How does Holla Forums deal with ADHD?

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.