God I wanna make so much art (drawing/painting/wood carving/crochet/build things/etc), make comics, learn languages, learn how to deep clean and power wash, garden, make clothes, make fursuits, travel, hike, forage, make youtube videos, go urban exploring, go ghost hunting, animate, preserve animal skeletons and insects, etc etc.
But I’m so perpetually exhausted that even just planning out an idea takes a lot out of me, and it feels so unfair.
Thankfully medication has helped out a looot (I mean the difference between taking genuinely months to do anything vs being able to do so within a week or even a day if lucky is quite an improvement) but it’s not gonna make me superhuman any time soon ^^;
A year ago, I discovered I have ADHD. Suddenly, everything fell into place. I’ve had many hobbies, projects, and ideas throughout my life, but I’ve rarely completed or stuck with them for long. I’m still working to develop a system that allows me to explore while helping me complete tasks over time.
I’ve thought about using medication but I don’t want to depend on it for productivity. I’m curious, has it significantly changed things for any of you?
If you know you have ADHD, give the meds a go and then decide.
Imagine if in 30 years you finally try them and see what life could have been like. If they are not for you, no problem.
It’s funny as the other commenter said about the dependence thing - most other drugs make you unproductive, and so they are harmful to you fulfilling your life goals. This is kinda different, and there are many days where I just go without because I feel like being lazy or just kicking around doing whatever.
It absolutely has for me, prior it would take me genuinely months to even do a single thing (including really important shit) but with medication it’s significantly helped my executive dysfunction, made me able to get things done within the week or even a day if lucky, I can actually focus (sometimes on the wrong things lol), and since removing the executive dysfunction it’s allowed me to have more motivation. (Of course still not perfect hence my post)
The effectiveness of meds vary for everyone esp on the specific kinds of meds (I take ritalin), but I’d say go for it (also the dependence thing isn’t as scary as you’d think, I mean with meds you’ll more than likely improve on productivity, and if you ever run out it’ll just go back to how it was before (in my experience at least) I’d say it’s def worth asking a doc about it)