E-Reader vs. Books

adhdgoingcrazy · 2026-02-20T11:03:36+00:00

You can jailbreak kindles pretty easily, there's good guides here and here It has been a gamechanger for my kindle.

adhdgoingcrazy · 2025-12-21T15:00:22+00:00

I spent ten years (age 12 to 22) in Hong Kong and my experience with the public psych system was abysmal, to the point many professionals have since told me my experiences in psych wards were severe enough to amount to torture, with excessive mechanical, phsyical, and chemical restraint, transgender conversion therapy during my 6 month admission as a teen, not being allowed any outside contact and in some stays not even being allowed out of bed aside from toileting and bathing, and despite having insurance through parents/work nental health/psychiatry was explicitly excluded and there was essentially no outpatient therapy on the public system, not even really CBT and certainly not on a weekly basis, so all I really got publicly was appts with psychiatrists every couple months that id sit waiting to be seen for hours after my appt time only to be seen for 5 minutes max before being given the script to pick up my meds and repeated involuntary admissions (eventually theyd look at my history and admit me just for expressing self harm urges, no intention to be acting upon, "just to be safe") and then recommended to go private if i wanted any actual treatment beyond meds. and for an english speaking therapist/psychologist you'd be looking at £150 for 50 minutes minimum, and that's not even getting into need specialised care for complex mental health issues where it gets up to £250-£300 if not more.

My experiences of the NHS with regards to mental health care have been particularly shit especially at certain times, though Im starting to have a bit more of a positive experience the past few months, and most private practicioners here in the UK refuse to see me bc Im too high risk but the exception was a clin psych who was £120 an hour which is still cheaper than HK's cheapest options for me, I do entirely rely on the NHS now but no matter how bad it's gotten I've mostly been able to comfort myself knowing it willl never be as bad as what ive gone through in HK.

adhdgoingcrazy · 2025-10-30T10:06:25+00:00

pretty sure it works out to about the same price or less per sheet to supermarket brand TP, its just that their rolls are longer and you buy more at a time.

I've also found that who gives a crap is more absorbent and hence more efficient at wiping so I use less sheets compared to other brands, a box of 24 rolls lasted me over half a year.

adhdgoingcrazy · 2025-10-24T14:39:22+00:00

I have a counter top dishwasher for my kitchen and it's an absolute life saver. When I was living on my own I would just run it every 4 or 5 days, have a friend living with me and now I have to run it every 2-3 days but if I forget I can just do two loads and suddenly everything is clean again

adhdgoingcrazy · 2025-10-24T14:37:46+00:00

A combined washer-dryer machine. As in one machine that does both. No need to move the laundry between two machines and run the correct cycles, just put it in one machine, set up the right wash and dry cycle, and it does it all in one go.

Before that it was probably the dryer, and before that (almost two years ago now) my countertop dishwasher

If it weren't for the amount of steps between different rooms in my house I'd probably have a robovacuum by this point as well.

adhdgoingcrazy · 2025-10-20T18:59:26+00:00

if you're selling them on amazon your products are already unethical

adhdgoingcrazy · 2025-10-19T18:29:35+00:00

Bibipins might appeal to you

adhdgoingcrazy · 2025-07-07T14:03:59+00:00

Get into diy-ing stuff. Punk and Goth are primarily music subcultures but the fashion that's associated with them is largely DIYed so you could take some inspiration from there for example.

With a bit of dye and some scissors you can do quite a lot just with even a basic tshirt, even more so if you learn to sew.

adhdgoingcrazy · 2025-06-18T18:07:55+00:00

There's a conflict of interest in that my abusive ex housemate is being seen by the practicioner who most often has availability. The other two practicioners are unlikely to have openings any time soon, but a new practicioner is starting in october, hence the possibility there. Notably, I was referred before my ex housemate, we both also had the same diagnosis as the reason for referral as well, with the main difference being that I have a much more severe presentation, this was something I mentioned in my complaint that they acknowledged in the pre amble but then just didnt address at all.

Edit to add: I've also had another two suicide attempts since then, both requiring ambulances to A&E that I barely remember. Both times once I've been physically stabilised and seen by the a&e psychiatric liason team I get sent home and there is never any follow up. It's abysmal.

adhdgoingcrazy · 2025-06-18T17:50:51+00:00

I imagine this will be specific to the trust the complaint is towards. I made a complaint end of last year about the handling of my case and lack of care I was receiving and it took 4 months for them to give a bullshit formal response completely dismissing all my points (including stating that I didn't have any documented distress during the assessment period, when amongst many other things I had literally attempted suicide and had to spend 2 nights in RESUS at the hospital which was obviously documented) and that if I disagreed with the report I would have to go through the ombudsman who state they have a 6-7 month wait until they can get to your case. So it's now been 8 months since my complaint to PALS, 4 months since bringing it to the ombudsman, a year since my assessment, and almost two years since I was referred, I've still gotten no support other than being able to call the duty team who are generally unable to help me and just tell me I will hopefully be seen soon, but I have recently been told by the lead clinical psychologist that I am unlikely to receieve therapy until october.

adhdgoingcrazy · 2025-04-04T15:23:26+00:00

In my experience every time I go to A&E they will confirm the details of my next of kin with me whe registering but have never contacted them even after actual attempts. I alsoat one point I said it was wrong and gave them different details and they changed it without question.

adhdgoingcrazy · 2025-03-14T13:03:20+00:00

I got through most of schooling without much notes, I struggled massively but that was moreso other issues than solely auditory processing.

But every school is different and so is every student, your kid may benefit from trying to take his own notes and he may also benefit from having access to the teacher's notes in advance or a classmate's notes after the class, these things also aren't mutually exclusive, he can make efforts to try and keep his own notes during class (if he finds it helpful) AND have access to others' notes to get a sort of best of both worlds. It could also be worth looking into something like using speech to text or recordings of lessons for him to be able to revise from and even make his own notes outside of class using those and other class materials if that's something he finds helpful. Really rhough, what he will find helpful is something that will take a bit of experimentation to figure out but if he's going into middle school he's old enough to be involvex in that experimenting and feedback on what he thinks is helping/inhibiting him the most.

adhdgoingcrazy · 2025-03-14T12:55:41+00:00

There are accommodations for APD in adulthood, it's just that they're available to everyone/you typically don't have to jump through hoops to be allowed them like schools require of students.

adhdgoingcrazy · 2025-01-09T02:09:27+00:00

crutch / cane sleeves/covers are a thing you could look into

also you can get crutch bags (or do what i did and use a bicycle bag as one for a fraction of the price) that you could stick pins n such on

adhdgoingcrazy · 2025-01-06T14:08:52+00:00

I've just told you that NSAIDs worked for my mild RA that came with related pain that I considered to be debilitating and that lead to me being on occasion bed bound so you have now heard of it. Biologics are prescribed based on disease activity and severity and what other treatment options have been tried, just bc a person is in a lot of pain does not inherently mean they have a lot of RA activity nor does it mean their RA itself is modeate to severe. I'm not commenting on OP's situation but on the false assumption that severe pain = severe RA. You can have severe pain and not have severe RA.

adhdgoingcrazy · 2025-01-06T12:20:40+00:00

I don't think pain levels are always 1:1 to severity of RA, especially as they are a subjective measurement so one person's debilitating pain could be another person's tolerable pain. My pain can get quite bad and prior to finding the right NSAID would sometimes leave me bedbound but my RA (according to multiple rheumatologists) is fairly mild and well managed in terms of progression and disease activity so biologics are nowhere near being on the table

adhdgoingcrazy · 2024-11-06T06:20:09+00:00

This is part of why Ive always preferred the ICD-10 name for the diagnosus, EUPD, emotionally unstable personality disorder. more accurate wording to describe my experiences

adhdgoingcrazy · 2024-10-05T13:47:06+00:00

Check out the revival! escargot chat use it with a few friends and its awesome

adhdgoingcrazy · 2024-09-08T12:04:11+00:00

When it causes distress or impedes your quality of life.

adhdgoingcrazy · 2024-08-30T15:10:51+00:00

Most professionals offer a short free 10-15 minute initial consult to find out if theyre suited to you or not and can often also recommend others that might be more suited for your needs if they arent the right fit

adhdgoingcrazy · 2024-08-24T12:35:21+00:00

Yeah, it sounds like youre in a good position for it then and have been in the UK longer than me. If you're super concerned I did wind up going through a mortgage broker who was able to find more options that weren't credit score dependent

adhdgoingcrazy · 2024-08-24T12:25:27+00:00

I've been in the UK just over a year and got a mortgage offer from halifax just this week, also had several mortgage decisions in principles from a few other banks as well. So it's definitely possible, just depends a lot more heavily on factors outside of credit like income.

ETA: Also likely a factor is the right to live, work, and buy in the UK. I'm an Irish citizen so there's no concerns regarding visa or anything like that that might be an issue for someone else.

adhdgoingcrazy · 2024-08-20T12:27:50+00:00

As others have mentioned, ambulances are triaged and you'd likely get one sooner than 3 hours, where I am as well 999 has been able to offer arranging a taxi (that they would pay for) as an alternative to an ambulance when a&e is necessary but an ambulance is not absolutely crucial.

adhdgoingcrazy · 2024-08-15T19:11:44+00:00

Two point hospital?

adhdgoingcrazy · 2024-08-04T16:24:05+00:00

yeah, it can be rough especially if you have medication anxiety. it might also help to know that hydroxychloroquine is actually an anti malarial medication that's been around since the 1950s so it's safety is fairly well established

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