Does anyone happen to know of a community similar to this for people with ADHD that you don’t have to pay? I am not abandoning this one but thought the more support options the better. Thanks!
Not that I know of, no. Other than non-professionally made groups on Reddit, FB, etc.
I got ADHD too and I get worried and obsessive with my brains health and the prefrontal cortex and executive functioning.
@RememberWhoYouAre. Me too!
@RememberWhoYouAre. I also feel like I can’t ask my psych about ADHD things without coming off as OCD reassurance crap that’s apparently one of my compulsions. Mine are mainly internal compulsions. Sometimes I wish I had the OCD my bro has where he’s rechecking and pushing the oven stove light off and on. I guess I am obsessing over freaking ADHD and OCD again starting back. I don’t want to take Prozac again to knock another thought loop off.
@RememberWhoYouAre. Then when he doesn’t reply which is very rare to my messages I think my question did come off as my OCD which makes me worry more about it. Damn it! This sucks. I just sent another message to him saying I understand my last message may have seemed like OCD reassurance etc. Now I feel like I screwed up by sending another message. I can’t win with this crap no matter which way I go it seems.
@Chickens_Frogs Damn I’m similar with reassurance. I don’t even notice I’m doing that crap too. I do that at work whenever I feel like I said something offensive or did them wrong which I didn’t but their reaction and behavior I’m very sensitive too which makes causes me to chase reassurance making sure everything is alright. For the Brain and ADHD I hate when I hear there is no cure for OCD or ADHD how could some happen and not end? For ADHD our executive function isn’t proper and working memory but why? I don’t just want to hear “genetics” what the fuck am I supposed to do with that information. Okay so genetics but how did it get into my family’s genetics or hereditary how did it start? How come my brain has these issues I want to know the root cause I want to fix it or improve it.
@RememberWhoYouAre. That was my exact thoughts about searching for who I got this from and why me. I mean hell, my family are some OCD perfectionist types. I got one bro I can say for certain clinical OCD. The other two I think maybe not clinical but some traits. My mom is well known to be called OCD but DAMN! I am the messy, disorganized, can’t remember crap, can’t be on time to save my damn life anymore and they are the get there early ones. I am a definite freaking outlier in my family. Talk about clashing with my OCD perfectionist mom over the years! Yelling at me to do shit just was not going to work with me. I wasn’t wanting to upset anybody and I don’t like being this way so asking the WHY is big for me too. Glad for someone on here they can relate to both because I think there is a big difference probably if your battling both. Treat one the other gets worse. Treat both and your on a cocktail of meds and side effects that’s not tolerable for me.
@Chickens_Frogs Sorry for my late reply back to you. I will try to get back quicker.
@Chickens_Frogs Yea I asked around about why does ADHD exist and they kept saying hereditary and genetics but to me there has to be more to this than just simply genetics. Outside of adhd from psychology there’s people giving out advices and saying it’s a superpower to have and you have to do something you really love. I’m listening to an audiobook from Mastery by Robert Greene and so far it’s relatable even though it’s not about ADHD. I think you should listen to that book and you know what I mean because it does feel like we are deficient from ADHD but this book not being about ADHD makes you feel like your not deficient and we need to find out life’s task in this life. The cocktail of meds. I only take meds for ADHD but before this I never taken anything for OCD ironically the adderall helps me with intrusive thoughts and feelings but I still got em just easier to deal with. But I definitely don’t want bunch of meds and just “manage” screw that shit. No worries about the replies
I got diagnosed with adhd about 2 months ago, I started vyvanse and it was amazing at first. So much motivation, ocd intrusive thoughts were easier to let go and would not consume me nearly as much. But then about a few weeks ago I started noticing I was getting super irritable, anxious, intrusive thoughts taking over again. I had already gone up and down to try and tweak the right dose for me so I know it wasn’t the dose. So I stopped a few days ago, and all of that instantly subsided. I feel like I’m back to square one:( I do take Prozac, only 20mg becuase I have to slowly increase to reduce side effects but it does help me a lot. I still want to take adhd meds though because I’m back to feeling unmotivated. Has this happened to anyone else on stimulants? What did you end up having to try instead?
I’m a bit confused because whenever I hear the term neurodivergence I think that it means someone has a condition based in a variation of brain structure. Like autism, adhd, ocd, dyscalculia, dyslexia, tics, etc. (although I recognize sometimes it’s a hormonal thing and can go away over time). What I’m confused on though is whether other people with ocd resonate with a lot of the content on neurodivergence? Like through TikTok, YouTube, etc. I feel like it’s mainly targeted toward people with autism and adhd. But I also think maybe it is a common experience for people with ocd to have things like difficulty with social cues or sensory sensitivities and I just assume other people with ocd don’t have it because I don’t have it. Any thoughts?
I see a lot of “general” advice on here from people who have conquered their OCD, and i dont often find that advice helpful. How do i identify compulsion when OCD is bad? Its a whirlwind. Nothing makes sense. I’m pretty sure i have something in addition to OCD but modern science is not good enough yet to let me know. At times like this I need medication. I am weening off Zoloft to try Clomipramine or maybe Vyvanse. I’ve been on Zoloft for 6+ years so decreasing is causing quite an uptick in symptoms. I feel very impulsive lately, i say and post things i dont mean to and it causes interpersonal issues and doesn’t represent who i really am. Is it impulsion or compulsion? I’ve asked this before and only got textbook answers, not personal anecdotes (what im looking for). What does ADHD and RSD feel like? I think i have both ADHD and OCD, even though scientific models show these having opposite activity in the same areas of the brain, leading one to wonder: how can someone have both conditions simultaneously? Science contradicts this but also acknowledges a large population of people who have comorbid OCD and ADHD.
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