This is what my wife does as well. She has a really hard time getting up in the morning otherwise

If the US collapses in the next decade or so, we may have our chance again. Free the Caribbean!

Depends where you lived. Not everywhere developed the same or even any methods of counting time below day/night

I’m taking 30, and my doctor told me that’s that max they can prescribe. I’m ~175lbs, and this seems like the right amount for me. I have really high tolerances to other substances, like alcohol, and caffeine, so I expected I’d need a higher dosage, and we arrived at 30 pretty quickly.

Having a smaller dose to take later in the day sounds nice. I often feel my meds wear off a few hours before bed, when I’d like to be focusing on a hobby, which I’d love their help on. I think I’ll ask my doctor about breaking up my dosage into two at my next appointment.

If 10mg feels like it’s working for you, and you think the 5mg boost will be enough, stick with it and don’t worry about comparing to other people’s dosages. For me, my meds working feels like more energy throughout the week, and more ability to focus on and start tasks that otherwise could have bored or paralyzed me. I’d recommend you focus on getting to something like that with your meds if you can, while minimizing side effects (I’ve only ever had some slightly increased emotional volotility in the first couple weeks I first started n Adderall).

You are being abused. Get your meds.

Absolutely. Just the fact that I have to call my doctor every month to get my prescription renewed, rather than it just being a normal refillable prescription feels like it’s intended to make me forget, and go of my meds.

My partner’s doctor actually told her that they probably wouldn’t continue prescribing her stimulant if she were to become unemployed. Because everyone knows you don’t need executive function for your life! Just for work.

Crazy ADHD would be disqualifying for joining the military. In life-or-death situations, distractibility becomes vigilance. There aren’t a ton of studies on the benefits of ADHD at the moment, but it’s hypothesized to have been a survival advantage evolutionarily, and has even been shown to increase the quality of decisions made by military leaders.

But I guess you’re probably also more likely to recognize bullshit 😜

You’re the one that’s supposed to be doing that job 😉

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080609195604.htm

Very Boimler of you. This would stress me out way too much lol

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I definitely feel this. It was worse before I was medicated too. One thing that’s helped me, is getting on a schedule I like at work. It won’t be possible for everyone, but I work 4 ten hour shifts, 9-8, Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday. It means I never end up tied up in the same thing too long, and gives me more breaks, and an easier first day of the week.

This sounds pretty similar to my experience. I have a hard time looking at just one thing for any stretch of time, and eye contact is especially difficult, because it makes me think about what I look like, which is another distraction from the conversation that I’m probably already missing

This is definitely how I improve my writing. I have a ton of different projects, books I’m reading in different genres, and other media I’m absorbing

I think the amount will depend on you. Are there any hobbies you have put down and come back to before? I’d start with those, and expand as necessary. I’ve also found it helps to have hobbies with different levels of energy requirements. Writing, for example, take a lot more mental energy than watching Star Trek, so Star Trek is a good fallback for me. Often watching an episode or two will be enough to get me in the mood to read, or write myself.

TTRPGs are high energy investment as well, but they have the added benefit of being a group activity, so there are other people I’m motivated to not disappoint by flaking. I would definitely recommend a regularly scheduled social hobby. It can be a lifeline when everything else is chaos

There are definitely things AI is good for. Archival search is obviously the biggest, because that’s what we’ve been using it for decades. It can also be helpful for subterranean and medical imaging, and art restoration. But the companies selling it want to sell a Magic 8 Ball with ads

I agree with everyone else. Having a bunch of different hobbies that I can bounce between keeps things fresh and exciting. They can be related though. For example, I enjoy writing, I also enjoy reading. And I love sci-fi and fantasy in television, movies, and video games as well. And I play TTRPGs in various genres. Oftentimes, because of how related a lot of my hobbies are, by the time I start losing interest in one specific thing, I’ve already been inspired in something adjacent. So overall, it’s like one big hobby that I slowly work theough

The zero sugar versions of things are not any healthier. In fact, artificial sweeteners can be less healthy

You and I must have different hobbies

I am right there with you in games. I’ve been playing Enshrouded with my partner and some friends recently, and we’ve gotten into arguments on continuing the quest, versus exploring, versus building lol

It’s very interesting to me to see how other people can just walk past something without looking into it, or, even more foreign to me, remember it, and come back later. I, personally, have to completely explore an area outright the first time, because I know I will not be interested in going back through it in the future

Turns out safety regulations are written in our blood