Man, dealing with ADHD sucks.

[Unknown Poster]

do you smoke to cool that shyt down or it gets worse ? at least you got a vocation that benefits from your max energy i know it must hade side effects.

yeah I smoke weed for sure...I don't hide it. I've looked into the effects of THC and CBD when it comes to ADHD and other disorders.

it helps to calm my nerves and ease my anxiety but I feel it helps me to slow down my hyperactive mind to the point I can focus on what I'm doing or what I want to do. been smoking weed for almost 18 years now. I feel I have more positive to say about the benefits of it in accordance to basic cognitive functions and all that. Especially when it comes to focus.

 

[BlackDiBiase]

yeah I smoke weed for sure...I don't hide it. I've looked into the effects of THC and CBD when it comes to ADHD and other disorders.

it helps to calm my nerves and ease my anxiety but I feel it helps me to slow down my hyperactive mind to the point I can focus on what I'm doing or what I want to do. been smoking weed for almost 18 years now. I feel I have more positive to say about the benefits of it in accordance to basic cognitive functions and all that. Especially when it comes to focus.

thats good to hear man.

 

[Unknown Poster]

i dont get it.. is this some kinda humble brag thread now..

straight up family, I would never wish this ADD/ADHD shyt on my worst enemy. this sucks. It really can get bad and there is no cure for it. like I wish I could be "normal" and just be able to focus on whatever it is I have at hand and not come off as "scatterbrained" That's what people don't realize. I dojn't think people ask to have their brains wired like this...I know I wouldn't. lol.

There are so many times that I wish I wasn't dealing with this where I could just focus on one thing without getting distracted so easily, especially professional infront of peers and clients and then they see my lapse in performance and that reflects negatively on me. Or I just get into modes of hyperfixation kind of like OCD where I do routines and rituals repeatedly out of nowhere. In the most inopportune times. So I've had to develop alot of self control and put myself into proactive situations where i have to just start things and finish them. Cause for people that suffer from ADD, we can go from getting something done in the next 15 minutes to the next 15 hours to not getting done at all really fast.

 

[Hersh]

put those " million thoughts" in outline form and ull become dr strange... thtas how i deal with it...

 

[hustlemania]

straight up family, I would never wish this ADD/ADHD shyt on my worst enemy. this sucks. It really can get bad and there is no cure for it. like I wish I could be "normal" and just be able to focus on whatever it is I have at hand and not come off as "scatterbrained" That's what people don't realize. I dojn't think people ask to have their brains wired like this...I know I wouldn't. lol.

There are so many times that I wish I wasn't dealing with this where I could just focus on one thing without getting distracted so easily, especially professional infront of peers and clients and then they see my lapse in performance and that reflects negatively on me. Or I just get into modes of hyperfixation kind of like OCD where I do routines and rituals repeatedly out of nowhere. In the most inopportune times. So I've had to develop alot of self control and put myself into proactive situations where i have to just start things and finish them. Cause for people that suffer from ADD, we can go from getting something done in the next 15 minutes to the next 15 hours to not getting done at all really fast.

if you have ADHD.. how would you maintain a 3.9 in college..?

that literally, contradicts the symptoms..

and, i know alot of folks with ADHD.. and, they dont smoke weed.. makes them paranoid, and lose even more focus..

 

[CoryMack]

It’s why I smoke hella weed I think. I was never medicated coming up but I had a couple of cousins who were.

Always in trouble cause I couldn’t sit still. Weed calms me down and seems like it helps me focus when I need to and it fits into my lifestyle. It just makes me lazy at times. Sitting here high now on the Coli and looking to burn another when I could be getting some work done.

 

[Unknown Poster]

if you have ADHD.. how would you maintain a 3.9 in college..?

that literally, contradicts the symptoms..

and, i know alot of folks with ADHD.. and, they dont smoke weed.. makes them paranoid, and lose even more focus..

I took mostly phys=e4d classes and did two online courses that I needed to do as a requirement for my major. And those phys-ed classes was filled with nothing but cute college girls so it made me excited to actually go to class considering it was mainly consistent of weightlifting, aerobics, yoga, pilates, wateraerobics, and kickboxing. I ain't gonna lie I took the easy way out to a 3.9 GPA...made dean's list...

My worst course was math, I just fukked up so many math courses....barely passed my algebra course with a C-.

 

[96Blue]

My boss got mad at me today and sent me to the break room because I wasn't fast enough at getting orders out. I've only working for 3 days and I already fukked up bad.

I don't know where my life is headed, but if I can't keep a steady job, I don't know what my future is going to look like.

BE GRATEFUL YALL DON'T HAVE ADHD!!!

 

[Prez2032]

Weed bruh only way I got thru law school. I feel yo pain tho

 

[Neuromancer]

How do you know you have it? Asking for myself.

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

I've been living with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder since I was 5 years old. I'm 35 now. Let me tell you, it never gets any easier dealing with this and you will never know how many times in my life I wish I was not dealing with this ish and I could just be "normal"...whatever the fukk that is.

Alot of people don't really understand and can't really comprehend what dealing with ADHD is like. When I work, sometimes I get distracted...but more often than not I find myself stumbling over my own thought processes trying to figure out what to do so one task turns into a bunch of obstacles that I make myself stumble over to get to that one task. It affects me at work...and that's what sucks. Especially dealing with people who aren't used to dealing with people with ADHD, and that's besides my own characteristics, personality, work ethic, persona, etc. Then I realized; I'm going to be dealing with this my entire adult life.

I've taken all sorts of prescribed medications for adhd. Ritalin. concertra (stopped taking it cause it made me not want to eat and nauseous), adderall (it's been the most effective for dealing with my ADHD) but for the most part it's been a mind over matter perspective on how to properly deal with ADHD...cause no one is the same and no one deals with it the same. And ADHD has been kind of misinterpreted by and large by society and the media. It's not just being "fidgety" or having a hard time doing work or focusing on things. It's having a million thoughts at once in your head. It's being distracted by things you shouldn't in situations you shouldn't be getting easily distracted where others are depending on you. It's how making a cup of coffee and cleaning up your apartment turns into a 2 hour do anything but that fest...

I've been able to utilize my ADHD to my advantage...mainly in my creative endeavors especially with music. When I'm completely interested in something and like what I'm doing, I'll be fully invested mentally in it. When I'm not, it's 50-50. I guess that's why I always gravitated to social media platforms like tumblr and twitter and been on the internet heavy since I was 14...being able to type things out and compose thoughts and messages becomes a way for me to deal with my scatterbrained mind...my eccentric ass existence. lol.

I just really typed this out just to share with the Coli, maybe there are others dealing with ADD/ADHD/Adult ADD/ADHD that want to contribute to this discussions.

Adderall doesn't work?



How bout Flmodafinil ...it's safer ..and little side effects and non addictive

 

[J.E.T.S]

I have this and I forget alot of shyt.

Like names and things/tasks people have asked me to remember.

Like I can know what the name or something is, but if asked on the spot... Like the shyt just disappear out my mind. I'll be at home later like "damn nikka you retarded".

Sometimes I can be talking and have a valid point to make.... so as i start talking, I forget the point I was building up to. Then I start talking in circles.

 

[Antwon Mitchell]

Would you consider somebody that's grown who randomly gets up out of their seat jumping up and down skipping throughout the house and randomly sits down after pacing back & forth whispering to themselves as somebody with ADHD?


There's a coworker who invited me to their house last week suddenly did that when I was sitting on the couch watching TV ...

 

[re'up]

Those symptoms sound a lot like bipolar disorder.

An Overview of Bipolar Disorder

 

[duncanthetall]

i dont get it.. is this some kinda humble brag thread now..

Right. I have ADHD and was never able to really reach my potential I feel. The medicine made me not really me and I stopped taking it when I was like 20.