An old rancher once told me “Always eat your dessert first”, and I’ve lived by that ever since.
I cannot start rewarding myself before starting. I at least need to get started first. Granted i usually reward myself with beer and weed so that could be a factor
Just switch to pony beers and shake, it’s like eating Snackwells instead of actual good cookies.
(I don’t know what “shake” means in this context.)
“Shake” is scraps of cannabis plants left behind after processing it for consumption (trimming). It’s less pleasant to smoke and contains less THC than the main bud, so it gets sold off in bulk or reprocessed into concentrates.
I feel seen.
I misread this as erectile dysfunction and was super concerned about the solutions.
Well, one of the non stimulant adhd meds gave me light ED while I took it
I can see guanfacine doing this, as it lowers blood pressure.
I did try guanfacine, but it was actually the atomoxetine that did it. Can’t remember if it occurred with the 25mg, but for sure did with the 40mg
Thanks for sharing that. The guaf is helping me now, no side effects noted. It’s pulling double duty for my BP as well. Only concern is that I think it was making me drowsy for the first month or so.
That’s great it’s working. None of the non stimulants worked for me unfortunately. Atomoxetine gave me some euphoria for a couple days and then some ED later on. Guanfacine had no effect that I noticed. I’ve been on lisdexamfetamine for over a year now and it has been going great. I started on 25?mg, upped to 40mg, and then to 60mg which is where I’m at. It started with a couple days of euphoria, especially the first day. The dose kept getting upped because I wasn’t sure if it was working, but I think it was because being medicated became my new normal. It was noticeable that it was working when I didn’t take a dose :P. I think I’m more prone to binge eat when I miss a dose, more likely to be overwhelmed and become frantic. My wife asks me if I took my medicine when I don’t, she’s never asked on a day where I did take it, so it is pretty noticeable to her. My blood pressure is on the border of elevated, so I wonder if a lower mg would be fine, at some point I might try, but currently I have switched from regular coffee to decaf
Guaf took over a month to start working. It’s a very even keel kind of thing. It was less an instant fix and more a realization that I seem to have shit together.
The guaf is also with Concerta XR, and it helps counterbalance the stimulant effect.
Put your cock 15 minutes ahead.
I did but always came too early
Bravo
10/10
I’m sorry.
“The hat man”? What in the sleep paralysis demon is that?
The hat man is a common hallucination of a shadowy man with a wide brim hat experienced in psychosis. I know about it cause it’s commonly reported by people who take too much dxm or people on multi-day no-sleep stimulant binges.
It’s just a form of pareidolia, your brain just trying to make sense of dark shadows in your room in its forced twilight. It’s pretty much a meme.
is knowing about the hatman required for you to see it during psychosis?
I think you end up seeing any vaguely humanoid figure and if you know about it you attribute it to being hat man.
Obviously, the man you imagine pointing a gun at you to get work done.
They didn’t teach you this motivational device in school? Clearly, you went to a public school.
Anyone have any clarification on what “pretend the hat man is pointing a gun at you” means? I’ve never heard that phrase before.
Is the hat man the guy people see when they abuse
cough syrupBenadryl?I thought he was the sleep paralysis demon
Only advice that has ever worked for me is to set micro-goals for the start of tasks.
Like, stupidly easy goals. Got a paper to write? The goal is to open a new document and type 3 words. Need to go work out? Do 1 push up. Need to clean your room? Put one shirt in the laundry hamper, or take 1 dish to the sink.
That’s it. Stupidly easy. Not feeling it after that? Cool, you already hit your goal. But momentum is a hell of a thing. The majority of the time, I’ll just keep going, precisely because the micro-goals was so easy.
3 words done? Ok that took no time at all. Might as well finish the sentence, maybe even a whole paragraph.
1 push up? I’m already down on the floor, why not do another? Or 10?
I could grab just 1 shirt, or just 1 dish; but I could carry more at the same time. Might as well.
You don’t need to trick your brain into doing the whole task, you just need to trick your brain into starting the task. Momentum will take care of the rest. And on the times that it doesn’t? Well, again, that’s fine. You met your goal already. You don’t HAVE to keep going. That can be enough for now.
My problem is when I switch into “doing shit mode” my brain fucking pingpongs between doing all the shit, so I’ll work one one thing for like 10 minutes, realize I need to do something else, switch to that, and so on. Which does mean I make progress… but still not a lot gets actually done unless I have some kind of huge breakthrough on something that gives me enough juice to focus on it because I can see the finish line.
I use this trick when I have projects in the garage I need to work on. Don’t feel like working on it? Well I’ll just go stand in the garage for a bit. Next thing I know I’ve been working on it for three hours and I need to force myself to take a break to go eat.
Ngl, within the pharmacology thing because they keep changing shit literally every year there’s never an exact treatment. Next year autism could have a level 4 or a 2 1/2 because of symptoms people notice woo-hoo treatment plans will change and then you might not be able to get the same treatment you currently have now because insurance will want you to be diagnosed with a lower level of autism and you’ll be shit out of luck.
Or you could be like me who’s being treated for autism with medical cannabis and you’re 33 and you don’t have a psychiatrist and you have really bad adhd but no one will treat you for the adhd because of the cannabis.
I mean honestly some days I wish I could fucking die because if I was being treated I would be able to focus on a lot more than I am now and I’d probably be where I want to be financially or at least feel stable in life.
Oh well, I better put on that reward system and bake some cookies and whenever I do a fuckin’ good job I should just eat a fuckin’ cookie kind like how I used to smoke cigarettes and whenever I did a good job I’d smoke a cigarette.
Come on we try it. It ends up in addiction or fooling ourselves. 🤦🏻♂️
Or you could be like me who’s being treated for autism with medical cannabis and you’re 33 and you don’t have a psychiatrist and you have really bad adhd but no one will treat you for the adhd because of the cannabis.
i’m not trying to one-up you, but chronic pain is really fun when your cannabis doesn’t cut it too. i’ve given myself finger quotes adhd as a coping method for that.
Tmj, sciatica, shoulder pain. Muscle relaxers for the tmj sciatica is part of odd fusing and tmj is stress induced. Shoulders are just naturally fucked from being lanky.
Ibuprofen is a friend 😑
I have the fatal butt disease so I only get to take that when I have a sunburn. Speaking of which, this is legally not medical advice but a dermatologist told me once that when you geta sunburn, the damage is from inflamed skin. So if you take like 600mg ibuprofen (a low prescription dose) and slather on another round of sunscreen as soon as you notice yourself burning, you don’t burn. Still gotta watch for the fatal skin disease tho.
That’s the only occasion I allow myself to take nsaids (outside of naproxen for migraines, other story). My doctors are amazed I’m still alive.
When I was a kid I had a hart time slanting my cursive writing. My teacher told me to just slant the paper, so I kept turning it more and more until it was fully sideways, still writing upright because I adjusted to the angle. After days of this my teacher cried “Just write angled letters!” and I went “Oh!” and was able to do it perfectly from then on.
Anyway I guess my point is different stuff works for different people.
Did we ever find out why cursive was recommended to be slanted? I’d mostly forgotten that was a thing and now it seems stupid. Probably one person thought it looked better that way and people did it to seem fancy. A lot of grammar “rules” started from one person’s preferences so this might’ve been the same.
I know if I try to write cursive straight up and down it looks very jagged.
Makes it easier for right handed people to write legibly. At least that was the reason we were taught back in the late '80s when I was learning cursive. Doesn’t help us lefties since we just smudge the damn writing.
the hat man owes me money.
ain’t seen that pissbaby in yearsshit. i’ve been sitting here needing to shower and wanting to play my video game after my shower for… hours now.
I think this is good advice and creating fake urgency is nothing but destructive for many. But then again we’re all different and the clock setting techniques may be the perfect fit for many others. The most important thing is that you try things and if you try something that doesn’t work, most of the time you can’t just try again harder to make it work. That will eventually break you.
No, the important thing is that we never ask ourselves why we have to do all these things we don’t want to do.
Instructions unclear, am fat now.
Instructions unclear, am high functioning alcoholic/stoner now
Top shelf book recommendation, actually sounds like an interesting cleaning self-help book
Ymmv but for those of you who put your clocks ahead (but automatically adjust the tine in your head), try putting them behind. Knowing it’s slow may cause a bit more urgency.
My cortisol gland just started revving up when I read that
I found that putting them set exactly to the second to the atomic clock forces me to mentally create buffer time and get places on time.
Setting the clocks ahead gave me a mental assumption of “don’t worry you always have extra time !” And I imagine that setting them all behind would similarly lead me to disregard the reality of the clock.
But setting it precisely on time lets me know that this is real, there are no tricks going on, and I alone have to plan for enough time to do stuff or be places
I have a jar of dope and a jar of anime girl thighs. Would one of you science wizards help me turn this into dopamine?
