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[Anonymous No.20113824]

I'm 99% sure I have ADHD. Any advice on how to focus on reading and studying for extended periods of time?

[Anonymous No.20113832]

[Anonymous No.20113836]

Was the other offtopic ADHD thread not good enough for you?
Also, I don't know, exercise, get sunlight, socialize. Get some goypills as a absolute last resort. I'm on goypills right now. It's not fun but they do their job.

[Anonymous No.20113896]

>>20113824
Read stolen focus by Johann Hari and the ultramind solution

Learn meditation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixxMyjejn38

[Anonymous No.20113921]

>>20113836
have you done research on the pills? I think I have it too, but I am scared that they will fuck me up longterm or change my personality.

[Anonymous No.20113935]

>>20113824
Probably just internet addiction and low attention span. Practice by reading 15-20 minutes at a time and extend from there

[Anonymous No.20113950]

>>20113824
put something on in the background, like a podcast etc, on low.

[Anonymous No.20113955]

Read text along with audiobook without attempting to process every single word. It's okay to pause and go back just don't overdo it.

[Anonymous No.20113961]

>>20113935
>along
*aloud

[Anonymous No.20113965]

>>20113955
>along
*aloud

[Anonymous No.20114064]

>>20113824
Stimulants. I stopped reading for 8 years and only now, on drugs, am I able to do it again. Reading has even supplanted video games and tv for me, it's really great

[Anonymous No.20114077]

I’m 99% sure OP is a faggot.

[Anonymous No.20114078]

>>20113832
Inattentive ADHD is the most awful thing in the world. If your executive dysfunction and dopamine levels are low enough, you begin questioning whether you have free will to do anything at all

[Anonymous No.20114129]

>>20113921
>have you done research on the pills?
Yes. I'm taking Lisdexamfetamine. All of the studies I found demonstrated rare, moderate side effects at worst, and were conducted a way larger dosage than I'm taking, and were administered over a much longer period than I intend to take it.

[Anonymous No.20114168]

>>20113824
These are problems that most people today relate to, to some extent

[Anonymous No.20114331]

>>20114078
Sounds literally (not figuratively) like me, a lot of the time I just think I'm retarded and that seems to be the impression I give to other people so maybe its true.

[Anonymous No.20114430]

>>20113824
ADHD in 99% of cases isn't even real. It's just that overuse of the TV, internet etc. has made it seem like you need to be hyper stimulated 24/7. Do a dopamine fast.

[Anonymous No.20114568]

>>20113824
Lmao this is literally Barnum effect bullshit, don't fall for the meme.

[Anonymous No.20114638]

>>20113824
>A diagnosis is a long, in-depth procedure, ruling out other possible causes!
Absolute horse manure

>Many symptoms can overlap with other physical or mental health issues.
IE: Other culturally appropriate ways of defining your neuroticism include titles such as ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, TRAUMA, LOW IQ, INSECURE ATTACHMENT, SEROTONIN DEFICIENCY, PLACEBO or just about WHATEVER.

It's all a ruse to make you a loyal, obedient slave, whilst paying for the privelege. You're essentially paying a fucking science priest to absolve you of your sins. Why?

Go back to monke anon and consider what is actually important in life.

t. child psychologist

[Anonymous No.20114787]

>>20113824
ADHD IS NOT REAL

Thou are slothful and foolish.

[Anonymous No.20114900]

>>20114787
Sadly there’s not much I can do about the foolish part so the delusion makes feel better.

[Anonymous No.20115535]

>>20114638
>>20114787
>>20114331
>>20113935
>>20113896
>>20113824
Anons are right here, the “disorder” you have developed is due to you’re unconscious rejection to human nature.
The further one strays from human nature, the more disharmonious and unhealthy they become physically and mentally. This is the simple reason for the “mental illness crisis” today.
It is in our unique nature as humans to seek for meaning in life.
Faith can be described as a loving confidence in some cosmic order. When we replace serious spiritual faith and contemplation with pleasures and material collecting, we are pursuing animalistic sensations and ignoring a vital aspect to being human and neurosis and degeneration will form.
Other necessary ways to cultivate human vitality naturally are eating real nutritious food (this has become increasingly difficult), being proud part of a community, unconditionally love, physically exerting your body to a point of soreness, getting sun, and stimulating or exceed using the mind.
The modern reason of why so many people today have no attention span or neurotic behavior is in fact due to the modern outlook of existence.
There are wholistic nature ways to regain confidence and security of the mind.
An easy (even for a short attention span) book to read that you may relate to and find insightful is Leave Society by Tao Lin. He did a lot of research in coming to similar conclusions to what I have and references the books he read to get there. I would recommend something exploring a compelling religion to you afterward as I don’t think his view of the mystical is ideal.

[Anonymous No.20116632]

>>20114064
>>20114129
>>20113836
How have the goypills affected your libido
I've been on them for a year I think and my libido is 100% gone

[Anonymous No.20116712]

>>20114787
Ignorant take. ADHD is real, in layman's terms it's essentially just a different way of thinking which is difficult to integrate into modern society.
The way I had it described to me is that most people think forwards and backwards, while people with ADHD think laterally.

[Anonymous No.20116735]

>>20116632
>I've been on them for a year
Which ones? Dex? Lisdex?

[Anonymous No.20116770]

>>20116735
Adderall

[Anonymous No.20117141]

>>20116712
>ADHD is real, in layman's terms it's essentially just a different way of thinking which is difficult to integrate into modern society.
aka stupid

[Anonymous No.20117144]

>>20115535
Thanks anon I heard that book before. I’ll check it.

[Anonymous No.20117145]

>>20113824
>IT'S JUST LAYZINESS, GET OVER IT FAGGOT.
>IT'S JUST LAYZINESS, GET OVER IT FAGGOT.
>IT'S JUST LAYZINESS, GET OVER IT FAGGOT.
>IT'S JUST LAYZINESS, GET OVER IT FAGGOT.
>IT'S JUST LAYZINESS, GET OVER IT FAGGOT.
>IT'S JUST LAYZINESS, GET OVER IT FAGGOT.

[Anonymous No.20117501]

everyone under 25 who spends more than a few hours per day on internet has ADHD.
ADHD is the new normal, and I fucking hate how some people try to make it a significant part of their personality

[Anonymous No.20117533]

>>20113824
they should rename adhd to the scrooler disorder

[Anonymous No.20117583]

>>20114430
A dopamine fast is setting OP up for failure and is a dumb fad; life style changes like cutting out overly stimulating things can help, but, with consideration for follow through, it has to be slowly and in what may seem like an insignificant way at first. Incremental changes.
>>20114568
An actual diagnoses of ADHD requires symptoms to be present in childhood, scrutiny over other potential causes is given, and, because it's treated with a controlled substance, often requires extensive and well established psychiatric evaluation. If OP thinks he may have ADHD, it can only be helpful for him to get tested and not just assume he doesn't have it because he'd be "falling for the meme."
>>20115535
There's absolutely no reason to believe that pre-modern people were any less miserable or sick than people are now. It's a cope. While faith, community, exercise, and proper eating can definitely help attention span, so can medication and a diagnoses if OP has ADHD.
>>20116632
I've been taking Lisdexamfetamine (Vyvanse) for about 4 years, and my libido functions fine. >>20117141
IQ and ADHD have absolutely no connection, and intellectual disability is even test for during diagnosis.


I have ADHD, it's something you have throughout your entire life, and is just a term to describe a genetic and cognitive trait related to inattentiveness and/ or hyperactivity. For some it's a meme and for others it's an accurate and useful label to better define the challenges personal to a genetic disposition. If you think you have it, get tested. All the anons saying it's fake are coping with their own inability to get shit done and projecting. We get legal and societally accepted speed like true ubermensch when we can't read, while they have to struggle focus all because of their own undoing.

[Anonymous No.20118243]

>>20117583
Man in white coat wants to sell me pills! He wrote it on his clipboard, it’s real!
We can see that eating processed foods causes organ inflammation and this has a connection to neurosis and autism, this is useful science. But prescribing an unnatural substance to counter it will not solve the issue, just make moments of relief. This is quack science made for marketing. Problems caused by modernity cannot be solved by modernity. Mental illness is only coincides with societal progress

[Anonymous No.20118264]

>>20116632
In addition to checking nearly all the boxes in the OP, I am addicted to porn. Fuck, I should get a diagnosis.

[Anonymous No.20118269]

>>20118243
take your meds

[Anonymous No.20118357]

>>20116632
Sounds like a bonus to me desu

[Anonymous No.20118402]

>>20118243
>>>/x/

[Anonymous No.20118409]

>>20114129
When are you going to stop? Why are you going to stop?

[Anonymous No.20118414]

>>20113824
Shit, I've been thinking about this and I check most of these boxes. Interestingly enough, I still manage to read for very long periods of time sometimes, though this depends on the environment I'm in and the actual book itself being something. I haven't finished a book in a while, though.

[Anonymous No.20119188]

ADHD is real and valid.

[Anonymous No.20120102]

>>20119188
yaaaasss ADHD queen, slay

[Anonymous No.20120332]

>>20118243
*Mental illness coincides with societal progress. Today technology is so immediately interfering with our lives and our perspectives on life, we have lost contact with human nature and we will suffer for it.

[Anonymous No.20121400]

>>20118409
>When are you going to stop?
A few years
>Why are you going to stop?
Because I have a sneaking suspicion that taking stimulants every day forever is not good for you.

[Anonymous No.20121627]

>>20113824
I have it, I don't use it as an excuse however. i find ways to overcome it. If I can't read at home cause its too distracting I'll go read at a park, or at the library. I'll find how to overcome it
I cringe very hard when I hear anyone say:
>Oh, I would do this, but I have ADHD so it's hard for me to
biggest cope

[Anonymous No.20121648]

>>20113824
this was me until I realized that
a) I was just lazy
b) it's better to start things and let them go unfinished or be imperfect than to never start things at all
c) when I do work, I do better work than other people, so if they succeed where I fail it's just because I was lazy
d) the assumption that other people live life on "easy" mode and can simply sit down and perform boring tasks for 6 hours straight is a complete and utter lie and believing it is a one-way ticket to failure

I am sure that 90% of people relate to that image.

[Anonymous No.20121663]

Do you have ADHD or are you just glued to your phone from the second you wake up?

[Anonymous No.20121674]

>>20114078
this is just your hyperactive mind overthinking things. Funny enough what you're describing is allowing your mind to observe yourself without your ego in the way and it is correct; in some sense you do not have free will. You are always going to fall prey to whatever force is pushing you the strongest. This force could be hunger, pain, lust, desire for power, desire for social acceptance, desire to minimize pain, etc etc. Every decision you make is based on these competing forces and you are not in control, at any given moment, of which force is the strongest. You can work to train your body to react more strongly to forces whose outcomes you enjoy more (eg create habits that make healthy and productive living more attractive subconsciously along with consciously) but at any random moment it's not like you really get to decide what you care about the most.

[Anonymous No.20122330]

>>20121663
Both. The former causes the latter.

[Anonymous No.20122536]

>>20113824
>>20113832
Why the Shrek ears?

[Anonymous No.20123891]

>>20113824
I have ADHD, it was diagnosed when I was 7 and I used to "use" some pills... Nowdays I don't need it any more and some times is hard "be in some places" the thing that I do is just ask myself "What was I (did)/read?" and my aunt's secret, JUST GET BORED, you will read because is better than do nothing (in the beginning or some cases).

Go to the doctor.

UWU

[Anonymous No.20124014]

Concentration is something that can be practiced. You don't have a "disease".

[Anonymous No.20125235]

>>20114568
Yeah, ever single time. The chad vs virgin memes were born from this too.

[Anonymous No.20125243]

>>20125235
>t. saw himself in the virgin and coping

[Anonymous No.20125248]

>>20125243
>my hair flails when the wind blows it
Yep you caught me

[Anonymous No.20125269]

You don't WANT to read. You're not mentally ill.
You haven't found an interesting or fun book yet.

You don't want to read because you're not interested enough in the subject or story. If you had ADHD you would skim it and read it in quick succession.

[Anonymous No.20125276]

>>20125269
Thanks man.

[Anonymous No.20125312]

>>20113921
>but I am scared that they will fuck me up longterm or change my personality.
goes for most mental meds.
I took SRRI's for a few weeks and they genuinely turned me into a zombie to the point that I would stare at my wall and lost all capacity to think beyond basic immediate thoughts.
I stopped taking them and got massive headaches for weeks after and would lose my balance.
alright now, but mental medication is fucking scary man.

[Anonymous No.20126856]

>>20113824
ADHD is fake. It's used as cope by doomers and by psychiatrists to expand their grip over society. Just shut off the internet.

[Anonymous No.20127536]

>>20115535
My problem is that at the moment I really strongly feel that you're right, but in some hours or days I'll forget about this and I won't be able to find any reason to not stay inside my house all day looking at my screen. Any suggestion about this?

[Anonymous No.20128543]

>>20121400
What is your goal for using meds? How are you going to leverage them to craft yourself into a person who doesn't need the meds?

[Anonymous No.20128900]

>>20122330
wrong. The latter causes the former. 99% of people would be cured of their ADHD if they only had long-form entertainment to give dopamine releases. Seriously; walk away from your phone and don't use any social media platforms for an entire day. Don't sleep with your phone by your bed. ADHD will be done in literally one day. You will be able to read a book, watch a movie, go for a walk, etc all without being agitated.

[Anonymous No.20129950]

>>20116735
what's the difference between adderall and vyvanse? Currently on 30mg adderall xr and might switch