what if instead of taking medication, there would be jobs/functions that actually play into your adhd

this is a false dichotomy.

I have a job that plays well with my ADHD (working from home doing software engineering). I worked in this field before I knew I had ADHD (I’m in my late 30s, and only diagnosed a couple years ago).

but having a job that is relatively ADHD-friendly simply is not enough. especially when so many ADHD symptoms affect my personal life and not just my 9-5 job.

I don’t have adhd, that I know of, so I might sound stupid.

honestly - rather than sounding stupid, you just kind of sound like an asshole. listen to yourself:

Can’t make enough money or slaves from that tho, so just create more pill zombies.

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relying on drugging people up

since I take an ADHD medication every day, I guess that makes me a “slave” to pharmaceutical companies or “drugged up” or a “pill zombie” in your estimation?

if I skip medication for a day, that is what makes me feel like a zombie. most ADHD medications are stimulants. before I started medication, I was doing what I now recognize as self-medicating - drinking an absolute fuck-ton of coffee and energy drinks, but still never feeling like I got an energy boost from them.

also - before I was diagnosed with ADHD, I was depressed, at times pretty severely. I tried all the “you don’t need antidepressants, you just need X” things people recommend - therapy, better diet, better sleep, more exercise, more outdoor exercise, and so on. none of it worked.

eventually I gave up and asked my doctor for antidepressants (reluctantly, because I had internalized a lot of the “rx drugs for mental health issues are bad” that I think you have as well)

the antidepressants helped, but only partially. eventually I figured out I probably have ADHD and went to a psychiatrist about it. part of what helped me realize that was that of a couple different antidepressants I had tried, the one that helped the most (buproprion) was also used in treating ADHD.

and so in my case, “antidepressants help, but they don’t treat the underlying problem” was true - but the underlying problem also needs prescription medication.

But just pasting a god damn video link is low effort

imagine 4 things that could be posted:

• a 3 minute long video
• a 3 hour long video
• a 250 word article or blog post
• a 25,000 word article or blog post

do you have a sufficient grasp of how the internet works to understand that the effort involved in posting a link is exactly the same in all 4 cases?