Hi all,
I have fairly severe ADHD and I take Concerta (27+18mg) and Ritalin (20mg) daily. I have a bunch of tools I have found helpful for managing my life including the ADHD symptoms and thought I would share some here.
Telegram - I use Telegram as my phone brain, a place I put information so it is out of my brain. I put in meds (I copy and paste almost every time) and because I do it so regularly it is actually part of taking meds now. I therefore know when I took my meds last to within a couple of minutes and can use that to make sure I don’t miss or double up. I also use scheduled messages up to months in advance for things like car registration, booking my psychiatrist appointment, or knowing when to take my cat to the vet.
Alarms - I use a few alarms which are countdowns from when I did something regular. For example, I take my Concerta in the morning, set a 6.5hour timer, then I am reminded to take my Ritalin. I do the same for pain meds or other meds as needed. This means I have a countdown in my tray the whole time which helps to keep it in mind.
Banking - I switched to a digital only bank and was able to finally automate almost all of my major transactions. My pay comes in, rent goes out, money gets sent to various other accounts like savers for specific goals or transactions accounts. By making my fuel always come from the same place every time and making sure my fuel budget always transfers through to there I never have to worry, I just know that I have fuel money there.
Physicality - I need to be physically active. I was working in IT for a decade and it was not so slowly killing me. I now earn basically the same driving a truck and lifting heavy things all day. I am less stressed and I have a clear career ahead of me as I upgrade my licences and competencies. I am happier with more physical activity but trying to fit it in on the weekend or evenings was just a losing proposition for me, I work now for money and health and it is way better.
Anyway, that’s a few thoughts, I hope someone finds them useful.
What kind of a truck driver makes the same amount as an IT professional?
A truck driver who works 80 hours a week, or an IT professional working in Vietnam?
A truck driver in Australia has to have a higher grade license than a car license. In IT I had a bunch of certifications and so on but that never changed my earning potential much. I think the lack of a university degree was the big thing, but in truck driving that won’t be an issue.
I can understand being skeptical as the numbers seem a bit wild, but I think it’s accurate, at least in my country.
I’ve previously been unfortunate enough to be offered as low as 50k for a position in Cyber. On the other hand, it’s not uncommon for truckies to earn a good crust. A stupid example would be this article, which reports a company offering a salary of 150K.
That being said, DJDarren is correct - you’re probably going to be working 80+ hours.
There’s some good advice in here!
When you say you use Telegram, how does that work? I’ve never used it, but I assumed it was just a messaging app.
Sounds like they just use it to leave themselves notes or schedule to send themselves messages later. You can likely use a note taking/scheduling app to replace it but whatever works. Honestly as a telegram user I find myself doing it too even though I can just whisper “remind me x:xxpm Y” to my phone and get a similar result or write it down somewhere else.
Ah, fair enough.
I want to eat sprouts made by me every second day for super health feeling I like them but I seem to always forget about such a simple thing as washing the sprouting jar morning and evening.
I considered some kind of electronic device with a red Led light catching eye or even blinking that I put near the jar and it activates at 8:00 am and I have to press the button to deactivate the blinking.
So I have arduino lying about and there is realistically 0 percent chance I will finish this diy after 8 hours of hypeffocus and 3 changes of scope (more ambitious)
I have a large cardboard box with arduinos, raspberry pis, and various other electronics. Will they ever get used? If they stay in the box definitely no, but I don’t have a good system for getting them out while not having them just become clutter. That said, Ritalin helps a lot, so maybe with a good sleep and some good meds on board I have a chance.
Notion.
I’ve got tasks, projects, and my calendar running through it with notifs on my phone and desktop.
Same experience on mobile and desktop… Which is far from the case with something like One Note or Joplin.
Even working on building a workout/grocery/recipe databases that should make designing a workout for the week and meal planning a breeze.
Highly recommend. It takes time to set it up, but the investment is well worth it.
Hi, for meds I recommend foss app ditmm? . It is great at reminders, dosage etc. Helped me a lot with not forgetting if i took meds 5 min ago or not
Yeah, I like DITMM but my partner and I keep an eye on each other, so if I take my meds and mark it off in Telegram they can see it immediately and that log is permenant, rather than being stuck on one device and only for me. Still, handy if you don’t have a helping hand like I do.