The world through the lens of ADHD

  • Artistically cool, but squirrel brain is nothing like this "psychedelic" experience.

    Lack of motivation and focus is pretty easy to imagine for anybody, as it's a common sentiment; the only difference, medically, is whether it happens often enough to cause issues in your day-to-day life. You can easily replicate this yourself, neurodivergent or not, with bad sleep, junk sugary food, doomscrolling on TikTok/YouTube for the entire day and see whether you have the motivation or focus to do anything. Unmedicated ADHD feels a bit like having that most days.

    Source: I am diagnosed ADHD. I don't take dexamfetamine any more because it's far too "synthetic" for my tastes and it feels like being a cart pulled around by a horse. For the past year I've been using nicotine patches and in my experience they work and feel better than any amfetamine treatment. I am also starting to believe the so-called "ADHD craze" is just a widespread epidemic of dopamine depletion caused by social media and modern technology in general.