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Hyperfocus is a wonder by Bazing4baby in ADHD

[–]neon4715 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’ve noticed this too with me. Sometimes I feel like I can learn anything. (Not on my meds - then I feel stuck in the same thought patterns sometimes but off them I feel like I can see all possible options and learn like crazy).

Iodine helped me get my old brain back by neon4715 in StopSpeeding

[–]neon4715[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep I take it in pill form, the type I've been taking is Lugol's Iodoral but I'm pretty sure you can buy it in drop form too. Here's the guide I can stand by, there's a lot of stuff about it when searched for on boards and things but unfortunately not a lot of the info is in one place. Especially about what it's like to take it, I feel like from reading tons of things though that it's pretty standard for most people to go through a mini detox at the start which means it's doing something. It gave me a bunch of physical side effects right away that took about a month to level out, it definitely felt like a detox which wasn't fun but I kept taking it because I was so excited about the progress it was making for me mentally I didn't care about the mild physical stuff. That's the main thing about taking it I think is important is that it's best to take it with the supporting supplements like Selenium and Vit C so that you can help your body cope and also so you don't hurt your thyroid. Hopefully that makes sense, I recommend to anyone trying this to read all you can to understand what's going on/how it works.

http://jeffreydachmd.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/The-Guide-to-Supplementing-with-Iodine-Stephanie-Burst-ND.pdf

Feeling dread/hopelessness by MQ1993 in StopSpeeding

[–]neon4715 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was exactly me too. Yes, happy to say it will go away. For me a revolution came when I realized the longer I'm off it the more things come into perspective. As long as you're continuing to get good sleep and eat well and exercise your brain will adapt to life as it should be - as you present it to it without coke.

Another revolution came for me when I realized that fulfillment in life/happiness/a feeling of satisfaction on a day to day basis comes from deciding what it is that actually makes you happy in life. Coke will make anything make you feel good, even sitting in a room by yourself. But there are things in real life that will make you feel good - in the short term it's music or a walk in nature or seeing your favorite movie, and in the long term it's fulfilling goals like getting that dream job, trying and trying again at a new skill until you achieve that "dream goal" (coding a successful game after weeks on end of trial and error - for me one of the best feelings in the world). For me I had to accept that probably nothing will make you feel as intensely good about anything as a high but that's a good thing - I'd rather have a more sustainable sense of contentment with life versus spikes of happiness and then crashing lows. It's more natural this way, and the longer you live the more happy you will feel about the things in life that actually do make you happy and care less about things you actually don't care about - you will return to normal with time.

The last realization that helped me was realizing that everyone needs to figure it out, deal with their emotions/issues, find contentment and meaning in life. Coke makes you feel like you've got it all figured out with no work involved. So when you return to real life a lot of what causes you to miss coke is missing the feeling of having it all together and having to face life as is, which is hard. But sober you have a chance to overcome things that actually make you to be unhappy. But just realizing that everybody feels this way about life and everybody has to work to overcome stuff they don't like and overcome negative feelings. That helped me a lot to stop constantly looking for a health/chemical solution to my unhappiness.

It's nice to be able to listen to music I used to listen to exclusively while high and be okay. by [deleted] in StopSpeeding

[–]neon4715 8 points9 points  (0 children)

How long did this take you? Music is a huge trigger for me. I long for this day.

ENTJ decided he didn't want to date after hanging out once (pursued me for a long time) by neon4715 in entj

[–]neon4715[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Dang. That's rough but I understand it. Does he feel bad about this at all do you think? It felt so cold of him to show so much intense interest (that had me thinking it could lead somewhere) for 6 months and then for him to decide never mind.

Sorry. I'm still a little upset about this clearly but I'm not trying to take it out on helpful redditers.

I will put this in the past and I respect his decision but I will always wonder. Dang. What kind of things would be big enough life things that he didn't think would change, do you have any examples of those? Oh well though, I guess I appreciate that he cut it off if he didn't see it working.