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I probably have ADHD tbh

Curtis @ 23/10/2017 19:51

Nofo @ 23/10/2017 19:39 Curtis @ 23/10/2017 19:26 TMJ and occasionally (once) a fake-out heart attack. Otherwise lucky despite my poor diet and complete disregard of exercise My TMJ hurts like hell tho and I would trade any one of you to get rid of it My cousin has it and I can't imagine having anything worse than my jaw spasming occasionally The people I know who have it all have different cases a bit, mine's not quite like that. One friend has those spasms, another can't clench down on a piece of pizza which BLOWS! Mine does the usual popping and clicking but basically just hurts all the time. The more I realize it hurts then the more I'll pop it and the more it'll end up hurting, so I just have to try to ignore it. The worst part about TMJ is that you can't really ever get it fixed from what I've heard, you can get surgery to stop it from getting worse and stuff but I think it's mostly with you forever. Probably a case by case basis tho

This is the kind I have. But for about a month it switched to that can't-clench-down-can't-open-more-than-a-fraction kind. It was AWFUL. I was worried I would be stuck like that forever but one morning when I woke up I yawned without thinking and it corrected with a loud CRACK.

The relief was so great that I didn't even care about the pain.

It was HELL

As for depression/anxiety/social anxiety/etc, I actually... don't think I have any of them! SURPRISINGLY, GIVEN WHAT A BRIGHT AND UNENDING RAY OF SUNSHINE I AM.

I've had shorter semi-frequent bouts of what sort of looked like anxiety and depression, more depression, but I've always bounced back way quicker than would make sense. I also thought for a while that maybe I had social anxiety/social phobia but it didn't quite fit either.

What DOES fit is ADHD and some associated issues that usually accompany it. And it would also explain a LOT about my habits and what works for me and what doesn't, along with completely justifying my caffeine addiction. The problem is finding someone who would buy an ADHD self-diagnosis from a late-twenties female who never flagged for it as a kid, and there's some pretty big red flag diagnosises and likely-disorders in my family history that would probably have to be ruled out and it just sounds like a huge hassle.

Mercator @ 24/10/2017 4:34

drrrrr @ 24/10/2017 1:16 As for depression/anxiety/social anxiety/etc, I actually... don't think I have any of them! SURPRISINGLY, GIVEN WHAT A BRIGHT AND UNENDING RAY OF SUNSHINE I AM. I've had shorter semi-frequent bouts of what sort of looked like anxiety and depression, more depression, but I've always bounced back way quicker than would make sense. I also thought for a while that maybe I had social anxiety/social phobia but it didn't quite fit either. What DOES fit is ADHD and some associated issues that usually accompany it. And it would also explain a LOT about my habits and what works for me and what doesn't, along with completely justifying my caffeine addiction. The problem is finding someone who would buy an ADHD self-diagnosis from a late-twenties female who never flagged for it as a kid, and there's some pretty big red flag diagnosises and likely-disorders in my family history that would probably have to be ruled out and it just sounds like a huge hassle. Don't you just hate doing boring stuff and like doing interesting/fun stuff, which semi quickly can become boring / stuff you know like me?

EH, honestly I always thought thats all that ADHD was so I never even considered it for me until I was talking to someone about their ADHD and I went "Same" a little too many times than was comfortable and started researching it in earnest.

But no! At least for me, it's more like my mood drops down very low if I don't have at least SOMETHING going on, like my baseline mood is just extremely low but even the tiniest distraction jumps it right back up to normal, or sometimes if I don't have any interest in doing something, I can't force it no matter how hard I try. This is the reason I almost never turned in research papers. I couldn't get the actual writing part to happen. It just won't work. I can't keep my focus. Sometimes that happens even if I AM interested, but that isn't as often for me. Occasionally just losing track entirely of one thing if I'm trying to balance two things. Being able to hyperfocus on things for hours without any issue if I AM interested, which really helps with obnoxious challenges in ORGs.

There's also Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria that usually goes along with ADHD, which covers most of the anxiety/social phobia stuff much better than ACTUAL anxiety/social phobia does.

But I wouldn't really say boredom plays into it at all. I never think "I'm bored", I think "fuck why is this suddenly not working why can't i concentrate what the fuck"

I bought a fidget spinner to be ironic a few weeks ago and my quality of life improved. That was pretty much the final straw

Yeah it's not a defiance thing for me. I can hyperfocus on things that are "work" if I'm interested in them just as much as anything else. A lack of motivation can play into it but even if I AM motivated or there are serious consequences for not doing something (even something simple) I still sometimes can't get myself to do it. It's REALLY annoying. It also tends to get better or worse at different points, so it sounds a lot like ADHD to me.

Wikey there's an actual neurologic difference between people who have ADHD and people who just have bad habits. There's a lot of misdiagnosis and definitely an over reliance on pills, but that doesn't mean that people don't have actual problems.

There's kids being kids and millennials being millennials and then there's being unable to complete something easy you've done a thousand times, to the point that it happens even in the face of severe consequences. There's being bored easily and enjoying extra simulation (which are just traits of people being people) and there's fucking up your own life because you literally can't concentrate (which is supposed to be the baseline for what a mental illness is: actually actively interfering with your life)

It's easy to pull out the old "we're all just over medicated" card or the "everyone is just distracted by technology" card but it's silly to dismiss an entire field of science and millions of people's experiences because of something you've encountered. Misdiagnosis is shit, and it happens, and generally it makes things much worse. Prescribing medications without certainty is even more shit! I had a doctor once tell me that everyone should be on an antidepressant! We can all use a pick me up!

That's NUTS!

But it's a problem with bad practitioners and the field of psychology being very new. It doesn't mean that people don't have problems or they don't need medications.

Ah yes, I've failed classes and ruined interpersonal relationships before because I was just being a little silly about having stuff to do. Good to know! That's what I used to figure before this seemed like it explained nearly everything!

Igor @ 24/10/2017 15:26

Hey if it helps you, more power to you. I'm of the belief that you should be able to put whatever the fuck you want into your own body. I'm more shitting on the doctors who are loosey goosey with script pad

That's fair. Like I said, that doctor that thought everyone should take antidepressants (not even a psych doctor. She was gastrointestinal) was nuts. Some doctors are like that, but I think that gets overstated and gets used too often to dismiss people's actual problems.

I know someone with schizoeffective disorder (aka: "Bipolar disorder? In MY schizophrenia? More likely than you think!) get completely dismissed as being "spirited" and imagining imagining the voices in their head, so psychology denial stuff always makes me very very :|

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Maddie @ 24/10/2017 18:07

Anti-depressants are prescribed for irritable bowel syndrome pretty often.

yeah thats why I was given it. And then it went horribly awry because I don't handle antidepressants well! Ask Bryce about the time I got him a win in baby deja survivor for details.

And then it turned out it was actually my gallbladder anyway

But saying "take this for a problem you (may) have" is very different from "everyone should be on anti-depressants!"

Maddie @ 24/10/2017 18:57

drrrrr @ 24/10/2017 18:27 Maddie @ 24/10/2017 18:07 Anti-depressants are prescribed for irritable bowel syndrome pretty often. yeah thats why I was given it. And then it went horribly awry because I don't handle antidepressants well! Ask Bryce about the time I got him a win in baby deja survivor for details. And then it turned out it was actually my gallbladder anyway But saying "take this for a problem you (may) have" is very different from "everyone should be on anti-depressants!" Yeah I definitely agree. I still don't know what the link between anti-depressants and IBS actually is...doesn't IBS also have something to do with the psyche? Tbh I was worried I might have for a while and so was my gastroenterologist but he never proposed anti-depressants. It's honestly insane stress physically manifests itself in the human body.

I think it's basically the "fuck it we don't know does this help?" diagnosis

I usually go somewhere else to make calls if people are around. Usually a parking lot or a non-profit crowded corner of a cafeteria or something. I don't want people being able to snoop