attention economy owes me money.

WalterGR 4y ago
My understanding is that cortisol blood levels are not a good way to test for stress, as they're too variable.
lilboiluvr69 4y ago
What treatment regiment are you using, out of curiosity? Personally, I found Dexedrine to be a cheap and effective treatment for me. I think a lot of people, myself included, are turned off by stimulants. But when I finally got around to trying a small dosage, I found it vastly improved my life. Although you may have already tried those sort of first-line treatments.
- daniel-cussen 4y ago
  Well I can't answer specifically what my treatment regimen is because part of that regimen involves secrecy as to what specific pill I take. But I've tried most of them, not all of them, under medical supervision. Except for the one that's a methamphetamine, I think I've been prescribed all of them. I was once prescribed Dexedrine, dextroamphetamine. Very ineffective, might have been a placebo. Didn't lose any sleep over it. And I was super afraid of it too, doctors often said "why not try amphetamines?" And I always said "nah" because of the stigma, then you're an amphetamine user. And with stimulants also, I was super straight-edge, very abstinent with pharmacology and drugs, for a very long time. But then I was prescribed and on the first dose said: "This will solve all my problems. Then I'll come up with new ones, but for a while I'll have no problems." And that's what stimulants did! That's exactly what specifically and literally the fuck they did! Solved all my problems, then I came up with new problems.
cafard 4y ago
There was something around in the late 1980s that claimed to judge stress levels from skin contact--a ring or a wristband or something. I didn't pay attention, but imagine that it used skin temperature as a proxy for blood pressure as a proxy for stress.
- daniel-cussen 4y ago
  No, well first off the measurement of temperature is terrible, very inaccurate and low resolution. In the second event, I have multiple things I want to measure and I can't derive stress from temp, I have adrenaline going on a lot of the time (more and more often than most, because of stress doing nothing), and then, whatever I've got going on...which also affects things. Then indoor heating, what I've eaten, what I'm wearing? No, much better to draw blood and take a litmus test, temperature is plain noise.

WalterGR 4y ago

My understanding is that cortisol blood levels are not a good way to test for stress, as they're too variable.

lilboiluvr69 4y ago

What treatment regiment are you using, out of curiosity? Personally, I found Dexedrine to be a cheap and effective treatment for me. I think a lot of people, myself included, are turned off by stimulants. But when I finally got around to trying a small dosage, I found it vastly improved my life. Although you may have already tried those sort of first-line treatments.

daniel-cussen 4y ago
Well I can't answer specifically what my treatment regimen is because part of that regimen involves secrecy as to what specific pill I take. But I've tried most of them, not all of them, under medical supervision. Except for the one that's a methamphetamine, I think I've been prescribed all of them. I was once prescribed Dexedrine, dextroamphetamine. Very ineffective, might have been a placebo. Didn't lose any sleep over it. And I was super afraid of it too, doctors often said "why not try amphetamines?" And I always said "nah" because of the stigma, then you're an amphetamine user. And with stimulants also, I was super straight-edge, very abstinent with pharmacology and drugs, for a very long time. But then I was prescribed and on the first dose said: "This will solve all my problems. Then I'll come up with new ones, but for a while I'll have no problems." And that's what stimulants did! That's exactly what specifically and literally the fuck they did! Solved all my problems, then I came up with new problems.

cafard 4y ago

There was something around in the late 1980s that claimed to judge stress levels from skin contact--a ring or a wristband or something. I didn't pay attention, but imagine that it used skin temperature as a proxy for blood pressure as a proxy for stress.

daniel-cussen 4y ago
No, well first off the measurement of temperature is terrible, very inaccurate and low resolution. In the second event, I have multiple things I want to measure and I can't derive stress from temp, I have adrenaline going on a lot of the time (more and more often than most, because of stress doing nothing), and then, whatever I've got going on...which also affects things. Then indoor heating, what I've eaten, what I'm wearing? No, much better to draw blood and take a litmus test, temperature is plain noise.