It can be a while before I can get proper medication and treatment but what can I take to help me improve symptoms? I thought marijuana would help.. It helps the anxiety of what feels like my life falling apart but I end up doing nothing constructive..
Please help me out. Please share any tips/tricks/suppl/etc you do or know.
My symptoms are pretty fucking bad when I originally start with the task of setting up another distro to trying to decrypt old zip archives I have. I even got removed from a school because I couldn't get my project done by the deadline because I ended up working on other stuff and never finished whatever I started elsewhere. I constantly find new things to work on and I just keep hopping projects. It has been like this my whole life and I'm hoping someone here from the Holla Forums perspective knows a thing or two.
Note: Regarding the acquisition of illegal drugs, I cannot get a hold of any atm but if something did/does help you please share anyways. Maybe this can help other users here who have similar problems that cannot get medication because we might be poorfags.
How does Holla Forums deal with ADHD?
Make a list of the things you want to do and stick to it. If you think of something new add it to the bottom of the list. You'll get to it eventually.
If that doesn't help:
If it gets bad, take a week off the Internet. Stick to only using the Internet to get software you need, or for documentation. That's what I do when I feel too distracted, and it helps immensely.
Ha that's kind of why I try stick to retro hardware. The limitations allow me to focus on stuff.. When I was using raspberrypi a few years ago to learn Python it was a breeze... Sugar is also heavily consumed by me.. So I'll look into that and maybe go for a walk...
Quit sugar and caffeine for at least a week. Quit vidya for 3 months. Lose some weight.
Everything else will work itself out.
I don't really play video games believe it or not. Very rare nowadays will I pop out the Super mario world on ZSNES to play. I could lose the weight though. When I was a vegetarian I was getting into the occult and meditated often.. Maybe I need to that again.
Set a clear goal for yourself for a day, or even just a few hours, and whenever you notice yourself getting off track, you force yourself to keep at what you were planning to do. And don't stop until you reach your goal. If you are forgetful like me, you can write a sticky note and put it on your monitor.
Take some time out to plan your time. Write down your long term goals, use those to write down your short term goals which you need to accomplish the bigger goals etc etc. Then make a schedule for your average week/day, then google and create a morning and nighttime routine/ritual that you do everyday. And in that schedule make time for things that matter, and try to stick to it, if you're able to do at least 1 thing on your schedule consistently you're making progress. And most importantly if you can, do this all analog with a regular notebook and or planner. Digital tools are nice but its so easy to get distracted with choosing the best tools, or ending up spending more time on the tool than what you wanted the tool to do for you, save them for later once you're more or less sorted out on paper.
Even if you struggled with this, if you attempt to change you'll be in a better position after a few months of effort than you are at the moment.
This is great advice, especially if you manage to make whatever you do on a day to day basis a routine. If you can't do anything else, sleep at the same time every night at a reasonable hour. Doesn't matter if you've accomplished everything you needed to for the day or not. Also cut out mj, and don't fap as much. They both are really draining on will power and drive. Lifting helps with this too.
Dopamine. To an ADHD human, dopamine is the problem and solution.
Sleep properly, check sleep apnea, stop smoking, eat proper caloric intake for weight reduction, calculate required protein,carb,fat intake, get your ass to a gym or do squatssitupspushups for an hour a day
Biggest thing, spend 5 minutes when you wake up and setup several 30 minute :buckets: then fill them up, always multiple your time estimate by two. Time saved > time invested and you'll feel better knowing there's a plan.
But number 2 to above? Journal. Every. Fucking. Day. It helps more than you can possibly understand.
Adderall xr is amazing if you do well with it, there are other prescriptions that exist don't be afraid to test with Dr approval.
If you have actual ADHD, then this will help
amazon.com
It provides a list of easy things you can do yourself to correct most of the underlying causes of ADHD, lastly resorting to medication.
The big one is you most likely have a magnesium deficiency.
I've got legit ADHD and most of this shit is trash. OP, it's time to invest in caffeine and a good planner app. Plan out atleast three things you need to do and then switch back and forth between them when your focus starts going to shit. Also caffeine will work as a stim if you take a lot.
Don't forget to exercise everyday you faggot. This shit isn't gonna go away and stims will only let you live an above average life.
I've got legit ADHD and most of this shit is trash. OP, it's time to invest in caffeine and a good planner app. Plan out atleast three things you need to do and then switch back and forth between them when your focus starts going to shit. Also caffeine will work as a stim if you take a lot.
Don't forget to exercise everyday you faggot. This shit isn't gonna go away and stims will only let you live an above average life.
I have just ADD myself. Im either hyper focused on doing something or not paying attention at all.
Why the fuck would you even stop? My problem is that I gathered too much pdfs and stuff on the subject so that I don't know which one I should read first.
Good intention but bad execution. The goals need to be quantified:
That's quite dumb and a waste of time.
45 minutes per session is more than enough, with whatever type of training you're doing.
Spinning that fidget
So let's make that practical instead of an arbitrary timeframe. Excercise when you feel unfocused.
I have other problems other than ADD. Sorry I might have been misleading when I said ADHD. According to my wife I am not hyper. I am also taking all of your advice with a grain of salt. I have other problems with my mental health that I have to try to maintain.
I totally agree with the quantification. Hence why I am going to maintain a logging program to keep track of all my tasks. Pretty much like a DOS environment without all the distractions and is used only for that.
You are also kind of right on the need for practicality. If it's not practical, you're less likely to do it. But I do need to maintain some routine. So far I am making myself go to sleep @10p and waking up @6a. More than enough sleep though... Might do 5a.
Sounds like the best way to describe me. The moment I find something interesting I can spend hours/days on it but they're all shortlived and I end up finding something else..
I've taken a fuck-ton of caffeine in the past and it didn't really help. I ended up sleep-depriving myself not because I couldn't sleep but because I couldn't turn off my hyper focus shit that wasn't even aimed at what I was supposed to be doing.. I can't use any planner apps, at least on a phone, because phone is too distracting. The UI is typically what sells for me which I will maintain on a floppy disk for the shits n giggles and also because I love the thought of using such a medium and labeling it for such a thing only. Exercise should come every day ideally but not everyone has that sort of time. I guess I can dedicate at the minimum 30 minutes/day. I used to run/rollerblade a couple miles/day back in my summer days of high school ( thought I was the shit). I even took MMA classes... Those were the days... But I kept throwing up from the stress on my stomach/body lol so I had to stop..
So far the changes that I have made since I started this thread that has proven to work was having the entire place free of clutter and having a place for every.single.fucking.thing.
That might help children more than me at this point.. Though I never believed that crap about it helping ADD. I bet kids would say anything if it helps them get their parents to buy them the next hot trendy cancerous toy for their childhood collection.
You guys have been really helpful so far.. I have been listening and taking 'mental notes'.
People constantly tell me to journal and write in general but I am very picky on the type of notebook/medium I use to write in. Picky to the point where it would prevent me from doing the work.
As far as deficiencies go, when I was getting some form of treatments (unrelated to ADD) I was also taking certain things.. I think I was low on zinc or some shit.
It's not like mental health is something that's been completely solved and understood at the moment, some of the less orthodox advise here might be a big help to someone.
Smoking a lil crack helps me
Depending on what you're working on, try working while dropped to a tty (Ctrl+Alt+F1). Try out Tmux if you need to do a little multitasking.
someone drop the stallman x tyrone crack pasta.
Richard Stallman back with another story here. I want to talk about something a little more personal to me this time. Lately I've been under a lot of stress. Being the Jesus of free software takes it's toll. Between karate neck slamming Bill Gates, desecrating Steve Jobs' corpse and writing epic fucking software you start to get worn down l. So last week I was chillin with my buds Tyrone and Jamal. We were discussing the possibility of applying to GPL to as many quamtum algorithms as we could before the jews patent them when Tyrone noticed I looked run down. He asked if i'd been sleeping lately and I confessed that stress had been taking it's toll. They both nodded knowingly and said say no more. Tyrone went and made a call and about 20 minutes latrr a fellow named Victor showed up. Tyrone exchanged some money for a few small bags and Victor was on his way. A few short minutes later I took my first hit of Crack Cocaine.
Now if you've never smoked crack before the only way I can describe the feeling is....picture getting sucked off by 3 women while a 14 year old thai hooker gives you the best damn prostate massage you've ever had. And if you've never had your asshole caressed softly by the nimble, skilled fingers of a 14 year old thai prostitute....well that's an experience you'll never forget.
So for the rest of the night the three of us smoked crack and discussed amazing new algorithms for data compression in the HURD kernel. It was magical. I've spent the last week completely rewriting glibc for fun it's almost 500,000 lines now. I should he ready to push a commit sometime Friday. Lately though the fucking snakes been on my mind. I've really been opened up to how much the jews have really been fucking us.
Basically if you want to program like fucking jesus go down to some bad neighborhood, meet some niggers and smoke some fucking rock. I mean fuck look at me I'm Richard Fucking Stallman do you know how many nerds have jerked off to my fucking beard?
I am fucking Jesus!!
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Hello once again. Richard Stallman returns today to have a nice civil discus....ok you know what fuck it. I am fucking Jesus how fucking dare you fucking jews steal freedom and jew it the fuck up.
So freedom(GPL:my divine gift to you all) vs suckling at the cocks of jews(BSD:steaming pile of jew turds invented so steve jobs could steal unix and pinch it all back to you in the form of a nice shiny locked magic fucking jew box known as macos)
The fucking GPL is the fucking shit. If you use any other fucking license for any fucking goddamn scrap of code you write you are a greedy fucking jew. Look at me. I made a fucking fortune giving shit away for free. I fucking rule. Sure I have fucking gifted divine intellect but if you don't maybe you should step away from the computer with all those scary fuvking buttons and go pump my fucking gas or, more likely, go suckle the cum from some fucking jew dick dowm on the corner of go kill yourself you worthless jew cumdump.
The fucking GPL is why you little turds are reading these words on your little fucking screens. Hey go into your fucking phone settings down to that shit you never read in about device then go to that little fucking part that says open source licenses. You see that? That's why that pile of shit in your hand exists and you know why those exist? Ya that was yours fucking truly. The fucking goddamn Messiah himfl fucking self. Richard Jesus Fucking Stallman.
Put it this way, just this week alone I've smoked about 6 grand worth of crack with my boyz, killed at least one hooker, blew a drug dealers brains out all over his living room, brutally sexually tortured a college student and left her naked covered in bodily fluids and stuffed full of cash in a bush down some fucking side road and I've got what is likely a dead n I gg er lying in a pile of his own vomit in the room next to me. I'm a fucking champion and I'm still going hard. Fucking Tyrones back and he fucking didn't disappoint we're gonna clean up that mess that was Jamal and get back to fucking business. Being awesome as all fuck. I am fucking Jesus and we are just fucking kicking shit off.
Richard Jesus Stallman
The most glorious being ever in existence on heaven or earth or fucking anywhere in any fucking universe.
i've had to learn very visually because I can't focus or concentrate on books or papers at all, and have never finished a book in my life before. anything that doesn't seem attractive and colourful to me on screen i just ignore and decide to move around and play distracting music. Unless they make a pop-up book for learning C++ or make a funny sitcom about learning programming then i'll never be a master programmer, i don't want to be but that's not the point
You just bumped a thread where the last post was 3 weeks ago... I'm fairly sure your problem isn't only the ADD.
I don't know how i got here... I'm sorry
Work with someone who will punch you in the face like Pavlov's dog whenever you do something inappropriate. I would gladly help you with your predicament if you let me know where you live.
I think it's normal to abandon some projects, if you get to a point where you find it's pointless and not what you had in mind, or hit a major difficulty that's way above your skills. Also it's pretty common to lose inspiration, in the case of more "artistic" projects.
But if you never finish anything at all, ever, then that's troubling. It means you never learned from any of your mistakes. By now you should be able to identify whether or not it's worth your time and energy to start a new project. There's a whole lot of cool ideas that come to me day or night. But I don't jump on them, because I know the effort needed to take them to completion will be more than I'm willing to invest. You don't have to jump on every new idea or impulse. Think carefully first about all the steps that will be required to achieve it, and how long it'll take. Are you really ready to spend all that time and complete very single step? In my case, that's only true if the idea is so compelling that I have to make it exist.
Sometimes though you actually start projects without any real intentions of taking it to a concrete finished "product", but rather just to learn about (study) the suject. That's what all those programming exercises and such are all about. They're not really projects, just small tasks that aren't meant to accomplish anything besides help you understand.
Other stuff you have to realize is: many projects have boring parts. You just have to deal with it, knowing that once you're through the hump, it'll get more interesting. And sometimes you'll run into big difficulties, where you have to either make a compromise, give up entirely, or even start over with a better strategy ("back to the drawing board", as they say).
Try some text adventures or choose-your-own-adventure books.
1) consistent good sleep
2) very precise application of caffeine and, when applicable, alcohol
3) consistent good sleep
4) practice and mental prep
5) consistent good sleep
6) eliminating distractions
7) good sleeping habits
why sleeping habits?
Oh l like that good idea about text adventures!
IV methamphetamine
good sleeping habits alone can help resolve most physical and mental health issues
Any ADHDfags have an adderall prescription? How easy was it to get? I'm beginning to think I might have ADD, I can't focus on my studies at all. I've gotten this far in my life just by being smart, but I'm suddenly hitting a brick wall because I need to study. I've been trying to fix it with caffeine and sleep, but good old legal amphetamines sound way more effective and fun.
you have distractions, internet addiction, poor impulse control / self-control, and probably a porn addiction. this user has good suggestions
cut down on internet, especially youtube, reddit, and chans. cut down on porn it saps your willpower. sleep on a regular schedule and start lifting or boxing for exercise and to grow your strength of resolve and self-control.
*eliminate* porn i mean.
anihiliate porn
yes
These are things that cause habitual behavior. How am I supposed to fix my life if I can't focus on fixing my life?
As soon as you wake up, immediately begin being productive for that day, if you don't you won't productive much if at all.
adderall lasts twice as long if you plug it
Your subconscious mind drives everything you do. Learn what it takes to consciously train your subconscious mind. Train your subconscious to aim for big, achievable dreams as well as small shorter term goals.
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Man, it's so hard these days to learn what it takes to become more productive. If only there were books or people who would teach me how to become more productive.
next time take a FUCKING shit with your bloody ass before you go to Burger King
The hardest part of doing anything is starting. After that it is all rhythm.
Nice dubs.
But this is a slow board so why the hell not. Notice when you unconsciously fall for the "the newer the better" meme. The content of this thread does not depend on time.
Personally, I'm the most productive when I have less time available. Meaning, I do more for my appartment and private projects when I'm also under heavy load at work/uni. When I have lot of spare time I automatically fall into NEET mode. And I'm not even playing any gaymen or own a TV in both scenarios...
In the end it all boils down to impulse control, dopamine addiction and being aware of your subconscious. When everything fails, consider applying at a tibetian monk school, doing nothing but learning old sanskrit and meditating all day long.
ADHD fantasy
reality
upswing realisation
9 months later - depression
Repeat until you either kill yourself/go insane or go back to internet/porn and realize that 99% of the world wastes their life just like you.
There's also novellas and short stories. You don't have to start with Les MisÃrables or Lord of the Rings. Try some of the short stories published in pulp magazines during the early 20th century. Look for stuff by Robert E. Howard, H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, A. Merritt, and Edgar Allan Poe - all or most of their stuff should be on Project Gutenberg by now. BTW, I'm not sure but allegedly the australian mirrors have more stuff on them due to different copyright laws. Anyway here's a link: gutenberg.net.au
Also at some point (after you get through some of the short stories), read The Hobbit. It's even better if you haven't watched the movie yet, so you get to form your own visuals.
There's also the wonderful world of gamebooks. The entire Lone Wolf series is available here: projectaon.org
Fuck off.
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Damn, I needed this thread. I've been "studying" programming for the past two years and I've made as much progress as someone who has been studying on a consistent basis for 3 months; it's embarrassing really. I've become so susceptible to spacing out (making stupid mistakes or being unable to focus at all) that I'm beginning to suspect there's something amiss with my own head.
This thread gave me a newfound respect for Holla Forums, you lot have your shit together more than I had given you credit for.
just get diagnosed, get some sweet stims, and don't listen to these hippie faggots
This is likely because of choice overload. You have so much shit you want to do eventually, that you can't decide what you want to do now because there is no obvious priority. So instead you try desperately to figure out what you should work on, only to shut down and not work on anything at all.