- jabathekek ( @jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ) 39•23 days ago
I feel that. Without caffeine and anger I would just be a sad, highly compressed ball of sadness and stress and sadness.
- bonn2 ( @bonn2@lemm.ee ) 20•23 days ago
I’m in this comment and I dont like it
- Mothra ( @Mothra@mander.xyz ) 11•23 days ago
It’s not just you, don’t take all the credit
- Jo Miran ( @JoMiran@lemmy.ml ) 30•23 days ago
I literally made a custom shirt that says “Fueled by caffeine and spite”.
You got an Etsy? Lmao
- osaerisxero ( @osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org ) 23•23 days ago
This post is forgetting the alcohol
Gotta calm the nerves some how
- anarchrist ( @anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 15•23 days ago
Did someone say weed?
- CoolMatt ( @CoolMatt@lemmy.ca ) 20•23 days ago
I’ve been on all kinds of medications from age 7 to 26.
Ritallin sped up my heart and I couldn’t keep up in gym class because I was constantly catching my breath.
Concerta/dexadrine took away my appetite. One bite every meal, then I was full. I was pathetically skinny and got called anorexic all the time.
Straterra made me tired and drousy all day, I was sexually frustrated because my dick would REFUSE to get hard, and then I would wake up at night, not being able to sleep.
I’m 31 and madication free for 6 years, and have learned to overcome my ADHD on my own. Never swallowing a other ADHD pill again, fuck that shit entirely.
- Zetta ( @Zetta@mander.xyz ) 9•23 days ago
Glad you got it under control without the pills that made you feel bad. Happy for you
- CoolMatt ( @CoolMatt@lemmy.ca ) 4•23 days ago
Thank you!
- JasonDJ ( @JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ) 5•22 days ago
I’ve been on Adderall and Vyvanse for ADHD and binge eating disorder.
The Vyvanse helps a ton with the binges. My doc had suggested I try Concerta if I’m having a hard time finding Vyvanse this month. I was able to find Vyvanse but I had no idea appetite suppression could be so much in the Concerta. Probably way easier than finding/taking any of those fashionable diet injectables. And generic Vyvanse still gets on backorder…
Maybe I’ll bring up trying that next time.
- CoolMatt ( @CoolMatt@lemmy.ca ) 3•22 days ago
Do it, if you have a problem with binge eating it could do you wonders. I’m the opposite, even off meds I’ve always had a hard time gaining weight no matter how much I eat. It’s probably the beetus that will get me with how much junk I munch on every time I use cannabis lol. I’m 6’2 170lbs
- addictedtochaos ( @addictedtochaos@lemm.ee ) 1•22 days ago
why do you need to gain weight??? what you describe is a good functioning metabolism. only thing you can do is eat more protein and train to put on muscle, you will not gain fat until you purpoesfully break your metabolism.
- CoolMatt ( @CoolMatt@lemmy.ca ) 2•22 days ago
Idk, maybe all the “you’re too skinny” “you’re anorexic” “you need a .milkshake” I’ve been hearing all my life.
But yeah muscle is the kind of weight I’ve tried to gain. In my early 20s I spent 6 days a week in thr gym for 6 months and only gained 15 lbs. I drank 4L of milk a day. I ate a breast of chicken every day. I took in as .any grams of protein per meal, as I weighed in lbs. I took mutant mass and farted it all out. It was exhausting. Then I started a new career, and life got too busy to keep at it, spending 2-3 hrs a day in traffic. It was just too much so I lost all that weight
- addictedtochaos ( @addictedtochaos@lemm.ee ) 1•21 days ago
you forgot fat ;-)
- CoolMatt ( @CoolMatt@lemmy.ca ) 1•21 days ago
I mean, yeah a bit of fat would be neat too. But I find that just as hard to put on as muscle. Holy hell I don’t think I could take in any more food than I already do, idk where it all goes!
- addictedtochaos ( @addictedtochaos@lemm.ee ) 2•21 days ago
there is a theory that lean mass hyperresponders only take what they need, while discarding what they dont need. so for you, calories in = calories out doesnt count at all.
no. you need fat AND protein to build muscle. the fat you eat doesnt get turned into fat; it gets turned into buildings blocks for your body. fat is hugely important in building all kinds of things. as is protein.
- addictedtochaos ( @addictedtochaos@lemm.ee ) 1•22 days ago
the meds help with managing your feelings, thats what you did with binge eating. scientists discuss how binge eating and adhd are realated.
- JasonDJ ( @JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ) 2•22 days ago
The link is pretty interesting. Apparently a lot of eating disorders can be related to ADHD…namely BED, anorexia, and bulimia.
With BED, supposedly it’s about instant gratification. That’s likely why a lot of people binge on a specific type of food…like sweets or saltys. Some of it can even be an OCD behavior.
I do wish it was given nearly the same attention as the other eating disorders. It wasn’t even until a couple of years ago that I heard of it and the specific markers (like eating well past being full, or binging in secret). But most people have never heard of it because “har har fat person”.
This is also why I believe obesity should often be handled as a symptom of mental distress, not something that exists in a vacuum.
- addictedtochaos ( @addictedtochaos@lemm.ee ) 1•22 days ago
I privately think it has something to do with a broken glucose metabolism. basically, your cells are out of energy. so you have cravings for all kinds of stuff that ramps up your basic metabolic rate.
or you crave food. if you eat food, like with sugar and carbohydrates, your blood sugar is ramped up, if blood sugar has a spike, insulin gets released, and you need this insukline to push the glucose out of your blood in your cells, so you end up having energy. and that makes you happy.
so thats what i believe
alcohol gives you energy by the way, like. in the individal cell.
so the instant gratification is your cells having energy.
- Beegzoidberg ( @Beegzoidberg@beehaw.org ) 3•22 days ago
Oh yeah, three hours of high school swim practice and seven of school without a bite to eat on Concerta. Awful. And I’d stay up til 3 am every night with vyvanse. I’d consider trying something else but I’m 0-2.
- addictedtochaos ( @addictedtochaos@lemm.ee ) 1•22 days ago
the ritalin issue was probably salt and mineral / vitamin deficency. yeah, you need to eat before taking concerta, people just dont listen ;-)
- CoolMatt ( @CoolMatt@lemmy.ca ) 1•22 days ago
I took the concerta with my cereal before school as prescribed by my doctor. Lunch I was able to get down my pb&j, but dinner was impossible past the second or third bite
- addictedtochaos ( @addictedtochaos@lemm.ee ) 1•21 days ago
exactly what i went through, everything tastes like cardboard.
- Midnitte ( @Midnitte@beehaw.org ) English13•23 days ago
Wonder how the rate of undiagnosed ADHD is…
- MystikIncarnate ( @MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ) English7•23 days ago
Too damn high.
- DragonTypeWyvern ( @DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ) 1•22 days ago
Last guesstimate I saw was something like 10% of the population in total. Which is pretty reasonable as a population adaptation that outlived its usefulness.
- addictedtochaos ( @addictedtochaos@lemm.ee ) 2•22 days ago
probably high, and the rate of unwarrented diagnoses also must be high. and people that get misdiagnosed as bipolar. borderline, and binge eaters. must be high among women, as far as i understood.
met one chick that was clear as day 100 % adhd, I sniffed that out the second time i met her. they said she was bipolar and put her on bipolar meds she absolutely hated to take.
i tried to explain it to hear, and had to give it up, she was in total adhd denial,. and i knew it was pointless.
if you would need a picture for an adhd book, you would take her. everything fit, she also had a chaotic raging alcolholic as father, and would self medicate with canabis and alcohol.
- addictedtochaos ( @addictedtochaos@lemm.ee ) 7•23 days ago
nothing helped me in life like ritalin and elvanse did.
ritalin speaks to me.
- MrShankles ( @MrShankles@reddthat.com ) 4•23 days ago
Ritalin was the worst one for me; gave me headaches and was a little too “unstable” or “rough” for me. Elvanse, on the other hand, has been my favorite… smooth as butter. Thinking about switching now that they have a generic version that my insurance will probably cover
- addictedtochaos ( @addictedtochaos@lemm.ee ) 1•22 days ago
I found out that my headaches were du to high insuline resistance. took me two years to get that under control, i dont have headaches anymore, lost weight, look way younger in the face.
i am not saying YOU have the same problem, i am only describing why I had headaches.
- wren ( @wren@feddit.uk ) English6•22 days ago
AuDHD and completely caffeine free (and stimulant/meds/drugs free too). Caffeine definitely doesn’t work for me like it does for other people - makes me sleepy and headachey. I’d rather just work with what I’ve got, (noise cancelling headphones + being inflexible) even if it has limitations
- setVeryLoud(true); ( @isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca ) 3•21 days ago
Same, also makes me shit myself
- addictedtochaos ( @addictedtochaos@lemm.ee ) 1•21 days ago
i just quit coffee. was way harder than quitting smoking and alcohol. i am not sure. i have the impression that my nose is less congested, and i am more up beat in the morning.