ADHD but medicated

Adhd is like having 24/7 shower thoughts. No matter what you're doing, it never stops.

What I originally thought when taking ADHD medication was that the pill would do it all. When I was introduced to harder topics in school/ a large workload, I thought that the medication wasn't working anymore. I soon came to realize that most of the work was still up to me. The medication gives you the ability to function how you want, but without training your brain to work with it, you'll get nowhere.

meds didn't stop me fidgeting or daydreaming. The biggest effect I've seen is stuff I used to find just agonizingly, unbearably boring now feels tolerable which is a huge relief at times.

I got diagnosed with ADHD 18 years ago as a teenage, spent my whole life fighting ADHD. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my mom recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment.psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms

i love seeing other people with adhd depict what the overlapping thought trains feel like. they’re often super relatable but this version in particular was just… perfect

ADHD is interesting, with or without meds. Its an experience.

I've been medicated for my adhd for nearly 4 years now and i still remember the first thought i had after i took my pills for the first time. "Is this what it's like to be normal?"

One thing that nobody tells ppl with ADHD is that the meds themselves will not do the hard work, they'll just help on a specific tasks. You still need to have discipline and structure and it sucks

ADHD is actually definitely like having a bunch of people in your brain but instead of disassociative identity disorder where they sorta like, take turns with the wheel and have different identities, they just all have control of the internal dialogue at once. And none of them are different people than you are. It's just a bunch of copies of yourself all slightly out of sync, and you're trying to follow instructions from a Twitch chat they're all shitposting in. Edit: changed because of clarifications about DID; if I am misrepresenting anything else then definitely say something! I def don't mean to hurt anyone with DID!

Crazy coincidence, but as someone who just was put on meds for ADHD, this is quite relatable video

My main take away on this is that we should not see meds as a way to easily solve ADHD-related problems in our life with 100% guaranteed accuracy. Meds are just a tool that can help you in some situations and work against you in others. Good luck with your journey 🔥

It always nice to hear someone else talk about their ADHD. I take Vyvance too, I can agree it gives me the slow burn of focus I need for my job. There is the problem, like you said, that you need to focus on what you need to do or you'll focus on the wrong thing.

Having ADHD is so difficult when everyone else around you doesn’t understand how it works. For many years of my life I was labeled as lazy, unproductive, a huge procrastinator, etc. but I physically couldn’t help it. Everyone around me told me to change and stop doing said things, but I felt as if it was uncontrollable and that something was wrong with me. Fast forward a few years and I’m going through therapy and my therapist goes “you have ADHD” and I was stunned. She explained to me that every symptom listed in this video and your previous one was a symptom of ADHD, and all of them applied to me. I finally felt that I was heard, and I’m forever thankful.

This might just be me personally, but after some trials me and my psych doctor agreed that meds wouldn’t be that helpful for me and I’m doing cognitive behavioural therapy instead. It’s really helped! Also as someone with autism as well, that “I focus too much on unessesary things” is my whole life 😭

The ability to feel normal to sit down listen, focus, no constant overlapping voices, and best of all just to relax and everything being quite makes it a miracle for me at least idk bout you but good luck

I was diagnosed ADHD when I was 8, my parents tried everything to get me to be "normal" but the medication was either 1. Didn't work at all. Or 2. I was a zombie (thanks Ritalin!) There was never a healthy balance, I tried Vyvanse as an adult and it was life changing, I suddenly felt like I was in the driver's seat for the first time in a life of living in the back seat, I saw task A and I could just DO IT! Amazing I know! This was especially good for work where I could actually use all my skills to blow through tasks instead of getting burned out every 2 hours, to the point where my boss told me "we have nothing for you to do right now, just go relax and watch some YouTube or something" Which felt WRONG! unmedicated me would have jumped at the chance but with this new control I had it felt wrong. TLDR: everyone has Different reactions to ADHD medication, some good, some bad.

Man, sitting there taking a test with 8 trumpets playing randomly at the same time in your head is way too relatable.. I don't know if ADHD caused my crippling test anxiety or if it just made it worse, but it's an actual miracle that I was able to make it out of college. I hope you find something that works for you, bud.

when I was around 7, I got diagnosed with ADHD, they gave me medication and at first things went better at school, but I quickly lost my appetite and started not being able to sleep, they started giving me larger doses because the results weren't being met, to the point where they gave me too much for my weight for a while. This went on for about 10 years until I quit cold turkey due to me wanting to get into the military. Suddenly everything improved, I could sleep better, could finally eat again and I started having more fun in life. Only a year later I went back to a psychologist, who diagnosed me with Autism, and said there was no trace of ADHD.

I take Vyvanse and when I do I can do crazy shit like complete a full 1000-piece puzzle or build train tracks all around all the tables in the toy train area of the kid's area at the museum. I actually did both of these things. But when I am off of my medication I can either barely move from one spot or I am OFF THE WALLS. I am a somewhat malnourished child and on top of that, I DO NOT sleep. I am exhausted 24/7 yet with my medication I can walk around the capital of Washington DC (I actually did that as well). Adhd medicine is just built differently.

I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was 6-7, and recently I’ve discovered that it’s so severe that even over 100mg of concerta don’t work completely. Sure they help but unlike others, I can’t stop taking them during weekends, or summer or breaks because if I stop taking them I become mentally unstable, can’t do anything right and become effectively a blob on the bed.