Edit: Hopping off for the night. I'll answer any questions y'all post when I wake up

Edit 2: I'm back

    • TheBroodian [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      I don't know if it will help you any or not comrade, but you deserve to enjoy a video game. Nobody has the right to rob you of some relaxing recreation. And you wouldn't be hurting anybody by spending some time with Kim Kitsurage

    • crime [she/her, any]
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      3 years ago

      Feel free to not answer of course, but have you ever looked into whether or not you have ADHD?

      I thought I was just afflicted with Protestant work ethic disorder for a long time because of that exact experience, but I did a little more digging and turns out that's just cause my brain's reward centers are fucky so I get stuck scrolling even when I want to do something else. Now I get to make an insurance company buy me amphetamines to take every morning

        • crime [she/her, any]
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          3 years ago

          Hahaha yeah that's pretty much exactly my experience, I've got a great memory which allowed me to compensate grade-wise for never doing homework or studying in grade school, and that procrastination-allnighters-burnout cycle kept me going through college. I finally got diagnosed during the pandemic since the constant WFH was

          Totally get the time/funds thing though, that kept me from starting the diagnosis process for quite awhile. If you're ever in a spot where you've got the means and are thinking about getting one but need a hand getting started with, it def feel free to @ me, super happy to share my experiences with it. For me it was a lot easier to jump through all the hoops they put in front of treatment for "can't jump through hoops disorder" once I knew what the process was