ADHD Medication Helps with Focus, Motivation, Inertia
The medication can be a miracle for some, but it doesn’t seem to help with:
irritability
losing things
memory
patience
time management
sleep
Too bad; sorry. But what it does help with is invaluable.
This is my opinion and experience. If you have different views I would love to hear them.
doug
Extra Note O the Day:
New research show that sleep problems are a part of ADHD, presumably sharing some of the same gene mutations and miswiring. If we don’t sleep well, our ADHD symptoms are worse the next day, but paradoxically, it’s important not to worry about the insomnia, as that will only make it worse. So if I don’t sleep well one night, I’ll just accept it, knowing I’ll sleep better the next night.
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There are many alternatives to sleep.
ADHD Meds
Sleep??
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I loved this blog post, Doug.
I feel less weird now. Since menapouse I completely felt apart, my brain turning to mush. I was diagnosed 5 months ago. One of the things I could not make head or tail of was that the ONLY time I could do any work was if I kept awake for the entire night. My psychiatrist, who specialised in Adult ADHD was like “Huh??” so I did not press it.
But I can reliably show that I never slept Sun/Monday and my weekly output was always done on Mondays. The way I can describe it is that I was so tired, that inside of my head would be too exhausted to keep spinning……
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eva
very interesting. i dont do well if i haven’t slept but we are each unique. surely there is a biological explanation for your experience, but I have no idea what it is.
thank you for commenting and contributing
best wishes
doug
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you’re 100% on-point regarding sleep. twice in my life medications have changed my life: 1) getting on the right stimulant at the right dose, and 2) getting prescribed sleeping pills that actually work without making my mornings any more miserable than they already have to be.
i’m hoping from the research that new ADHD treatment plans are developed that also address sleep instead of just prescribing stimulants like candy
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It’s funny that it works differently for people, though. My dr’s office isn’t very good protecting confidentiality (Something the patients seem to be ok with, though) so once I overheard a woman saying she needs to take her Ritalin a couple of hours before bedtime, or else she couldn’t fall asleep (much to the doctor’s surprise, who said “if that’s what works for you, do it”). I guess Ritalin before bedtime helps her head go “you can Google penguins’ knees when we wake up, now hush.”
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that’s so weird
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ram
another great comment. love it.
yes, there are so many genes involved with so many networks affected, that we can get very different clinical pictures, although we have a lot in common, and very different responses. obviously there are very many different flavors of ADHD, not just three. It’s kind of like a Chinese menu; there are so many different choices that we can all wind up with different dinners, but we are all eating Chines food.
thanks
best wishes
doug
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dinos
glad you found the right combos, that can take a lot of trial and error.
did you mean stimulants or sleep meds?
thanks for your valuable contributions
doug
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sleeping pills. it’s hard to “get it right” and not feel super groggy in the morning. even good ol’ melatonin would make me super groggy in the morning
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dinos – that’s my experience too, very hard to find just the right balance. Life is like that, isn’t it?
thanks for commenting
doug
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you know i myself have always wondered myself if penguins have knees.
hang on.
yes, yes, they do. thanks google
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dinos
thanks for the clarification. I’d never looked it up. next question: Did Adam have a navel?
appreciate your commenting
doug
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according to Google, “Adam was molded from spit and clay and Eve from Adam’s rib. They weren’t born of woman, so how could they have navels? Yet they’d look pretty silly without them. Artists often dodged the question by extending fig leaves over the lower belly.”
Interesting. However, another thing to consider is, if Adam was molded from the image of God…..that must mean that the big guy himself doesn’t have a navel too right?
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dinos
thank you for the research and the logic.
I always appreciated your comments
best wishes
doug
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Do you have an example of Adam and Eve painting without navels i.e. with the leaf up to their abdomen? I find it intriguing. Maybe the artists just didn’t think of it.
Maybe God did have a navel and the Illuminati hid a book called “God 1.0 – the prequel” and we missed whole chapters of God being raised by mommy and being a handful.
(The part that starts with Illuminati is me just me being silly, by the way 😉 )
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ram – great humor. i love the picture of God being a handful growing up!
thanks
doug
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Doug,
Did you get the email I sent you with book comments? I know we were having trouble getting our emails to talk to each other.
Annette K
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annette
i got your email and your comments. thank you for your wonderful help, very useful
best wishes
doug
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