• cpaq47@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Caffeine? For ADHDers? Idk about the rest of you, but that doesn’t help me accomplish anything. Anger in the other hand …

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      1 day ago

      Anger helped with some things, but it usually took the sheer panic of imminent doom for my mind to agree to do the shit I needed to.

      Even on Vyvanse I can still have issues, but as long as I get myself going in the right direction, I’m usually good.

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      2 days ago

      The trick is to drink seven cups of coffee over the course of an hour. You skip straight from feeling nothing to jittery limbs and an acute awareness that you have a heart and it is straining far more than it should.

      It doesn’t help anything, but you DO feel it.

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        2 days ago

        From experience, everyone else starts talking intolerably slowly, and giving you worried looks. You have time to plan your entire project between their sentences, and come up with at least three major revelations before they’ve finished their point, but when you escape, you’re so focused on the task in front of you that you forget them all. Caffeine giveth and caffeine taketh away.

      • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        2 days ago

        9 shots of espresso suuuuuucks if you have nothing to actually do for the hour or so it lasts.

        Ask me how i know 🙃

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          18 hours ago

          We had a salesperson who came in every day with a Starbucks cup. I asked her once what was in it. “Eight shots of Espresso.”

          Every day.