After heavily relating to an ADHD meme that i saw here, I am now scared that I might have ADHD. I don't have any idea how I'd go about getting a diagnosis as an adult who didn't really have issues in school as a child.
I saw this article posted in this comm, and it seems to have decent advice. Anyone actually follow it here? Especially the adding structure bit?
I usually run away from structuring myself because it's too intimidating and I usually fall off the wagon. Anyone got any tips for being more organized with tasks and bigger projects/long term goals?
I think I mostly figured out the first point of "getting over your inner critic", but I feel like I need help getting through the other parts in the article, and it seems like organization/planning is crucial to that.
Someone the other day was trying to tell me that a ketogenic diet can reduce ADHD symptoms. I am skeptical.
keto people by and large think it's magic
like the freezing cold shower people
Depends on the keto people. /r/keto is a fucking cult, but the underlying research is pretty promising. My least favorite thing about being on keto was guilt by association with those fucks; not even getting weird looks from coworkers for ordering a salad or a burger with no bun and -- *gasp* -- broccoli instead of greased taters, or having to argue with my wife and kid because I just wanted to throw together something simple on the grill. (Obligatory :grillman:)
Whatever, it kept me out of type 2 diabetes territory for a while without having to deal with paying for meds mostly out of pocket due to a health insurance plan with an absurd deductible.
Speaking from experience, it does help a little bit. It's not because "mUh MaGiC kEtOnEs" or whatever bullshit the :reddit-logo: /r/keto cultists will chime in with, but it's more due to having a stable, regulated blood glucose level. In order to stay in ketosis, you have to keep your blood sugar below a specific point to essentially trick your body into preferring fat stores over sugars or protein as your primary energy/glycogen source (hence the low carb component of the diet). This means that you don't have the same magnitude of post-meal blood sugar spike and crash that you would on a glycemic diet, so your brain feels a lot more stable overall. For ADHD, that means one less factor to impede your executive function.
It's neither a magic bullet nor a replacement for meds, but my decline has been really fucking bad since going off keto during the pandemic.