Comment by nashashmi
2 hours ago
Honestly your description of the medicine tells me I should try it, but I’m going to hold back. The benefits you describe are the sweet spot of what I need, even today.
But come again, I have excess anxiety and that is getting in the way of how I do things. And work only happens when in crisis mode. Or rather I should describe it as the stress of not doing a task overcomes the anxiety of doing the work wrong.
The reality is I need all of those emotional responses even though they come in the way. And I also need a healthier mind so that when anxiety (aka a brick wall) starts building up, I have mental tools on how to address it.
The privileges and extra care I mentioned are the responses other people give to your ADHD by backing off from putting you under pressure. Or demanding stuff in excessive form. Or the passes they give you for the stupid stuff you do. I didn’t get anything like this amd sometimes I wished I had. My mind would have been less traumatized and I would have had a greater ability to learn healthier responses.
I am so glad it works for you. I hope that one day you can have healthier responses to the anxiety you face. I hope we become stronger and less dependent on privilege and passes.
> work only happens when in crisis mode That’s a textbook case of ADHD behavior where one can only do things when urgency hits a threshold. It seems as if you are concerned that medication may remove this urgency, resulting in zero work done at all. Positive scenario is that you would not need the urgency to deal with what you deem important.