What’s your “cup of tea”? (Or your “cup of joe”?)

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firebush03 said:

curl-6 said:

When you have ADHD, stimulants like caffeine level you out and help you focus; ADHD meds are like super, super strong coffee and help regulate our brains.

I'm hoping to get meds soon as without it, its almost impossible to initiate/stick with tasks or get anything done. I need a stupidly strong coffee to be productive at all.

Interesting… would’ve never thought. The more you know! I’ve actually got the opposite of ADHD, funnily enough— I don’t like publicly share what I’ve got, but I’ve already PM’d you about it. I get sensory overload super easily. Interestingly caffeine has never exacerbated nor lessened my symptoms, though the metabolism boost certainly helps me not pass out from being overwhelmed without enough calories.

(Also p.s. not that it’s any of my business what you do with your life, and feel free to totally disregard if you disagree, but just some of my two cents on what my experience has been: Meds are only good as a short-term crutch. They never last. CBT and/or acceptance therapy has been key to my coping with having such a different brain, and if you’ve got a formal diagnosis, it should be 90% covered by insurance. At least that’s how it works with my disorder.)

I've tried CBT, it helped a little, but ultimately I found meds were necessary for me to function without being absolutely crippled by anxiety.

I tend to look at it the same way as physical illness; no different than a paraplegic needing a wheelchair or a diabetic needing insulin, if my brain has a chemical imbalance I don't see a problem with medically correcting this. Just my experience and two cents.