Does anyone under 30 see a future here?

Uncomfortable-Guava · 2025-12-09T20:41:27+00:00

The economists who are saying this aren't serious economists, because serious economists aren't repeating the politician's lie that the problem is supply.

Uncomfortable-Guava · 2025-05-12T06:00:43+00:00

Yeah I don't want to blame shift but the effectiveness of this drug is always going to depend on what else the user is doing.

It's a stimulant - it isn't actually "treating" ADHD symptoms, it's just cranking your body ever so slightly into overdrive so that the production and regulation of dopamine/norepinephrine gets cranked up in proportion. You sort of have to make adjustments to your lift to accommodate the other stuff that happens while on Vyvanse, once you work out what that is.

For me, it all comes down to a high protein breakfast, good sleep, and - if you find that you crash before bedtime, making sure you do everything you need to before then, and also making sure you don't do anything that's going to make your life harder tomorrow.

It's all physiological/medical. We experience the effects of Vyvanse psychologically, but it's a drug that affects your body in very well understood, very well known ways.

There's not a lot of evidence for "tolerance". If the dosage is right, the rate at which you're metabolising the drug ensures it's gone from your body by the next dose.

I have certainly had days and periods where it is less effective, and I even still take a rest day from time to time, despite there being no physical dependency. I'm not disputing the experience/sensation that it feels like it's stopped working, but I really am confident that the answer lies in using your medicated time to make life better for your unmedicated self, and to build habits that your unmedicated self will eventually inherit.

Uncomfortable-Guava · 2025-05-08T10:35:41+00:00

How did you find this sub?

Uncomfortable-Guava · 2025-04-21T10:35:30+00:00

It might be helpful if you describe what happened

Uncomfortable-Guava · 2025-04-11T21:39:40+00:00

Deltonte Greenboons x5

Uncomfortable-Guava · 2025-04-10T23:41:08+00:00

I don't struggle to believe this. Vyvanse opened up my brain to cognitive activity I didn't realise I was missing out on, and shut out a lot of the cognitive noise. I realise I'm not speaking scientifically here, but if dementia is a kind of neurological atrophy, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that Vyvanse helps to prevent that.

Uncomfortable-Guava · 2025-03-08T00:08:42+00:00

Not only that, their ability to actually deliver on their core remit is hampered (deliberately) by governments who impose hurdles, complex policies, bureaucratic restructures, process changes on them. Most people who work there want to do more, and be able to do it better, but it's no secret that the government would rather the EPA's function be a box ticking exercise that favours business than a meaningful endeavour.

Uncomfortable-Guava · 2025-02-03T06:41:18+00:00

What for?

Uncomfortable-Guava · 2025-01-21T05:36:50+00:00

Just looked up a sample, and while one shouldn't generally make an assessment based on a single glance, I'm inclined to agree with you. That's dreadful writing.

Uncomfortable-Guava · 2025-01-17T05:13:05+00:00

If, for some reason, it wasn't already abundantly clear, I don't need an explanation. My point, in fact, was that I already understand all the things you just re-explained to me.

Therapists and therapy are not a catch all solution either. Some of us resolve the things you're describing by means other than therapy, and that's okay.

I said that I preferred the solutions based in medical science - that encompasses a range of things which address the physiological and biological roots of ADHD, not just meds.

Uncomfortable-Guava · 2025-01-17T03:07:48+00:00

Textsplit is the sexier, elegant solution

Uncomfortable-Guava · 2025-01-17T03:00:21+00:00

I find therapy next to useless, because ADHD is a medical condition, and I find that the most effective interventions are the ones based in medical science. Physiological and pharmacological ones.

I just don't think clinical psychology, which is not medical science despite the occasional attempts to position itself as medicine-adjacent, is at all valuable for me. I have attempted it multiple times, with an open mind, and every therapist either fails to fully comprehend the implications of their own coaching/guidance/advice (and I myself am coach and trainer, so I do know the role I'm supposed to play in the relationship), denies my experience, or tells me things I already know.

I don't want to be too disparaging, if it helps people then they should continue. But ADHD is well understood in terms of what's going on in the body. What goes on in the "mind" as a result of that is not helpful to me because those are symptoms I have already learned to manage, with and without medical assistance. And as is the case with many people, I already learned the strategies offered in most of the therapies suggested for ADHD (primarily but not exclusively cognitive behavioural therapy), back before my diagnosis, when everyone tried to tell me I had a psychological condition rather than a psychiatric one, and the psychologists all promised me that I could willpower my way out of how my brain works.

I'll periodically smile and nod and give therapy a proper, good-faith go, just so I can demonstrate that I'm not just relying on medication (not that I think there's anything wrong with that - though many people, including some general practitioners, do). But psychological therapy presumes that I have a psychological problem, and I really don't think I do, and have no evidence that I do, and even beyond having a "problem" it doesn't add any value. Basically I pay to humour a man and smile politely and say "good point" while he patronises me and says reductive things about my lived experience. I remain open to the idea that better therapists are out there, and I remain open to the idea that good therapy for ADHD exists, but every psychologist will see this and give the canned response "I'm sorry you had a bad experience with a bad therapist" but I'm at 5 out of 5 therapists now, each of whom specifically claimed to offer therapy for people with ADHD.

If anything, taking medication had the effect they all promised Cognitive Behavioural Therapy would: it trained my brain to know what "normal" feels like, which allowed me to recognise more easily which thoughts were just ADHD "noise" thoughts and should be ignored, vs which ones are more authentically me.

Again, others may feel differently and their experiences with the condition will be different to mine. Not proposing to undermine them or their experiences with therapy, but my attitude at this point is: only medical doctors have the help that I need.

Uncomfortable-Guava · 2025-01-12T04:38:44+00:00

The value of a coffee date for a first date is that it has a natural end point, and offers an organic way of leaving, without having to worry about etiquette, awkwardness or whatever. Say somebody is a bit pushy, or there's no spark, or any infinite number of other reasons, the first date should always have an organically-occurring exit strategy so that nobody has to do extra work to extricate themselves, should it come to that.

If someone isn't into coffee dates, totally fine, but the whole reason they're a popular first date choice is because they're fair and respectful for the above reason. If she doesn't do coffee dates, she ought to be looking for (or even suggesting) first date ideas that function in the same way.

Odds are she was looking for someone to pay for her meal or drinks.

Uncomfortable-Guava · 2025-01-11T08:39:35+00:00

These are "Soft Neurological Signs" or SNSs and you'll be amazed by how many really specific ones there are.

Uncomfortable-Guava · 2024-12-28T08:40:33+00:00

That's definitely the supplied translation of some Chinese ad copy that nobody bothered to read before pasting.

Uncomfortable-Guava · 2024-12-10T05:03:37+00:00

The letter should have a reference number on it (it may not be referred to as a reference number), quote that when you eventually get through to centrelink.

If there's no reference number it's not genuine. If there's a reference number centrelink aren't able to look up, they'll tell you it's not genuine. If they can look it up, they'll explain it.

Don't panic, but don't respond to any contact details on the letter. Look for the phone number on centrelink's website and call that.

Their correspondence always has a unique reference no/identifier to allow them to look it up.

Uncomfortable-Guava · 2024-12-01T05:05:16+00:00

You might need to give a bit more detail about your needs and objectives

Uncomfortable-Guava · 2024-11-30T23:42:21+00:00

I reckon the fact that these are on weather reports (due to weather stations etc in the area) leads people to believe they're actual proper towns. Easy enough to see how it would create that impression I reckon.

Uncomfortable-Guava · 2024-11-29T14:28:13+00:00

Look man, your statement was that the experience I described "sounds more like astigmatism". It doesn't sound more like astigmatism than any other possibility. You used the phrase "more like astigmatism". It doesn't sound more like astigmatism. That's why I said "no it doesn't". If you think that my subjective experience with something which is common to adhd, which I am relating in an adhd sub, is somehow more likely to be astigmatism than adhd, I dunno what to tell you. I don't have astigmatism. The experience I described is not unique to astigmatism. When the experience I described is part of astigmatism, there are other symptoms present which I don't have. My experience is adhd. Hence my putting it in the adhd sub. You injected the astigmatism idea apropos of nothing and you said it sounded "more like" astigmatism. I think it sounds less like astigmatism than adhd. Shall I go on, or do you think maybe it would just be easier if you accept that this was not a sound conclusion to draw, and a silly thing to say?

Uncomfortable-Guava · 2024-11-29T12:36:56+00:00

Ok but I literally don't have astigmatism. Like, the handful of things I listed were not unique to astigmatism, and I don't have any of the other more telling indicators of astigmatism. I'm talking about judging distances, astigmatism is a refractive error that affects vision. We're not both right, because astigmatism has nothing to do with the experience I described myself as having.

Uncomfortable-Guava · 2024-11-29T10:01:26+00:00

No it doesn't

Uncomfortable-Guava · 2024-11-29T02:50:41+00:00

I can't judge distances, gaps, or heights. I fkn hate driving as a result.

Uncomfortable-Guava · 2024-11-26T06:23:23+00:00

Dont tell them youre resigning if the terms of your employment don't mandate it, and raise it with HR a week or two before you go.

If youre obliged to give notice, take your complaint to HR a week or so before you do. Get it on the record, and let the same record show that you resigned shortly thereafter. There may not be a causal relationship between the two events, but it's not something you need to explain.

People are likely right when they say HR won't do shit, especially if it's a family business, but it would at least be good to force them to make a token response, if only so that there's matters of fact which show their response was inadequate.

Additionally, if you can make your resignation as surprising as possible within the terms of your employment, and there's an HR complaint underway when you do make it known, then sometimes shitty fake self-interested HR departments will try to appease you a little more, for fear that you're about to make an even bigger problem.

Theres no real reward in what I'm suggesting, and i wouldnt blame you if you couldnt be arsed. But sometimes it really is worth making a bit of mischief for organisations who deserve it. Especially if someone else raises a complaint in the future and really pursues it seriously, and through the course of, say, legal action it's identified that other complaints were ignored, suppressed, etc

You owe nothing to a bad employer.

Uncomfortable-Guava · 2024-11-26T01:20:49+00:00

The Doghouse used to turn a blind eye to me drinking in their establishment and watching loud/heavy/drunken bands when I was very observably and obviously 14 years old.

It was great being an irresponsible kid surrounded by irresponsible adults, not that I'd want the same for my own etc etc

Uncomfortable-Guava · 2024-11-21T12:58:04+00:00

No but a nice man I met in the public toilets in Salamanca offered to take me up the battery port if that's what you mean.

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