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Journal 8/26/24

I've been struggling with my ADHD the past couple of days. I want to study, catch up on material that I neglected earlier in the semester. Instead, I have been playing video games. Addiction runs in my family, and ADHDers have a higher risk for addiction, so it makes a lot of sense that I would indulge in gaming instead of reading my textbooks and doing homework. I am but a creature of instinct, after all. The creature wants dopamine.

So I procrastinated going to sleep last night, stayed up until midnight just scrolling on my phone. My partner is out of town for work and to visit family, and I didn't realize how much I rely on her sleep schedule to keep mine.

This morning, sleep deprived and depressed, I fed the cats, ate a Jimmy Dean croissant sandwich, and opened up YouTube.

Now, I'm not a therapy skeptic, so I wasn't the intended audience for this video, but Dr. K still goes over some solid advice for managing emotions and cutting through all of that learned helplessness that so often holds us back.

My lesson for today is acknowledging my emotions. Simply observing and taking note of what I'm feeling throughout the day. Then, I'll consider what I'm doing and how my emotions drive that behavior or feed off of it.

Example: This morning, I am tired. I want to go back to bed. I also want coffee

Because I am taking it slow (and honestly, it's been a long week), I am going back to bed for an hour or so. I'm not trying to fight it, I'm simply observing.

Good night :)

justanotheradhdian

Hey! fellow adhder gamer here. I'm in therapy, music therapy, and a few other bits and bobs through a program in my state here. And I just wanted to say good job for the acknowledgement part, and excellent response. I'm working on my motivation and such myself. And 2+ years into therapy, peer support and the like. I'm.. still struggling to be productive more than 1-3 days a week.

Video games are great, and I can't imagine my life without them. Some doctors even think certain games are good for treating mental health.

Apparently stuff like stardew valley and minecraft help with relaxation and such.

I use car mechanic simulator early game or on easy, or mech mechanic simulator to take the thinking part of my brain and give it a rest sometimes. My biggest struggle has been identifying which days are just "I overstimulated myself and have to recover and am incapable of things today" and which are "a couple more hours of sleep and I'll be able to function" days.

I know this is a late reply to your post, but I'd love to hear your progress since this post, (Regardless of how much it is or in what direction it went) Just drop me a message if you like. Either way great job on taking the that step, may it be the first of many in the direction of living your life the way you want.

werewolf-beans

Thanks for asking! I posted this earlier this morning, but I've already found some progress in my day. Through my university, I meet with an executive functioning coach who helps me identify problems and solutions. It was very helpful, and I have some new ideas for catching up on my academics! I'll be going to the rec to study so I can conveniently switch between exercise and studying.

I've always been big on productive spaces setting the mood for what I'm trying to accomplish. I used to go to the library, but it soon became a stifling experience and stopped working for me. Even though the gym doesn't seem like the ideal place to study, the "vibe" of everybody working towards their individual exercise goals is still very similar to academic goals, so it still might have a body-doubling effect for me. There's also the novelty of a new space that will increase my dopamine. Finally, exercise is very important for everyone, but moreso for the cognition of ADHDers like us. Exercise helps our brain as much as it helps our bodies.

Im glad you've been able to find good use with video games, too! I fell out of playing more calm games, and now I mostly just play action games, but they can definitely have a positive cognitive effect!

I'm also glad that you're able to find the productivity that you're able to, even if you think it should be more. Society puts such great standards on us, it's really hard to keep up, even if you do everything "right." As I've seen through my own journey, it always feels like an uphill battle, no matter how much I "fix."

I hope you may feel pride in the things you accomplish, not shame in the things you don't. :)

justanotheradhdian

I find this very interesting. I can only exercise with someone guiding me and doing exercises with me. Otherwise it just feels.. kinda bad to be honest. It's really hard to motivate for it at all.

I play a large variety of games, typically you'll find me in RPGs and Exploration type games, followed by Rogue lites and the occasional survival. Kinda is how I feel that day.

Some days I need to flex my tactical brain, some days I just want to pilot a big robot and shoot some big guns.

You're completely right about the societal standards. And that uphill battle feels to me like I'm playing whack-a-mole with each thing that comes up.

Apparently trauma plays a big role in the severity of adhd symptoms according to the diagnostic lady I just saw today. But I also have a pretty severe case (severe in level of impairment is apparently what's meant here)

And with all the underlying stuff it's hard to know how severe it is. Just that it's likely never going away for me.

I'm heading to therapy now it was great to hear from you.

pinkprincessrei-deactivated2020

ARE YOU A BONE OR BLOOD PERSON.

ARE YOU A VOID OR ABYSS PERSON.

ARE YOU A ROT OR DUST PERSON.

massivelimestonecube

tumblr glitched and decided to display this post with a slight tremor and i thought i was hallucinating but i managed to record it

justanotheradhdian

This is sick. Yoink.

werewolf-beans

Journal 8/26/24

I've been struggling with my ADHD the past couple of days. I want to study, catch up on material that I neglected earlier in the semester. Instead, I have been playing video games. Addiction runs in my family, and ADHDers have a higher risk for addiction, so it makes a lot of sense that I would indulge in gaming instead of reading my textbooks and doing homework. I am but a creature of instinct, after all. The creature wants dopamine.

So I procrastinated going to sleep last night, stayed up until midnight just scrolling on my phone. My partner is out of town for work and to visit family, and I didn't realize how much I rely on her sleep schedule to keep mine.

This morning, sleep deprived and depressed, I fed the cats, ate a Jimmy Dean croissant sandwich, and opened up YouTube.

Now, I'm not a therapy skeptic, so I wasn't the intended audience for this video, but Dr. K still goes over some solid advice for managing emotions and cutting through all of that learned helplessness that so often holds us back.

My lesson for today is acknowledging my emotions. Simply observing and taking note of what I'm feeling throughout the day. Then, I'll consider what I'm doing and how my emotions drive that behavior or feed off of it.

Example: This morning, I am tired. I want to go back to bed. I also want coffee

Because I am taking it slow (and honestly, it's been a long week), I am going back to bed for an hour or so. I'm not trying to fight it, I'm simply observing.

Good night :)

justanotheradhdian

Hey! fellow adhder gamer here. I'm in therapy, music therapy, and a few other bits and bobs through a program in my state here. And I just wanted to say good job for the acknowledgement part, and excellent response. I'm working on my motivation and such myself. And 2+ years into therapy, peer support and the like. I'm.. still struggling to be productive more than 1-3 days a week.

Video games are great, and I can't imagine my life without them. Some doctors even think certain games are good for treating mental health.

Apparently stuff like stardew valley and minecraft help with relaxation and such.

I use car mechanic simulator early game or on easy, or mech mechanic simulator to take the thinking part of my brain and give it a rest sometimes. My biggest struggle has been identifying which days are just "I overstimulated myself and have to recover and am incapable of things today" and which are "a couple more hours of sleep and I'll be able to function" days.

I know this is a late reply to your post, but I'd love to hear your progress since this post, (Regardless of how much it is or in what direction it went) Just drop me a message if you like. Either way great job on taking the that step, may it be the first of many in the direction of living your life the way you want.

#adhd #supportive #Do ya need a fren?

thememedaddy

justanotheradhdian

Is the percentage even correct on this? Not the point its still absurd but still

everybidenjusthavegoodtime

*releases pack of dads into home depot* go……be free

hotcommunist-deactivated2019032

invasive species encroach on lesbian territory

dreaming-shark

This is a common misconception because they’re such similar environments, but you should be aware that dads are native to Home Depot, while lesbians are actually native to Lowe’s. At this point, however, both dads and lesbians have made themselves at home in both Home Depot and Lowe’s to the point that trying to separate them back into their original ranges would probably do more harm than good to the delicate ecosystem of large chain hardware stores.

ailithnight

A properly raised and socialized Dad will be perfectly comfortable cohabiting with Lesbians. Its not really “encroaching on another’s territory”. You wouldn’t say that about foxes in a forest that also homes bobcats, would you? No. It’s just two different species that have both evolved to live in similar/the same environment. As long as they recognize each other as equals, Dads and Lesbians are more than capable of cohabitation.

Now, if you were to release a pack of Lumberjacks into a Lowes or Home Depot, that’s where chaos will reign. Being adapted to a far harsher and more demanding environment, the Lumberjacks would simply push Dads and Lesbians both out and also consume far more than a sustainable amount of resources. It would be like releasing bears at a country club.

chequerootlurks

As a former timber-harvester… I feel this is potentially accurate in theory. But highly improbable in actuality.

Lumberjacks, like most megafauna species generally require more space than the average hardware store, even a big box store could provide. The misconception is that Lumberjacks are a social species because of how they often work and live together.

This is a matter of necessity, not preference, and a survival technique for thriving under the LogBoss.

A “pack” of Lumberjacks, if not under the environmental pressure of a LogBoss will naturally disperse until they each have a wide territory.

Lumberjacks rarely fight for territory.

One on one, a Lumberjack could drive out a Dad or Lesbian, however the latter tend to travel in social packs.

Lumberjacks will passively retreat on the presence of large numbers of people. Kind of like Sasquatch.

Getting a “pack” of Lumberjacks assembled would be hard enough unless they were forced into a Hardware Store by a LogBoss. In that case, they would already be in a heightened and potentially agitated state far above their natural behavior. This artificial scenario can be likened to a circus animal running amok. If it had been in the wild, the incident would not have occurred.

Free-roaming Lumberjacks are the cryptids of the Hardware ecosystem. They are surprisingly quiet and unobtrusive.

Please stop labeling Lumberjacks as dangerous roving social predators. They are intermediate level omnivores and remarkably peaceful unless threatened.

thatdisasterauthor

As a hardware store worker I can say that this is all 100% accurate.

swindle94

now how in the FUCK am i supposed to leave tumblr when a god tier post like THIS is just is just waiting for me daily?!?!?!

fromchaostocosmos

question where does the “art student” or “DIYer” “crafter” or “soap maker” or “miniaturist“ etc. who has ventured into the store for supplies fall into the ecosystem/what is their impact of said ecosystem?

terulakimban

Most of the above are native to craft and hobby stores (art students, historically, are native to museums, but having been introduced to hobby stores, have found a niche for themselves and thrived), but all can be seen in hardware stores on occasion due to territorial overlap. They are generally low-impact, as they tend to stick to specific small areas and primarily utilize different resources. While a large group of any of them can be disruptive (art students, in particular, are known to travel in packs), in general, they are more likely to have territorial disputes with one another than with the local fauna.

A point of clarity -“crafter” is a bit misleading; while it conjures a specific image, much like ‘fish’ or ‘reptile’ it actually covers a broad array of wildly disparate species, and in general, more descriptive nomenclature is preferred. Fiber artists in particular are a genus to watch out for, particularly in groups. Beware a roving pack of domesticated quilters. They fear nothing, will go anywhere, and due to their social nature, will often seek interaction from other species that thrive best in solitude. They are quite friendly, and will happily adopt members of other species; the concern is that their adoptees do not always wish to be adopted.

midrashic

#in search of taxonomic precision and peaceful coexistence (via welkinalauda)

kriladoodles

I do wonder how lesbian/bisexual lumberjack-mimickry fits into this

marablake

I can say as a former craft store worker that if you wish to see true fear, look into the eyes of a Dad who must venture into a craft store. Despite the overlap of familiar beings known to him from his native hardware store habitat, Dads are instinctively aware that craft stores are not for them; they contain unfamiliar perils and even the seemingly familiar may have strange variances and unnerving secrets. (”Why is this airbrush so small? What do you mean nails, why would you… WUT!!”)

Only experienced silverbacks or the boldest young Dads dare venture into a craft store for long without his mate or offspring to keep roving Craft Ladies at bay and guide him in this strange ecosystem. If a Dad enters with his mate and is separated from her, he will often scuttle for the seeming familiarity of Woodcrafts, Models, or Paints (the latter not to be confused with Fine Arts, unquestioned territory of art students), but he eyes Scrapbooking and Jewelry with trepidation and will usually venture into those exotic areas only in the company of females of his pack.

Lumberjacks are rarely spotted entering craft stores of their own volition, for while they do not fear it as Dads do, they know it is an environment unsuited for megafauna such as themselves.

Hardware store Lesbians generally adapt more easily to craft stores, although they may enlist another Lesbian of a subspecies more adapted to that environment to guide them until they find their niche. Lesbians have even been known to seek the aid of a Craft Lady, a native fauna that share similarities with Lesbians but are usually smaller and nimbler to suit their chosen habitat. Dads who witness this are often awed by the Lesbians’ temerity, for although larger, Dads are generally wary of the cunning and dexterous Craft Ladies and may mistake their enthusiastic pack greetings as predatory swarming.

Craft Ladies, secure in their ecological niche, have no fear of interlopers and take the presence of non-native beings in stride, although they may become territorial about scarcer resources.

The only truly invasive species that threaten craft stores are Brides-to-Be, who are mere annoyances individually, but like locusts may descend in hordes and lay waste, leaving swathes of destruction in their wake. Fortunately for the Craft Ladies, Brides-to-Be are seasonal and usually only a threat in the spring and early summer.

link-the-feral-anon

It Got Better

fireflyfish

Is anybody going to address the newly invasive species of BuJo enthusiasts into the craft store/art supply store environment? Why aren’t we talking about the dangerous proliferation of Leuchtturm 1917s and the growing threat of Dotted Moleskins? I had to liberate a Dad from a tangle of washi tape in the art supply store the other day and it wasn’t pretty.

rpendleton

The natural habitat of journalers was stationary stores, which have been replaced by office supplies stores, not the same. Journalers invade the craft stores and art supplies stores to get the markers and washi tape and Sakura pens they require for survival.

greatatuintheworldturtle

@great-art-and-a-purple-tongue @onbearfeet THE LORE HAS BEEN UPDATED.

onbearfeet

VERY IMPORTANT AND ENTIRELY ACCURATE now excuse me I gotta hit Lowes and Michaels.

gothiccharmschool

Another thing to note is all of those habitats must adapt to the seasonal migration of goths. As soon as the faintest hint of spooky can be detected at those stores, goths will arrive in packs. A small pack of goths determined to forage can strip the shelves of a seasonal section bare in 30 minutes.

#I have nothing to add but Im stealing this whole post cause funny

bumbylbee

this is a formal invitation for you to infodump to me directly with no introduction statement

just

“so did you know that…” etc

please it would make my day

i love learning new things especially if you like them

ily all 🥺

justanotheradhdian

The creator of Yu Yu Hakusho is the husband of the creator of Sailor Moon.

You can see Toothless flying near the logo in the beginning of How to Train your Dragon (the first one)

Playing a Selunite cleric and hanging out with Shadowheart in Balders gate 3 leads to some EPIC LEVEL SASS. (Shes a cleric of Selunes bitter rival Shar.)

(on finding a Selunite prayer offering)

"You should burn it."

"It's an offering to my god I will not."

"Oh but you'll take it?"

"I'm not going to turn down free stuff, But can you stop insulting my god please"

"I feel pity for her if you're the kind of follower she attracts."

There's an AI song where SpongeBob sings a country breakup song about Sandy. Actually there's a few of them. Boi what just a pineapple, same artist dear magic conch shell

In Wisconsin there's a burger place called Kopps. They have a rotating custard flavor set that changes every day.

Hi Fi Rush is Extremely forgiving when it comes to being busy. I think it's the most forgiving video game I've ever played time wise. You're never far from a checkpoint, There's a really in depth guide that's always accessible, same with a practice area that's available every time you start the game before you even continue the story. There's checkpoints during bossfights. The game has a hub that you access before you load into the stages, even if you're in the middle of an aforementioned bossfight when you quit last time. And that's not even mentioning how good it is at easing you into how it plays. Or how in depth it is at syncing the background, environment, characters, literally every aspect of the game to the music. There's even a streamer mode for copyright free music if you want to stream it. And both the licensed soundtrack and the copyright free soundtrack are good enough that people have arguments on which is better. Some of them are even opposing viewpoints between the player character and the boss they're fighting (Rekkas bossfight is a notable example of this)

Cult of the Lamb has co-op now.

Summertime Rendering is an anime I can tell you nothing about other than a guy visits his childhood town for the funeral of his best friend. It is a masterpiece and all I can say about it is just trust me bro. It was my first binge in years and I watched it with my girlfriend in one day because we just could not put it down.

There's a Mad Max game. The explosions alone are worth the entire game. Its a pretty solid representation of mad max as an open world game.

Metal Gear Solid V pays a lot of attention to how you play, And will adapt to you. (Soldiers wearing helmets more as you keep doing headshots is one example.)

The Batman Arkham games have some of the most satisfying stealth gameplay I've ever experienced. It really makes you FEEL like Batman. Letting you use gadgets, the environment, Even other guards to slowly and methodically clear the room. And the enemies react to how you do it too. And start panicking as you pick them off till the last guy is walking around freaking Terrified. Arkham Knight even has these thugs that can tell when you're in the "detective mode." Obstacle right? The devs put in a reaction to them figuring out your location from the scanner, While you're standing behind them. There's a special voice line and animation for thugs realizing you're standing Right. Behind. Them.

Neon White is like an Intro to speed running game. It's literally designed with that in mind.

As you complete each level you learn more about the level through the insight mechanic. Each level of Insight gives you another piece of information in the level, like letting you see your ghost time, giving you a hint for the ace time, and allowing you to see the leaderboards for it only after you play a level enough times or get a good enough time on it to either gold medal or ace it. Can't remember. And you have to get a certain number of gold medals to progress. It highly incentivises improving your times and skills and sometimes using the items and weapons in different ways.

Also each weapon has two functions, one as a weapon, 2 having a discard use. (Sacrifice it to do a thing. Whether that's a grenade that can launch you up, a ground bound, a dash, double jump.)

In deep rock galactic, if you get a buy a moonrider or wormhole, but before you drink it you buy a flintlocks delight so that you can drink the two drinks in a row as quick as possible, some very hilarious and mildly disorienting things happen.

The moonrider gives you low gravity. (can also be accomplished with the gravity button on a catwalk near the bar)

While the wormhole teleports you either into the drop pod (whether it's open or not) or outside. In space.

These effects combined with flintlock, which propels you in totally random directions via explosion, Result in absolute chaos as you are launched either all over the space rig in low grav

Bounce around the drop pod like a pinball

Or go flying at mach Jesus in space while frozen because space is cold but the explosions don't stop.

Also the mass effect series has a board game coming out that's in the pre order phase right now. There are high quality resin figures available to get with it. There's even a bundle that lets you grab enough in one purchase to replace every token and figure with a high quality resin model.

There's a really cool body doubling app called Dubbii. Highly recommend due to just.. being upfront about stuff and just. I don't know how to describe it

By combining the Hair color, highlight color, and greying color in Balders gate 3. You can achieve tritone hair colors. Like this.

#I already typed this out for another post this morning #too lazy to retype #I got on my computer for this #Between hyperfixations #I have more if you want #Unsorted Adhd

allie-leth

One of the most frustrating things about ADHD is just the way that you absolutely cannot trust future you.

Like, I look at something and think "Oh, I'll deal with that later" like, no I won't. I absolutely won't. I should just do it now while I'm there. I should make plans to do something... Oh wait, will I have the energy to do that??? I was talking with a friend who told me I should come over for tea sometime, which I absolutely would love to do, but I said I was too tired. "Too tired for tea?" she asks. Like, no, I would love tea, but I'm too tired to know that I'll have the energy to get to the place and the only thing I hate worse than not doing things is being flaky on my friends.

justanotheradhdian

Imma just play critical hit now.

You did 90 double damage with that.

I have never felt more attacked and Understood simultaneously, I'm stealing this and using it to explain things.

yourlocaladhder

Currently obsessed with aviation videos or Mentour Pilot. Anyone else watch him?

justanotheradhdian

I ended up binging his entire crash analysis catalog a little while back. I got told it was a morbid hyperfixation.

yourlocaladhder

I have been binging like 2-3 videos a day! He explains it so well it made me fascinated with aviation and all that pilots and crew do. Although currently I'm trying to watch the ones that don't end in people dying cuz the other ones affect me too much and I have to take breaks.

justanotheradhdian

Yeah some of the crash stuff gets pretty intense. But it is cool to see just how many things have to go wrong before a plane flight becomes unrecoverable. It's weirdly comforting? Plus the stuff where he talks about how the regulations have changed as a result are nice too.

yourlocaladhder

I don't have flying phobia but I'm surprised how people see that and find it comforting lol. What I got from it was sometimes a pilot's attitude can ruin a recoverable situation.

justanotheradhdian

That's true, sometimes that can happen.

But a trend with the crash videos is that Mental Stacks, combined with some sort of unusual piloting circumstance (Which typically gets either rectified or addressed afterwards) is what leads to the plane crashing. Typically the crashes happen in a fraction of the time the video takes to explain how, as well.

Reason I find it weirdly comforting is that, it takes both the pilots, and the support pilot if there's a long flight, and the plane, all screwing up at the same time for a situation to become completely unrecoverable under most circumstances.

I haven't watched him in a while though. What do you watch of his videos?

And have you watched Airforceproud95? He does Microsoft flight sim and usually (tries) to do flight procedures and such. Tries is the key word sometimes.

yourlocaladhder

And yet it happens lmao! But most of it was early years not current. It's very rare now.

I'm just going through his videos right now. I'm not interested in other channels since this guy is the best and I'm not like super hungry for this content, I just watch it cuz of the guy's presentation, genre I could take it or leave it.

justanotheradhdian

Absolutely fair. His presentation of this content is absolutely stellar.

yourlocaladhder

Currently obsessed with aviation videos or Mentour Pilot. Anyone else watch him?

justanotheradhdian

I ended up binging his entire crash analysis catalog a little while back. I got told it was a morbid hyperfixation.

yourlocaladhder

I have been binging like 2-3 videos a day! He explains it so well it made me fascinated with aviation and all that pilots and crew do. Although currently I'm trying to watch the ones that don't end in people dying cuz the other ones affect me too much and I have to take breaks.

justanotheradhdian

Yeah some of the crash stuff gets pretty intense. But it is cool to see just how many things have to go wrong before a plane flight becomes unrecoverable. It's weirdly comforting? Plus the stuff where he talks about how the regulations have changed as a result are nice too.

yourlocaladhder

I don't have flying phobia but I'm surprised how people see that and find it comforting lol. What I got from it was sometimes a pilot's attitude can ruin a recoverable situation.

justanotheradhdian

That's true, sometimes that can happen.

But a trend with the crash videos is that Mental Stacks, combined with some sort of unusual piloting circumstance (Which typically gets either rectified or addressed afterwards) is what leads to the plane crashing. Typically the crashes happen in a fraction of the time the video takes to explain how, as well.

Reason I find it weirdly comforting is that, it takes both the pilots, and the support pilot if there's a long flight, and the plane, all screwing up at the same time for a situation to become completely unrecoverable under most circumstances.

I haven't watched him in a while though. What do you watch of his videos?

And have you watched Airforceproud95? He does Microsoft flight sim and usually (tries) to do flight procedures and such. Tries is the key word sometimes.

yourlocaladhder

I'm not feeling peachy for whatever reason so let's do something wholesome. Share an interesting fact from your special interest and/or current hyperfixation.

justanotheradhdian

I know I already posted a lot, but I remembered some more mini facts from my favorite games.