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I know it’s ridiculous to use a bingo board meme as a diagnostic tool but should I be concerned if I got a whooooole lot of these?
Most people have a couple of these but it isnt to the point where they cant function. ADHD is the point where it does.
An ADHD brain is essentially interest driven. It isnt so much a lack of attention and focus but missapplied attention and focus. The reason for this is thought to be a chemical imbalance of dopamine and norepinephrine. Dopamine is tied to motivation and norepinephrine is essentially the fight or flight neurotransmitter. This is why people with ADHD tend to have little issue focusing on a fun task or a task that is urgent and induces considerable stress. The former raises levels of dopamine and the latter norepinephrine. It is also why the first line drug treatments involve stimulents which help normalize both of these.
If the behaviors that you see in yourself are causing distress, you may want to ask your doctor/mental health provider to be assessed. That said, I would keep in mind that it is usually not cheap and if that is a significant barrier for you, look for pay as you can mental health providers in your area if they exist
The bit about having difficulty focusing on tasks that are uninteresting or not urgent is striking a chord with me. Lots of half finished projects where I’ve done all the interesting bits and suddenly lose all motivation to see it through to completion. Thanks, I’ll investigate this further when possible.
alright it’s officially time for me to talk to my doctor
Depends on how often you experience these symptoms! If you experience them daily or nearly constantly, it would be worth investigating.
If you have some other mental-diversion like autism, bipolar or dyslexia then chances are high you have overlap with properties of other neurodivergent people.
Its also possible to be “functional and normal” but still have a neurodivergent brain. Disabilities are subjective in context of the (social) world around you.
Hey, it’s a start. You can always run these ‘test results’ past a professional later
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Neurotypical people experience most ADHD symptoms some of the time, but not at a frequency that significantly negatively impacts their life. Similar to depression, everyone gets sad but only some are clinically depressed.
All of these 😭😫
My doctor still thinks that adults can’t have ADHD.🙂
Sounds like you need a new doctor
True that
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Has he met my entire social network?
My doctor has ADHD! Pros: my ADHD diagnosis was super straightforward and he was overall helpful. Cons: forgets my appointments and talks too fast and overexplains or not at all. Still, I consider myself lucky
love how a seeming majority of doctors are stuck in the early 1800s
every time i have to patiently explain how hrt works to a healthcare professional i die inside
Depending on their training they essentially think adult ≠ adhd.
The easiest way to get a proper diagnosis is to imply that you were seriously tested for adhd/other neurodivergence as a child.
I’ve noticed that because of current understanding and research for adults are minimized due to people’s naturally tendency to develop coping mechanisms as they get older. So by saying you showed signs as a child they may take the time and actually listen to what you have to say. Definitely don’t lie but insist that you showed some signs as a child, and talk about issues you have today and steer them away from asking about details you had as a kid. I’d bet you did have some signs as a kid but you can’t remember/people didn’t notice. Remember a lot of these symptoms are related and could easily just be due to anxiety or well anxiety idk.
For me personally I was tested as a kid but had my medical record essentially wiped and my parents didn’t want me in any “special” classes. The schools I went to definitely had no handle on how to treat basically any neurodivergence other than stick everybody in the same class.
Another way is too force a recommendation from your doctor to a testing facility, psychiatrist, or therapist. And hopefully they’ll listen to you and get a good diagnosis. It probably won’t be covered by insurance and I’ve seen prices range from $500 to $2000 so make sure to ask. Some testing facilities technically brake the law by not informing you that’s it’s not covered under insurance, so make sure you get in writing that your exact insurance is covered. Not just x company accepts it but your exact insurance plan.
If I could get rid of one of these, it’d be hungry for knowledge but cannot retain info. I hate it.
Wish granted, you are no longer hungry for knowledge
I read this with my leg bouncing and it’s the first fucking square 😂😭
This entire thing is me to a tee since childhood.
More like “Time to cook food! * Doesn’t cook food *”
damn, 1 short of a blackout lol (talking too long and fast for anyone to keep up). just replace it with “constant, unrelenting music in my head, sometimes multiple songs at once” and I’m a winner
I have both, the fast talking switches out with not being able to form a coherent sentence from time to time and the music can be nice but also extremely distracting
fuck you (/j)
the ones in blue are ones I used to do but not anymore or ones that I am unsure about
What do I win? 💀
And there’s so much more that’s not even listed here.
Where’s the one that I scrolled past this post and didn’t actually read a single tile
Holy shit. Do I have ADHD?
Possible. Or autism. Or both.
There are a lot of helpful videos on youtube about it and a ton of actually helpful questionnaires online. If you fill out a couple you’ll get a goos first impression. A doctor should them assess further.
Is there a consern if a I got all of these as I don’t know if I have adhd or not.
Depends how often. If legit concerned, read up on ADHD symptoms and see how much they describe you and go from there.
I did and I now know that I probebly have adhd.
Knowing is half the battle. Now that you know, you can try the various coping mechanisms to deal with your ADHD. If those don’t work and your ADHD is severely impacting your life, you should consider seeing a professional to get some medication to alleviate some of the symptoms.
I have started cracking my knuckles and putting my hair behind my ear as coping mechanisms but before that I was chevinf my fingernails.
This is just stimming. I was talking about things like using a notebook, setting up more regular alerts etc. There’s various coping approaches one can do to alleviate some of the problems with ADHD
Sorry for my misunderstanding. As English is not my first language it’s sometimes hard for me to understand certain words but also alarms whould be a good idea and I will start to use them.
Alright, so first I want you to have a proper understanding of ADHD. The presentation that I’m about to send you is 9 years old so some of it’s information is outdated but it’s still a really great and comprehensive info about what ADHD actually is. The presentation is available in 3 parts and it’s 90 minutes long total: Part1 Part2 Part3.
When you watch this presentation I recommend watching this under 14 minute video about how to treat ADHD, it’s not perfect but it should give you directions: Link.
And now there’s my coping strategy that motivated me to do things in the past (I messed up and stopped using it and I don’t remember what I did wrong. But it wasn’t fault of the strategy though so I want to go back to it soon.). I used point/token based economy to motivate me. It works on the basis that you have to do a task to get points which then you can use up on nice things/activities.
1.) Find a task manager that works for you well. To mark how much tokens a task is worth you just put a number at the beginning or the end of it’s name, for example “(+2) Study 30 minutes for the exam”.
2.) To track your earned and spent tokens find a money tracking app and instead of using it for tracking your spendings and earnings of real money you will use it for tracking those tokens.
3.) Make a price list for common tasks and activities where you write down how much something costs you to do or how much points you will earn for doing them. It will take some experimenting to come up with a balance that will work the best for you.
4.) Make as much activites cost you tokens so you have more incentive to earn points. IMO it’s better to have many activities that cost you a little tokens than making an one general activity that costs you a lot of tokens.
5.) You can “buy” activities in different form, for example “buy listening music for the whole day for 5 points” or “Buy listening to music for 1 hour for 1 point”. It’s up to your creativity how you will organise those things.
6.) Don’t make prices/rewards for different tasks/advices cost the same, make more interesting activities more expensive and less interesting activities cheaper. Same goes for tasks, more important tasks will give you more points while less important tasks will give you less points.
7.) I almost forgot, you will also need some kind of schedule to plan your day so you know what to do instead of lazing around. Don’t make the schedule too strict, make spaces between task so if you delay one task it won’t affect the next tasks. Also make a time for breaks and stuff.
8.) Regardless of strategy you use to cope with ADHD, DO NOT GET TOO EXCITED! If you get excited and push yourself too much you will get burned out quickly and lose your motivation. Do everything with balance.
We’ll soon have a wiki with resources to help newbies to ADHD. @Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com might be able to link you to some stuff to check out until then
What is sensory overload? Is it like that thing where you have to turn the volume down in the car when trying to park?
Personally for me being exposed to a lot of noises for a long time and not being able to escape from them causes the stress to build up and become very easly irritable, angry, and sensitive to everything. I’m curious how others experience it.
that’s exactly it for me too. it’s like a building irritation that crescendos into a grumpy tsunami if not dealt with
though i find it’s not just noises necessarily, it can be sensations like touch as well
Yes and it sucks when you live below loud neighbors that are constantly making noise, stomping, and yelling at each other and you can’t escape because you’re in your own home.
I’ll get that reaction immediately to almost any noise 🙉
Mostly if I’m already kinda stressed. If not, then it will take a few minutes of noise before I crack
Cracking is the worst. You just basically fully lose yourself for a good moment.
Then get ashamed for how you acted
Yep.
A little. Though it’s more when you become hypersensitive for short periods. I sometimes find in restaurants or situations where I’m feeling a little anxious that everything will be so much louder and over stimulating as my senses sort of go into overdrive with my surroundings. I usually chuck in ear plugs or nip outside for 5 minutes. But this usually goes away after 10-20 minutes or so.
BINGOh no
I feel like the free space should be “pharmacy is out of Adderall”
Dammit. I win. And not.
