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It's me, I'm in this meme. Those are still technically medications, just self-prescribed.
Remember, it's society that is dysfunctional. We're accommodating it's dysfunction for our own safety and security.
I love Adderall. But I didn't really feel right until I started using weed. The combination leaves me with a blank, calm mind that allows me to focus. You'll take weed from my cold, dead hands.
I'm unfortunate because while weed is a great disassociative recreation for me and basically a part of my culture, it seriously suppresses my ability to think through complex issues in the way that's required for the technical work / hobbies I do, while adderal and other stimulant-type meds make me very tense and aggravated even at low doses. I've heard good things about clonadine though, non-stimulant adhd med, I've got plans to ask my doc about it.
I'm on clonidine because I have a multi-generational family history of aortic dissection. I was on vyvanse for about two years before my dad's aorta killed him. I've never been more on top of my life than when I was on a stimulant. But clonidine absolutely does help me focus, and it reduces the noise in my head, even if the effects are less profound than the stim.
I just added buproprion back into my daily meds, hoping that's going to help more with the executive dysfunction
How many mg is of clonidine are people on?
I have an extended-release Ritalin prescription that I take every morning. It's amazing. Best stuff in the world.
But oh, man, adding an edible 2-3 times a week before bed leaves me SO much more able to function during the week.
Before those two, life was stressful as all hell.
But with those two things, I'm kicking ass and taking names all week long.
i’m on the same extended. do you feel “hollow” at abt 3pm? like your upper chest, jaw, sinuses are just … empty in a way that says “sleep needed but also probably not?”
At about 3-4 I notice that something has changed. I do think I need to request an increase in dosage to make it a little bit later in the day. I've been on the Ritalin for less than a year.
The crash later in the day helps me feel ready for sleep in a way I've never experienced before. Usually I would just be awake at all hours until my brain couldn't take it anymore, but now I legitimately do feel like sleeping. And with the edible, man, my schedule is closer to everybody else's than it's ever been.
weed makes me anxious and panic. why? booze makes me puke. so ya. cheap date, i am.
Actually self medication theory teaches us that some individuals will wind up choosing the correct medication, so yeah.
i’ve been on ritalin a while and recently also got rx’d 0.25 xanax for obv reasons. 5 pills a month. i kinda know it helps “de edge” anxiety, but also know it helps sleep. what i have trouble with is a “bad month” or two when i might need more just oddly anxious (ironically) to talk to dr abt it for fear of becoming addicted. :/
I'm a medicated ADHDer and I treat coffee like just yet another medication.
I was never a coffee drinker (or medicated in general) until my 40s. But now I literally prepare myself a cup of coffee in the morning and at lunch time, the same times I take my adderall. The combination is working great, even if it doesn't fix everything.
Coffee doesn't seem to do anything to me and idk what that means
how old are you ? It could be because you are young
coffee only started to do anything to me after i got on methylphenidate
I’ve been experimenting with caffeine from different sources and at different times of the day. I feel the effects are more noticeable/different when I change things up.
So maybe black coffee isn’t going to have an effect on your focus/creativity, but some caffeinated tea or energy drink might have an effect.
Also, I feel that having a meal or a healthy snack with the caffeine matters as well to get a noticeable impact. So just drinking coffee in the morning, with nothing else, isn’t going to give me much of a boost as compared to if I had a meal or snack with it.
It’s a bong (water pipe) for smoking weed/dabs, or whatever else you want.
And the thing above it is...
It's a coffee but I don't know what kind of monster munches down a side of coffee beans with their coffee.
So, it's weird but coffee just runs through my gut. Espresso is what wakes me up. I can't explain it. If I use the aeropress, it's concentrated enough.
i switched my coffee for a B complex gummy in the AM and a B12+D after lunch. It's been working gangbusters for my mood. Probably too much B vitamins but idgaf
Check whats in you B complex, if B6 is a high dosage you should check in with your doctor, prolonged intake of high B6 doses can cause minor nerve damage. While you're at it let them check your potassium levels, too much Vitamin D can lead to drastic Potassium levels which can cause health problems. At least in Germany the blood work for both is about 25€ and you tune your dose to what's safe :)
It's probably safe but some people metabolize those vitamins differently and the tests are quick and simple.
I wish I lived in a developed nation where I could just "go get blood work done" for a nominal fee or be able to afford to care about long term effects instead of surviving day to day. Not sarcastic, I legit wish that
I feel for you, sometimes I forget to be appreciative for things like this.
The whole thing was as uncomplicated as it can be. I was at the doctor's for a regular checkup, during the little interview I mentioned I was taking vitamin d to alleviate the symptoms of almost no sunlight during the winter (working nights), she then explained the vitamin d - potassium relation and took some blood to check. I got the results a couple days later via email and that was that. As it was during a regular checkup it was also free of charge.
It's awesome to be in a place where I don't even have to actively seek out that kind of medical attention. I got an email reminding me of the checkup with some possible appointments, I clicked on one, two weeks later I mention the vitamin d in passing and it gets tested in a timely manner for free. Easy as that. I had bowel movements more complicated than that.
My father grew up in (West) Germany, and I studied German as a child (Hallo! Ich bin MnemonicBump und ich komme aus America woher kommst du?, etc, etc), and I really wanted to move to Hamburg when I was a teen. But it turns out that your country doesn't want an undereducated neurotic American, so alas, I'm stuck here.
Yeah, most of the EU prefers their immigrants to have real skills they want, like Medical Doctors, PhD holders, and be on the younger side to provide all the tax revenue they can get.
But they aren't really in need of low skill workers. And it doesn't matter where you come from. They got all the neurotic home-grown waiters they need.
real skills
PhD holders
Medical Doctors sure, but c'mon. Education level is not indicative of any real life skill
I can play 25 different instruments, record and produce music at a professional level, I can direct photography for motion pictures, write television news copy, code in 5(ish) different languages, mill lumber from raw timber, pickle, dry, can, and gernally preserve food, gut and fillet SO MANY different types of fish, build structures out of earthen building material, I can wire photovoltaic panels in series or parallel and am familiar with both 12v and 24v systems, and I can do pretty much anything to a car that doesn't require a lift or a hoist.
But are any of those special without the little paper that says you can do them?
Edit: And as of last year, I can spin yarn from raw fibers, weave fabrics from that yarn, and sew clothes from pattern from that cloth.
Because school is expensive and time-consuming and I'm already working full time to BARELY get by. I love school (well, I love learning), but it's simply not an option for me at this point in my life. Obviously I've looked into it (and have a fair amount of student debt to prove that I've tried more than once), but I always have to make the choice between going to school or eating and paying rent, and I usually want to eat and have a place to live.
We have a federal program in the U.S. called Job Corps that does provide free technical training in a WIDE variety of trades, but it's woefully underfunded these days, and not well known due to having a reputation as the sort of place wayward youth go to instead of juvenile hall, and you have to be between the ages of 16 and 24 at the time you start.
Free education isn't really a thing here.
I mean, yes, but the DSA has had a problematic and interesting history (I say this as a former member/member at large). And it's important to remember that they're not a political party and can run no candidates themselves (which would never work if they tried), so their best bet is to try to turn the DEEEPLY entreched liberal Democratic Party, which is like pulling teeth.
Ohh, a few years ago there was a series of (verified) SA and harassment allegations levied at some of the national leadership, around the same time there was a pretty big controversy surrounding the misappropriation of funds donated my members and also membership dues, and for this reason the Libertarian Socialist Caucus largely dissolved and left the organization. It was a whole kerfuffle
They give that piece of paper to rapist celebrities like Bill Cosby for no reason than they are famous.
I own a small manufacturing company but god damn the eu acts like they only want major corpos with awful labor practices or poor people that don’t even speak their language to immigrate.
You’re smug now but those corpos will eat you next 💗
Perhaps not. But a PhD is indicative of highly specialized knowledge, like mathematics, engineering, or physics. All knowledge sets that are highly prized by nations around the world.
Waiters need not apply........
What is your thing against waiters? Do you believe that they contribute less to society than someone who has a PhD in sociology or some bs?
I have nothing against waiters. The world needs some waiters. I used them as an example. But yeah, a doctorate in sociology will probably improve humanity to a greater extent than being a waiter. And to be honest, even a doctorate in sociology isn't at the top of the list like a medical doctor would be.
And when it comes to emigration, countries want the best educated people they can get so they can improve their nation and the people's lives that live there. Like it or not, waiters, taxi drivers, and cashiers, by and large, are not on the desirable list of professions for Western nations looking for immigrants.
The problem with that is, in many cases, being highly educated probably means you came from money, which usually translates to some of the worst people we could possibly be sending.
So, what's wrong with that? If the worst people are all highly educated people, then there should soon only be the good people left that aren't as well educated. Right?
Ohh, nononono. You made a fatal assumption that the worst people are the ONLY bad people, and obviously that's not true. The state is actively borking education because it needs to maintain its supply of sycophants.
So why did you claim that "it's the likely wealthy, highly educated people" that are bad? Choose your words better and don't make blanket statements.
Okay, so what I literally said was:
The problem with that is, in many cases, being highly educated probably means you came from money, which usually translates to some of the worst people we could possibly be sending.
See how I used words like "probably", "usually", and "worst"? That's because I wasn't making a blanket statement that "all of the highly educated people are bad", I'm saying that amongst the highly educated are the very worst of people. That's a really important distinction.
Don’t you take plenty of low skill workers from other regions?
Not if Trump has his way.
But migrant workers have always been a thing. Doing the lowest paying jobs with no security or care. Things like hoeing fields or handpicking tomatoes. Are you willing to travel from one job to another doing backbreaking work for little pay?
vitamin b is water soluble so any excess is just getting peed out, so you're safe there. the ones you gotta look out for are a, d, and e. those are all fat should've and can build up inside you body and eventually cause issues
Do they have caffeine too though? It seems like the B vitamin + caffeine combo is very common.
Huh. I do a B12 (missing the absorbtive parts) every other day and it's not that noticeable now that my b levels are right. I wonder if I take a bit more...
What does it mean if I still do it medicated!? 😭
I just hit 6 months of being clean from weed after being a daily smoker for over 10 years!
The dose makes the poison. Weed is not a panacea but it sure as hell isn't the devil. If you are getting F'd up you need to cut back the dose or switch to edibles; you don't get as functionally high, but it's more intense and lasts longer. Also know your weed: Indicas are more of a "body high" (Sleepy, pain reduction, relaxation, "vibes") where as Sativas are more of a "mental high" (mental "buzz," creativity, giggles, anxiety reduction) get a good hybrid that focuses more on the thing you want to fix. If you are in a funk, a Sativa dominant strain is what you need, if you are burnt out, you need an indica dominant one.
Terpenes are where the health effects are, but they don't line up neatly with the indica / sativa dichotomy. I love a good hybrid with limonene and pinene but it's kind of hard to find both in the same flower out here
we really need to properly decriminalize so we can study these compounds. There was a study using some naturally derived psychotropics done in Brazil some years ago that showed promising benefits in reducing the mechanisms that activate PTSD triggers, for instance, but nothing ever really came of it, because of stigma surrounding the "recreational" uses.
Basically the study found that if you take a psychotropic shortly after the traumatizing event, it disrupts the amygdala's ability to parse and store the memory in a way that becomes malignant. This makes it FAR easier to process the event through therapy, and outcomes were greatly improved.
As a long time smoker, I can not understand how people think taking edibles is the answer to getting too high smoking. Edibles will fuck you up. I smoke A LOT and a 10mg gummy will destroy me. My experience is the exact opposite of your recommendations. I’d tell a new person to hit a vape a couple of times and relax.
In my late 40s, hippie speed balls every morning. Bad(?) habit I picked up (again) within the past five years. Like a few other have said, it really levels me out, giving me the ability to fine tune my focus first thing in the morning. The absurdities at work nearly require marijuana consumption. Being a midday slug has been the only downside.
I'm 43 and TIL about a hippy speedball. I've been doing this shit for over half my life lol.
I was a little bummed to see so much half tobacco/half marijuana when i went to Amsterdam this spring. My lungs weren't thrilled but the nicotine was surprisingly nice especially after day drinking and walking literally all day.
I dont understand how my coworkers deal with the public without a wake and bake. Now given, not all of them are as nice to the customers as I am, but dam. Id have to kill someone if I was just rawdogging this job 5 days a week.
Coffee makes me sleepy. Weed makes me anxious. Focalin is like walking through a peaceful meadow with a god holding my hand and a muse whispering in my ear.
Sorry I couldn't find it, but caffeine and coffee can have opposite effects on a person. Iirc caffeine making you sleepy is a symptom of ADHD or autism(it could be something else entirely, it was a long time ago I read the article) but was a very strong indicator of the thing in the article. This assumes it wasn't a junk article, the acidity of the coffee apparently can have an effect on your metabolism depending on what else you put in it. Cinnamon apparently had a noticeable effect on the results.
Again apologies for not being able to locate it, but Ill update this if I do manage to find the one I remember. It was pre covid when I read it if that matters
I personally just cannot smoke in the morning, I feel like an NPC for the next like 4 hours and just kinda disassociate 😭
Is that not the point?
Edibles are better
Honestly both are fine as long as you stay within or below the average healthy limits (roughly 320mg/day for caffeine, weed might be less tested in that regard).
Just know your own limits and make sure you have water with you.
I do not drink coffee but take cannabinoids as ADD Medication as capsules. It is wonderful, if the right mix for cannabinoids has been found and got allowed as meds.
I thought the lower was some kind of spanking paddle and i felt attacked.
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