Living with Unmedicated ADHD
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- Answering your questions! Here's some of the ADHD symptoms I experience being a woman who has ADHD and is unmedicated.
Here's a link to my Day with ADHD video! • A Day With ADHD
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I hope u see this message 😃 I am in my mid 30's and just started taking meds. I have similar diagnosis as u and abuse as well. The ADHD meds helped a zillion trillion times with anxiety/esteem/depression!!! The meds allowed me to only think about the task at hand and really decreased the obsessive intrusive ptsd thoughts. Life changer seriously
Thanks for making this video you are doing a amazing job and the new sign is awesome
Thank you so much! And thank you for asking the question! It was a good one.
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Hi
At around 5 min in the video the only thing you can here are the dog snoring :P haha
lol just noticed that
Yeeeeah...that's Stella for you. Sorry about that!
@@SugarDugs it's cute I dont mind it
Did you buy that shirt because you have add? Cause it's pretty funny in a dark way 😝
Wait I'm lazy and not on any meds, is this why I'm lazy? I was diagnosed as a kid btw but I still have it.
@@spring7643 yes
Thanks. I'm also unmedicated ADHD. Was diagnosed as severe (I'm a combination type), when I was, like, 9? Having gotten some of my DNA done, I also found particular markers in my DNA that actually suggest ADHD. Medication can help... if you find the right medication. I've been on medication, but I don't like how I feel on it, and I got headaches from some of them. It's nice to hear the things I go through from a fellow person with unmedicated ADHD. Thank you for sharing!
Also, if you ever get back into writing, Flash Fiction might be a great idea. They're stories that are 1k words or fewer. I also write. One of my goals is to write novels. >_> You likely hyperfocused (another trait of the ADHD) on the writing. I do that with writing and art... when it comes together. >_
I did take the medication in elementary school but stop at the same time. I didn't think it would be such a big deal but this video makes so much sense
Know what's funny? If I look like I'm listening to you I'm not and if I'm looking somewhere else I'm actually listening 😝 I know I cant be the only one.
Unmedicated, self diagnosed/ Mid-life... ETC
THANK YOU! For explaining, WHAT I CAN'T EXPLAIN!
You're in good company here.
I'm in this club 🥳
You lost me at A-D-... *dog snore* 🙄🤣
Wow I just related nearly identical to what you said but I can't remember if I was diagnosed but I've been unmedicated
I give myself a mini patdown before I leave places... phone, keys, wallet... wallet's in the car... We good :)
Everytime I get in my car I have to get out and go back in the house for something lmao then my anxiety is like "aLl tHe nEiGhBorS tHinK YoUr StUpId!"
It is great that you can share your experiences of ADHD being treated without medication. @skip_conover is a retired US Marine Officer, a Vietnam Vet who talks about his mild PTSD, and how 33 years of reading the collected works of psychological pioneer Carl G Jung helps him a lot without the costs of medication or analysts.✨😺💫 You make really fun and creative videos, with high educational value. Best wishes on your studies. Super combination!
Thank you!
About “in one ear and out the other”: My wife is regularly telling me that I am “never listening” , and often tells me she already discussed something! I don’t think I have ADHD, but I do find that my mind is in the clouds ☁️ ⛅️ ☁️ a lot. I am preoccupied that the world 🌎 is in a state of unconsciousness, and I seem to be some of the few that are awake. Yet, strangely, I am the one who apparently has a problem. Do you think your ADHD might have a component of cognitive dissonance like I describe?✨😺💫
ADHD can very much have that element of "head in the clouds." When our brains are capable of wandering so many ways and being distracted by so many different stimuli, we can easily find that we don't retain information being spoken to us because of it. It isn't always forgetfulness. Good point!
Can't shake the snoring.
The reason you can't concentrate is because of your insufficient baseline dopamine levels. I think you likely have the same sub-type as me which is hyperfocus/lack of impulse control. If that's true, you seek external sources of dopamine such as watching CZcams, researching topics of interest, doing activities you enjoy, etc. When your mind races to random topics that trail off of a conversation you're trying to focus on, its because the conversation isn't stimulating enough dopamine production to compensate for your (our) natural baseline dopamine deficiency. So you are driven to scan for ideas that will adequately compensate for that deficiency.
I functioned without ADHD meds until about 2 years ago when my CPTSD became advanced. I still live in social isolation, but I am making progress now that I've identified my disorders and began treating my ADHD with Vyvanse. The reason stimulant medication is legal for ADHD (and in the future may be legal for non-ADHD individuals with CPTSD as trials are currently taking place testing the effectiveness of stimulant medication on CPTSD recovery) and not for those without ADHD, is because untreated ADHD results in contributing to other disorders, and because of the increased stress of living with untreated ADHD, stimulant medication actually makes the symptoms more manageable by increasing baseline dopamine production which lessens the urge to act on impulse, increases working memory, and makes socializing easier as well as decreasing anxiety in general. So essentially treating ADHD with medication (not for every person but considering they don't have heart disease or something of that nature) increases the life expectancy more by reducing cortisol levels, so though it is a relatively unhealthy choice for someone without ADHD (or cptsd potentially) to use stimulants daily for life. But for the ADHD individual, the damage done by untreated ADHD can be greater than the damage of lifelong stimulant use.
There was a study that followed ADHD children who had been diagnosed at a young age and found that they had a decreased life expectancy of 10 years on average. I'm not saying everyone with ADHD should choose medication, there could be other factors or reasons not to take stimulants, but speaking to personal experience, i recommend trying them. Vyvanse is much less addictive than dexadrine. It can't be snorted with affect, the compound is made in such a way that it only activates when broken down in the digestive system, it lasts from morning until bedtime, you'll take interest in life, get your room clean and dishes done, then after that you'll be looking for something else to do and it won't feel like such a chore. At first it seems like your personality kinda changes but that's just temporary, as you get used to it, you return to more of your regular interests, where at first you'll be interested in new things, behaving differently, and people might kinda see you as a different person because of this... and i think people get scared away by this before they have a chance to learn to stabalize in this new reality. And unlike medication for depression like SSRI's, you don't have to wait a month to see if it's right for you and then wein off for a month if its not.
You'll probably have a rush the first time, but day 2 and 3 are more likely to be a bit more normal, Regardless, for me, i had so much relief that the slight discomfort of transitioning didn't even register. If are unsure the first time, empty out half the capsul, if all is good, take the other half. And if you don't like it, you can just stop, or take a day off, or even just use them on days where you need to get things done and stay unmedicated otherwise.
Either way, I think it's something to consider... come to the dark side... we have candy 😂
Brent Poynton thank you! Truly, thank you for all of that information! It’s really interesting to me. I’ve always been open to the idea of medicating for my ADHD. And your guess as to me having a sub-type of ADHD related to impulse control sounds pretty accurate. The only reason I haven’t medicated yet is what I and my previous therapist perceive to be a lack of necessity for it. However I do know I could greatly benefit from meds, in more ways than one. Your input has me thinking more seriously about looking into them again. Thanks!
Omg... you perfectly described me. I definitely have that subtype. I want to try meds again so bad but I'm having a really hard time getting them. (I posted a comment about it on this vid) What you described about taking meds sounds like an absolute dream. Even just to be able to get the bare minimum done. Omg🌈
People dont understand how debilitating this can be. It sucks that most people probably think I'm a lazy lay about with no aspirations. Anyways thanks for the info and hope you're doing well. 🙂
You know you’re at ADHD when it’s takin you 30 minutes to watch this video 😂🤣
What’s up with random zooms
I have adhd and I take medication to calm my self and sometimes I usually get dissed and lonely and school is the worst because I really don't have that much friends and if I'm with a group of kids they act like I'm even their and I just walk off I don't pay attention and I talk allot to sometimes kids would tell me to shut the fuck up and tell me I have a big head and big ears it's hurting but I didn't care .
Leave a like if u have ADHD
I'm sorry you are going through that. I can relate. It sounds to me like your friends aren't truly your friends if they treat you that way. I lived a lot of my life feeling like I didn't fit in. I still feel that way. The older I get though, the more I realize how awesome being different really is and how important it is to distance yourself from people who try to make you feel small. I hope things get better for you!