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[–] Graphy@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The adhd gives you superpowers memes always makes me want to strangle someone.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Yeah it gives me superpowers like once every few months where for a day or 5 I get a ridiculous amount of work done. The rest of my existence is miserable and I hate myself for not just my lack of work productivity but also how hard it is to get myself to exercise, brush teeth, or just get out of bed. And not a single healthy routine sticks. Only the unhealthy ones. Why is it so easy to pick up smoking again but so hard to do anything that's good for me?

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Smoking gives you a sense of doing something while doing nothing. And it's great. I've read that 90% of schizophrenics smoke.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah, I hate how great it is...

[–] fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Have you tried meds (stims specifically) ? That significantly increased my productive hyperfocus phases.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Methylphenidate doesn't help a whole lot, I still have little control over what I hyperfocus on. It's better then nothing though.

I should try Elvanse (Vyanse), maybe that's more useful. Need to actually get it prescribed first though.

I mean for me both works (Ritalin just is a lot shorter and more up and downs, generally less effective).

Though, I'm indeed prescribed Elvanse it's basically the hyperfocus drug IME (YMMV).

I'm really productive with it (I'm a passionate programmer, which probably helps), but sometimes well a little bit too productive (burning through complex problems for > 10 hours the day, sometimes completely ignoring other stuff I should be doing as well, and am somewhat exhausted after somehow escaping that hyperfocus, or finishing the issue). As I got "smarter" through it and like a learn a lot, I'll just accept this as a net-positive effect, I have to deal with.

But I have more control over what I'm hyperfocusing at (as I'm less likely bored and distacted), and try to "focus" this on issues that deserve this hyperfocus.