The impulsivity is bad, wasted so much money and time. The hyperfocus, when on the wrong task, has cost me hours in that day. The poor planning / time management has landed me in a world of hurt more times than I care to admit. The low tolerance for distractions / hot temper has caused me to hurt those whom I love most in this world. The inability to properly direct my focus on a task has caused me to lose sight of, and therefore miss, deadlines.
That’s all bad.
But the worst part for me? The part that doctors don’t seem to even attempt to address (except for direct symptom management, which barely work)? Emotional mirroring. If you’re depressed and I’m with you, guess what happens to me? Today sucked. Depression is an unrelenting bitch, and I hate her with every fiber of my being.
Fr. The doctor that diagnosed me gave me Prozac for depression, but nothing for the ADHD problems, which are the main cause of my stress and likely the source of my depression. I had said I wanted to treat that first, but he didn’t care. The Prozac didn’t even help anything. It just made me unable to get an erection.
I don’t think saying this with no proof whatsoever does anything other than make people who take SSRIs feel guilty about themselves. (Maybe it doesn’t, I just imagined my reaction if this said “stimulants” instead of “SSRIs”) (sorry about the tone if this comes off as confrontational)
It isn’t talked about as much as it used to, but in my own life, I’ve had multiple people prescribed SSRIs that didn’t need them. My wife is now being prescribed SSRIs for a bout of anxiety, and although she’s nearly back to her old self without taking them, her psychiatrist is still pushing her to take them. The side effects of them, and the withdrawal from them are often not worth the investment. It takes weeks for them to start working, and getting off of them can often cause problems worse than the problems that prompted taking them. I’ve had multiple people close to me become suicidal when trying to stop taking them, when they weren’t even close to that point before.
Just the amount of it is basically just from normal empathy. But being able to regulate it is the bitch
Whats emotional mirroring?
When empathy goes unchecked, and their feelings become your feelings. Instead of just understanding them, you become overtaken my their emotions. Those without this symptom still feel the empathy, but it doesn’t take over their emotions.
Yesterday basically jailed myself into my room to implement 2 programs into my software stack.
5h of researvh and then I got distracted for a bit.
6 weeks into weight training minimalism. Push Day Pull Day Split 4-6 days per week 20 minutes per day (NO MORE!) I’m just beginning to see cognitive differences from this. I’m adding this to walking everywhere I can. Building in time to walk to work related appointments forces me to 1. Leave Early. 2. Have time with my thoughts and just barf a scramble of never ending brain shit alone but while moving. I walk about 4 miles every day. I’m losing weight too, which is nice but not even close to the priority. I’m just suggesting find a way to move more or lift heavy stuff it’s not removing my ADHD but it’s putting something in my life cycle that modulates it
