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Yep. I wasn’t diagnosed until I was like 35.
I brought it up to my doctor and got a referral to get a diagnosis, finally. That was 4 years ago. I need to ask again for another referral but keep forgetting/not being able to, while im there. If I can bring myself to do it, I might just ask my doctor to help me make the appointment while im there. :P
Make yourself a calendar reminder now while your thinking about it
but ADHD meds don’t work on me
How many have you tried? Also it never fixes everything, like for me it mostly just helps with maintaining focus on things, but executive function is still fucked.
Are there drugs for executive function? Asking for a friend.
If there is I also wanna know lmao
All the ahdh meds I’ve tried have done jack shit for that part unfortunatelyYeah and honestly, it’s the most frustrating part of ADHD
I also have a friend who is wondering the same.
I wonder if we all have the same friend, because mine was just asking about it as well.
live your life to its fullest is overrated, cringe and government propaganda.
I don’t think it is, as long as you are the one deciding what “fullest” is.
It could even be spending the most amount of time possible with family and friends, or the most amount of time learning LOTR lore.
good point, i think i agree. i was half joking anyway, but on the other hand it’s also good to introspect from time to time to understand where my idea of “fullest” came from.
Ironically, I started actually building stuff when I hit 30.
Yeah, and what’s difficult is that real improvement is possible, but you get stuck in this rut where you view attempts to improve yourself as pointless.
This time for real though
30 is as great a time to start as any
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
Used to love this song and listen to this band so much in my late teens/early 20s. I do remember with these lyrics wondering at that time if that’s how it would go. Funny to get to my 30s now and be like, “yep, hard relate”
Such a good song. Kind of fucked up to listen to on a morning commute tho xD
I fucking wish I was 30
47, first time seeing a family doctor on the 30th, long road before diagnosis. And got an appointment for my finances. Now I need to make one for my teeth. I’m getting there.
If I can just keep at it a little longer.
You become thirsty.
Right?? The time stretching ahead of you like a vast unexplored country…
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Got mine less than a year ago at 41. My whole fucked up life makes sense.
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Just moved to far northern Maine, myself. It’s a house, not a cabin, but I have 10 acres of land, and almost nobody in Maine feels the need to fuck with you. Everyone wants to do their own thing, and be left alone, so everybody leaves everyone else alone. I feel like I have come home.
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I’m in that cabin. Slowly pushing the outside world as far away as I can get it, while maintaining access to hospitals and whatnot.
Can’t say I haven’t had similar thoughts lately… use up my savings, sell all my shit (except video games probably lol), and just move out to rural Vermont or the Canadian wilderness or some shit, and opt out of this bullshit society for real. I know it’s easier said than done though…
I’m 53 and have been questioning it for a few years. I just have to make that doctor’s appointment to ask about it . That’s my goal for next week. It was also my goal last week, last month, and the last couple years… one day/week at a time.
After my morning coffee everything sounds like a great idea, but it’s too early in the morning to do anything about it because that window of time is designated peaceful quiet moment before I have to work. I’ll just do it this afternoon after work…
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It is just so tiring sometimes
Oh well.
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Is there any way to manage symptoms without medication? Both of my brothers have ADHD and my therapist suspects that I do, too. However, I have a history of abusing adderall and being addicted to it. I don’t want to ever take a prescription stimulant again and no doctor would prescribe me one anyway because of my history.
Meditation can be basically training your mind to focus on a single thing. Focus on the breath. When you realize you’re thinking about dinner, congratulate yourself for catching your mind wandering, and go back to focusing on the breath. It’s helped me a bit at times. I saw a Sci-Am article that said 12 min every day seemed to be the sweet spot. Still working on consistency myself…
It’s a super basic thing that hopefully most people already know about, but “box breathing” really helps me when I need to relax. For people who aren’t aware:
Four second long inhale, then hold for four seconds. Four second exhale, then hold for four seconds. Repeat.
After a bit I realize that I’m not counting anymore and it doesn’t feel like holding my breath because now I’m just breathing slow on my own.
There are non stimulants like straterra (atomoxetine) which is an SNRI (same family as anti depressants)
Personally I find it extremely effective and much more stable in terms of daily functioning.
Medication is just one facet of the treatment/management strategy. That said, there are some other medications that wouldn’t be as easy to abuse, but only you know your body.
I am unmedicated with ADHD. Specifically for symptoms my go-to is lions mane mushroom supplements (I use “RealMushrooms”, note that quality actually matters, and these have been consistent in my experience) and ginkgo biloba. Usually 500mg lions mane, 120mg ginkgo per dose. Lions mane sometimes a second dose later in the day, but it can be a little overstimulating. Ginkgo is recommended up to 3x a day.
It’s been my go-to pairing for years, and it makes a noticeable difference, especially if I take a break from it.
Cannabis helps me. But I guess that’s a form of “medication” (though not with the same mechanisms of addiction as amphetamines, I don’t think).
Well, I guess that depends on how you define “help.” It usually doesn’t do anything for my poor executive functioning, but it does help with the anxiety that usually comes with it.
