I don’t mean to be that guy, but I have an ADHD diagnosis given when I was a teen and given again as an adult. Having ADHD doesn’t mean you’re secretly one diagnosis away from becoming a superhero.
You put anyone on medical-grade stimulants, they’re going to start being more “productive” and find their life gets better. Everyone under the age of 30 thinks they have ADHD. No. You just live in a world of hyperstimulation and you have for your entire life.
Everyone doesn’t have ADHD. At this point, everyone should just be prescribed stimulants and use them in combination with the legal stimulants to keep up with the world. Then we can all be the productive laborers we are supposed to be.
Coffee and tea used to be enough for several hundred years, but then the ravages of capitalism forced faster work conditions and increasing demands for productivity while simultaneously building a technological culture that demands your attention. They’re both making money off of you: one for your faster, more efficient work and the other for your attention and the ease with which you are distracted.
You don’t need fucking stimulants, you need a labor union and a better world.
I’m not going to disagree with your points about capitalism, overstimulation, and needing labor unions and a better world - those are all fair points.
However, I also wouldn’t go so far as to say “you don’t need stimulants.” If the effect of stimulant medication only boosted productivity, sure. But for me, stimulant medication is more about improving my working memory, I don’t feel a burst of energy to get me through the jobs I need to do, I’m just not fighting my own brain and poor memory as often. I’m an adult, and I do take days and sometimes weeks off from taking my meds, either because I forget to take it, or occasionally am overstimulated because of the hellscape we live in, and know more stimulation will make things worse. I don’t think the “must take stimulants every day” thing some do to themselves or their kids is healthy either. And I think it’s bad if you are only taking stimulants for the sake of meeting expectations of those around you. But if they help get your brain struggle less on the things you actually care about and want to do, there shouldn’t be any shame in taking them.
You’re absolutely right, and I was just being hyperbolic and rhetorical there, but I totally agree with you, and I wasn’t trying to be totally anti-meds.
I use my ADHD simulation meds as sparingly as I can, which is more than I would like. They actually make me feel tired. Like it’s suddenly quiet enough that I could nap, and I basically never nap.
That might be something to bring up with your doctor. Could be that the meds aren’t working as well for you as they could be, and there might be a better alternative.
I don’t mean to be that guy, but I have an ADHD diagnosis given when I was a teen and given again as an adult. Having ADHD doesn’t mean you’re secretly one diagnosis away from becoming a superhero.
You put anyone on medical-grade stimulants, they’re going to start being more “productive” and find their life gets better. Everyone under the age of 30 thinks they have ADHD. No. You just live in a world of hyperstimulation and you have for your entire life.
Everyone doesn’t have ADHD. At this point, everyone should just be prescribed stimulants and use them in combination with the legal stimulants to keep up with the world. Then we can all be the productive laborers we are supposed to be.
Coffee and tea used to be enough for several hundred years, but then the ravages of capitalism forced faster work conditions and increasing demands for productivity while simultaneously building a technological culture that demands your attention. They’re both making money off of you: one for your faster, more efficient work and the other for your attention and the ease with which you are distracted.
You don’t need fucking stimulants, you need a labor union and a better world.
I’m not going to disagree with your points about capitalism, overstimulation, and needing labor unions and a better world - those are all fair points.
However, I also wouldn’t go so far as to say “you don’t need stimulants.” If the effect of stimulant medication only boosted productivity, sure. But for me, stimulant medication is more about improving my working memory, I don’t feel a burst of energy to get me through the jobs I need to do, I’m just not fighting my own brain and poor memory as often. I’m an adult, and I do take days and sometimes weeks off from taking my meds, either because I forget to take it, or occasionally am overstimulated because of the hellscape we live in, and know more stimulation will make things worse. I don’t think the “must take stimulants every day” thing some do to themselves or their kids is healthy either. And I think it’s bad if you are only taking stimulants for the sake of meeting expectations of those around you. But if they help get your brain struggle less on the things you actually care about and want to do, there shouldn’t be any shame in taking them.
You’re absolutely right, and I was just being hyperbolic and rhetorical there, but I totally agree with you, and I wasn’t trying to be totally anti-meds.
I use my ADHD simulation meds as sparingly as I can, which is more than I would like. They actually make me feel tired. Like it’s suddenly quiet enough that I could nap, and I basically never nap.
That might be something to bring up with your doctor. Could be that the meds aren’t working as well for you as they could be, and there might be a better alternative.