Image: 4 panel Anakin and Padme meme
1st panel: Anakin saying, “We took the ADHD meds so we can focus.”
2nd: Padme happily responding, “I’m excited to catch up on all of these neglected responsibilities.”
3rd: Anakin with a sinister look saying nothing.
4th: Padme with a troubled expression, saying, “We’re going to focus on responsibilities, right?”
Well as of now, unmedicated me gets almost nothing at all done ever so it’s a risk I’m willing to take.
I want to make a joke but literally the only thing keeping me from getting on meds is actually calling my insurance for an in-network psychiatrist.
I’ve been putting it off for six months… or more accurately I have been putting off basically everything for the last six months and the lack of inertia is killing me.
Hahaha yeah I tell my psych nurse that it helps me manage the task I’m doing really well - but it does NOT keep me on task.
Boring task I don’t want to do is still boring task I don’t want to do.
I usually describe the effects of the escitalopram I take as not really directly making me “feel better”, but mellowing out the uncontrollable emotional spikes enough that I can actually work on anxiety management skills. So far Vyvanse has worked for me in similar ways, in that I can actually focus on things now, but I’m also about 30 years late at developing proper task management skills.
No fuck you I’m using that brainpower on myself and debugging my own code FIRST and if there’s anything leftover I’ll waste it on the boring thing.
This is how I learned Linux.
Fuck, it is like that?
I was once in a hyper rush on some other medication and did random shit I didnt need to do.
I think so. This is my first time being medicated as an adult, and I’ve had the same experience as OP. I have a new ability to focus but still need to learn how to use it like everyone else.