Share them stories here or maybe we can make a thread. i’d love to hear them and share more of my own. It really does put things into perspective and make you feel good, I think everyone should be doing it.
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Has anyone tried this thing or know anybody who has? My first impression was that it seemed kinda pseudoscience-y, and a few of their studies seem susceptible to the placebo effect. They talk about results from a double-blind clinical study on their website, but I can’t find the actual study results published anywhere. On the federal clinical trials website, it says it won’t be finished until 2022.
Cuse when reading that post of yours I was struck by how much of it is stories you’re telling yourself. Your worries about having had COVID are honestly paranoid, you’ve been doing a lot to avoid it and there’s simply no indication you have had it. Your symptoms, to the extent they even need explaining, are easily explained by stress. There’s really nothing there. The rest of your post is largely worrying about hypotheticals. Your uncle has cancer, but he’s OK at the moment. Your friends are worried about their financial situation, but they are not on the streets. Your friend might have had COVID, but she didn’t. It’s definitely worth worrying about the political decline in the US, but again, concrete consequences for your life are some distance off.
I’m not saying this to write your concerns off as trivial, just saying that you want to maintain some perspective. Like if you were a dog and didn’t have all these stories and hypotheticals floating around in your head, you would have no perception that anything is wrong. The way you’re looking at the world, thinking about abstract threats, is valid, there’s nothing wrong with it per se. It’s just that the more immediate way of looking at the world is also valid and you seem to be out of touch with that a bit. Try to regain some more immediacy and leave the abstractions alone for a while.
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Whatever you do, don’t look online for a research chemical called 4-AcO-DMT and buy it intending to ingest it and convert it to psilocin in your liver, because that turns it into a Schedule I drug and that makes the Federal government really mad.
Also don’t use Coinbase to buy bitcoins for the transaction because those narcs will shut down your account, or so I’ve heard.
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I found out about this site today and it’s pretty cool and might be a nice relaxing distraction for someone: https://www.drive-listen.com/
You can choose from a bunch of cities around the world, and you see video from a dashcam of a car driving around the city while music plays from one of the local radio stations. A nice reminder of the world out there.
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Yeah I’ve never had these symptoms from stress before, having so many people say that’s what it might be made me feel a lot better.
Yeah that’s all fair. My uncle doesn’t seem to be in good shape, but it’s out of my control and given the pandemic there’s not much I can do. My friends do have his parents to lean on if they need to, and I can help them out here and there hopefully. They certainly won’t end up homeless. I’m not worried about my friend anymore, it was just a scary thing for a couple days that piled on. I think concrete consequences for me with the politics are maybe only a few months away but all I can do is prepare and make good decisions.
That’s an interesting way of looking at it, other than being locked down at least.
Yeah this is extremely hard for me, but I’m trying. Thanks for the thoughts and suggestions.
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Stop squandering your superiority. You are in the top 2% in knowledge, intelligence and writing talent.
People like that should not be concentrating on playing poker and being one of thousands attending protests. Instead you should be putting your thoughts on paper or in one of these newfangled ways people get them out on the internet. Write a book. Perhaps something like “How Poker Thinking Can be Applied To Politics”. Give yourself a specific long term goal that will make you proud of yourself if you achieve it. And don’t worry that an attitude like that doesn’t coincide with your politics. There was a fellow who wasn’t exactly a deplorable elitist who once said “from those according to their ability”.
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“Imagine I’m a dog” is a kind of hack I use sometimes to force myself to remember that what I am most fundamentally is a living organism which needs to look after its body. If I’m feeling frustrated and agitated and ask my brain/ego what I should do about this, it comes up with answers like “drink wine” or “watch more YouTube videos”. So then I’m like “yeah I’m gonna level with you, those sound like shit ideas, imagine you’re a dog” and it’s like “oh well then I’d take myself for a walk” which is a much better answer. Similarly things like “oh you’re stressed about this thing, imagine you’re a dog, oh here’s a brilliant idea, try removing yourself from the stressor”, these sound obvious of course but that’s the point, that you need to respect your own body’s feelings and needs is an obvious idea, but as we are all so mentally oriented, we need to remind ourselves of this. Well I do anyway.
My meditation teacher once said “all pleasure comes through the body” which I think is overstating the case a little but there’s a lot of truth in it.
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I believe you’ve mentioned being overweight in other threads. One of my fears about getting tested for adult ADHD is that I would get a positive result but not be able to take medication for it because of my size/heart conditions/interference from other meds. I know you have also mentioned taking other meds in the past as well.
Is this something that you discussed with your doctor, and if so, what did he/she say about the way the drug they will prescribe would affect someone with other medications/weight issues?
The main concern is my blood pressure, but it’s been at normal levels for weeks now. The psychiatrist doesn’t know about it.
I am like 5’10 180ish so slightly overweight BMI but have had blood pressure issues for a few years now. I am honestly willing to take a small risk if it means getting this sorted out. And I think certain medications are better for blood pressure than others - I doubt I can take something like adderall.
Do you know what your doc plans on prescribing? If you are comfortable saying of course.
Yeah, my problem is HBP. Hypertension runs in my family and it doesnt help that I’m overweight.
All I know is I have struggled with concentration all my life except for things that really catch my attention, then I become hyper focused. My son has been diagnosed ADHD, and it oftentimes is genetic. I should likely get checked, but GPs tend to not have any interest. I suppose searching out a specialist in the area is the best option.
When I find out what he wants to do I’ll post itt, I am not sure yet.
The best I can explain how the meds work on me, when I have taken drugs like adderall and vyvense for studying, is that the chaos that’s usually inside of my head is focused into a singular noise that I can actually follow. I’m not sure if that makes sense - I can still get distracted, but the difference is I’m not distracted by 40 things at once. Whatever I am doing, I am totally into it. So then all I need to do is make sure I am focused on the correct thing, rather than trying to juggle 40 things at once like usual.
For years I refused to get checked out because I was a boat captain and a diagnosis of ADHD means you’re pretty much done as a captain. Plus you will fail drug tests with the drugs they give you.
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The dr. was great. I dont know why I was so anxious about it. He basically asked me if I’d tried any prescription stimulants and if I had any preferences. I said not too much but i have a few friends that take vyvense and seem to do well on it.
He gave me a medium dose of it and said I could play around with the dosing to see what’s comfortable. What I should have been anxious about was the pharmacy pickup.
CVS straight up acted like I was some sort of criminal and demanded to see “progress notes” whatever tf those are. I said I didnt even know what that was and the guy read me the riot act about the law and the DA and some shit I didnt understand at all. So I went to rite aid and had no problems.
The insurance of course denied the prescription but I had a coupon for $0 copay on first prescription so I used that. My doctor will settle it out with the insurer.
We’ll see how this goes.
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Thanks for the update. Pulling for you J.
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Yeah I appreciate that. I’m most likely going to ask for an evaluation soon
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It’s a huge hassle, but honestly, I am glad that I did this.
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Work gives me purpose
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