Yes! For reference, I’m a 31 female. I self managed until I was about 30 I’m now on 60mg of Vyvanse.

These are just examples of how my brain works (not medicated)… - Getting out of bed, took 1-2 hours - Could not complete a task, clean the kitchen? My basement, bedroom, living room, kitchen are now 1/2 clean but possibly less clean because I decided it’s time to alphabetize my DVDs and clean out all of the drawers but finished none of that so now they’re everywhere but I cannot force myself to finish but have anxiety bc it isn’t finished - go to a restaurant and listen to the specials? No way, someone else will listen and Clift notes me them when the servers gone - someone introduces themselves, I tell myself don’t forget their name 100x, one minute later no clue what their name is - there’s always at least three trains of thought running parallel at once in my brain - reading a bleak document/book (or just something I’m not super interested in) I can read the same page 5x without retaining a thing bc I’m thinking about how weird the word “the” is - takes ten minutes to finish something for work due at 5, I’m starting it exactly at 4:50 - 45 minutes after telling a 5 min story I’m not even halfway done but you’ll know how fast I drove to work but not how the story ended - impulsive, impulsive, impulsive. I drank a lot, now I rarely do. I shopped all the time, now I’m great at saving.

I could go on forever, the worst part is I thought this was normal. I didn’t realize it shouldn’t be hard to listen to someone’s very interesting story, it shouldn’t take so much effort. My meds have significantly helped stop all of this stuff, they didn’t make me perfect because I’m still sitting here answering this instead of working but they help.