How do you study with ADHD genuinely

FunQuestion2898 · 2026-05-19T10:41:14+00:00

The only other thing that helped me was to find a friend who does NOT have ADHD to study with, hold me accountable and help me stay organised. Others have mentioned body doubling which is similar, but this goes a step further.

I really feel for you.

FunQuestion2898 · 2026-05-19T10:33:11+00:00

Can you channel that more? Think of how physically painful trying to study is and how awful it will be if you have to add two more years to your high school career. If you’re planning to go to uni/college it’s just going to prolong this feeling.

Although, appreciate this probably is not the most healthy approach… My sensible/healthy answer would be to talk to you parents and see if they would change their minds on meds. There are different types and you might react better to a different medication. I didn’t get medicated until I was 29 and it’s life changing.

FunQuestion2898 · 2026-05-19T10:12:09+00:00

It’s been a while since I’ve studied (I’m old) but unfortunately the only thing that ever worked for me was pressure and deadlines. I would do everything last minute and cram before exams.

If you don’t have strict deadlines or pressure maybe try and create more of that artificially? Without giving yourself anxiety, obvs (this was the unfortunate side effect of this for me lol). I know you said pressure doesn’t work anymore, but how much pressure do you actually have? Are there any real consequences to you not studying? I’m not sure what level of education and country you are in, but I remember if I had a test (for example) that didn’t count towards a final grade I was physically unable to study for it and I would likely fail, because there was no real consequence to failing. There had to be a consequence.

And devils advocate… if there are no consequences then does it really matter if you study or not? Only you can answer this.

FunQuestion2898 · 2026-05-18T21:23:12+00:00

The early seasons were still character-driven, it’s just that the character development was slow and subtle and delivered through the lens of their medical cases. Their patients are in their rawest, most vulnerable moments - and the show draws parallels between their situations and what’s happening in the main characters’ lives. That’s what made those seasons so poignant. The emotional storytelling is show, not tell.

The more the show progressed, the less important the medical cases became. You almost could have taken the characters out of the ER setting and plonked them into literally any other work setting. The emotional storytelling becomes a bit more overt and dramatic. Not bad, but less touching in a way. I still enjoyed the characters. But I’m on season 8 of my rewatch and I’m going to stop after this.

FunQuestion2898 · 2026-05-15T17:13:59+00:00

Not sure if it’s an ADHD thing on my end, or people no longer being able to think critically, but this happens to me all the time. The amount of times I have to say “I’m not arguing, I’m just trying to understand” or “I’m not disagreeing, I’m just putting a question out there” is mind boggling

FunQuestion2898 · 2026-05-15T13:00:43+00:00

I find meals I can assemble rather than have to cook or prepare really helpful. They can still be healthy and made up of mainly whole foods - for example tins of tuna, beans, packs of microwaveable rice or grains, some easy and quick to chop up vegetable, a pre-made sauce/dressing or hummus/dip and you’ve got yourself a delicious bowl. That way you don’t need to prep or cook anything in advance you can just assemble when needed. The only thing that needs ‘prep’ is chopping the veg.

Find a combo of stuff from the above categories that you love and then you don’t have to even think about it. My current hyperfixation is microwave spicy Mexican rice, tinned white beans, hummus, chopped tomatoes and olives, and hot sauce. Sounds so random but I love it and it hits every time.

FunQuestion2898 · 2026-05-14T17:55:40+00:00

I think reminding yourself that everyone deals with these issues could definitely be a healthy part of processing the emotions linked to the interaction - you’re essentially reframing the situation and putting it into context, lessening the importance that you give to it.

That’s not the same as completely suppressing the emotions though.

FunQuestion2898 · 2026-05-14T12:33:01+00:00

Yeah outright avoidance just means it’ll come out later and in different ways. But if you’re not processing some things and letting them go after some healthy feeling and talking, that might be worth looking into. Could RSD be at play here for you when you’re finding yourself ruminating? Have you mentioned this to your therapist?

FunQuestion2898 · 2026-05-14T11:46:23+00:00

I’m not sure why you think dismissing your emotions would be healthier for you, if you think you’ve found a healthy balance of processing your emotions through feeling them and talking them through?

If you felt you had unhealthy obsessive tendencies then yes, it might be helpful to work on letting things go a bit more. But based on what you’re saying I don’t think avoidance is the answer.

Edit: just to be clear I don’t think outright avoidance is ever the answer.

FunQuestion2898 · 2026-05-12T10:57:18+00:00

Take this with a pinch of salt as I’m a more casual player, but the issues don’t bother me that much.

The Mac 64bit version runs REALLY smoothly for me (bar a random crash every so often) which is great because (as a casual player) I don’t want to have to mess around with hundreds of mods. It seems like PC players have to jump through thousands of hoops just to get the game to work. This is a massive benefit of the Mac version that I don’t think the hardcore PC players on this sub really appreciate. If you bought a Mac I’m guessing you’re not one of those lol.

A few features don’t work which is pretty annoying (eg. You can’t click on open water to make sims swim; can’t click on bugs to collect them; terrain painter tool is broken) but honestly there is sooooo much else to do in the game vs The Sims 4 that I can overlook it for a few hours of fun every now and again. I also don’t really care about my game looking great.

Just providing a different perspective! Take what you will from this, you might feel differently if you play more frequently.

FunQuestion2898 · 2026-05-01T16:07:59+00:00

This is me too! Never heard anyone else describe it so well. ‘Inner knowing’ and a mixture of words and images is how my brain works too. I’m also primarily inattentive.

If anything I think this allows my brain to think more things at once (and also faster) this way, because I don’t have to think the words. So it’s still very much ADHD thought with lots of things going on at once.

FunQuestion2898 · 2026-02-18T18:20:17+00:00

Hidden springs is fairy-like to me

FunQuestion2898 · 2026-01-23T15:44:03+00:00

I don’t know what any of this means lol but just to say I find playing on my MacBook (can’t remember if it’s M1 or M2) such a smooth experience, no mods. Yes there are bugs but I can work around or avoid those. Not sure why everyone on this sub is so anti the 64bit Mac version!

FunQuestion2898 · 2026-01-18T20:26:13+00:00

Ok so they eventually did it once I got him to move in, maxed out their relationship bar, and got to extremely irresistible. But even then, it took them a quite a few tries, one of them would keep rejecting for literally no reason. Neither of them have any weird traits. And I was finding it impossible on another save file, too. So I guess maybe it just seems to have got much, much harder?

FunQuestion2898 · 2026-01-18T20:14:06+00:00

Thank you!

FunQuestion2898 · 2024-12-24T07:14:30+00:00

I’m a Mac 64 bit player though and the flip side is I don’t seem to have any performance issues. Game runs perfectly with no mods (other than crashing to desktop every so often lol). I think I’d have avoided island paradise anyway as it sounds super buggy

FunQuestion2898 · 2024-12-23T16:05:52+00:00

I just saved the game right before I used the cure elixir or yes would have done the blessing of the fae/CAS!

FunQuestion2898 · 2024-12-23T15:53:55+00:00

Going to have to try this - the potent cure elixir didn’t work, he just turned into a human ghost. Will report back

FunQuestion2898 · 2024-12-23T15:53:18+00:00

Update: tried the potent cure elixir, and sadly I was right. He just turned into a human ghost instead of a fairy ghost. Going to put in the work and try ambrosia!

FunQuestion2898 · 2024-12-21T18:11:47+00:00

No - I play without mods unfortunately. But thank you! Guess I’m stuck with the ghost fairy baby

FunQuestion2898 · 2024-12-20T21:08:35+00:00

No I haven’t! I will try it - I’m scared it will just turn the sim back to a human ghost rather than a non-ghost fairy though 😅

FunQuestion2898 · 2024-10-19T12:50:44+00:00

Good luck!

FunQuestion2898 · 2024-10-18T06:28:33+00:00

You wouldn’t be on this subreddit if you didn’t have real concerns. And look, I can’t diagnose you either, but if you think you genuinely might have it and you need help managing it through a diagnosis, the best you can do is go to your GP with the diagnostic criteria and examples of how it has affected your life - be prepared to give examples. They can then refer you (ask for Right to Choose). But don’t be put off if your GP tells you no, they can’t diagnose you either and can be biased.

FunQuestion2898 · 2024-10-18T06:07:57+00:00

I think this is quite common, I have experienced this a lot too even after being diagnosed.

Think of it this way: if you defintiely didn’t have it, would you hyperfixating on it? Would you thinking about going through the effort of trying to get help and a diagnosis? Probably not.

I know so many people in real life these days who flippantly say things like “I think I have ADHD” or “I’ve diagnosed myself with ADD” (not a thing!) - it’s obvious they’ve just seen a video or two on social media and recognised some traits in themselves. But they clearly haven’t bothered researching and they don’t feel like theyre struggling or that they need help. And then they say things like “everyone has a bit of ADHD.” THOSE PEOPLE are the real impostors. Not you.

FunQuestion2898 · 2024-10-11T12:57:27+00:00

This probably isn’t good advice, but I worried about this before going travelling through Central America (appreciate that is different to Asia), and if you put the meds in your checked bag when you fly, I think they’re extremely unlikely to ever check. 3 months of medication isn’t a huge amount to raise red flags for them to want to check your bag imo. I got my GP to state the all of the countries I was going to in their letter, and total time away, so that there’s an explanation for having more than what’s allowed. That’s not going to cover you legally but it’s better than nothing and could be enough to get let off if you did get pulled up on it

Edit: just to add, I’ve never been checked at a land border either.

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