ADHD: When you use social media as a scheduler

And gosh forbid they are "out", cause you can only check 3 days before you run out. Nothing like being treated like a criminal because of a medical condition.

Low key I don't think you should've made a kid... Adhd here and I just to end it, all thanks to selfish fucks who had nothing better to do than pass down genes

God damnit I need to message my doctor. I've been trying to remember for like a week.

Edit: thank you for the reminder, now maybe I won't run out of meds. Maybe.

If it helps: I asked my pharmacy and they now send me a text asking if I would like to refill the prescription explicitly shortly before it's out, so the scheduling is (mostly) no longer my problem. Might be worth seeing if they can do that for you. Good luck!

Tbh that’s one of the most consistent frustrations - that fucking rollercoaster every damn day. And I try to time things so my long-acting stretches into the evening, so I can have some productive time for myself instead of just my job getting it, but that’s actually harder than it sounds. And also I try not to give myself horrible insomnia, because popping even a short-acting too late in the day just makes me wired.

But I’m completely insensitive to coffee in terms of wakefulness, so idk maybe I just need to pound more coffee and give myself arrhythmia or something?

Yep. We need some like insulin pump type shit

It would be my kind of humor, if half the effect was actually just getting folks to regularly eat breakfast.

I use a pretty decent app, MyTherapy, that has gentle reminders after the first one. I use it like snooze. I take my meds exactly around the scheduled time

You are not cured if you have to regularly take medicine. The pills are a treatment.

We are not sick, we have mind that evolved for purposes that are a lot less useful in the present. Meds allow us to tone down our tendencies, to be able to cope better in current societies.

If your meds are zombifying you, dosage or medication are not right. Ideally I'd shoot for baseline plus a small amount of ADD

Yes. This is the way. Never trust your own willpower when you can use a (hopefully simple) device to put yourself into a routine!

I saw another post recently about advice for living with ADHD and a lot of people said “habit formation is impossible.” I didn’t have time to reply at the time and subsequently forgot about it until now. My number one hack for getting around the habit formation problem is setting reminders on my phone! I use them for everything and it always feels satisfying to complete a task and check off the box to finish the reminder!

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What's the point ?

How about improving your life, like a lot.

I was diagnosed with Bipolar 2 in my early 50's.

When I got the medication dialed in, I was like "Fuck! People live like this their whole lives!?"

It was like I had been living inside a tumble dryer, and now I was looking in from the outside.

I recently had ADD added to the mix. We are still working on the meds and dosage, but having experienced the life changing power of a dialed in med, I'm beyond expectant and hopeful.

Just my two cents. I was diagnosed at 9, and on medication for a few years (some kind of patch on my arm). I then was off meds from like 13 to 27. I got back on meds last year, and it has been life-changing, quite literally.

Sure, I was "functional" without them. I could hold down a job, have good relationships, remember to exercise, whatever.

But everything is so, so much easier with medication than without. I'm on a low dose of Adderall and fluoxetine (for gad), nothing crazy. Social interaction is much better than before, and I'm much happier, and massively more productive.