Put your cock 15 minutes ahead.

Well, one of the non stimulant adhd meds gave me light ED while I took it

I use this trick when I have projects in the garage I need to work on. Don't feel like working on it? Well I'll just go stand in the garage for a bit. Next thing I know I've been working on it for three hours and I need to force myself to take a break to go eat.

My problem is when I switch into "doing shit mode" my brain fucking pingpongs between doing all the shit, so I'll work one one thing for like 10 minutes, realize I need to do something else, switch to that, and so on. Which does mean I make progress... but still not a lot gets actually done unless I have some kind of huge breakthrough on something that gives me enough juice to focus on it because I can see the finish line.

Same for me, but I'm screwed if I don't have the next goal ready and planned before I finish the current one, because if it's not lined up and ready to go, it's over as soon as it's complete.

Great advice, thanks!

at least for me it's also a matter of breaking it down so things actually feel achievable, so i know what to do right now. Doing the dishes is for me always a matter of doing each individual dish at a time and praying to god my energy lasts through at least 5 items before i deflate like a balloon.

Did we ever find out why cursive was recommended to be slanted? I'd mostly forgotten that was a thing and now it seems stupid. Probably one person thought it looked better that way and people did it to seem fancy. A lot of grammar "rules" started from one person's preferences so this might've been the same.

"Wow, I'm really hungry, I should make some food."

Thinks about food

"Nevermind I'm not THAT hungry."

Same here. It took me years to start undoing the maladaptations it caused.

The best method I've found is to externalise the hate, not internalise. E.g. I don't get annoyed at myself for not doing the washing up. I let myself get annoyed at the washing up itself. It still motivates, but doesn't do the corrosive mental damage internalising it does.

Gosh, when I smoked, I punctuated my life with cigarettes. Get dressed, smoke. Coffee, smoke. Do the pots, smoke. Start laundry, smoke. Finish laundry, smoke. Vacuum, smoke. Shave, smoke....

I stopped smoking a decade ago, but I've recently got into rum in a properly way. Which I think might be worse.

I was able to switch to vaping, but there is a hard lower limit to the amount of nicotine I have to add. Everytime I reduce below 6mg/ml freebase my life starts to unravel and I can't put the vape away either. It's not classical withdrawal - I know how that feels all too well from the time I tried to get rid of cigarettes without the vape, and withdrawal itself is a done deal after a few days.

I might actually try a higher amount again, even the 6mg are pushing it on some days.

And if you're also diabetic, you can just sip a little bit of your own piss

Huh. I just like deliciousness and use it as a motivator. Sometimes it's my sweet tooth, sometimes coffee (black), but I'm really getting into mint tea in the afternoon.

No, the important thing is that we never ask ourselves why we have to do all these things we don't want to do.

Just switch to pony beers and shake, it's like eating Snackwells instead of actual good cookies.

I feel seen.

Instructions unclear, am high functioning alcoholic/stoner now

Is the hat man the guy people see when they abuse cough syrup Benadryl?

Perhaps it's a reference to "mad as a hatter".

Well there problem for many ADHD as explained in the post is that we just don't have the dopamine to even consider starting a task, and a little treat gives us that boost to get going.

For me personally it's often a task that I want to accomplish, I just like can't because brain says no.

So true. I'm like Superman during a crisis, and a slug any other time. I sometimes fall in to the trap of subconsciously manufacturing a crisis just so I can get things done. It's not a great way to live.

except for those of us who just get a panic attack from the adrenaline, yay!

They're not saying it'll fix everything, they're saying try it. It'll either help, or it won't; but you're no worse off for trying a gentler-on-yourself approach

Or you could be like me who’s being treated for autism with medical cannabis and you’re 33 and you don’t have a psychiatrist and you have really bad adhd but no one will treat you for the adhd because of the cannabis.

i'm not trying to one-up you, but chronic pain is really fun when your cannabis doesn't cut it too. i've given myself finger quotes adhd as a coping method for that.

Hi, Aralakh!

I’m responding to you here, but really I wanted to talk about something you asked about in another thread. That other thread got shut down, but I learned that before I typed out my response.

You asked how to learn for understanding instead of for coverage. Here’s my response:

Sure. It helps to know what learning is: a change in long term memory. In particular, you’re structuring your memory so that you can think in a structured way.

So, how do you change your long term memory? First, start by paying attention to what you want to learn. If it’s a hard topic, pay attention to a small part of it. Read just a chapter, or just a page, or just a paragraph.

How much should you chew? Just a page? Just a paragraph? The whole book? Your experience will tell you. Try something and see how it goes.

Once you have read something small enough, put it aside and try to recall it. Write it out or talk out loud. Try to explain it. Try to interpret it. Try to get a sense of how much you understand of it.

Then go back to the text and compare what you said to it. See if you got the main ideas.

This is the basic understanding procedure.

Here are some ways of enhancing the procedure.

• Establish goals for yourself. This is very, very important. Do you want to understand the main ideas? What are those main ideas? Do you want to develop a skill? What is it? Without goals, it’s hard to self-regulate as a learner. Check out the research on this self-regulation: Metacognitive Judgments and Control of Study and * Becoming a Self-Regulated Learner: An Overview*
  • A method that I like to establish goals is to have a constantly-changing, bottom-up list of Knowledge, Skills, Understandings, and Transfers I want to learn. Knowledge are just facts. Skills are basic things you learn to do. Understandings integrate and make sense of isolated facts. Understandings are developed over time. Your Understandings will probably change over time, which is why the list is bottom-up: you build is as you go. Transfers are authentic and complex applications of Skills, and they require Knowledge and Understandings. So before study session, I try to make a list of K, S, U, and T, to compare my actual recall to those. These ideas come from Understanding by Design for this, as well as Embedding Formative Assessment’s short section on Big Ideas.
• Learn about cognitive load theory. This will help you learn how much to chew. In particular, learning about the generation effect, element interactivity, the expertise reversal effect, and the spacing effect will help you loads. Going into learning without cognitive load theory is tough. Going into learning with cognitive load theory is powerful. There’s talks by Sweller, the originator of CLT, and there’s nice chapters on the implications of CLT for learning: Schmoker’s Just Tell Them and Rosenshine’s Principles In Action.
• Structure your recall sessions through Visible Thinking Routines. Practice the Core Thinking Routines. The books on VTR are good. Just know that VTR were developed in constructivist land, but constructivism is inefficient in learning, compared to Explicit Instruction (Archer and Schmoker) and Direct Instruction. In other words, if you want to learn efficiently then have clear goals, take small steps, generate evidence of where you are, and compare where you are to where you want to be so that you can know how to get there! VTR are amazing in both constructivist and direct instruction lands. They work for both (1) novices who are chewing very little and (2) experts who are innovating with entirely new thoughts.

Hope that helps! Let me know if you have questions :)

Thats when my brain starts thinking of how I'd survive on the streets and making plans for that. It doesn't really help much lol.

Instructions unclear. Now I just don't feel like I deserve any of those things.

Correction - instructions were clear. I later realize how that's supposed to work, but still not functioning.

My brain has adapted to that level of threat now. I need more.

Wow, that sounds like a shitty place to live.

half a kilo of cookies caine

I understand this...a lot. Cookies/chips/snacks etc, they come in single serve containers, it doesn't matter how big the bag/box is.

Tip.

1. Buy bag of cookies
2. Split cookies into 10 small containers
3. Have two(ish) cookies as a reward for completing this task
4. Use "whole" containers as a reward for other tasks throughout the week.

I found that putting them set exactly to the second to the atomic clock forces me to mentally create buffer time and get places on time.

Setting the clocks ahead gave me a mental assumption of “don’t worry you always have extra time !” And I imagine that setting them all behind would similarly lead me to disregard the reality of the clock.

But setting it precisely on time lets me know that this is real, there are no tricks going on, and I alone have to plan for enough time to do stuff or be places

My cortisol gland just started revving up when I read that

The hat man is a common hallucination of a shadowy man with a wide brim hat experienced in psychosis. I know about it cause it's commonly reported by people who take too much dxm or people on multi-day no-sleep stimulant binges.

It's just a form of pareidolia, your brain just trying to make sense of dark shadows in your room in its forced twilight. It's pretty much a meme.

Obviously, the man you imagine pointing a gun at you to get work done.

They didn't teach you this motivational device in school? Clearly, you went to a public school.