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I can’t take adderall or ritalin, it makes me hypomanic. And strattera gives me insomnia. Right now I’m trying piracetam, I haven’t used it in years but it seems to help.
 
DdBob said:
Y’all need to chillax with a doobie
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It caused my anxiety and panic attacks.

And it’s a borderline offensive comment. That’s like saying to someone with clinical depression: “you just need some fresh air and some exercise”
 
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Too much adderall and I’ m like I am on here.. but in the real world.

None and Im the same but lose everything I touch every time I walk from one side of thr room to the other. :embarrassed:
 
DdBob said:
Is that the same as ADHD ?
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Often times people with ADHD can have the other symptoms but not always, and of course there are people who have anxiety that don’t have ADHD.

For me, ADHD makes me work at full speed or zero… don’t really know how to relax or be patient.

That said, I go 100% at something until I have to go find another piece, or suddenly I’m distracted by a DIFFERENT task… and VERY quickly I can have dozens of unfinished things going on simultaneously. THIS is what causes insomnia in my case, where I’m either overwhelmed with “how am I going to finish all of these things?” because there’s no way I’m going to give up on a project… but it’s very common for Version 1 to become 1a, or 2, 3, and 9 are going to be combined into project 17… and then I only need 4 more pieces to….

-six months later-

:messedup:


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This seems like a cool thread but I dunno if I have the energy to reply to it, it'll probably take too long. I'll come back to it later; since it's so important to me i'm sure i'll remember to do so.
 
baimun said:
That said, I go 100% at something until I have to go find another piece, or suddenly I’m distracted by a DIFFERENT task… and VERY quickly I can have dozens of unfinished things going on simultaneously. THIS is what causes insomnia in my case, where I’m either overwhelmed with “how am I going to finish all of these things?” because there’s no way I’m going to give up on a project… but it’s very common for Version 1 to become 1a, or 2, 3, and 9 are going to be combined into project 17… and then I only need 4 more pieces to….

-six months later-

:messedup:


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Apparently, I am ADHD.
 
baimun said:
Often times people with ADHD can have the other symptoms but not always, and of course there are people who have anxiety that don’t have ADHD.

For me, ADHD makes me work at full speed or zero… don’t really know how to relax or be patient.

That said, I go 100% at something until I have to go find another piece, or suddenly I’m distracted by a DIFFERENT task… and VERY quickly I can have dozens of unfinished things going on simultaneously. THIS is what causes insomnia in my case, where I’m either overwhelmed with “how am I going to finish all of these things?” because there’s no way I’m going to give up on a project… but it’s very common for Version 1 to become 1a, or 2, 3, and 9 are going to be combined into project 17… and then I only need 4 more pieces to….

-six months later-

:messedup:


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This is exactly what my boss has :embarrassed: he's a total busy body. The man is 75 he goes from 6 am till probably 9 pm daily. He is working on an album and does recording at his friends studio about three days a week before opening the shop. he also does fencing, takes ballet (yes ballet :embarrassed:) classes 2 days a week at 9 am and he'll be adding 2 more of that soon , so four days. then all the business stuff, etc, etc I could on and on...heck a couple weeks ago for the second time this year he drove to Flagstaff from Tucson ( about a 4 1/2 , 5 hour drive) after work on Friday for a fencing tournament then drove back Saturday evening...at 75 years old his life make me tired just thinking about it :embarrassed: Oh yeah he generally is always multitasking at least 5 or 6 things as well on any given day, sometimes on two phones at once

Anyway in the past i think we used to call you people "busy bodies" :cop:
 
DdBob said:
Is that the same as ADHD ?
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Not always, but in my case, it likely is. My brain is always occupied with too many things at once, which make it hard to focus on one thing ( like listening to a conversation; I often drift off or think about a million other things while trying to listen what is bring said).

As my brain is always running at full speed, it causes a lot of intrusive thoughts which cause anxiety and panic attacks
 
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DdBob said:
This is exactly what my boss has :embarrassed: he's a total busy body. The man is 75 he goes from 6 am till probably 9 pm daily. He is working on an album and does recording at his friends studio about three days a week before opening the shop. he also does fencing, takes ballet (yes ballet :embarrassed:) classes 2 days a week at 9 am and he'll be adding 2 more of that soon , so four days. then all the business stuff, etc, etc I could on and on...heck a couple weeks ago for the second time this year he drove to Flagstaff from Tucson ( about a 4 1/2 , 5 hour drive) after work on Friday for a fencing tournament then drove back Saturday evening...at 75 years old his life make me tired just thinking about it :embarrassed:

Anyway in the past i think we used to call you people "busy bodies" :cop:
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it’s not so much busy body, rather overactive brain that doesn’t know how to stop or slow down, either hyperfocuses on one thing or can’t focus on anything, wants the body yo do a hundred things at the same time, can’t start anything and can’t finish anything…
 
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Example:

conversation:

“hey, how’s your day?”

Thinking:

“it’s 11.30, i have to finish this task before lunch. Ooh lunch, i need to go to the shop to get a sandwich. Shit, haven’t got anything for dinner either. Need to text my girlfriend to ask what she wants to eat. Is she working this weekend? If so, I can go visit my friends. Need to check if they are home. Hmm, maybe they have plans already. Think I should maybe not bother this weekend.

What did he ask again? Crap, better say something, or he might think I am ignoring them. Am I being weird? I waited too long to answer already, if I answer now, they might think there is something wrong with me.

answer: “ehhhh…”
 
Who’s there? Me. I used to be OCD. Cleaning my floors & baseboards on my hands & knees. Now, I don’t even take my prescription meds because I just don’t. I have generic Strattera, plus generic antidepressants for Cymbalta & Wellbutrin. I’m holding them in my hand, but I won’t pop one in my mouth. I bring things in the house & just sit them on my table until I need them. I do keep my kitchen & bathrooms clean to specs. Otherwise, stuff is scattered all over for no apparent reason. I won’t even let workmen in my house to do important stuff because it’s junky.
Also, I built a new house two & a half years ago. It’s very nice, but I can’t invite anyone over because of the junk. It’s not regular junk, as I downsized. It’s just paperwork that needs to be filed & I have a filing cabinet. It freaks me out to see it because I want things so OCD. For the first time in my life, I not only have a dresser, I have three. I also have two guest room closets that I could be using.
 
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CST said:
Who’s there? Me. I used to be OCD....
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Thank you... it took one of our (ex) OCD members to bring the ADD Knock Knock joke to a close 33 hours later. :helper:

Three dressers? I had to switch my one dresser to a second set of hangers and shelves... because for me, once something goes inside of a drawer... it magically ceases to exist. :messedup:
 
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