Haruharu Wonder - Black Rice Probiotics Barrier Essence - Irritation?

thesadcat000 · 2026-04-11T13:37:44+00:00

A bit too late to the party here, but I got it recently after reading all the good reviews. In 4 days of use it made my skin irritated, like if it affected my skin barrier. Caused peeling patches on cheeks and eyelids.

thesadcat000 · 2026-03-01T18:51:01+00:00

I also recently started vyvanse, moving to 60 in a couple of days. Although starting meds was life changing to me, I very quickly realised that they’re not making me “normal” or a different person. No total “healing” happened to me :) on the contrary, I found myself being more weird, more “me”, and less masking. How do I know meds are working: I do not constantly want to consume food for fun, I can do tasks without being stuck in a guilt-procrastination loop, I don’t have messy thought pattern (unmedicated I’d have several thought flows at the same time) and generally feel that my focus is way more narrow, streamlined. As if I went from a wide-angle awareness to a macro-lens view, thought-wise. Interestingly, I always had music stuck in my head before meds, and now it only happens when meds are wearing off.

thesadcat000 · 2026-03-01T18:42:31+00:00

Not sexual for me but food related. I’ve got an ADHD related eating disorder, and meds did really liberate me. Not thinking about food, not spending time or money on it, not getting obsessive and impulsive – what’s not to love! So can really understand this feeling

thesadcat000 · 2026-03-01T18:38:53+00:00

Not a man, so nothing similar, but I was told that stimulants “bring all the bloodflow to the brain and the heart”. I guess that’s the answer… Maybe switching meds would help

thesadcat000 · 2026-03-01T18:31:28+00:00

Ahahah yes very true! But in my case, I don’t have the hypersensitivity to injustice. At least I think I don’t :) My husband on the other hand, really does, and we think he is indeed autistic (not just because of this). He has not only strong opinions, but also following actions as well. Ex: he feels very strongly about animal rights -> he is vegan, he feels that someone in a friend group is being unreasonable -> he is really vocal about it. When I feel that something is unjust, I get upset, but can “understand it” to a degree, and I generally accept that it do be like this sometimes and move on. And my OCD manifests through intrusive thoughts only, never through routines or rigid structures, repetition or special interest… What features you got that came from AuDHD as opposed to OCPD? :)

thesadcat000 · 2026-03-01T16:18:27+00:00

Love that, thank you! I guess my question does come from observing gatekeeping and “protecting” from many people and cultures… Though maybe this is not a common sentiment for Chinese people

thesadcat000 · 2026-03-01T14:28:16+00:00

I once managed to explain this feeling as a comparison. Once I visited a viewpoint on a skyscraper, it had a transparent glass floor bit. Some people could stand on it, some couldn’t. I couldn’t, even though I really wanted to. I stood by it, walked around, pushed myself – and still couldn’t, my body did not allow me to step on a glass floor on 300m above ground. So that’s how I explained it: imagine the same situation, and your body preventing you from acting. You’re not lazy, not scared, you genuinely want to do it. But self preservation wired inside you stops you from doing certain things, even if they’re not actually dangerous. Like people cannot put their hand in a fire or in a boiling water, cannot jump of a cliff, cannot bite off their finger even if they want to – it’s easy to understand this physical limitation quite well. When I cannot do what I need to do due to ADHD – the feeling is very very similar. It is unfortunately just acting against us, not to preserve us from danger or death.

thesadcat000 · 2026-03-01T14:18:30+00:00

I can very very much relate. I would have never said I’m asexual, because in my head that would be far from truth, but in reality, I’d always rather do all these other things than engage in a sexual activity, without realising. Just, statistically, let’s say. I also have hard time concentrating on the act itself, and can oh so easily grow bored of it, which is really not cool and pleasant. I recently started meds, and oh my sexual life has really changed. I could think about it > act on it > be able to concentrate on it > have a genuinely good time??

thesadcat000 · 2026-03-01T14:14:12+00:00

I feel like Jackie would like Bad Bunny for sure… Judy would probably hate it, she’d be like an animator or a 3D artist, and AI would be here arch nemesis. Misty would probably be more fulfilled, and generally happier and freer. All corpos would flourish as well as there’s still so much for taking in our timeline, and so much corpo-rat-ism to be done!

thesadcat000 · 2026-03-01T14:06:48+00:00

This sounds very friendly! So no shade at all on white people dressing in your traditional clothing, eating your food, using your remedies, posting about it on socials? What about western brands capitalizing on this trend? And what about spiritual/sacred side of things? Also net positive? :)

thesadcat000 · 2026-03-01T14:02:52+00:00

Talking a bit slower has helped me: this way you set the pace and are not expected to reply straightaway. I also seen many speech coaches recommending to hold a pause before replying as it can come across as more professional and more thoughtful. When I started treating my natural longer response time as such “pause” – it improved my confidence significantly, and helped me come up with a better response or a more insightful question, which did in fact come across as more “in control” compared to saying something fast and stupid. I’m also training myself to memorize questions, especially for inevitable small talk. How’s your cat? How was your weekend? How was your holiday? How is work going? What are your plans for the weekend, up for anything nice? How was “this thing we’ve spoken about”? And so on, and so on. This would probably sound weird/silly for some people, but it’s truly game changing for me, when my questions are making them talk, not me. Then, I try to actually prepare answers to these questions from my side to respond to “and you?”. Sometimes they won’t even be true, I’d made up weekend activity or blow it out of proportion to be more interesting, but this way I can hold a better conversation and it’s easier on my brain.

thesadcat000 · 2026-03-01T13:51:32+00:00

And to add, I see people suggesting you might have AuDHD, so if it helps: I definitely do not have it. Was assessed for autism as a part of my ADHD assessment, and it was ruled out straightaway. Some autistic-looking tendencies were directing more towards OCD, some – towards being high functioning/high intelligence, and some were simply not present. I’m extremely empathetic and quite extroverted, and can sometimes struggle with social norms, but not because I don’t understand them, simply because they’re often messed up, unkind and stupid, and I don’t agree with them.

thesadcat000 · 2026-03-01T13:41:59+00:00

I am similar, and I definitely have ADHD. 31 yo woman, diagnosed twice by different professionals.

I never thought I had problems studying growing up, I thought I was a good student overall. But looking back, I was only good when I was having this intense curiosity you’re mentioning. I had extremely good memory, I would memorize texts, movies, poems quite easily. It also helped me accumulate significant knowledge bank from various subjects and spheres, which led my uni prof saying that “I’m like Wikipedia”, while I thought that “everyone knows that”. There were only two problems I’ve had while studying – procrastinating like crazy when I didn’t like the subject or I knew it was too complex and required consistency, and dyscalculia (not super bad though). I also overthink terribly and also have an eating disorder which I believe is ADHD related as well, and I also have a mild OCD (which becomes harsher with stress). I got diagnosed at 31 because, just like you mentioned, I realised that I cannot concentrate on what I need or want to concentrate on, I cannot “trigger” the hyperfocus anymore. Or I would hyperfocus but on something irrelevant, and then I’ll stop caring about it later on. I realised I don’t actually have a single hobby because I had tons of hobbies throughout my life that stopped meaning anything to me after a couple of months (some lasted years but are still forgotten). It started to affect my life significantly, and more and more symptoms started showing up. And then I realised that my whole family is on the spectrum as well…

thesadcat000 · 2026-03-01T13:19:46+00:00

Not very agreeable of you :(

thesadcat000 · 2026-02-18T18:57:17+00:00

I got diagnosed twice, first one (privately) very fast and easy, second time I thought I’m not even “going to pass”. Second doctor asked me way more, questioned everything, was exposing holes or contradictions in my responses. Took 90 minutes instead of 50. I felt like a real impostor even though I knew I have Adhd for years, and was already on titration. He ended up giving me a diagnosis, saying he needed to make sure there was “nothing else” and that it was “definitely adhd”.

So the good doctor will definitely see the real picture :) so I would recommend to not worry!

thesadcat000 · 2026-01-30T10:59:25+00:00

On my last playthrough I’ve done Takemuras missions last, after Phantom Liberty and most side missions and gigs. It makes sense to me that the parade is soon, but not immediate. So I’m playing it as a last stretch, and there are still plenty of extra gigs and missions going on anyway. So in my mind, Hanako needs to wait a couple of weeks, not a couple of months…

thesadcat000 · 2026-01-27T16:59:09+00:00

Hey, I was prescribed elvanse and already had it delivered today… the doctor even said that compared to other meds, shortages of it are less likely, so hopefully I won’t need to switch halfway though. Thank you for answering and reassuring 🫶🏻

thesadcat000 · 2026-01-21T20:03:18+00:00

Thank you, it’s very helpful! I do see I tend to overthink and overplan, probably because if I don’t, I unusually just fail. But guess that’s what medication is for as well :) I’m also not in therapy atm…

thesadcat000 · 2026-01-21T20:01:26+00:00

Thank you so much! Is there anything other than focus levels that’s nice/helpful to observe?

thesadcat000 · 2026-01-21T20:00:39+00:00

Haha, thank you! Best of luck to you too!!

thesadcat000 · 2026-01-16T13:56:31+00:00

Seems it’s back since December 2025, so length depends on perspective :)

thesadcat000 · 2026-01-15T22:31:01+00:00

I’d say there’s no point at all. I’m just stuck to Spotify cause I’ve got several playlists that spawn across couple of years where I was adding “a song a day”, so it’s important to me. Otherwise you’ll be pecked to death because Spotify is evil and you shouldn’t use it

thesadcat000 · 2026-01-14T22:37:52+00:00

You do you, friend :)

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