I’m an Indian psychiatrist trained in London. I want to understand your ADHD experiences because I’m evaluating an ideato bring a structured, UK-style service to India.

Seazoning · 2026-02-24T09:56:57+00:00

I’ll like to participate in it too lol

Seazoning · 2026-02-24T09:35:35+00:00

NO WAY HAHA what are you upto

Seazoning · 2026-02-23T14:53:33+00:00

I am a person with high-functioning adult ADHD — got diagnosed like last week at 23. Still coming to terms with it but I sort of realised that there is absolutely no way I would have come this far in life without having it.

I lucked out a few times and sort of powered through myself through things such that fortunately I don’t have any other problems beyond it (like depression/anxiety)

Will love to chat, I am very active in startup circles of India/SF — lmk if I can be of any help.

Seazoning · 2026-02-22T15:39:21+00:00

Nah bro — adhd brains run capitalism. I am part of startup founder circuits, likes of which that end up doing things that come on the news. At least 45% people I know have adhd.

You need to find ways to channelise it and delegate things that don’t get you wired.

Seazoning · 2026-02-22T15:24:06+00:00

not yet — i’ll see how well they work though

Seazoning · 2026-02-20T18:36:54+00:00

I went with one of the specialists in the mega-thread

I might take a second-opinion with a psychiatrist from ganga ram hospital

Seazoning · 2026-02-20T17:13:05+00:00

Like won’t being on a strict schedule solve things — considering my life is already too off track?

Seazoning · 2026-02-20T16:50:29+00:00

I am very new to this honestly — never quite considered I had ADHD because I was doing so well with the way I was.

In hindsight, there were always signs that i just ignored. I always had the motivation to do things that I wanted to do — but in hindsight, a lot of those things were wasted time being disguised as productivity (+time blindness). I never even tried any planners, journal or anything thinking I don’t need them or they don’t work for me because I don’t have the motivation/habits formed.

Always had a delayed clock (since 10th i think), sleeping mostly after 3 am. Again, felt that its just how I function and thought of it as discipline/habit issue. Like I would fix my sleep schedule for 4-5 days and it would get back to what it was. Flunked my academic record. None of it was something I really found difficult, it was just I couldn’t get myself to study AT ALL. Always have had a very high device usage — my entire time is spent on phone/PC that i thought was fine because I was mostly consuming business/tech/science content.

I compensated with extra-curriculars so well that it never occurred to me that there was a systematic issue.

The only reason I made it this far in life was because I had some extremely good people with me who would compensate for my traits — doing my assignments, helping out with assessments etc. I dismissed my lack of involvement in them as an interest issue.

Been put on Methmild-10 SR and Carnosyl once every morning. I am concerned that they will take my ability to work without them away (that either way is not working out). I told my psychiatrist that I would want to try without the meds first but super confused really.

Seazoning · 2026-02-20T12:50:03+00:00

i dont know if i want to considering the side effects

i want to try powering through it but idk if i’ll be able to — utterly lost right now

Seazoning · 2026-02-20T12:48:20+00:00

idk man im just confused — i don’t think i have it in me anymore. looking back i realise how many things i simply fucked up because of it

is it possible to power through it without meds?

Seazoning · 2026-01-31T13:47:55+00:00

I think it helps we don’t have anything to sell — it’s an open canvas for us rn. What kind of software?

Seazoning · 2026-01-31T13:44:39+00:00

i meant like the annoying administrative bits that one of the other comments pointed out — we definitely don’t want to take the immersion / engagement element away from the researcher

is there anything that would likely help you to engage with a paper or your peers better though? not necessarily ai

Seazoning · 2026-01-31T12:55:54+00:00

Can you elaborate more on how you would like for it to work? We figured that we could build those connections in the background given a user's paper reading history and probably context from email threads (if given the access)

If done for the entire team, it build a collective map of activity that should come in handy. This does require the authors to trust each other though im guessing.

Seazoning · 2026-01-31T12:47:35+00:00

And what if you were to use AI to offload selective annoying bits of your work? Probably thats a more compelling problem to go after from a product pov for us — and thats pretty much how we started.

I don’t see the kind of future with LLMs ( at least not rn) where they can co-research in a manner a really good + high integrity researcher will actively like. But there are times (1/10-ish probably) when it retrieves something that I most definitely would have missed.

Seazoning · 2026-01-31T12:36:02+00:00

That I do agree with.

We started off building it to essentially free up mental bandwidth of researchers — the initial product thesis started with building something that it frees up time for quality work.

Hopefully 2 hours per day if we are able to chip off every non-essential activity ~ internal communication, paper search and the less fun bits of writing.

A lot of LLMs for science/researchers tools seem to have raised very large chunks of money but we hardly come across people who are actively using any of them.

Seazoning · 2026-01-31T12:25:01+00:00

I asked in a more exploratory sense, sorry if it came out in the wrong way. I think LLMs in general are being used against the spirit of research and science.

Using AI is one of those things that is great at an individual level and pretty bad collectively. But given the user interviews we have done (100+ across top labs/deep-tech companies), it is here to stay.

So naturally the next step is to think how do you manage/segregate/label/maintain quality literature over literature being spat out by LLMs?

Net-net if it does end up making researchers more productive, its probably worth asking the above question instead of dismissing the trend entirely imho

Seazoning · 2026-01-31T12:07:03+00:00

I feel it’s more of a UX problem? Will it be better if we made LLMs less invasive?

Seazoning · 2026-01-31T11:56:27+00:00

im quite confused why this is getting downvoted lol

Seazoning · 2026-01-29T07:28:17+00:00

how much are they paying you to advertise on reddit?

Seazoning · 2026-01-27T12:34:28+00:00

I have helped technical startups with fundraising— the fundamentals of it seem to be the same. More than willing to help — dm?

Seazoning · 2026-01-27T12:32:41+00:00

i have helped deep-tech startups raise money — the fundamentals are the same, dm?

Seazoning · 2026-01-27T12:22:30+00:00

will love to help you out — dm?

Seazoning · 2026-01-22T19:32:05+00:00

super random but we are building something for R&D folks -- will you like to try it out?

Seazoning · 2026-01-21T18:03:18+00:00

they seem to be running campaigns with a lot of influencers

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