ADHD but medicated
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Here is my experience with medications for ADHD. It was an educating experience. I wish it worked better for me since they were really helpful but I just didn't get along with the meds. Maybe I will try others in the future.
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Adhd is like having 24/7 shower thoughts. No matter what you're doing, it never stops.
The voices, they never stop
I haven’t done any tests for ADHD but i was practicing Japanese phrases during a soccer game so im starting to get a little suspicious 😂
thats what i have to live with.
What collage am I gona go to??
Adhd thoughts
ADHD is interesting, with or without meds. Its an experience.
I can relate to this
Yea lol
Exactly
Yes
for sure
I got diagnosed with ADHD 18 years ago as a teenage, spent my whole life fighting ADHD. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my mom recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment.psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms
Congrats on your recovery. Most persons never realizes psilocybin can be used as a miracle medication to save lives. Years back i wrote an entire essay about psychedelics. they saved you from death bud, lets be honest here.
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YES sure of Dr.benfungi. Did straight shrooms in few days. Left me like a blank slate after words, no more addictions, pains, ptsd and depression. Shit saved my life, all thanks to Dr.benfungi
100% agree I used to have Psychosis and paranoid thoughts like "people thinking about me talking about me etc. Very odd behavior after getting off Adderall from 7-16. Antidepressants at 18-29. 31 now. I took way to much, but took about 20g of Gold caps (Psilocybin containing mushroom) I analyzed my entire life. The emotions that came out helped me understand behavior etc more. Wont ever need to do it again because I'm happy and contempt forever, but I wish more people did this to alter their perception of reality. Would help with healing much trauma
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The way I always described my ADHD is having multiple trains of thoughts at the exact same time, my meds allow me to select what train I want to focus on and silences the others. I try to focus on everything, there for I can not focus on anything.
In a way you could be weakening your thinking capabilities with medication. Because if you learned to harness ADHD as a skill, you can multitask extremely well.
Someone with ADHD tends to have a weak drive or ambition, but give themselves that huge drive or ambition for a goal, and they'll aim to accomplish it no matter what, no matter how challenging it is.
For instance you met someone you feel intimate with but circumstances makes it impossible to see each other for years... You'd want to build that drive to become independent, to be able to live alone and travel, and make that dream of meeting said person a reality.
That's under a ideal scenario though, in common scenarios you deal with gaslighting by society and parents, peer pressure, and all these other stuff that cripples your self-confidence and drive. You also will have high levels of empathy, and gain massive boosts in mood swings depending on how other humans interact with you.
People tell me I think too much or focus too much on multiple things, when they prefer to focus on one thing. I always liked to see all my options, so I don't see that as a negative, but a positive. I also believe that with your own brain, 'use it or lose it'. My perspective is a result of years of experiences most likely, so younger ADHD subjects will likely not see that same perspective.
But I digress, every second counts, it's better to make a decision than to regret it later on.
What I originally thought when taking ADHD medication was that the pill would do it all. When I was introduced to harder topics in school/ a large workload, I thought that the medication wasn't working anymore. I soon came to realize that most of the work was still up to me. The medication gives you the ability to function how you want, but without training your brain to work with it, you'll get nowhere.
Thanks for this insight
Yes! The meds do not “fix” the deficits we have with executive functions. It’s all about building skills and strategies. We have to use strategies to accomplish things; the meds only support this.
But, being newly diagnosed, it takes awhile to adjust to the idea that there are genuine barriers in the way of your daily functioning and that it is not because you are “lazy” and directionless.
It takes awhile to get the meds dialed in, and it is VERY important that you find a psychiatrist that has a positive view of ADHD (i.e doesn’t think it is a BS diagnosis) AND has experience with adult ADHD. It is hard to figure out what you need when you need to constantly be advocating for yourself when you speak with your doctor.
no seriously !! i have severe ADHD but was clever enough to not study and just wing it / cheat my way to a 3.31GPA in highschool, got to university, and was suddenly drowning in a lack of understanding for all my classes bc I’d never worked before. I thought getting on meds would “fix” it, but it turns out I have to train my brain to learn how to study and work hard, and the meds just help me be capable of doing it - the work is still mine to do tho!!!! it’s hard to learn how to study so late in life, but that’s what hard work is!! >:3 good stuff!!
You need meds (for me I self medicate with coffee, I hated Adderall), AND passion. Put those two in the hands of an ADHD fiend and you're golden
So you're saying meth wont help me?
ADHD is actually definitely like having a bunch of people in your brain but instead of disassociative identity disorder where they sorta like, take turns with the wheel and have different identities, they just all have control of the internal dialogue at once. And none of them are different people than you are. It's just a bunch of copies of yourself all slightly out of sync, and you're trying to follow instructions from a Twitch chat they're all shitposting in.
Edit: changed because of clarifications about DID; if I am misrepresenting anything else then definitely say something! I def don't mean to hurt anyone with DID!
And the Twitch chat is on Slow Mode😂
Also, all of the people are just you
As someone with both ADHD and DID. this is hilarious and true. im goijg insane everyone SHUT UP !!!!!!!!!!!!
not trying to be rude or a smartass but its no longer called multiple personality disorder because its not really multiple personalities but separate people, also, its called Dissociative Identity Disorder which is much more accurate considered how this disorder develops through heavy childhood dissociation. (sorry if this is rude sounding, my friend has DID and i liked learning about it through them. also hyperfixation on psychology lol..) anyways i totally agree but for me my adhd feels like a fork in the road but with like 2000 prongs and a computer with 60 tabs open and 10 of them have songs playing and shit.
Everything everywhere all at once for me really explained well this need for gluing all of yourself together, even if you constantly get carried away
It always nice to hear someone else talk about their ADHD. I take Vyvance too, I can agree it gives me the slow burn of focus I need for my job. There is the problem, like you said, that you need to focus on what you need to do or you'll focus on the wrong thing.
I have been depressed for a long time, but after taking shrooms few months ago, l feel much happier and highly motivated and my ADHD gone , lost a ton of anxiousness and had a few epiphanies about how I should live my life. I decided to buy an ounce for backup, but haven’t yet felt the need to take any more since then.
I have autism, I was diagnosed with it when I was 15. I tried shrooms and it made me function so much better.
Eek I’m autistic too and might wanna try mushrooms. How do I go about it?
Yeah doc.brenttt is your guide. Man is exceptional with anything psychedelics.
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i love seeing other people with adhd depict what the overlapping thought trains feel like. they’re often super relatable but this version in particular was just… perfect
@itsaspiracle Yes, this exactly
for me my thoughts just... like their really weird, and kinda like go of on tangets untill im thinking about something completly different.
my conversations also go of on tangets untill im talking about something completly different.
I read "seeing " as "
Sleeping "
YES! oh my god! literally while making this comment i mas distractind my a crow making sounds, my rooster crowing, (the cockadoodledoo noise) and then a squirell. it took about 2 mins.
I think of my headspace as bees. Like, all of the different thoughts and tasks are bees buzzing around and I gotta collect the one that I want to do something with it but it's buzzing the whole time and I can still hear/see all of the others buzzing at the same time.
meds didn't stop me fidgeting or daydreaming. The biggest effect I've seen is stuff I used to find just agonizingly, unbearably boring now feels tolerable which is a huge relief at times.
I was daydreaming to about 26-28. I don't remember. It was like watching TV in my head. Constantly. Creating stories and visualized it in head. And I didn't even noticed that it happens. But once I said enough, and once I started to imagine something, tried to stop it by "internally screaming" on myself, pinching myself, distract by "Nananana" thinking... after few months I stopped to daydream stories. I still daydream but just bad conscience imagination, replaying bad situations that happened during day, not "30 minute episode of scifi series". After years... I kind of lost imagination. May be I just grow up. I don't take meds. I wasn't diagnosed in childhood and in my country adult ADHD is ignored by doctors. So no meds. Attention span like squirrel. Hyperfocus on wrong things. Hard to exist.
That's how I feel, I'm able to sit and just be. Rather than sitting and dreading every minute fidgeting.
The way i describe it generally is i still cant sit still and am driven by a motor, but now i have a steering wheel and keys
Yea. I still get distracted very easily
Same with the unbearable stuff, but it also just sometimes makes me just, like, idk, it’s like, I’m not doing anything, I’m not trying to do stuff physically and I just zone out, 10mins gone, just, but my body just does something to pass the time and it’s, weird. The closest thing I can think of to compare it to is the waiting feature in Skyrim, but it has no set time, just whenever something stimulating happens.
wow I'm 27 and JUST got diagnosed with ADHD and find that I'm going through a bit of "hell yeah obviously" followed by "what-how-denial".... but damn, your illustration/portrayal of unmedicated days is....... so validating to see. so me, it's crazy. it's wild how, esp those of us who go undiagnosed for a while, just right off our symptoms as personal deficiencies / character flaws/ areas where WE need to TRy HARDER. thanks for the video man. it's giving me hope in a future that feels different than the messy undiagnosed years. HASHTAG KNOWLEDGE IS POWER FRIENDS, STAY STRONG, GIVE YOURSELVES LUV
One cannot live their entire life happy or avoid depression. In fact the common phrase 'just wanted to be happy' is a misnomer. Happiness cannot persist for long, it's a illusion you put yourself in temporarily, though you will desire it more often. Nothing wrong with it as a goal, but it can lead to people becoming extremely gullible in our currently exploitative society.
The skill everyone should work on is critical thinking, not simply because of how helpful it is, but how society as a whole don't want you to develop that form of thinking, as the media and corporations aims to want to control and dictate how you live your life more and more.
Think of common everyday problems, and think of different ways to solve them, rinse and repeat. It became a norm for common people wanting you to not prod or invest in developing your own skills to solve problems, and rely on the convenience of corporations to solve it for you.
This is EXACTLY what it feels like to take Vyvanse: “If I am not doing the task I need to be doing when the medication kicks in, I am distracted by something else until it wears off.”
EXACTLY, EXACTLY! I’m so glad I’m not alone on this. I’ve been on Vyvanse for 2 years (started in May of 2022), and it has been great… for when I’m doing the right thing at the beginning of the day.
For example, today, I took my mediation with breakfast, then decided I wanted to watch the new “Quiet On Set” docu-series. I intended to just get a start on it, then get to work. Nope. I finished the whole thing in one sitting, and wasn’t able to do ANY work for the rest of the day.
Now I’ve spent the last couple hours scrolling through shorts and watching TH-cam. Love you Vyvanse 😘😘😘
Having ADHD is so difficult when everyone else around you doesn’t understand how it works. For many years of my life I was labeled as lazy, unproductive, a huge procrastinator, etc. but I physically couldn’t help it. Everyone around me told me to change and stop doing said things, but I felt as if it was uncontrollable and that something was wrong with me. Fast forward a few years and I’m going through therapy and my therapist goes “you have ADHD” and I was stunned. She explained to me that every symptom listed in this video and your previous one was a symptom of ADHD, and all of them applied to me. I finally felt that I was heard, and I’m forever thankful.
I was diagnosed when I was 7 but the doc who diagnosed me told my parents that it isn't a neurological disorder and a mild case so I never get treated for it. I still haven't been.
Aw that's very nice
I still don’t understand ADHD lol
@@goldenice9069imagine it like this: your brain is going so quickly your body can’t keep up, your brain is telling you you have like 50 tasks to do but doesn’t rank it by importance, it just tells you to do them, but you also…. Yk- cant concentrate cuz your brain is having like 5 musicals and 30 random shower thoughts and 3 movie quotes you randomly remembered. That’s basically adhd for me
@@KatzzukeyYES!
Crazy coincidence, but as someone who just was put on meds for ADHD, this is quite relatable video
he uploaded this a minute before you commented on it, the video is 7 minutes long. 💀
@@pinksquid3001 Well, I was mainly talking about his ADHD compared to mine, but I also relate with his experience with meds
I literally just started like 4 days ago as well
Not a coincidence, it's the algorithms we interact with each day. The video was likely pushed to you by Google due to the surveillance we agree to by using their services. Fun stuff!
Same
I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was 6-7, and recently I’ve discovered that it’s so severe that even over 100mg of concerta don’t work completely. Sure they help but unlike others, I can’t stop taking them during weekends, or summer or breaks because if I stop taking them I become mentally unstable, can’t do anything right and become effectively a blob on the bed.
Did you also never have that oh wow my brain is beautiful I feel normal moment everyone seems to describe?
@@jemabird Literally never- it’s always confusing when people say they do
@@NagiTheMaineCoon okay I don't want to say thank goodness cause I wish you did but, THANK GOODNESS I feel so underwhelmed my Dr spends like half my appointments assuring me my results are fantastic for a complex case. And I'm the same. They're not for just attention or a clear mind for me, I need the dopamine to be mildly human daily lol
@@NagiTheMaineCoon your comment spoke to me is what I'm trynna say 😅
@@jemabird Ditto! Finally have someone I can relate to.
Your experience on Vyvanse is honestly like my experience every day as a person with ADHD/Anxiety/Depression who can hyperfocus.
when I was around 7, I got diagnosed with ADHD, they gave me medication and at first things went better at school, but I quickly lost my appetite and started not being able to sleep, they started giving me larger doses because the results weren't being met, to the point where they gave me too much for my weight for a while. This went on for about 10 years until I quit cold turkey due to me wanting to get into the military. Suddenly everything improved, I could sleep better, could finally eat again and I started having more fun in life. Only a year later I went back to a psychologist, who diagnosed me with Autism, and said there was no trace of ADHD.
That's the thing that sucks about ADHD and Autism (aside from the obvious other things that suck about them), they often have similar symptoms and are frequently mistaken for one another. My friend has both and apparently having both at the same time somehow lessened his symptoms slightly, so that's cool if that's true
Uhhhh, thankfully you didn’t die.
This is why I don’t trust the medical community. They’re honestly just greedy idiots who will shove a pill down your throat and kill you and not care.
I know I have ADHD, but I’ve had it for so long I refuse medication because I don’t trust doctors.
@@trapbuilder2283ADHD and autism are also very frequently comorbid so a lot of doctors are likely to either diagnose one or the other. They also tend to come with other conditions like depression, OCD, or anxiety which can increase the difficulty of diagnosis
Military had helped you on scheduling and pay attention on orders. These are the skills ADHD and ADD person have to learn to improve their life.
bet the meds were methylphenidate
You explained the vyvanse pattern way to well. The "if I'm doing the wrong thing when it kicks in, I will just hyperfocus on the wrong thing" was a struggle for me for months
Howd you fix it?
That's what happened with me and concerta, it was great for getting me to focus, but on all the wrong things, and according to other people I didn't not smile while i was on it and just worked, like I wasn't me, so I just quit cold turkey, horrible horrible decision.
HOWDIDYOUFIXIT
You forgot to mention the part where you look at the sky for 5 hours straight
@@user-np7dr9gv5p dood I wish it worked like weed for me....
I was medacated at a young age. i still take Vyvanse to this day and its a life saver. Im 4.0, student council, still kinda dumb, but Super creative. If i dont take it, I physically cant get work done and im behind by a whole day in productivity, I just need to be doing something FUN when I'm off it. I look at work, and it's not even like a turn off feeling, but like a positive "nope im not gonna do that". But yes, Vyvance is the wheel, you still need to drive it. You still gotta make PLANS and to promise that you will FOLLOW those plans, then your ballin
I gotta admit, the best treatment I got for ADHD was cognitive behavioural therapy.
It taught me how to design my environment and make changes to my life that we're ADHD friendly and helped me get tasks done. My therapist strongly believed that if you just threw meds at ADHD but didn't provide a base of CBT you'd encounter problems. Like in this video, one of my problems is that my meds lock me into a task like what happened in this video. Also, if I start with a high dopamine task, like a video, I can't switch to a low dopamine task like writing an email. But if I start my day with something low dopamine I can do boring paperwork. So currently I start my day with a beautiful still picture on TH-cam with chill music (like lofi) while my meds kick in and end my day with higher dopamine tasks when my meds wear off. Little adjustments like that make life doable. But just being given meds with no additional support structures is horrbt
As someone else with (pretty crippling) ADHD, I can only offer the other side of the coin to those who are thinking of trying medication: it allowed me to actually be a person. I don't sleep for 16 hours a day anymore, I don't hyperfixate on things I don't even enjoy anymore, I'm not always starving, I can actually find the words I'm trying to summon in a conversation, etc. ad infinitum. Some people don't react well to certain drugs, some people might not react well to any, but some people need them to function properly. Don't base your decision to seek medication on any one person's experience- see a psychiatrist and find out whether it would be a good idea for YOU.
If anyone can relate to the symptoms I listed, for reference I have combined type ADHD and take 70mg of Vyvanse daily.
Hey hey hey don't go bringing _my_ symptoms into this! Today isn't the day for a callout! My doctor says I should just try not stimulating myself by doing literally anything 2 hours before bed, and in bed just lie there not drowning out my tinnitus because that's stimulating and all this stimulation is the reason I sleep 12 hours a day minimum obviously.
I was the same, slept all day and was almost incapable of doing anything productive. I found a combination of meds that work and can live a normal live since then. Graduated, got a gf and found my dream job. With the meds I just feel normal. But like op said, everyone reacts different, so see a psychiatrist and find out what works for you.
@A K I'm so glad it works for you, I'm on Adderall, but I did try Vyvanse... for like a week, because it made my anxiety way worse.
I think I also have the combined type of ADHD, (not sure what kind of ADHD I have), and it's wild to see how meds can differently impact people.
@@ravenanne1734 Yeah, I hate when uninterested doctors give advice that just doesn't make sense. It's the neurological equivalent of telling someone with a broken leg 'just walk it off, and if it doesn't get better you're not walking enough!'
The comments section really puts a spotlight on how much of a struggle living with ADHD is no matter what your age, and it shows how much it sucks. Its nice seeing that we all suffer the same way and struggle with the same things; it shows none of us are alone.
I grew up in a school that didn't really have anyone like me, so I felt like a weirdo for just being myself, it wasn't until highschool that I was able to find other people with ADHD that I realized I wasn't weird, I was just surrounded by people that didn't think the way I do.
ADHD is genuinely that old joke of --SQUIRREL! But it is also the struggle to get up and get a shower because you have been scrolling on your phone for 4 hours and can't stop.
@@theknightradiant2 I have to choose between working on my portfolio properly or showering every day, and since I almost never leave the house the choice is never shower. I see myself as a bit unhygenic because of that, even though it's literally just an effort equation, and spending it on my projects and portfolio is getting me a career very soon. Then I'll need to form the habit of showering, but one problem at a time. Oh, and same thing with washing my hair and brushing teeth. I clip my nails for typing efficiency.
@@BusinessWolf1 Clipping your nails for typing efficiency? Ha! I used to grow my nails almost a quarter inch when I was in highschool and depressed and spending all of my days at home playing MMORPGs and typing a lot! :P
But honestly I feel you, and the fact that you're able to work on your portfolio at all is impressive as its something I'm struggling with.
@@theknightradiant2 Yeah, I heard it's more of the inability to control your focus and can cause hyper focus rather than only a lack of focus
I've started medication for my ADHD and my productivity has spiked that it one would think I was possessed by a determined spirit.
So relatable, first time on stimulants I had a sudden realization that I was just doing things. I see dishes? I just.. did them. The whole in my head wall block was removed and that feeling is intense and profound.
Man, sitting there taking a test with 8 trumpets playing randomly at the same time in your head is way too relatable.. I don't know if ADHD caused my crippling test anxiety or if it just made it worse, but it's an actual miracle that I was able to make it out of college. I hope you find something that works for you, bud.
It definitely does. I'm on strattera rn and my anxiety is mostly gone.
Wait wait wait. Are you a pickle to?
i had a math test today and one that was very important, i ended up taking half an hour extra(past the allowed time) just because i could hear like 5 little songs playing in my head at the same time, everyone got the final answer as 8.... i got 12
I feel like one of the things that can really help people with ADHD is just… an outside influence. Not trying to leave someone to their own brain to try to get everything sorted, but having a physical, actual other person help. Like “hey let’s do [this task you were meant to do]” kind of thing. It’s easier to step over the executive dysfunction hurdle when you do it with someone else.
Update: Who does it and HOW they does it seriously matters of course.
for me personally that has the exact opposite effect. Having someone else check in on me raises the pressure to be productive by a lot, and the pressure to be productive is often what paralyzes and overwhelms me, making me unable to do anything at all.
@@ciciamanda. for me it depends on the person. With most people it's the same like you described, someone checking in on me makes me more stressed and often keeps me from focusing. BUT i was lucky to meet a few special people who helped me A LOT with little things like studying together, calling each other to check in on tasked... I think one of the most important things for me is that i feel that i am taken serious and that the other person does not see my problems as a sign of lacking interest, responsibity etc but that i really WANT to do this and simply struggle with executive dysfunction. If someone understands this and doesn't blame me, doesn't make me feel stupid, helpless and childish when i struggle, then and only then it helps me to get things done and stay focused.
@@geigerzeichner2407 yeah i get that, i think im more sensetive to pressure because of having been on the edge of serious burnout for the last few years. I actually did hit burnout this autumn and i had to quit my studies and was put on full time sick leave at least until summer.. That definitely played a part in me being unable to do things as soon as the pressure increased even a little lol. I'm getting better tho
yeah honestly, I find that being in a school environment is extremely helpful for me cause I'm guided to do everything I need to do. It's also why I want to be able to work in an office when I get a job instead of working from home
I haven't been able to get meds yet and this is literally the only thing that helps me get through the executive dysfunction. Fortunately I have a lot of friends and family members who have similar struggles, so sometimes we can help each other out.
Bro people ask me why I love watching your videos and I never truly knew why but now I think it’s because your videos are so short that my ADHD brain can actually think and they’re really funny
Its crazy how much medication differs for everyone. When I was first diagnosed I heard from others with ADHD they felt like they lost their personality when treated, so I was anxious to start. I started on Ritalin, and it was honestly one of the best I’ve had happen. Then my tolerance started getting higher so I started taking more and after a while, I started losing the motivation for things. Switched to Vyvanse, became depressed and even more anxious for months, waiting for a switch to happen, and it didn’t happen so I’m trying to find more information on it before switching again.
And yet the days I forget to have my medication are the most craziest, foggy days I have but I’m less anxious. I think its finding what works for you - which I’m still working on.
But basically, don’t listen to what others say about what medication is good and bad because of THEIR experience, you’ve got to try stuff out yourself and don’t be afraid! Im glad this guy pointed this out at the start of the video. If you’re diagnosed its good to try different methods, and I wish everyone luck :)
As a teen with ADHD, this video is completely accurate with how it is to take meds. I had to go through 3 stages of meds as I grew up. my current ones help me focus and slow down
Which ones are you taking now?
I had to go through quite a few meds. Vyvanse, Dexedrine, Ritalin, and I’m about to be on Adderall. Ritalin made me TIC SO BAD. I still tic with or without meds, but I had the worst tics, verbal and physical, and it was so frustrating. I can’t imagine how my friend with Tourette’s feels. But yeah, most of them didn’t have an effect on me, but what Ice Cream Sandwich said about them is very accurate,.
Bfdi moment
I wish parents would understand how it is for us pedestrians with adhd
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This couldn’t have come out at a more perfect time I just started my meds for adhd today
That cool!
I've been on meds for about 3-4 years! it has worked great for me! good luck :))
When I started my meds the first thing I noticed was absolute rage that other people were able to actually focus and do things
How did you post this before he posted this
Andy is watching
I’ve spent a large portion of my 26 years on earth trying to cope with my ADHD above all else. Ended up really opening up to my GP about all the problems I consider ‘lesser than’ my ADHD and he said “okay so I’m gonna pick *one* of those issues to start with.”
Cut forward a couple months, he’s got me on venlafaxine for my admittedly crippling anxiety and it’s a big ol ‘holy crap’ difference. It’s like needing glasses real bad and finally getting a pair. Without the anxiety agitating literally every other mental health issue I have it’s so much easier to manage my ADHD without *specifically* medicating for it. I do still have my off days but who doesn’t? Everyone needs their lazy sundays
I'Ve been taking Vyvanse for over a year now, and you just made me realize what is "wrong" on the days where I can't seem to focus on what I have to do... It puts so much perspective on this matter for me, thank you!!!
As a man with ADHD, who takes pills to help counteract it, I can confirm this is how it feels
I have it too but when I take medicine it just makes me sick so I'm always energetic
My pills give me emotional side effects 😥
@@Techmej my pills suppress my personality, according to my parents, so now I only take it if I need to get something done and it's a pill that only lasts for a few hours
Absolutely gobsmacked when I realised that my performance in tests WASN'T luck-of-the-draw and studying was actually meant to do something. I thought other students were JOKING when they said the reason they did well was because they studied, and asking "how do you think you did?" was a fun game of Lotto after a test.
Right? Staying on ONE, usually extremely fucking boring book, was torture in class, there was no goddamn way i was doing that on my own time
"I never studied because of my ADHD" Team!
Wait it isnt luck based chance???
Never studied a day in my life I’m surprised I haven’t badly failed any tests yet
One day I was studying as hard as I can and STILL couldn’t focus. I even shielded my eyes so I couldn’t look at anything but the paper. It’s impossible
Something important to add. Meds wont give ypu what youre looking for, but they give you the focus to learn different coping strategies, and continued focus to self care.
Coming from a dude whos been on vyvanse 60mg for like 8 years now
I wish more doctors would ask more pointed questions or at least explain what I/their patients should be looking for regarding productivity. I've been taking Vyvance on and off for years from a young age, and it wasn't until this video, where you explained how the meds specifically affected you, that it ever occurred to me that I should identify and narrow down exactly what I need these meds to do, what they are helping with, and what I am still lacking. It's amazing how long I've been frustrated with myself over this. Pretty bummed out now that all the doctors I've had have just asked the question, "How are the meds working for you?" and move on since "I can feel them working" is a good enough answer to them even if I don't know how, or really if, they actually help :/. Giving myself some grace though because I know I was just desperate for any help, even if it wasn't consistent, and testing out other drugs for no definitive reason or way to evaluate their effectiveness was/is scary.
I got diagnosed with adult ADHD a few years ago, and am lucky that taking generic Adderall has really changed my life for the better. Thank you for sharing your experiences!
My adhd meds were tarantula venom. Luckily the really bad adhd wemt away after a few years so now I just exist and can somewhat focus out of sheer willpower.
Dear god the shortages are hitting hard though. Hopefully your adderall is still in stock, I had to drive to 10 different pharmacies before getting it.
@@LeafyDex tarantula venom is actually harmless to humans :) I have ADHD I take Vyvanse and I have 2 pet tarantulas that's why I felt like commenting
i was diagnosed back in kindergarten i think? adhd sucks in high school
I strongly take issue with describing Adderal and other similar meds (Mainly Dexamphetamine here in Australia) as "basically meth", because it's a horrifically inaccurate description. Meth is astronomically more neurotoxic.
Never seen anyone capture ADHD as perfectly.
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I remember when I tried Strattera for a while and I had just. So Much Exhaustion. It helped me focus enough to keep up with my classes, but I literally had no energy for anything else. There was also some extreme motion sickness that was absolutely horrible. (Nausea has always been and will always be my least favorite feeling)
Hey Ice Cream Sandwich thanks for making amazing videos it’s really fun to watch your animations, you make my day better every time by your funny jokes
As someone who has been struggling for the longest time with ADHD-like symptoms but never had the guts or money to get a diagnosis, thank you for being open about your experience in such a lighthearted yet informative manner
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It's so worth the money, but it has its own set of challenges.
Hey, me, too! Having no health insurance and really, really needing a doctor for something sucks. I've had these symptoms for my entire life but only recently started connecting them with ADHD. If I could just see a psychiatrist to confirm or deny, I'd feel a little better about why my life is like a flaming bag of dog turds. Also, sorry all the bots decided to choose your comment to reply to. They also suck.
i've been struggling with ADHD symptoms for a long time as well, but i'm still not sure whether to get a proper diagnoses bc a) i'm scared; b) i don't have the money; c) even if i had it, i might be wasting it if it's all in my head and i dont actually have it.
for you (or anybody else who's willing to answer) how did you decide and what convinced you to get diagnosed?
Trust me, get diagnosed it will help. Even better if you live in a country where you then have access to therapy and meds after diagnosis.
I'm currently with 2 different therapists, 1 neurologist to get my meds right and a self help group from my university, where we can just share the weird shit our adhd brains do without getting looked at funny.
Understanding your adhd and brain makes a lot of difference.
This is 100% accurate
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Nice video
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For anyone with adhd here are some tips i found works for me:
1. Buy a small whitebord and write what you plan on to do that day, and when you do a task cross it of with just a line so you more easly see the proggres getting done.
2. If it starts to just become mush in your brain when your maybe doung school work or something else try getting to a checkpiont where you can easly take a brake, and during the brake either take a power nap, take a short walk or just sit and think for a while.
3. Get a good routine, where you always go to sleep that time or eat that time etc, it can help a ton in the long run.
4. Use alarms, if you are trying to start a new routine or have a realy important meeting, use alarms, might sound like something everyone knows but sometimes you overlook the obvious, atleast i did😅.
Btw these are some tricks i found worked for me, if they dont work for you, dont give up as you will find the best way to handle your syntomps. Goodnight, morning or where ever you are and have a better day than me.
I am so glad I found this. I’ve never felt so listened to in my life 😭
I’ve never used meds since my diagnosis 9 months ago but I’m sort of trying to find ways to recognise my distractions and work around them
Or work WITH my ADHD instead of fighting against it
The trumpets in the brain scene had me crying with laughter 😭
As someone with ADHD and takes medication for it, you really couldn’t of described it any better. Loved this video!
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Its like cocain for kids. I had to take it when i was young, its a hard drug. Wasnt fun at all...
@@cgplays9 you should be grateful you don’t have it (like, not in a mean way tho, just, I hate having adhd and I wish I didn't). It sounds “quirky” sometimes, but if you don’t have it, usually you won’t understand how endlessly frustrating it is. Like, I cannot even describe it. I hate it.
@@cgplays9 stfu jerk. Having adhd sucks and you really shouldn’t belittle people who have it.
Your description of "I was really focused, just focused on the wrong thing" is exactly what I experience a lot of the time when working from home. Thank you for putting that frustration into words!
That's what I'm doing watching this video
Is this hyperfocusing which can also be a symptoms of neurodivergency?
Oh yeah hyperfocusing is when ya focus on something to the point that it'll kinda consume your life for a period of time? 😅 Sometimes even months to years 😂 It can happen in shorter bursts too, but yeah its definitely a neurodivergent thing
So with yvanse/lisdexamphetamine (because i only know/refer to it by its medical name for some reason)
It is absolitely great for focus
Like concentrating it does really help
BUT
This does not extend to the "what"
For me i will try reduce distractions as much as possible (out of sight is out of mind!!) So the possibility of gettinf aalll hyperfixated + drugs is more limited
But ive had this drug for abt a year and it does help (im surviving uni so must be doin sumthun) but it is in no way a fix all and having more support than just the drug is extremely important! I.e get support from school ect and family like people helping me keep track on work progress super helps too :)
Tangent i know but hope that helps?(im currently in the gym not gymmimg but ima go do that now lol :D)
As someone who has adhd, it’s really weird when someone talks about how they can do work or get through a lot of boring office stuff and just focus, when focusing for me is like a different colour outside the human viewable colour spectrum, I really don’t understand what it is to focus on something that I do not enjoy, yes I can sit and play certain games for hours but to focus on something not enjoyable sounds utterly impossible, I can’t even comprehend it figuratively. That constant dopamine that feeds into me as I begin task’s is the only motivation that can really let me finish what ever it is. Sometimes even if I enjoyed it at first, I quickly lose that sensation and will give up or walk away 95% percent of the time. I feel like this is the symptom and minuet detail that separates real adhd and excuse adhd for attention.
I was diagnosed in the 3rd grade. The first med I was prescribed was concerta. My memory of it was that I could focus but I became unawaredly depressed. I refused to eat anything but dinner(when the meds wore off) and became very underweight. They took me off concerta and tried stratera. I feel like there was no affect whatsoever, but at least I was eating again. Eventually they mixed the two with smaller doses and that sort of worked, I don’t have any concrete memories of how I felt. I stopped after high school. Eventually I asked about meds again and tried one that is more of a depression med that has affects that help adhd too. Living alone, I had no frame of reference for whether it did anything either and basically quit that one too. Now I’m just frustrated, wanting to see a more informed doctor but not having the money and just wanting something that provides even a little focus or order.
This might just be me personally, but after some trials me and my psych doctor agreed that meds wouldn’t be that helpful for me and I’m doing cognitive behavioural therapy instead. It’s really helped! Also as someone with autism as well, that “I focus too much on unessesary things” is my whole life 😭
Hello, glad you found something that helps! Hope it'll get better soon 🙂
God i can relate to that way too much
Except the therapy part lol I'm broke as shit
Glad CBT has been working for you! That being said there's pretty much no way to know if meds would be helpful for you or not without trying them... kind of red-flaggy that your psych would flat out tell you they won't work if the psych also agrees you have ADHD.
This is super underrated comment, please, biofeedback is such a good way to curb Adhd
@@uninvincibleete CBT, I now know that has more than one meaning. lol
This is so relatable. One time my meds kicked in while I was picking at my split ends - ended up spending over 4 hours cutting my split ends into the trash after that😬
did it look good afterward or did you kind of do that thing where you did too much; but didn't realize you were doing too much because you were focused on perfection. then you were done and realized the split ends weren't that bad and you kind of regret it, but you convinced yourself you liked it?
Oh good fucking lord not me relating to this exact thing. I hyperfocused on it for DAYS
Oh boy. Oh man. Fuck
I absolutely did this too, except it was for 3 weeks and I wasn’t medicated yet. I was just hyper-focused on my split ends for some reason. Eventually, my counselor had to tell me it wasn’t what she meant by “get a hobby”. 😅
@@gingergaming8452 It looked good - I was cutting individual hairs so it didn’t even make that big of a difference lol. I cut the ends to be even at the end tho and that made it look better
I LOVE your description of life with ADHD; 100% spot on! I'm currently on Xaggatin XL (slow-release methylphenidate). The ability to focus was amazing for the last 3 months, but I feel the effects are possibly beginning to wear off. It's hard to tell what's just me naturally having an off day, and what's a continuing trend. So time will tell.
I tried Concerta at one point. It's supposed to be compatible, but that was horrible. I remember being sat at my office desk and just wanting to escape out the window and run away, lol.
So, for anyone reading this, try different brands and see what works. Also, don't forget about your coping strategies, you'll still need them from time to time.
Meditation therapy and learning how to retrain your reward system is essential and underrated. I have symptoms of ADHD (never been formally diagnosed) and I personally decided that my symptoms were not severe enough to go through the headache of drudging through trying to find a medication and psychiatrist that fit me. When I was taking medication for it previously, I did not do well with stimulant medication and found myself jittery even with extended release. However, it did give me an important reference to what a calm and focused brain is *supposed* to feel like. Not even joking, I was so used to just passively thinking of things that I had to adjust to the feeling of having to choose what I wanted to focus on for something as simple as thinking about what I wanted to say to someone. Learning meditative thought leading excercises really helped slow my thoughts down a little bit and helped prevent thought spiraling from happening. Having a set morning routine that energizes you also helps wake your brain up to get it going for the day. Don't forget to celebrate when you finish a task and forgive yourself when you end up having an off-day!
When you described what adderalls affects were at first, It has definitely solidified that I should get diagnosed because the ability to do sounds nice
I used to be on it until late middle school. When I was in elementary a school nurse was popping medicine meant for students and giving us gummies and sugar pills instead so when teachers kept complaining I wasn’t paying attention they’d boost to medication. By the time we figured out what was happening the medication I was on was SO HIGH that I was absolutely wired. I focused too hard, I got extremely irritable, I was emotionally dead half the time and it was a struggle to correct it. By the time I was late into Middle School I was aware enough of what was happening and hated it. I felt robotic and filled with rage I knew was irrational but everything was so annoying when I was on it. So I asked if I could stop taking the medicine, it took convincing but my mom said the moment my grades started dropping I’d be back on it. I’ve not taken Medication since. It took a lot of determination but it’s worth it to not be in a living hell.
@@Broomer52 I had a very similar experience (without the rage or irritability but i did kinda become a pretentious dick) but I was diagnosed in the 8th grade through DNA tests, and started taking Adderall, I took it for nearly a year and eventually I started feeling really icky and wasn't able to sleep at night, I was getting very, very wired, it was like a hyper focus but also feeling methed up. I stopped taking the medication because of feeling gross on it and I realized over the last 7 years how I generally like my ADHD brain and not being hyper focused, being a ditz just seems to be apart of me that I don't wanna lose.
Once I stopped I still had about 50 pills, so I uh... sold them all to this kid who liked Adderall idk how or why b/c I hated it for making me feel gross.
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"Is the heat death of the universe something I need to be worried about?" as a random thought is so spot on. Thank you.
Bruh I still haven't peed
OMG the first time I saw this video I noticed that to
I didn't notice, but I know that thought process.
its 30 billion years away, no you dont
@@maze4184 of course, but you don't decide the thoughts that come into your head, especially with adhd. Besides, you can't prove the universe doesn't unexpectedly die the Thursday after the Superbowl at 2:52pm due to unexpected heat death
Me and my family have known ive had ADHD since i was 3 and then last year i couldn't pay attention at all, i procrastinated a lot, i was not retaining the information, and i got distracted, and now i took medication and now i still do all those things, just a lot less
The video is brilliant. Love the humor!
I’ve been taking medication since I was 10. I’m now almost 27. The ONLY reason I was diagnosed was because my mom has adhd and she saw the symptoms while she didn’t get diagnosed until she was in her 30s. I think without medication I legit would not have gotten my associates. Now I’m currently working on my bachelors and eventually masters. However, I am extremely annoyed at how expensive the medication is and if you don’t have good insurance then it’s even worse
I started at 10 I’m 11 now
tbh i would start doing exercises for your prefrontal cortex. something about learned in counseling is ripple effect thinking. take a completely meaningless action and think about how it will create ripples. an example would be “if i get a glass of water i will no longer be thirsty and if i am no longer thirsty i will be happier, and if im happier i may be more productive” like the concept is to consciously go through the decision making process and then make a decision. but do it while removed from a situation so that way you have time to stop and think and the more you work at it the more natural it will become. it doesn’t help with the brain noise but it helps with a lot of other things that will make life easier
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My story is similar, except my Dad got diagnosed because of my diagnosis
@@gamingreport2199 why are you 11 and commenting on TH-cam
I really identified with this video. It's nice to know other people understand what it's like to think as a person with ADHD
same
Lol I understand not because I have ADHD but because I was diagnosed with it when I was 4 in an unhealthy (somewhat bad, sometimes illegal-doing) family and the diagnosis was kinda rushed.
So I technically had ADHD but grew out of it when I was moved from an abusive home to one equipped to deal with trauma. Look at that mental health woo
@@WarpedKarma6471 ummm... wow. just wow.
same
Same
I got diagnosed at a crazy young age that I'm able to recognize as being pretty lucky in that regard. But the problem is, while I remember taking things like Concerta and stuff early on, as soon as I was put on adderall, and it worked, that was it. That was about 10-12 years ago.
So you can IMAGINE the crap I went through during the shortage
I think this was probably the easiest vid to watch I have ever seen and also, I was reacting to the situations (out loud of course) exactly as you were lol This channel is AWESOME! MY COPING STRATEGY- oops still in caps - lots of beer and chronic fatigue from having MS. Not ideal obv but it does work 🤷🏻♀️ Ooh also, chronic fatigue meds gave me that ‘hyper focus’ too and then the mental burn swiftly followed by me collapsing like a felled tree and drooling for an hour, then back to ‘normal’.
A few tips I got from my mom (she's a therapist that started specializing in ADHD when I got diagnosed):
- meds won't help you without therapy (to learn how to use them effectively but also adress any other problems)
- ALWAYS eat a meal (at best a fatty meal) directly before you take your meds!
- ADDers* often need higher doses or very low doses
- women with ADD often need VERY low doses
- AFTER CONSULTING WITH YOUR DOCTOR you can lower your dose lower than the doses available (if the meds are capsules containing powder) by diluting the powder in water in a measuring cup or syringe and only taking a portion.
*I mean ADHD of the inattentive Type when I write ADD.
Edit: Before, I didn't explain that I meant the inattentive subtype and that you should talk to your doctor before changing your dose. Thanks for the remarks!
Fun fact, we don't call it ADD anymore and haven't for a while. It's all ADHD and then we describe the subtype based on what symptoms are present and/or most bothersome.
You're right, but it's still widely used in Europe and easier than first having to explain the names of the subtypes.
@@BlueMusicFan Interesting. It sounded like in Spanish they might have the same issue based on context clues in reading another comment.
When I describe it in medical practice contexts, I point out which drugs are better for what symptoms (ie stimulants are often better for inattentive symptoms and can be outright bad options in purely hyperactive symptoms)
Which is a fancy way of saying I often just skip past the labeling to describing the symptoms anyways.
(Context: pharmacy student, graduate in May, on rotations where I see many different medical practice contexts currently)
Uhhh... I don't think you should be diluting your meds. If you wanna titrate ask your doctor to give you a titrated dose and your pharmacist can give you the drugs your supposed to take in the form they're supposed to be taken.
@@amazingkool fun fact, nobody cares. If someone is not hyper active, they’re going to say ADD. If they are, they’ll say ADHD. Have you seen the names they use in immunology, humans suck at naming things in the medical field.
The face when the doctor said, “So I’m not sure what this is” was ridiculously relatable.
So is symptom denial. I’ve been there, man. Just so desperate to find a medicine that finally works.
the likes are 900 do not dare to mess up the satisfaction
edit: if you reply I will change the number so none of your replys make sense *HAHAHAAHAHAH*
Also been searching for answers for a long time.
I had tried ritalin, dex, adderall and modafinil.
All of them have the same problem as the video. They're not sustainable.
this might sound strange, but I found two things that sustainably helped A LOT.
It's a medication combo + diet
There's a stack called "Lost Falco"
It is:
Ibudilast + Galantamine
or
Ibudilast + Huperzine A
Then there's the Keto diet. It gets a bad rap, but for me, I didn't care about weight loss (i'm already normal weight), I cared about the "mental energy and focus" that people were reporting online. May not be for everyone, and it's a generally boring diet, but I found the energy stability was really stable. No more carb crashes. No afernoon slump. No need for a nap. Just consistent calm energy all day. No spikes of energy like a "sugar rush", just stable output.
Combining the diet and medication stack together is much better than any traditional stimulant medication I've ever tried.
I find Keto+Lost Falco works really well, and it's helping me achieve a lot more.
Waiting for 666
Drugs are drugs.
@@Jimmy_Jones *sigh* lets hope for *666*
Well……. This was a fun and slightly heart breaking realization that maybeeee my meds actually don’t work for me anymore. They used to work PERFECTLY for the past 6-7(ish) years but recently I take them and either I hyper fixate on a task I don’t have to do or my anxiety kicks in about all the things I have to do and then I hyper fixate on the anxious feeling about all the things I need to do and fall into adhd paralysis. This video really forced me to look at myself and realize I’ve been so stuck on the fact that they did work and that I didn’t want to start from square 1 again and I’ve definitely been lying to myself that it’s fine…. So even though part of me is kind of annoyed that seeing this video is the reason I’m most likely gonna have to start over majority of me really just wants to say thank you so much for creating this so I can start getting better and I appreciate you sharing your journey.
If anyone else is going through something similar after years of success just know there are tons of factors that can cause a change in your meds ability to work for you from environmental changes to hormones to literally just your brain developing more as you’ve gotten older. The only reason I know this is because of the many rabbit holes of adhd research I’ve fallen down that apparently didn’t convince my brain that switching meds was an option but at least this cute 7 minute TH-cam video of a cartoon stick figure talking to me did 🥲
This video's direction has been the gist of both peers and myself. Medication gives you a prism to focus all your beams of energy into a single task for focus among other areas but is only half the solution. You must still apply yourself to point this white beam of focused light at the correct tasks. These amphetamines and the sort help here whether your body can facilitate that or not (You will lose a lot of weight starting out if you forget to eat, and will) and you can begin unwraveling your short reward pathways. But you still have to put that work in.
After long enough the imminent rush of taking and of the big three ADHD medications will fade and you will want to avoid going into withdrawal alike those who take it recreationally would also go through when stopping abruptly. Tolerance builds up and you're in a position where your body is now dependent on the medicine to function. Getting up might be harder and you will definitely realize after a very long day of feeling like a sack of tired shit that oops, you forgot to take it that morning as the routine got broken.
Its a choice and can certainly help especially the first few months of starting stimulant medications. But they're easy to abuse and quietly become a dependency fast. There are plenty of side effects including stomach problems and a severe amplification of existing tics or never before seen ticking, extremely dry skin and issues in the 'monthly cycle'. And the worst: Sleep at the end of the day.
They're amphetamines after all (Even Vyvance but the pro-drug you take is not broken down into an amphetamine until later into the blood stream and yes is overall a slower burn through the day rather than having to remember to take say, Dexamphetamine 2-3 times a day).
Most of my peers had to set alarms for when to eat because it stops hunger pain in its tracks. It becomes scary easy to forget to eat for a day or two in a row. You can lose 22 LBS in a month screwing that up like one of my male friends did.
In my case I got medication in my mid twenties after finally giving up on my last crutch to deal with how life was for me. I have them and at this point I would rather live without the many "eyes closed pretending they're not there" side effects. Any day of the week. But going into withdrawal identically to some of the scariest cases I've seen with some old friends who made the mistake of doing real meth, scares me. And while I will never abuse this medication so many people either do or trade it for the scary stuff. While these prescriptions aren't nearly the same dosage as people doing the nightmare of all drugs (methamphetamine, ADHD medication's scariest and most destructive cousin) recreationally I still fear going into withdrawal from my own poor-man amphetamines here prescribed for my brain.
I do not want to rely on these any more than I have to. And I frequently ask my phychologist to let me ween off onto some of the non-stimulating options. I currently take a combination of both and still want off the stimulants. Its barely... BARELY... worth the side effects and the entire benefit begins to fall off by the time a year has passed, but that was always the goal it's not for a high, its supposed to get saturated in your system. That's when the intended medicated change is expected to begin.
I was recently told I have ADHD after being told I didn't have it all my life. Everything was impossibly hard for me to do growing up and now having people actually take me seriously, it's amazing. Medicine has saved me from those days of chaos. This video summed it up perfectly
God i wish i had the balls to go and diagnose and then treat myself. I literally have 90% of all generic adhd symptoms all of my life, but im like *i dont wanna spend half of my hard earned money on temporary solution* , but the other option is to continue to get forever distracted and have 10 conversations at once in my head when i dont intently focus on some work i like for exactly 3 hours once a week. Sorry for the rant, but i applaud you for dealing with your problems.
yes
im kinda the same. I always told people around me "I think I have ADHD" and they told me I didnt have it, but they did complain about all of my symptoms "you have an organization problem","you have a focus problem", "you need to apply yourself", "you act childish and immature for your age" but nooo none of that was ADHD that was just my "fault". Now at 17 I said once more "I think I have ADHD" and my dad laughed at me saying that of course I have it, my mom was skeptical but after looking it up online she became convinced I had it. I stopped "masking" so much with my friends so I ended up with my friends all kinda diagnosing me with it, on top of teachers suspecting I have it, especially science teachers. So yeahh its a weird feeling to now be taken seriously.
I'm 23, I was diagnosed when I was 12 but my mother never told me. She told me last year, I went through life trying to figure out why things were so hard to do but easy for everyone else. I was grounded numerous times for forgetting to do the dishes, take out the trash, and things like that. I feel you and watching this video and seeing your comment makes me feel like medicine is definitely the way to go.
@@Angel-ip7pw Bruh I can relate to literally all of these things, rn I'm trying to figure out a way to bring this up with my family, cuz i really feel like this would answer a lot of important questions about the weird things I do sometimes (most of the time).
this was similar as to why i stayed off meds, it was either they worked in a way i didnt like, or they made me feel like crap. and the real wins with them were far and few in between.
I've been medicated for my adhd for nearly 4 years now and i still remember the first thought i had after i took my pills for the first time.
"Is this what it's like to be normal?"
it isn't though. Important to note.
Also, newsflash, you're just as normal as anyone. You are just stuck in a hyperaroused state accruing for years. You can get out of it, but it will take consistent effort to start relaxing and work on your self-esteem etc, reducing pressure. And you will feel more accomplished. Also cut out toxic people as much as possible.
"Adhd" is a descriptive diagnosis at best. There isn't precise evidence for it being a neurological disorder.
You are right @@TheDavveponken
with which one did you felt better?
@@TheDavveponkenI have to disagree with some of what you're saying.
ADHD didn't "happen" to me. It is an attempt to collect the many various neurodivergencies I have from the baseline.
Trying to "cure" your ADHD by calming down, at least to me, feels a tad "toxic". (for the want of a better word, misguided maybe? I dunno)
I don't want you to think I think you're doing this maliciously but I just wanted to present my point of view.
I really hope you reply to this as I think you have a very different perspective to me and I'd love to discuss this further!
@@TheDavveponkenDon't get me wrong I defo think giving yourself the grace to accept you are who you are (but there's always room for growth) is a tremendously important part of the ADHD journey!
At least it was, and tbh still is, for me 😂
This man saved me from my anxiety, and now he's saving me from my ADHD
@Don't Read My Profile Photo no
tbh true
on point. your experience with vyvanse was the same as mine. its anxiety. but i stayed on it and pushed through, and it went away. i do take some time off the vyvanse every once to avoid becoming too tolerant of it, and when i go back on the first day or two is off, but i quickly get back to good
Hello Mr. Ice Cream Sandwhich,
This was one of the first videos I watched when I suspected I might have ADHD. I have since gotten a diagnosis, and am on some non-stimulant meds, it's been great! Thank you for making this video I don't think I would have gotten help without it
Honestly you're probably one of the only guys on youtube who makes sponsor ads worth watching. Thank you for making the thought of buying random products interesting!
Him, Noodle and Evan and Katelyn are basically the only sponsor sections I don't skip through.
I was thinking this, the only TH-camr I watch that I don’t skip the ads on lol.
Tomska and friends!!! Highly recommend their ads for another VPN. I started watching their videos specifically because of their ad snippets.
In France we have a lot of TH-camr who make very good ads! Like JDG (who have a channel entirely subtitled in English) and Wankil Studio!
@@ledragonpouletvierge4854 yes and also « vilebrequin »
As a college student with ADHD, I feel your pain. I've been taking medication since first grade, and it's always a struggle. For me, it's worth it because my ADHD symptoms are far worse than the side effects and difficulties of the medication (to be fair I am studying to be an engineer). I spent nine years on Vyvanse, and bounced between medications before and after. It sounds to me like you were overmedicated on top of being not used to/comfortable with how the meds impacted your mental state. I have been told that some people need only a tiny dose to get the full effect, and others (like me) need a lot more, so you may want to start any future medications at the lowest dose possible, especially because you have only just started trying them out. As for getting used to how the medication impacts you, the laser focus of Vyvanse can be like being strapped to a rocket: it takes a lot of work and practice to be able to direct that attention. It worked for me because I started it while in middle school, so my attention was sort of guided for me, but homework has always been a challenge. I highly recommend you speak to a counselor or therapist (ADHD coaches do exist too) once you find a medication/dose that won't kill you, because developing the strategies and habits to take advantage of the medication efficiently can be extremely difficult to do on your own. Good luck, I hope your journey takes you where you want to go!
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 my friend, you do not understand. ADHD, properly diagnosed, can be the result of some 30 different genetic mutations, but in every case it is the result of faulty dopamine receptors in the brain, among other things. My brain is quite literally not wired like those of other people. ADHD medication does not get me high, and never has. I admit I have experienced some long term impacts as a result of poor social development, but it's not speed. Many ADHD medications can get normal people high, but that's one way to tell if someone's really got the disorder, not that anybody actually uses that as a test. Here's another example: I'm largely immune to caffeine. I occasionally need to stay up to get an assignment done, but rather than make me excited like most people it makes me calm, and I need a hell of a lot of it for any significant effect.
I appreciate you trying to impact my life in a positive way, really I do, but you must understand that ADHD is a real disorder with real treatments. Yes many of the meds bear chemical similarities to methamphetamine, but dexmethylphenidate is absolutely not the same thing, and impacts my brain differently from how it does other people.
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 my friend I'm sorry you've had a bad experience with medication, but my experience is different. Also Jesus dude it's one paragraph
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 damn dude I'm glad you got yourself out of your bad situation. You clearly have good reason not to be medicated, but that sounds like a hard life. My medication does impact my heart rate but I've been in contact with my doctor and he isn't worried, meth and coke are so much more harmful to the body.
Hey I also use Vyvanse!
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 taking meds in prescribed doses is not the same as taking as much as you can to get high. Those people with heart problems taking street drugs did that stuff to their heart themselves. It wasn't just the drugs.
Thank you for sharing your experience! I don't have ADHD, but I have periodically suffered with depression throughout my life, and I recently tried antidepressants. I was very sensitive to these meds, to both the positives and the negatives, so it was... interesting, to say the least.
I feel like on the Internet, there tends to be a lot of stuff that's either very pro- or anti-psychiatry. Thanks for just telling it like it is, and being honest about the good, the bad, and the ugly with psychiatric meds, without adopting a slant.
This is very good, that is my brain all of the time, hard to get anything done, and other times I will focus on one thing that I enjoy and the world disappears.
I remember when my older brother went on Ritalin and his ADHD symptoms were almost gone. However, my mom noticed that he "wasn't being himself" anymore. He stopped doing his hobbies and the mannerisms we knew him for were disappearing. He was also getting somewhat depressed. It basically deleted his personality, so we decided that maybe medication isn't a good idea for him.
That's exactly what happened to me but would Adderall
I’m on Ritalin now and it definitely cleared my racing thoughts and I suddenly just felt like being a productive human. Drastically increase my mood because of it. I felt like my brain wasn’t dragging me down. It’s not for everyone absolutely. It didn’t feel like crack or cocaine like this video describes. I just didn’t feel like a miserable lazy person.
That's what I felt like it did to me
would he get really silent and have zero energy at the end of the day, every day? and did he have appetite problems when he was on the stuff? thats what happened for me when i took it as a kid, anyway
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The "who's the guy in charge here?" bit SENT ME
same xD
I took ADHD medication as a kid for emotional control and focus. It worked really well but I had a lost of appetite. I started very young I can't remember when I started the meds but it was pretty much my entire school life until 12th grade when I dropped them to try and focus without the meds. I haven't taken them sense but I've thought about going back to see if I'd be able to improve some of my habits and be healthier. I can't the medication for the life of me. But it worked I kept my emotions under control for the most part and could sit down and most of my homework in like 30 minutes if I really focused.
Love hearing other ADHD medication stories because its always so different NEVER the same.
Atomoxetine, the generic for Strattera, changed my life for the better as an example
The way he describes how he felt without medication rings very true to me, and then the way I was actually shocked and amazed when he said when he took the medication he was able to say he wanted to do something then do it makes me think all those online tests and medical recommendations maybe were right all along
If you're able to and feel like it might help you, definitely get a professional assessment
Never had that "out of breath" experience with Vyvanse, I usually take a day or two off each week, but right when you started talking about getting locked into the wrong task, I started grinning. ADHD is such a ridiculous monster.
Some people get anxiety/panic attacks on it
It def made my anxiety worse, my doctor actually gave me a medication to counteract that side effect. But it stopped working for me, even after a dosage increase, so I stopped it and went to try a new one. The crazy part was feeling so much better not being on it, like a weight was lifted off my spine, like my brain was suddenly out of a pressure cooker. I didn't realize how bad it made me feel till I was off it. I think it's because I also exhibit a lot of traits of autism, so with my brain being wired differently, meds don't have their usual effect (ie, I get tired rather than being kept awake by one med, I hallucinate on another med even though it's not listed as a side effect, etc)
@@locn Not a full blown panic attack, but I was feeling really over stimulated yesterday. Taking an extra day off today. Sad that meds don’t just “work”. But we’re all one big walking chemical reaction, so what are you gonna do.
@@hawklegs6940 My general anxiety can sometimes be worse on meds however its usually a little more manageable since i have more control of my thoughts, but weirdly my social anxiety just disappears.
What i've found helped with the symptoms of anxiety, like tight chest and short breath, was making sure i was eating full meals, getting plenty of water, and also a lower dosage. I used to take 10mg dexamphetamine, but i dropped to 5mg and I had the same feeling as you where i had this big anxious weight lifted off my shoulders. Some days it would come back, but no different to how i was unmedicated. I'm on vyvanse now which is the same active chemical as dex but lasts longer, I was put on the 30mg and it feels too high again, so I'm going to drop down to 20mg and see how that goes for me!
@@jadotsu Yeah, it can be terrible sometimes, that fixation. Once you get depressed or anxious on your meds, it's hard to get your mind off of it.
Shoutout Strattera. I was diagnosed with Autism and to a somewhat lesser extent ADHD when I was really young, so I was on that medication for years. In my experiences, medications like Strattera worked great when I was young but was something that started basically ruining my life as I got older.
I don't know if anyone else has had a similar experience, but eventually the "focus" aspect that these medications are supposed to help with, led to me intensely focusing on the wrong things, such as what every person thought of me at any given moment, and non--verbal communication cues that I always took as being negative.
Since getting into some pretty rough drug addiction in University I've had to get back on ADHD meds if at a much lower dose, so I think ultimately the strength of a given medication and where your at developmentally play a huge role.
My Adhd meds dont even work
One thing that nobody tells ppl with ADHD is that the meds themselves will not do the hard work, they'll just help on a specific tasks. You still need to have discipline and structure and it sucks
That very that
Learned it the hard way. Basically med did help initially but overtime it just doesn't help unless you have a goal the moment you wake up and take the med
Yeah, adhd people, we gotta be more organised, more mindful. We gotta go past the "usual" amount of those things to account for ourselves.
And that takes *work*, the meds help set the stage for you to be able to start that work, but you still gotta do it 😂
Yeah for me ADHD meds don't fix my ADHD, they allow me to use tools to compensate ADHD. Without the meds, I fail at using those tools; without the tools, I just do basically what is described in the video, start tasks here and there, etc. Which is why I think a lot of people think meds aren't working for them, because they think it's sufficient in itself.
@@htspencer9084 Yeah its still super hard, but it keeps your thoughts clear enough to organize what you need to do and gives you the energy to do it.
So far this guy has explained ADHD better then I’ve seen doctors explain it. I love it and can relate to just about everything he said.
Same, I have ADHD - inattentive, in the past known as ADD. It's basically the same, except I'm constantly tired and have zero energy. Had to constantly eat something with sugar or drink soda to be able to focus in class. So happy I was diagnosed when it came.
Then you have really bad doctors.
Most doctors and psychiatrists only study the mind and body.
It's better to get info your mind with someone who's have experience with it than
a "proffesional" who merely studdied it. someone who has to live with it would understand it better
than someone who's never had it.
Ikr
@@VoprotheGamer thank you for saying that! I was wondering how he could explain it better then the docs can. Thanks!
Your story with Vyvanse sounds a lot like my daily experiences with Autism. I follow things so well with such hyper focus that I still don't get what I want to get done, done.
I have to essentially craft my entire routine around it which I don't mind and would love to do, if only I could get started on it.
Kinda understand what you're going through. I tried three different meds, each more ineffective than the other. Now I'm back to med 1 again, and on a higher dose (which my body didn't like before but now it seems totally fine) and it gives me SMALL amount of better focus and makes it a LITTLE easier to do boring household stuff, but other than that...well, okay, I do feel slightly more awake, but that's it. I lose some weight too, so that's good. Even increased the dose but got health issues so had to lower it again (and I was so awake at that point that I effectively stopped sleeping completely). So this dose is more balanced but also doesn't give me so many advantages. Other than that, your video pretty much hits all the right spots for me, I recognize all my problems by listening to your problems. So far, not easy to know what would work better.
The more relatable Andy becomes, the more I feel like I should get tested 😅
Definitely worth it! Wish I would have pushed for a screening sooner, so many years of my life were way harder than they needed to be. There are also informal diagnostic tools online that can help give you an idea of if it might be worth going in for a professional evaluation.
Having been diagnosed as an adult, I definitely encourage people to get tested sooner rather than later.
That said, this kind of stuff should be relatable to everyone to some extent. As far as I know everyone has the issues associated with ADHD from time to time. It's ADHD when it's 100% of the time.
I feel the same but I don't want to feel like I'm self diagnosing
@kingdork08 Well you won’t be if you get professionally tested…so there’s that…XD
If you go to a doctor and tell them you think there's something wrong, they will probably give you a diagnosis. Will it be the right diagnosis? Maybe, maybe not. I've had so many diagnoses over the years from so many doctors that wound up being something else that I've learned to rely on lifestyle changes unless something is clearly an issue and needs urgent attention. Diet, exercise, and meditation did more for me than any medication ever did. Just my 2 cents.
I don’t have ADHD but I think it’s really interesting to hear about everyone’s different experiences with it.
Lucky.
Honestly these videos and everything just exaggerate it a little for entertainment. It’s really just like when you read a page of a book but don’t understand any of it and have to re read it but with people talking. Plus the getting off task a bunch
@@edoneill6138 Don't forget its different for everyone. Some people are almost completely unable to function while others are able to develop coping strategies on their own. I'm in the middle, I can cope with it in some small areas but I'd never have made anything of myself if it wasn't for medication and therapy.
Its weird cus i'm so used to it that i kinda don't put much mind to my symptoms at all. That said though I do get this thing where i'm thinking about something and i find myself hopping around because its just naturally easier to think it, especially if it is "exiting" in the sense that it isn't mellow.
@@edoneill6138 It honestly isn't an exaggeration by any means, that may be how ADHD is for you, but there's a spectrum when it comes down to adhd, sometimes it's so bad you literally can't do any task without getting distracted by something else, sometimes it's just forgetting to do the dishes after thinking about it 5 minutes ago, there's no definitive way to describe adhd, it's different for everyone who has it.
Also like he said there's 2 different types of ADHD, the one you would be describing is the inattentive type, the hyperactive type is much worse.
its interesting how its so vastly different from person to person, i would never be able to function without my medication even when im at home. its like the fog in my brain clears up and i can actually see what i want and have to do. without it my focus is just out the window and i get confused since i cant visualize and remember the order of things
Medication doesnt fix a problem, it gives you the clarity you need to know what youre going through, and to start building skill and strategies to fix the root of the problem and better yourself.
Unfortunatley alot of people seem to think that just stuffing down pills forever will fix the problem.
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Not getting fixated on results is super important. I spent years trying different medications, trying to find one that would “fix” me, even though I had been on Ritalin before and it had made me feel way better. It took about five years for me to realize that the point was for medication to *help* me, not *fix* me. So now I’m back on Ritalin and I feel… ok. My brain works better, not perfectly, but better. I can focus on optimizing my life, and learning how to make things easier now. Which was the point the whole time. There’s no cure, just ways to make things easier, medicated or not.
the meds I took just killed my libido sleep and feeling of satisfaction after a meal (I kept eating or forgot to eat completely)
I should complain to my psych and get something better that actually helps me
Exactly. There is no fix, I wish that was talked about more. The idea of medication and therapy is to make it easier to manage the symptoms and often doctor’s and even society don’t talk about it in that context. This goes beyond even ADHD, this goes for all medication especially ones that are meant to improve (not fix) your mental health.
Great point!
EXACTLY! It's not a magical pill... it just helps you.. and certain things in life becomes easier or more managable. Before i started on meds I was told I had to put in the work too. Like exercise, healthy sleep schedule, eating healthy and the like. If I did that.. not only would it make me feel better, but the meds would also work better.
I've always struggled with sleep, so I started taking melatonin before I started on adhd meds. So that really helps me actually fall asleep. However if you don't keep the schedule your gonna fuck it up.. smh.
I started on Strattera a couple years ago and the very first thing I noticed when I took it the first time was that, about an hour after I took it, the music in my head stopped. I always had a song stuck in my head, literally constantly. It was something I was barely even aware of by the time I got started on meds because it was such a constant in my life. I took the meds and an hour later my brain just… quieted down. The music stopped. I started following trains of thought from beginning to end.
Something I feel like people don’t really Get with ADHD is that there is no such thing as “limiting distractions”. The distractions are me. I am the distraction. Because I am a brain inside of a body and the brain is the reason I am distracted. But since I started taking meds, I now have the ability to filter out distractions in my brain. I can hold focus consistently and I don’t have to struggle through constant “latching onto that thought, then latching onto this one, then getting back on topic, then latching onto a brand new one, wait what was I doing?” Meds aren’t for everyone but good lord am I glad that they are for me.
My experience has been that the meds fix my focus from the perspectice of my brain, but it didn't fix my distractibility and my coping mechanisms. It quieted the trumpets, but I still had to do the work of starting up the "important task."
I've got diagnosed with ADHD just something small of a year ago, and after trying a lot of methods with my psychiatrist and therapist, we decided to try out meds. So i started taking them, and my Grades have never been better. I was one of the worst students for years, i only ever had Ds and under, and getting a C made me more than happy. But it also hurt, because a lot of adults told me that i was really intelligent, and that they couldn't understand how i'd get such low Grades, so i should just try harder. When i turned old enough to (in my country) make my own medical appointments, i did, literally the week before my birthday i called many medical professionals and asked for an appointment the following week. And i can tell you, that i am now an all As and Bs Student, but the meds don't make me smarter, and i still take longer to process and understand many things than others do, but after 11 years in school and feeling like i was trying to fight for my life, i would never let this opertunity go to waste. My best comparison to meds would be shoes. It is more comfortable and easier to walk with shoes, but the shoes don't walk for you, and different people need different shoes that fit them and have different functions. Of course there are people who don't wear shoes, other people say shoes are comfy, and others need speciall orthopedic shoes. But no less, you need to move your legs yourself, and while teaching how to walk slowly to yourself, whilst simutaniously going through the pain of going over gravel without shoes, can of course be made easier through sole sollst, but you still might just need to start heaving to learn how to walk only just now, after everyone has learned it decades ago. Sometimes we need to walk, jump or run, but we'll always have to learn at our own pace, one step after the other.
Edit: edited out a part about my medication. some replies may not make sense now. But basically: i take an amphetamin that would show positiv in a drug test for things like meth and speed. And yes i have to cary a permit for it, especially when driving.
I didn’t read ur whole thing but yeah getting the diagnosis saved me from failing school in the last semester, I retook 7 courses while still doing my normal curriculum and it’s only cuz of the diagnosis that I made it out
methylphenidate? i'm seeing a lot of parallels to my own experience here.
(i've also discovered through some rather unhealthy habits[why do i stay up till 3am on work nights why am i like this] that it has the side effect of keeping me awake so i can operate on less than 2 hours of sleep, which is neat i guess, not that i should be doing that but it's there i suppose)
I didn't read the rest of ur comment but ritalin isn't an amphetamine like methamphetamine, unless you mean they're the same "group" like CNS stimulants, but that'd be a poor comparison bc in that sense caffeine, meth, crack and thc are all under the same "group"
You probably took Concerta, which is extended release methylphenidate. Btw, methylphenidate is nothing like methamphetamine.
Remember H20 is drinkable and H2O2 would kill you. Chemistry’s wild and the meth comparison isn’t fair and isn’t scientific. No need to shame yourself, easier said then done though. Good luck with your journey 👍
Oh this hit close to home. Went through four diff meds before saying the improvement isn’t worth the side effects. So now I’m working with a therapist instead and it’s been going really well!
Wishing you the best man!! Ditto here! o7
HealthyGamerGG (who is a qualified psych) on TH-cam details this, in that therapy + taught techniques and meds can have the same positive end result, however both are dependent on the person's situation and both are not worse or better than the other. Also as with most health issues, it is often a combination of meds and holistic approaches that works most effectively.
Un-medicated adhd is me having to see the Polish dancing cow video before I could continue this video.
for me, it takes experimenting and trying out different avenues, not just 2, but that experience with vyvanse sounds scary so i can understand stopping!
The best I can describe this feeling is that being unmedicated is like I'm 'up in the clouds' and just floating around aimlessly, so meds are great at making me more 'grounded'. But then I can get too grounded and dig myself a hole that I can't get out of.
This right here ^
huh, never thought of it like that...
Eh, for me it is more like having a dozen different mes all doing their own thing
Adderall has been a godsend for me personally, but I can *definitely* relate to how it worked for you. I only want to do what I love to do off my meds, but Adderall allows me to get the shit done that I also need to do in order to be a functional human, like doing laundry, taking out the trash, doing dishes, prepping my meals, doing homework, making flashcards, studying for exams in topics I don't necessarily enjoy, etc. Honestly the best way I can describe it is putting the stuff in my brain on a level playing field with what I want to do.
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It makes sense, considering ADHD-induced executive dysfunction is usually caused by a defect in the dopamine system that literally causes certain tasks to have a value of ZERO, causing your brain to completely shut down when even considering trying to do them... it will just stop listening to you, your mind won't work and your body will not move, and it'll keep doing whatever it was just doing until you yield :(
Stimulants like adderall or other amphetamines (fun fact: meth is a prescription drug called Desoxyn) can fix this defect which results in the executive dysfunction going away along with every single symptom it causes, like intrusive thoughts or depression or anxiety or indecisiveness.
The annoying thing though is that people expect ADHD treatment to completely remove distraction or procrastination when this isn't the case at all and will never be the case. ADHD treatment will give you NORMAL distraction and NORMAL procrastination, which you can CONTROL like a normal person, rather than it being completely involuntary like it is with ADHD.
Suddenly any issues in that department are just you being careless or oblivious so it's ACTUALLY SOMETHING YOU CAN WORK ON which is endlessly valuable to someone who's used to being completely hopeless.
My meds did the exact same hyperfocus thing for me at first, but I kept taking them and eventually (~a week later) it got better because I learned not to focus entirely on only one task. But I still can though!! I have the ability to choose!!
Adderall specifically though caused my ADHD to get ten times worse, so I have to take dexedrine which is basically adderall without one of the ingredients. dexedrine contains dextroamphetamine like adderall does, but it does NOT contain levoamphetamine.