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
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
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
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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