Post by dinardain on Apr 7, 2022 12:46:49 GMT
Hi! I’m Din, and I’m new here, nice to meet you all!
I only got diagnosed with ADD last year (In august I think, I don’t remember too well). I’d had suspicions that there was something going on in my head for a while but it took quite a while to get diagnosed thanks to covid.
So, I don’t have a lot of experience with dealing with ADD consciously, and I wanted to reach out and see if anyone can relate to how I’m feeling and if you have any advice for someone still kind of getting to grips with handling it.
I’m currently on medication (Mephylphenidate Hydrochloride) and wow, it’s already made such a difference. When I’m medicated, I can sit down and work on one task for hours, and it’s a lot easier to make recurring tasks into routines like studying etc. But I’ve found that when I’m medicated, and don’t have anything to do in that moment, I get this really consuming feeling of anxiety? It’s almost like guilt because I feel like I should be doing something, and that if I’m sitting doing nothing (or playing video games/doing something that is generally considerable as unproductive), that I’m wasting my time and failing. So, when I have something to do, I’m super productive and I get a lot done, but when I don’t, I start to panic. That’s where the title for this thread comes from, much how sharks will drown if they stop moving, if I stop being productive I begin to get really really anxious.
I think I’m struggling because I’ve went from being able to get very little done, to being able to get so much done that when I have downtime I start freaking out. Can anyone relate to that? And do you have any tips for balancing your mood out, as I feel like I’ve went from one unhealthy pole to the other without coping mechanisms and I’m struggling to find a balance.
Thanks for reading, hope to hear your thoughts soon!
I only got diagnosed with ADD last year (In august I think, I don’t remember too well). I’d had suspicions that there was something going on in my head for a while but it took quite a while to get diagnosed thanks to covid.
So, I don’t have a lot of experience with dealing with ADD consciously, and I wanted to reach out and see if anyone can relate to how I’m feeling and if you have any advice for someone still kind of getting to grips with handling it.
I’m currently on medication (Mephylphenidate Hydrochloride) and wow, it’s already made such a difference. When I’m medicated, I can sit down and work on one task for hours, and it’s a lot easier to make recurring tasks into routines like studying etc. But I’ve found that when I’m medicated, and don’t have anything to do in that moment, I get this really consuming feeling of anxiety? It’s almost like guilt because I feel like I should be doing something, and that if I’m sitting doing nothing (or playing video games/doing something that is generally considerable as unproductive), that I’m wasting my time and failing. So, when I have something to do, I’m super productive and I get a lot done, but when I don’t, I start to panic. That’s where the title for this thread comes from, much how sharks will drown if they stop moving, if I stop being productive I begin to get really really anxious.
I think I’m struggling because I’ve went from being able to get very little done, to being able to get so much done that when I have downtime I start freaking out. Can anyone relate to that? And do you have any tips for balancing your mood out, as I feel like I’ve went from one unhealthy pole to the other without coping mechanisms and I’m struggling to find a balance.
Thanks for reading, hope to hear your thoughts soon!