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Someone just told me that I should never have been on ADHD meds, since āADHD isnāt even dangerousā.
And that made me realize that most people genuinely donāt know how dangerous having ADHD can be. ADHDers are more likely to get into car crashes. We experience higher rates of anxiety, depression, self harm, and suicidal ideation. We forget to do basic things like eating and taking care of ourselves, so weāre more prone to getting sick and even developing serious diseases. Weāre also at risk for developing eating disorders. Weāre impulsive, which can lead to us getting into accidents and dangerous situations with other people. Kids with ADHD make more visits to the hospital than neurotypical kids. Weāre more likely to get into a bad relationship or to have an abusive partner. ADHD can destroy relationships, your social life, your grades, and your career. It makes you more likely to smoke, drink, or do drugs, and people with ADHD are more likely to get into trouble with the law. Some people suggest that 20-40% of people in prison have ADHD. ADHD literally lowers your life expectancy. And I want people to take it seriously.
GOD BLESS WHO WROTE THIS! So glad I found this post. This is how I was feeling today I said I WISH THE WORLD KNEW HOW ADHD FEELS AND ITS COMPLICATIONS! I wish ppl took it seriously š£ļøš£ļøš£ļøš£ļø
Need opinions/help. If paragraph is too much to read just skip to the second one itās shorter lolā¦ This adderall shortage by Teva manufacture is more than pissing me off I already questioned that adderall isnāt effective as it once was for me but it was still better than no meds for my ADHD. On top of that Iāve been struggling more with my mental health so skipping my adderall wasnāt the easy thing to do but now i donāt know what the heck Iām gonna do when Iām completely out. Iāve tried another brand of adderall once called Sandoz but it did not work for me.. it made me anxious didnāt help me focus.. could only focus my the anxiety. Iām scared to try another manufacture. Not having insurance doesnāt help either so I pay for meds out of pocket so it really sucks not being able to have access to what I know works for sure. Iāve looked into a called manufacture North Star someone said they noticed it helped their symptoms less compared to Teva.. same goes for a brand called Mallinckrodtā¦
**QUESTION**
For your ADHD meds what brand/manufacture do you use if itās not Teva? & what pharmacy fo you go to? Or anyone know what pharmacy I should try for TEVA? Walgreens seems to be out of the question
First of all I want to say thank you to everyone that follows my ADHD Soul blog and thank you to everyone that follows my gaming content content I appreciate all the support ā¤ļø
Hereās an update on life..animal job didnāt work out it didnāt help the depressive slump Iāve been in. The way they trained wasnāt great and itās the fact that there was no actual manager just a bunch of young ppl working there. For learning some things my type of brain half ass training doesnāt work for me I need hands on learning or might need a little extra to learn something but once I learn whatever sometimes I exceed expectations and try to be perfectionist. So losing job was a real let down for me. I sometimes wonder if I shouldāve mentioned the ADHD thing but would it really hurt or help me and sometimes I wonder if I should get a letter or something from my doctor that could protect me from being let go or certain treatment at work. So that job ended in March/February. It wasnāt till December I decided to give another job a chance I actually was hired on the spot it was another shoe store I was so excited but everything wasnāt as it seemed I was supposed to be hired as full time and then apparently it turned it I wasnāt. They are weird about taking breaks sometimes like most places Iāve worked you are required to take a 30 min lunch and a 10/ 15 min small break if you work 5 or more hours even working just 4 gets you 10/15 mins. If itās really busy some managers prefer you to eat while working. Like no sorry sometimes ppl need to sit down like we ac right now either. This company the way things are ran is more competitive and just different from the last shoe store I worked at We got a new store manager just seems colder more old school. It just makes me miss my old shoe store even moreā¦
My old shoe store job had closed during covid. We all never officially everyone never said goodbye to each other and It was at a new location I had been at for about 6 months and didnāt accomplish everything I wanted to/ dealing with mean girl type of drama & as still processing the fact that I lost my original store I started out at I originally didnāt want to relocate and stop being the assistant manager. We lost another store manager ( losing the first one was real hard for me too ) so they thought it was best to move me to a more heavy volume store to be a sales lead manager. I felt like my time was cut short as an ASM and I felt like I wasnāt always taken seriously and their communication sucked at the end and tbh when I look back on it I was younger I couldāve used a little more training with some things but still their communication couldāve been better talking goes both ways. Iāll talk more about it another time.
After the shoe store company closed my little fun nameless part time job became my main job.. I fought through bs to became a supervisor at a new high volume location I knew store manager for a long time worked with him at multiple locations I even once called him my friend. Working there turned into a nightmare toxic work environment bc the assistant manager has it out for me but tbh she ends up having a problem with everyone there was always something wrong.. Then there was other stuff but more of that later.. yes I told my store manager after holidays that I wanted to be done but I was upset I thought he was my friend is that no reason to ever call or text an employee when they took a leave of absence when they get sick with covid ? No one ever reached out to me to see how I was doing so I thought they didnāt want me to come back so I never went back and a few months later my store manager who I thought was my friend blocked me on Snapchat. Iām still trying to live with my decision that I never reached out and still debating if I ever willā¦ I wonder if I was put as fired and not rehire able.. i was great at my job I really loved the job itself just not the location in the end.. then sometimes I do miss my friendā¦ who was my store manager..this was the first ever place to really inspire to be a manager run a place have a business this was the first place I wanted to be a manager at. For months I thought about texting him but I couldnāt do it I donāt know why or how I became this way but it got to a point at work where I stopped texting my manager every time there was a problem it just got tiring.
So itās been a rocky road with work places every job has its negatives and not every job will have bad management. So all that is kinda what lead to my slump along with at the beginning of it all I had a condition that acting up again but I deal with it the best I can with diet and supplements. Itās called IC/PBS ( interstitial Cystitis / painful bladder syndrome ) on top that I think have OAB š
So here am I figuring out what to do next no health insurance might be diabetic
Right after leaving nameless job I got back into gaming started giving streaming a try and start making gaming content Iām still doing it but it can only distract me so much now and bring me so happiness but Iāll keep doing it bc I know there are ppl that enjoy my content and if it brings somebody some sort of joy that that makes me happy too. Who knows maybe one of my videos will blow up someday one of them once got 50k views. At one point I was streaming everyday Iāll possibly get back to that weāll see. Also trying to get back into writing and blogging more check out my ADHD Soul blogs on Tumblr and Reddit . Also enjoy photography and started wire wrapping crystals thinking about possibly selling some. Check out my Instagram to see @crystalwitch_22 Weāll see. Thanks for reading.
Oh I donāt need to imagine ššš Because itās happened to me. Itās like oh only 10 mins away I have all the time in the world before I gotta leave Iāll be there in a flash. Nope šš
I guess it can appear that way bc some of us have bubbly /goofy personalities, along with feeling emotions more intensely, and then mix that with inattentiveness and or hyperactivity.
It can also appear that way because our highs can be really high..š Like sometimes youāre happy and then thereās just in a really good ass mood. You might light up the whole room or draw attention to yourself because youāre in that good of a mood.
-You may laugh at something for minutes or for days till your tummy muscles aches
-You might be telling everyone and their mom about the fact that š£š„š„š„ :
-Maybe you accomplished something that your proud of
-Started a new hobby
- Have a new bf or gf
-Bought something new
^the oversharing struggle š£š„š„š„
-You could just be in a good mood and accidentally talking too loud or maybe laughing too loud. š¤«š„Or just being a chatterbox ( I got my name written on the board in class for that one )
- or just passionately talking about something your very passionate about like you could have your own talk show lol and maybe dump a lot of info to others bc youāre an expert on the topic
Then our lows can be really low..āļøšš¤¬Like when youāre mad youāre mad. Can go from 0-10 real quick. Something that may not bother a regular pupil may feel like a slap in the face. Then thereās the struggle with emotional regulationā¦š
-Might take me more time to get over something than your regular pupil would š
-Easy to make me cryš ( sometimes especially when I was younger )
-argumentative ass that has to have the last word š
-Being short tempered
- If I have a plan and it all goes to shit I might huff and puff šš¤
- might be a little sassy on the road š ( I try to think now it as itās not worth it and too many accidents happen everyday or what if someoneās just having a bad day or are spacey soul like me and didnāt mean to drive like crap lol ( also if I leave earlier and not running late thereās a less chance of road rage and sassiness š )
Back to the goofy and bubbly personality thing I had an someone very close to me once tell me to ānever change ā so at least one positive thing about the ADD/ADHD is having a unique personality. I think I also me laughing a lot sometimes or trying to be funny, make others laugh or smile is one of my ways of coping and just trying to make life and more fun and positive because some days are really tough.
(Might add more to this later my original post I didnāt save as a draft and it got deleted and I didnāt remember everything I wrote š )
Thanks for reading. Hope you all are having a nice weekend.
I felt the need to writer this and put together this collection of pictures Iāve found.
I remember being in fourth grade and practicing lockdown drills.
We would all hide, turn the lights off. We would sit in silence as we would wait for principal to speak on the intercom and say āok lockdown drill practice is overā and classes would continue on with their day.
I couldnāt imagine how scary it would be hear the principal say over the intercom we are having a lockdown this is not a drill. I couldnāt imagine how terrifying it would be to have the school day interrupted by the sound of gun shots and screams.
Iāve heard people say kids are the future. School is suppose to be a safe place for learning. Itās truly sad, scary, and disturbing how this is happening more oftenā¦
This is the 27th school shooting this yearā¦
In 2021 = 34 school shootings
In 2020 = 10
In 2018 & 2018 =24
As for mass shootings we have had 233 so far this year and thatās more than the number of days weāve had so far this year.
In 2021 = 693 mass shootings
In 2020 = 611
In 2019 = 417
I couldnāt believe it when I heard that when police arrived they didnāt try to get in the school right away. If they couldnāt get in through the door couldnāt they have tried break a window or something. I read police were waiting for border patrol to come like wtf.
Then one parent was pepper sprayed and one was handcuffed because they were begging the police to do their damn job which no one should ever have to doā¦.
Fortunately for the parent who was handcuffed was released and actually got into the school to get her two sons.
I read one guy whoās a border patrol officer named Jacob Alabarado, borrowed his barberās gun and rushed to the school to save his wife who is a teacher there and his daughter who is a student. Then after getting them out him and his colleagues took out the shooter.
Numbers for gun violence and gun deaths are going up every year
I understand people want to to defend themselves
But apparently we are the only country that has problems with mass shootings.
Iāve read UK made their gun laws more strict and it has helped them. I hope our countryās leaders do something.
More action needs to be taken.
Texas should not have made their gun laws more lenientā¦.
A high school drop shouldnāt have been able to easily buy such a dangerous weapon
Requirements to purchase and own firearms should be more strict
Limit the number of bullets someone can buy at a time
Maybe this sounds like a far stretch but itās 2022 Iām just a regular civilian just throwing out ideas
Maybe someone could invent a gps or tracker that can go inside guns and that are designed to alert police if the person with the gun goes by a school or places where crowds gather.
If you have a system that monitors social media accounts certain things shouldnāt be kept confidential just because someone is a minor. Stuff such as someone talking about threatening to harm others, using violence, and showing an interest in guns. Iāll say it again stuff like that shouldnāt be kept confidential.
Secure the schools more put cameras in all the hallways and or class rooms
My heart goes out to everyone that was hurt and startled by this.. My heart goes out to the little girl that was shot five times and survived.
My heart goes out to the families and friends of those 2 teachers and 19 children that were lost. May those all those souls Rest In Peace. You deserved better and so I hope the entire country and Texas will do better.
