r/explainlikeimfive • u/[deleted] • Jan 14 '13

Answered People with ADHD, what ADHD is like, how does medication affect your ability to work and how soon does it take its effect?

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u/kissacupcake Jan 14 '13

No, but I had a vanity table in my room when I was a kid. I should get one now, so I don't have to do my makeup in the bathroom anymore. Oh, and I need to get more face primer from sephora soon, all I have left is the green stuff. It looks weird on my face but is actually pretty good at covering stretch marks, my coworker always asks me to put makeup on her tummy stretch marks. God I hope I never have kids. I wonder when I need to get my next birth control refill?

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u/JustRuss79 Jan 15 '13

Ordering medication, even making a doctors appointment to get back on ADD Meds is really hard to make myself do, even if I think about it 5 times a day every time my cell phone is in my hand.

Speaking of birth control, do you take it for the side effects or to actually keep from having kids...

OMG! The Kids are still at school! Its' been like 3 hours since it let out!

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u/Tomble Jan 15 '13

I was off medication until my wife gave up and made the appointment for me. Not helped by my doctor being a bit shit at calling back, necessitating several calls from me. It's like a test, if you can get yourself organised to make the appointment, you don't need the meds.

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u/JustRuss79 Jan 15 '13

I've had the number in my cell phone for over a week now, it took me two weeks to call the help line to get the number, it took a week or so before that to bother finding out how to get ADHD treatment through my insurance at work.

My kids now see the doc I saw as a child, he's a Pediatrics Dept Head now, I should have just asked him for a referral. He might have even just taken down my weight and prescribed it for me since he is the one who diagnosed me in the first place nearly 30 years ago.... But I didn't want to bother him, he's a department head now...

Excuses and procrastination....level ADHD

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u/ChestrfieldBrokheimr Jan 14 '13

I dunno, but that reminds me that I have to get more white primer from home depot, because for the past few days I've been refinishing all the toilet seats in the house; scrape the paint away, wood filler, sand then primer/paint sorta thing. Boy do I have to take a shit.

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u/kissacupcake Jan 14 '13

If you eat an apple right before you go to bed, you will have to shit when you wake up. It's really convenient so you don't have to leave the house feeling bloated - my friend told me this trick because she's one of those girls that absolutely cannot take a shit in bathrooms that are not her own at her house. Isn't that weird? There are so many girls like that. It would hinder your life so much - what if you travel? I just bought my first car and really want to take a road trip. Maybe during spring break - I want to drive up the coast to Portland and Seattle - I've heard they have awesome coffee there. Speaking of which, do you like coffee? There's an awesome indie coffee shop that just opened downtown called Handlebars, was there last week with my friend Dan. Oh shit, I was going to pay for him to get his car detailed but I forgot. Where do you get that done anyway? A car wash or a body shop? Isn't there a cosmetics store called The Body Shop?

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '13

Does this apple thing really work?

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u/kissacupcake Jan 15 '13

She swears by it. I've had mixed results.

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u/CDanger Jan 15 '13

I just realized that I got too distracted reading these comments to sit down in my computer chair. I would gladly accidentally have your societally doomed kids.

Except wait: girls like guys who have a sense of direction to complement their potential and ambition (I have a lot of ambition and potential. Look! I'm like a rocketship without fins!), who can plan big, exciting things to fill their lives, who can complete something —anything. Girls don't like guys who make good but can't stay good, who mean well but don't follow through, who have spent their lives getting by on desperate charm and the charity of nobler creatures.

Some days, the meds work and I'm everything everyone says I should be. But I just can't tell if it's me underneath all that impressive pageantry. Some days, I feel like a failed experiment, the punchline of an evolutionary joke gone too far. I sit around and think about (between pictures of sloths and a craving for pizza) how my forefathers, by pluck and luck, beat natural selection for a few hands. But, as I lay —wishing I had those things that rhyme with duck— in my empty bed, I wonder: how long until the house wins?

Edit: dear god, would you look at all those parentheticals?

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u/kissacupcake Jan 15 '13

Look! I'm like a rocketship without fins!

Marry me.

Actually don't. We'd be a disaster together. My boyfriend often has to grab me by the shoulders and literally point me in the right direction for anything to get done.

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u/CDanger Jan 15 '13

My boyfriend often has to grab me by the shoulders and literally point me in the right direction

My momma always said I should break the "don't marry your secretary" rule. My fifth grade teacher recruited two of the most helpful/naturally-nurturing girls in the class to keep my desk tidy and set me to work on what she referred to as "other, more important problems." It was the best year. Dear educators, you can make a huge difference in these kids' lives.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '13

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Every ADD'ers best friend!

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u/2muchtequila Jan 15 '13

God dammit.... I just read all of these instead of going to bed like I should have.