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and this needs to be clipped
Caffeine and Adderall... what a wonderful combination.
When I'm off my Adderall, I lean more heavily on caffeine to keep my brain going at the speed I need it. This time when I got back on the Adderall, I stopped drinking sodas for a few days (the appetite suppression kinda killed my stomach for a bit and I didn't want anything but water for a while). In a way, I think caffeine withdrawal is as bad or worse for me than Adderall withdrawal (of which I get little or none, just feel somewhat sluggish and it feels like my brain "chugs").
Anyway, I take the Adderall, then I drink the caffeine, and suddenly I'm the productivity machine that I wanted to be. I found the cocktail that's right for me.
okay, I need to get better at managing who and what I give more energy to bc oof.
update: i hydrated & took a sick day. existing is slightly more tolerable !
My current health/education situation
*le deep breath*
As an almost 19-year-old adult that has to pay for rent, groceries, phone bill, medical insurance, part of a storage unit, and college tuition... I've got 87 dollars right now. I can't drive because of epilepsy or work because of it and sleep apnea combined, and even if I found work I could walk to I can't get an official job because I'm in the process of filing for disability. I've been reaching out to the under-the-table businesses in my area, but all I've found was what was supposed to be 29 dollars every Wednesday for working at an auction house. So far, the first night was the only one I got to work so far, and it's been over a month since then, so in a month and a half I've made 29 dollars that went towards groceries, which was a blessing, but I'm always free and always willing to work for them and in fact one night I was expected to show up, so I did, and they had forgotten, so they'd promised someone else the shift. My summer job is 30 hours a week of activity (day camp counselor) and I probably can't do that this summer. I mean I wouldn't have been able to if I was living at the college over summer anyway, but I can't afford to do that because I can't work anywhere during the school year besides the work-study position (which my medical insurance requires). Right now, I have credits to make up before I get all of my financial aid, because in the Fall 2017 semester my health problems cause issues with performance in school. Heck, even if I had all the financial aid I'd need a few hundred dollars just at the beginning of the semester for the rest of the bill and textbooks. But for now, the plan is to focus on solving all my health issues and getting income through disability. Once I can work, I'll save money to take the credits I need online, hopefully while still saving up some money over 1-3 semesters, depending on the cost of online classes. Then I can return to the campus full time.. Possibly in 2020.
Important note than until I meet with and then hear back from Social Security about disability, a family member is helping with my phone, and the storage unit we share, and even my medical insurance, and since I'm on a break from the college, I don't have any immediate costs there (although too many months go by without any classes at all and my loans for the semester that I attended will be due. They're due either 6 months after graduation or after 6 months of no classes).
I wouldn't normally make such a personal post, and I might move this somewhere else or delete it entirely, but my memory is not reliable, and a blog is for sharing.
Pitfalls to avoid this semester:
Thinking that merely passing is not good enough and that I need to do more.
Falling behind on schoolwork because it’s super boring.
Starting useless side projects.
Failing to prioritize physical and voice training as the main free time sinks.
Being unable to spend enough time with Discord friends and subsequently subtracting out of my sleep.
Failing to look into getting ADHD meds
Yeah, I have no idea why I let my trash brain keep thinking I should be doing more when I am often not handling the present tasks well. Oh yeah, might be because I need to get ADHD meds.
I just realized how messy of a drawer I am. I should really clean up my act :D
carnage is here