throwasquirrel

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by throwasquirrel 5y ago
It's right up there with 'I've been clinically diagnosed with ADHD by a qualified psychiatrist and this medication has improved my life tremendously' -- 'There's no such thing, the medication doesn't do an
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by throwasquirrel 5y ago
How long does someone have to be on stimulant medication before you consider them qualified to comment on its effectiveness?
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by throwasquirrel 5y ago
When you've grown up with executive dysfunction and excessive difficulty regulating emotion, the ability to choose to sit down and do a task that doesn't grab your attention sure FEELS like a superpower, but all it's doing
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by throwasquirrel 5y ago
On the one hand, it doesn't sound like any possible ADHD tendencies you might have are causing you much grief. Also remember that ADHD is hugely situational - I've had a pretty great career and up until a year or two ago I wouldn&
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by throwasquirrel 5y ago
> I went through a whole grieving process when I realized how much easier I could've had it all along. I was diagnosed six months ago and I have absolutely been going through the this same process. At one point I cleaned up a bunch
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by throwasquirrel 5y ago
> If you believe you have ADHD, and your therapist believes you have ADHD, BUT your life isn't negatively impacted by it, why start treatment now? If your life isn't negatively impacted by it then you might be hyperactive or
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by throwasquirrel 5y ago
See a psychiatrist, if it's an option. They'll ask you to do one or more diagnostic questionnaires, I was given the Weiss functional impairment scale and the CADDRA questionnaire to fill out. Your partner or a close acquaintance w
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by throwasquirrel 5y ago
Ooh did you know grain bins are super dangerous and there's a startup building a grain-bin-leveling robot so that farmers don't have to risk death in their grain bins? Yeah that wasn't what I was meant to be doing either. ht
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by throwasquirrel 5y ago
I have been unfortunate enough to not be diagnosed with ADHD until middle age, and I'm sorry to hear about your apparent misdiagnosis but for people who actually do have the condition, it's very real and it very much sucks. It&#