Very early in my life I told my dad I wanted off of Ritalin because it didn't feel sustainable for me. So when I was about 8 or 9 I chose to try to create mental tools to deal with ADHD over medication. I don't know if it worked as well. It'd be nice to have a prescription that worked for me. I went to try other prescriptions a few times and never felt like they worked for me. I might try to go back to Ritalin but with the shortage it feels pointless to try to do.

[–] chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

As a fellow ADD-haver, I advocate for you to continue trying new medications. Studies show that ADD/ADHD responds to medicine better than almost any other psychiatric disorder, even if it sometimes requires multiple revisions or a cocktail to achieve the desired effect.

If you're intrigued, I will refer you to this lecture by Dr. Barkley. The entire lecture is valuable, though I recognize that asking someone to watch 60+ minutes of jargon is not overly helpful! To make things easier -- if you'll pardon my layman's editorializing -- I've curated a list of specifically relevant timestamps:

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[–] Feste_the_Mad@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The Piped version of the video is very much failing to load for me. Does anyone happen to know why?

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It appears to be a Piped outage. Both the homepage and video links are loading slowly and frequently seem to outright fail.