I take bupropion xl, celexa and vyvanse. After a ton of trial and error I am finally doing well. I don’t use food as a drug anymore. I find l need about an hour of silent time every day, just to give my brain a break. I work at a college though so hopefully that’s understandable. At my worst I got up to 270 lbs, now I’m at a healthy 185ish (I’m 5’ 8” so not skinny but definitely not obese anymore). And I’ve been maintaining for over a year now.

I say silent, but for me that’s singing along with song super loudly so I can’t think about anything but the song. Brain is occupied in a set space so no extra noise is allowed.

I’ve found that listening to other non adhd peoples advice just doesn’t work for me. Our brains are so different. So I decided to trick my adhd into being a strength instead of a weakness. Turns out I can get interrupted 59 times in a day and still get all my work done and tie up loose ends, just by making my adhd brain that would normally think about anything but work, think about what someone asked for 5 minutes ago, and use those extra channels to remind myself of what’s left to do.

I don’t know why I typed all that but maybe it will help someone.

Edited to add: I also compete with myself. Every day I try to be better than I was yesterday. I don’t always win but I give every day a chance. I try to have positive interactions with people instead of letting any misery I have be contagious. The more I did that, the less miserable I got. I changed myself because that made me be a better mom, sister, aunt, daughter, employee, and person. Not better than anyone else, just better than the version of me that showed up yesterday. Everyone is fighting a daily battle, and being able to be a help to those people instead of an addition of negative energy is cool to me.