I have this problem too. One thing I'm trying at the moment is to try and focus on one interest, mainly, every day. I pick a different interest for each day of the week (Sunday can be a free day). It is helping me to focus more on each thing, but doesn't solve other issues that I have lol. Statistics: Posted by floatingtree — Wed Sep 27, 2023 8:41 am ..read more

I hope it doesn't sound vain, but I used to be called a prodigy. I used to be great at everything I touched, as long as it did not need group activity. I've been diagnosed with OCD and ADHD at childhood and severe depression in adulthood. My psychologist says my case is way too complicated to be just depression, OCD and ADHD. But nonetheless, I've lost interest in every activity I used to be good at, and now I don't seem to be good at them anymore. I used to have this huge crush on someone and after it hit me that they don't like me back, I couldn't eat well and it's a long story but I became ..read more

Leopard79 wrote: It's an interesting hypothesis. I find caffiene to be a double edged sword. I do find that it helps me to focus sometimes, and I certainly relied on ProPlus tablets to get through my exams at school, but now I'm older (43) I find that often I need a nap after a strong coffee (and I feel it's quite a good nap too, in that I wake up more able to action myself into doing something. I am medicated at the moment so that could play into it, I wasn't diagnosed with ADHD until I was 32 so obviously only had caffiene as a study aid when I was young. There are lots of symptoms and th ..read more

It's an interesting hypothesis. I find caffiene to be a double edged sword. I do find that it helps me to focus sometimes, and I certainly relied on ProPlus tablets to get through my exams at school, but now I'm older (43) I find that often I need a nap after a strong coffee (and I feel it's quite a good nap too, in that I wake up more able to action myself into doing something. I am medicated at the moment so that could play into it, I wasn't diagnosed with ADHD until I was 32 so obviously only had caffiene as a study aid when I was young. There are lots of symptoms and they affect everyone ..read more

For some time now I have felt the need to know / research what interests me, almost obsessively, and to be more involved / not miss opportunities in the sector that I find interesting. However, the search and the amount of information can become overwhelming to such an extent that it becomes not a pleasant thing but rather creates confusion. This is also due to the high number of interests. To give an example, I recently became interested in "self-help" literature. An initial curiosity led to a search on the list of "self-help" strands and sub-sectors, best-selling books by sector and, possib ..read more

Thank you. I’m having a thing about finding a therapist, the last one ress as lily did a number on me, so it seems like I know I need a therapist, butvtrusting one seems impossible. I want to, and part of me hates myself for wanting to put myself thru that again. I know I’m about to lose everything because I haven’t taken care of anything, but there’s always tomorrow(I hope)… at least that seems like my operating mode now. I don’t think I can even be honest with someone again, and trust they want to help. Statistics: Posted by MagnusMyPup — Thu Mar 02, 2023 10:22 pm ..read more

Audrey1 wrote: Not sure if this is helpful or not, but I once read a Reddit post by a woman whose sister in law with ADHD would drink coffee as a sleep aid. I drank caffeine before bed a couple of times I think, but I had vivid dreams. I tend to have bad dreams/nightmares, so the last time I drank caffeine before bed, I had a pretty vivid disturbing nightmare. I'm not sure if the caffeine solely actually caused that or if I would've had it without the caffeine, because I've had vivid and disturbing dreams before, but due to that, I don't think I'd rather not use it as a sleep aid. Statisti ..read more

I know that Dehydration/sleep deprivation may be a cause to it as well, but most of my life (at least after my coffee phase, I don't remember exactly when), I did drink a lot of water, and for sleep deprivation, while I've always had trouble sleeping, I'm not sure it would be enough to cause the consistent effect of the reaction, because I did have days where I would get enough or more than enough sleep. And when I was younger, I don't remember experiencing the effects of sleep deprivation. I felt like I could do just fine through the day after getting my day started on days where I didn't get ..read more

Just to start with, I'm not asking for a diagnosis, I just want to know how reasonable you guys think it would be to reconsider the possibility of having ADHD, or if there's any other disorder than can cause it. So I don't drink caffeine much now, but use to drink caffeine a lot when I was younger. I don't have the best memories of my younger years, but I don't remember ever reacting to caffeine the way people usually describe it. I just felt normal or sleepy. I only drank it because I liked how it tasted, to the point where I'd had it a few times daily. I later switched from coffee to low/n ..read more

Has anyone experienced what they believe to be a Vyvanse “crash”? If so, can you please tell me your symptoms or what occurred? Statistics: Posted by Mommabear0508 — Mon Dec 12, 2022 10:27 pm ..read more