The lighter side of ADHD
It makes it all the more attention-grabbing when you hit just the right mix of attitude, self-care, antidepressants, and stimulants that you can just do some shit and feel good about it, then even look forward to doing some other shit and getting that done too.
It doesn’t fix everything and it doesn’t stay that way without ongoing work, but it helps to genuinely know the feeling to help you going your way back there again.
Wants to go to bed, doesn't
Been there in the past, but I actually have been doing all of the above past couple of years.
I recently read Peter Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread on anarcho-communism, and am currently reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson. I've been drawing geometric patterns, mostly based on the Islamic tradition of geometry, and after drawing the patterns I start painting to add some color. I throw them away after a while, but I just like the flow-experience of painting/drawing, don't really care about the end-result. I'm studying French on a daily basis, mostly on Busuu, but also by watching French movies (most recently Le Proces Goldman) and reading French books (most recently Le Petit Prince). I watch on average 2 movies per week at my local cinema, got a subscription there, sometimes go with friends but I also often go alone. I enjoy going to museums and studying art history, so when I have the time I cross the country by train and make visits. I also take psychedelics (LSD and/or psilocybin) every 2 or 3 weeks. Psychedlics are a lot of fun, but I also actually believe they helped me grow as a person, from what the OP describes, to where I am now. Psychedelics aren't for everyone, but still I'd highly recommend most people to try them out some time (responsibly of course).
It's that AuDHD depression anxiety CPTSD super combo that makes me perpetually stuck in a freeze response 😎
I don't dream about fancy vacations and places far away. There is just this 6 hour bike tour starting and finishing at my very home that I thought of, connecting my favourite tour with my favourite hike in a circle. That's my dream vacation.
Yet another summer ends without it.
*wants to doomscroll* *does*
Of course that's the only one that actually works
It's because the time-to-dopamine and minimum time commitment are short.
Y'all are getting dopamine out of this shit?
Anger can also give a dopamine hit
Yeah I don’t know about y’all but I have plenty of family members who are addicted to being angry.
The minimum time commitment is what gets me. I can have my phone out and social media open in seconds
Making your phone more difficult to use is a good idea. Keep it in another room, enter a passcode manually, turn it off, etc.
The real solution is for governments to ban addictive software development practices.
Nah, the solution is getting rid of the phone. Even without carefully crafted software for maximum engagement, it's way too easy to waste time on pointless shit online
Ich spreche Deutsch! Duolingo ist mein Lehrer!
I'd thoroughly recommend it to anyone wanting to casually learn a language. Even if you just do a little bit every day. Exercises are only a couple minutes long, but I spend around 15 to 30 minutes per day learning, and it's going a lot better than I expected.
Same here though I use Busuu. Used Duolingo in the past, to be fair there's not that much difference between the two.
Been dreaming of a FOSS alternative, where people work together to make the best possible ever-improving courses, and all is free and customizable to your every need. That would be so awesome ! Surely some day some one will make this happen, right?
I keep a variety of tasks on deck... you can't force fun and there's no use agonizing over what you didn't do so find joy where you can and try and keep things prepared for when you feel up to it (as an example I have my sewing machine on a table ready to go so if I feel up to it I don't need to do a bunch of prep first)
Yes! Switching around naturally when it feels right is the way. No more shame, just following the brain signals where they lead.
Yeah, that’s depression.
I think this is less a sign of depression these days as much as it is just falling victim to attention capitalism. Your brain chemistry is being hijacked to keep you scrolling and watching and wasting time.
Losing interest in things you want to do is a sign of depression, this post is more just pointing out the reason people are depressed.
Well, depression/anxiety is spending your time agonizing about it and not doing it. Most people are doing this to some extent they just have brains that don't have them dwelling on it all day. I have friends of all sorts who casually lament not reading or not picking up an instrument. Some are depressed some aren't.
At least with me I am not really in the mood to do that and will do something else that has caught my attention at this moment.
And just a dash of ADHD to spice up the ennui.
The life of the Wanderer is but to struggle. Alas once the struggle ends, life will too.
another one that makes me wonder if I have it.
Needs to be in the perfect mood
Never in the mood