I made a post on here a while ago saying how uncanny the posts were to describing me near perfectly. I struggled with this disorder for 30 years. Nerfing myself for 30 years. Not being the best husband to my wife for 6 years. Not the best father to my son for nearly 2 years. All without knowing it.

I have now been on 20mg XR Adderall for a little over 3 months - it has been absolutely life changing.

I’m more attentive. Things are much more easily committed to memory. Menial tasks no longer feel like a huge burden anymore. I can actually read a page in a book I’m interested in without completely forgetting what I’ve read by the end of the page. I’ve had a small, but annoying headache for years every single day - chalked it up to genetics as my mom has a disorder than can cause the same thing. The headaches are gone. I can only assume they were brought on by the stress.

Gang, if you’re at all considering you might have some form of ADD/ADHD, please go see your doctor. I had a thousand reasons why I didn’t want to/need to go beforehand, but I’m so very glad I finally did.

  • moseschrute@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    That’s really helpful. That makes me think a few things

    1. I’m already behind on a bunch of things: eye doctor, dentist, and I think I might need PT. Adding another thing to the mix overwhelms me. On one hand, writing this sounds like ADHD. On the other hand, I know health insurance is designed to make you feel as overwhelmed as possible because of greed. So idk if I’m the problem
    2. I’m worried meds will affect my creativity. But I don’t really see any harm in trying, see how I feel, and reevaluating. So this isn’t a big deal to me
    3. To expand on point 1, it feels very frustrating to me that I need to be medicated to function in a society whose values are very backwards. There are things that I wanna do (e.g, read, be more present in conversation, etc) where I think meds would help. But there are many things where I feel society is squeezing me into a box. The meds just make me fit into the box nicely instead of questioning why the box is even necessary. Does that make sense?