Similar but Pistachios. The mechanics of opening the shells and eating them allowed me to focus on the college professor's material after an 9-10 hour work shift. If I showed up to class without pistachios or sunflower seeds I was nodding off in class.

When I was younger they gave me Ritalin, mostly to stop me from burning the building down. It worked, because I never burned the school down.. can't say the same for the neighbors shed... plus there was that incident with the bridge, luckily the fire department showed up quickly.

[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 22 points 15 hours ago

So much fucking coffee. My god it was too much.

[–] serenissi@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

This is caffeine acting on brain and unlikely any change in blood pressure per se. You can try measuring bp a few time before and after chugging red bull to see how much it changes.

[–] fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Oh it does change, it's still a stimulant. AFAIK basically all stimulants increase blood pressure. The degree varies of coarse...

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

it gets very fun with adhd where stimulants calm you down. So you're sitting there chilling, slightly sleepy, and then you see your hands shaking lmao

[–] BluesF@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Man, very true. I used to be totally in the zone after a coffee, because I rarely drank it, but I hated the physical nerviness that came with it. Bizarre mixture of mental calm and physical anxiety.

[–] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

I remember one time I randomly had a really bad reaction to caffeine. Normally I have no real physical reaction to caffeine, but this time my body went crazy, hands shaking, dry mouth, I was kinda panicking honestly.

It made me completely bomb a game of tf2 6v6 and my maincaller got really mad at me :c

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

My dad still swears it was the red bull and snickers and not the medical ...

Wild that someone would think the Red Bull and Snickers are doing it directly without going through the some-ingredients-in-these-products-are-affecting-your-body route.

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 3 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

When I start having a feeling of getting a cold I drink Bayer's Aspirin Plus C. It's literally just aspirin and vitamin C but I swear it works. Not drinking aspirin and vitamin C but only this overpriced combination. When it is dissolved in water, grossly enough. Nothing else works. If I don't drink it, I get a cold.

I literally worked in pharmaceutical science and I know this is complete bullshit borderlining homeopathy but I still swear by it. I wrote a whole academic work on vitamin C supplementation having no effect on getting a cold. And I still do it 😭

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

placebo is one hell of a uh not drug!

i noticed that sometimes when i have something important coming up, and i start feeling ill, i can just, force myself to stop? Literally tell myself "nuhuh, we're not getting ill right now, that's not the time" and it works? well not always, but more than it should

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

That might actually be cortisol released by a stress response. Do you tend to get sick a couple of days later when "there's time"?

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

sometimes! other times it goes away entirely. I vividly remember the first time it happened, it was the first day of vacation at my great grandmother's place. i started feeling ill but got so mad at that fact i woke up the next day feeling healthy again, and got to enjoy my vacation fully :)

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 4 points 4 hours ago

Nice! That's a great sign of how our mind can control our body. Something that we biomedics sometimes struggle with, in our eternal search for pathways.

I often had this when I had to study for exams. I was so stressed that I didn't allow myself to get sick, and once the last exam was done, the stress level fell and I got so sick.

[–] USNWoodwork@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I learned about Linus Pauling's ideas on Vitamin C supplementation. Pretty interesting stuff, especially wrt heart disease. I'm paraphrasing but if I remember correctly he theorized that our appendix used to produce vitamin C and that it somehow mutated away from that, and the lack of the vital nutrient causes heart disease problems with humans and all the great apes. Apparently we all get heart disease like cats have bad kidneys. He thought huge doses of vitamin C were the answer.

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, he is usually (and anecdotally) used in every introduction to works that cover vitamins and supplementation 😅 but unfortunately his ideas weren't really backed by science. If you eat more vitamin c than you can absorb, you just pee it out. We actually did that in university (control group, breakfast group, breakfast + 1g of vitamin c group, testing the pee and I think capillary blood). Now, I think there are some findings with intravenous vitamin c acting like an oxidizing agent and killing cancer (?) cells, but macrodosing orally just doesn't give you any effect.

Also, fun fact, your RDA can be met by eating one frozen pizza because vitamin c is used as a food additive everywhere.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

macrodosing vitamin c gives my awful stomach cramps :(

[–] Shou@lemmy.world 14 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

ADHD, self-medicating behaviour from childhood in the form of candy seeking. Impossible impulse to control and occurs when experiencing a dip in concentration/boredom. It helped me focus for very brief moments.

[–] nixcamic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Ooooh man as a kid I didn't really like stuff that was strongly sweet or sour. But as an adult sour candy were my thing to the point that I burnt out them even tasting sour. I'd eat a family size bag of sour Skittles on long drives to help me concentrate.

Only sour candy though.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 31 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (3 children)

I became a pothead because it made the cacophony of thoughts in my head stfu. I didn't realize that my thoughts were like that because of ADHD, since I was only diagnosed in my 30's (started smoking weed when I was 19).

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

people do the same with caffeine and nicotine - both calm us down and allow us to function a little better whilst having pretty much the opposite effect to the expected one (instead of faster we get slower, but being slower makes us faster as the usual speed we go at can easily be too overwhelming)

not such a fan fact: adhd folks are nearly twice as likely to be smokers than non-adhd people

[–] hightrix@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

This seems sooo extremely common among software engineers.

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[–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 47 points 21 hours ago (8 children)

I think I got this from lemmy?

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 12 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Look, as long as I can convince myself to go to sleep and not hyperfocus on whatever is in front of me I'll be fine. Problem is, it's a 50/50 toss up whether or not I can ignore my brain on any given night.

[–] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 hours ago

I had this too, everyone around me went "just close your eyes and sleep" and that had the exact opposite effect on me, now I take meds (seroquel at a low dose) and I finally understand NT people, I get sleepy at about 11 pm and can sleep in 5 minutes from laying down, if you have the chance to talk to some doctor about it, please do, it changed my life

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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 12 points 17 hours ago

Mini thins (gas station speed) and Red Bull. At least that’s what I did in the 90s before I was diagnosed. Oh and pulling all nighters since my tired brain worked more like a normal brain.

[–] Fosheze@lemmy.world 10 points 16 hours ago

I was put on bupropion for depression and, while it didn't work perfectly, it worked far better than the other antidepressants I had been on. Then I found out that it's frequently used off label to treat ADHD and I started to have some suspicions. Long story short, now I'm diagnosed and on a stimulant and it's amazing.

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 81 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Alcohol. Before getting formally diagnosed and medicated, drinking was the only thing that would quiet the inner restlessness. It worked but it's not a healthy lifestyle at all.

This is something I like to bring up to people who are hesitant to medicate their kids. Yeah, I know you think Timmy is fine because he's not completely failing in school, but you should at least show Timmy that he has options and that it's OK to talk to a doctor and take medication if he needs it. He doesn't have to rely on Jack Daniels and Folgers to eek his way through life.

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[–] Aeao@lemmy.world 110 points 1 day ago (18 children)

Reminds me of when people find out I do cocaine and Adderall.

"Oh Michael likes to get high"

No, Michael doesn't have health insurance and has very severe adhd. I can't live a normal life without stimulants and drug dealers are cheaper than doctors. welcome to America.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Eh, cocaine seems kinda too much. I understand lots of adderall.

BTW, where I am normal ADHD medication is illegal, unless you get it and the recipe in another country. As you might imagine, that is kinda expensive to do every few months.

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[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 17 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm in the middle of diagnosis. I do have Bipolar and have been medicated for 4 years or so. My shrink and I suspect that ADHD is there. It seems to be a common comorbidity. I was self-medicating with alcohol, until I got to a very bad place.

Both bipolar and ADHD have a frightening percentage of substance abuse, often as a form of self medication.

I went to the shrink around the time when I got sober. Quitting drinking and meds literally saved my life.

BTW, I got sober thanks to SMART Recovery. SMART is science based and behavior oriented, so even if you don't have an addiction problem (substances and/or behaviors), You can learn a lot of stuff applicable to behavioral problems. Much of the program is based on Cognitive Behavioral therapies, no higher power required. Confidential. Free.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

I've stopped taking lots of strong tea with sugar, because despite kinda helping with work, it makes me really depressed.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 14 points 19 hours ago

Holy shit! This post gave me an epiphany.

I was a cartoonist for the student newspaper, and drawing a funny comic strip every day was grueling. But I did better when I drank a Coca Cola before I started to brainstorm. Later, guess what - diagnosed ADHD.

Anyway, I probably took 2-3 hours on each comic, and was paid $5 per strip. And spent some of that on soda. So, it was a labor of love and foolishness. Also, I was semi-famous on campus for edgy cartoons that were occasionally funny, most of which I am embarrassed about in middle age.

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