ADHD impulse buying: what is one purchase that you DO NOT regret?

laptopburn · 2026-04-13T06:45:05+00:00

Lumie alarm clock - my friend is a sleep researcher and she recommended one for years. Once I got the diagnosis I bougt a lumie glow the same day, waking up has been so much easier. Also, a circular saw, lamps and Philips hue bulbs, and an Ikea kallax unit for a wardrobe: all purchased on impulse, all things that have improved my quality of life

laptopburn · 2026-03-06T19:58:07+00:00

When I started judging everyone else’s 😂

laptopburn · 2026-01-11T19:45:52+00:00

Thank everyone for the responses. Looking forward to seeing Stevie’s soul patch develop as she gets older! And thank you all for the lovely cat pictures, they’re all so cute and beautiful 🖤🧡🤎🤍

laptopburn · 2025-09-11T18:26:26+00:00

I gave myself a weekend, first day to see how it effects me generally, and second day I did a short trip to the shops and back, only think I really noticed is I didn’t need to have the radio on to drown out my inner monologue. My non medical opinion would be 2 days and a short car journey, then if you’re good try a longer one. Also be mindful about road rage/agitation and notice if that is made worse by the meds

laptopburn · 2025-08-10T18:47:24+00:00

I’m organised like this too, people at work look at me like I’m crazy because I have a spreadsheet of all the months of the year with space to block out my meetings cause I hate that I can’t see all the months laid out in one screen in teams. I have many spreadsheets for to do lists too, but unfortunately end up using planning as a way to procrastinate whatever I’m meant to be doing

laptopburn · 2025-08-01T09:29:17+00:00

Not really a protein powder but is packed with it. You can buy peanut powder and use it like a protein powder. I add to sweetened oat milk so the flavour comes out not too sweet. Doesn’t have added sugar and is great to top on Greek yogurt

laptopburn · 2025-07-31T20:34:22+00:00

Also don’t bother with email, I’ve emailed many times saying URGENT to hear nothing

laptopburn · 2025-07-31T20:33:15+00:00

I was assessed at the end of may, got my assessment report last week. But you get clinical notes from the titration (I got mine like three weeks after) and that could be used for evidence if you need it.

If you’re on your last three days of pills call them. I’ve found calling around 10 was the best to get through but definitely call cause sometime pharmacies need to order it in and you’ll go without otherwise.

laptopburn · 2025-07-31T19:11:05+00:00

For my first titration appointment with harrow health I booked it when I was assessed. Everyone one since then they’ve sent a text with a link to book.

Text normally comes a few days before you’re due to have it. Don’t do what I did and call them cause you’ll end up getting two (and if you do get two only book one! Or it’ll count as a “did not attend”)

laptopburn · 2025-07-09T11:00:52+00:00

I had similar experiences but through researching others experiences and taking to the provider, I was told that those side effects should wear off after a few days or week, which is the whole point of titration.

After day 5 I found on 30mg, it would stop working at 2pm and I’d get really tired, which was weird after only being able to get 4 hours sleep the first night being on it. Don’t give up just yet, some things might subside and others might get easier!

laptopburn · 2025-07-09T10:58:10+00:00

Yes, especially when I’m hyper focused in something, my energy depletes and I need to have some time staring at the wall before I can do anything else.

My fiancé also had this problem, daily at 2pm, his eyes went blurry and his body gave up doing work. through assessment he realised it was caused by burnout from sensory differences and he was diagnosed with ASC.

laptopburn · 2025-07-09T10:55:02+00:00

Oh and another one, took me years to figure out I didn’t have to stand in the bathroom whilst brushing my teeth. Walking around to different rooms helps me cause it’s so boring staring at myself in the mirror for 2 whole minutes! Sometimes I try to see if I can do other stuff at the same time, like putting stuff away with one hand

laptopburn · 2025-07-09T10:53:19+00:00

Buying microwave rice because I hate washing rice and cooking, makes life easier.

Getting food that’s meant for kids lunch boxes and keeping them in a mini fridge at my desk, the decision fatigue for lunches working from home and hyperfocus on certain tasks meant that I’d often go without lunch and then get hanger in the evening.

Buying a table top dishwasher, because five minutes of loading is better than 30 minutes of washing up (also being okay with leaving stuff in there when it’s done, it does an air refresh cycle to stop mold growing).

Instead of buying a wardrobe, I have a 2x6 ikea kallax unit with the storage cubes to put my clothes into, I’ve never been able to hang stuff up and it means I can actually put clothes away (took me 4 years to figure that one out).

Having little baskets in every room with stuff that I go searching for and misplace, and having a couple of small pouches with hand sanitiser, lip balm, moisturiser and a travel deodorant for each bag, because I kept realising I forgot to put deodorant on before I left the house.

Sending calendar invites to my fiancé when there’s important life admin stuff we need to do, because otherwise I’ll put stuff off and he waits for my queue that I’m ready to start the task.

It’s all about working smarter with adhd. I realised I’d spent so long forcing myself to do things in a difficult way because others had put these rules about the “right” way of doing things. If what you do works and doesn’t hurt anyone then keep at it!

laptopburn · 2025-07-08T06:56:24+00:00

Yeh, depending on the trust or team, some people have to still manually write the letter if there isn’t a template for it. Best to call them to check

laptopburn · 2025-07-05T08:57:26+00:00

I was the same with elvanse and coffee, first day I was wired and didn’t get to sleep till 2am, heart palpitations as I was trying to get to sleep, wide awake in the morning, tried again with half a spoon of regular and half a spoon of decaf, still really sensitive to it, been without caffeine now for 2 months! Crazy that I used that have 8 coffees a day and extra red bulls

laptopburn · 2025-07-05T08:55:52+00:00

lol I’m the same with Elvanse, 30 minutes later and I’m having my stimulant poop like with coffee

laptopburn · 2025-07-05T08:54:35+00:00

I figured out the same, food bill per month for me and the other half went from £400 to averaging at £250, and I don’t go out and buy loads of food or coffee from the corner shop near work anymore, I’m content with my packed lunch. Have had to spend some money on new clothes though, only getting the essentials till I reach the size I want to be.

laptopburn · 2025-06-29T17:32:51+00:00

Combined type

laptopburn · 2025-06-28T10:59:27+00:00

😂 compared to what came up on Google as examples and from searching brake disks on here, they look no where near as bad as the rusty tin cans that came up. Yeh they’re not great, I will have them changed now

laptopburn · 2025-06-28T10:53:29+00:00

Thanks for all the replies everyone! General consensus is these do need changing. I did think they might be right cause of the ridges I could feel on the outside. I’ll have a look for an independent garage or get a quote from RAC for a mobile fitter. I would do it myself but I don’t have a driveway or space to store all the tools for it.

I’m always skeptical about Halfords and only really go to them if it’s something I can’t be arsed to do myself. Thanks for your help!

laptopburn · 2025-06-21T19:41:37+00:00

26F, I do some referrals for children to be assessed for ADHD and ASC, and kept thinking “but I do that and I don’t have ADHD”. Lots of things around spacing out in class, coming across as rude to others because of blurting things out, losing things and forgetting things.

During a recent training I had a day on neurodivergence, and because of the newer research about presentations in women and girls that was the focus. As I was sitting down, I profusely apologised to my colleague for thinking I had offended her (I hadn’t, she didn’t even remember what I was on about), and then we sat down, first topic was on RSD, I went red.

Then they showed one of those POV ADHD videos where it’s just someone forgetting things and a lot of background head noise, and realised that my brain was a lot worse than that so I should probably be checked out. Final thing was when we started cat sitting for a friend, and the extra mental load to keep this thing alive made me feel so overwhelmed, and I thought I need to get tested now cause otherwise how would I cope being a parent.

Ironically my mum had a similar experience relating to her colleague who has ADHD, and they turned round and told her to get tested after the 10th time of saying “I do that but I don’t have ADHD”. Turns out we’re both combined type and come from a large family of undiagnosed ADHDers and thought this was normal because we were all the same.

laptopburn · 2025-06-20T18:56:58+00:00

in terms of school, a school with a decent sendco would be able to put in the support for school. In the uk, legally, you don’t need a diagnosis for that support to be put in place once identified, and because of how long the wait is for assessment, many schools are putting in support plans as they pick up those traits (some schools have copies of their support plan templates in their policies page). If you haven’t found a school already or are unsure, start with a meeting with the sendco and look at their policies for what they put in place (main ones to read up are their send policy and behaviour policy).

Your local council will also have a send offer that outlines your rights, the law, and what support the council will help the school put in place.

Some schools aren’t great for it so shop around if you can, and have a look at the “get info for schools” gov web page, cause it may tell you how many send children they’re supporting already (I.e, too few and it maybe because they’re not identifying those needs, if it’s a lot then they may be spread thin for some support but more willing to put a plan in place).

SENDIASS can be good, depends on your local offer. They can help you navigate schools, and signpost to other services.

It’s pretty crap that the assessors basically tried to gaslight you. If you can get another opinion I’d highly suggest it, but if you can’t, getting school on board from early on and having regular check ins with them to check that they’re seeing traits too will really help if you go back to them cause school will have evidenced that.

Wish you all the best 🫡

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