AddLemmus

Wow, so different for everybody! For me, it went from the feeling of giving myself a cigarette burn to "eager to start".

Yes, essential. I like to do it in an electronic mindmap, so in order to have it always visible, I needed to attach an extra screen where it's always visible.

"Mental effort" to get on the task that needs to be done is a different matter. I still needed to push through the pain to star. That got much better with treatment.

Like the whiteboard though; not as easy to shift things around and make changes, but advantages might outweigh that.

That is also my understanding: You may or may not a "habit person" almost regardless of ADHD, but starting it is harder, and losing it easier with ADHD.

I hope that was the only problem in my case, and we'll see in a couple of weeks.

During therapy it might be best to start, so there is someone who supervises it and calls you out. Maybe being active in a community like x-effect. Any kind of accountability entity.

Understandable, and my additional simplification from an already simplified youtube video doesn't help. He also says that habits don't work well for some people in a DIFFERENT video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVvYn9jkZYQ

Here is the one I talked about where he says they DO work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq6K7yxaNaM

That's always been the curse of TV doctors long before the internet. Simplification & telling what they want to hear wins the biggest audience.

I don't see how how "neurotransmitters work across the whole brain" disproves this; it's still neurotransmitter dysfunction in the prefrontal cortex that are mostly responsible for ADHD. (Could be very wrong there, not an expert.)

Here is the context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq6K7yxaNaM&t=266s

When I suddenly fixate on a food, the shelf is not restocked, and even 2 or 3 days later, I can't buy it again.

Feel like "Truman Show", as if the store and other shoppers are just some illusion for me and they can only restock in great numbers what I usually buy.

Edit: Can't believe it's happening to so many others here!

Dr. K. put it like this in a video: Habit forming is not in the frontal lobe, and is not directly affected by ADHD.

It has not worked for me yet, but I'm currently trying again. I suspect that, indirectly, ADHD does play a role, and additional tricks are needed, but I have hope.

afaik, 25µg D3 in combination with 20µg K2 should cover it in theory, even when there is hardly any natural source. Some supplement nerds have some reasoning for 100µg, which is near the upper bound of "harmless".

Much more than that can be quite dangerous, though! One drop of the stuff I have is 25, so it's not just theoretical.

EDEKA are the ones where too much is harmful.

Magnesium, D and Omega 3 are, as far as I know, all things where you gain a lot if you have a deficit that they compensate, otherwise nothing.

I too took shots in the dark, as I didn't find a doc who was willing to do some more tests. But recently I found out that in some countries, you can just go to a lab directly and they'll draw the blood.

Currently on Magnesium, too (Carbonate though), paused the D due to long times in the sun recently, Omega 3 currently through engineered staple foods & rape oil.

Doesn't seem to be that much evidence, but I'm in the mood for a new supplement obsession - on it!

I got to get back there, too. I lived like that for a decade, back then no clue that ADHD was one of the main problems, and it seemed to help. But due to lack of "evidence" & a diagnostic that requires this, I slipped up. Now I'm the average eater with some good, some bad parts of the diet.

My diet was a kind of "low carb", but not in the strict sense that it's much lower than recommended, just much lower than the average sinner.

p.s.: argh, typed this over 12 hours ago and just found this open page. It's clearly not working. But here we go anyway:

• Guarana, for example in a capsule. Effectively a mild stimulant, basically extended release coffee.
• Get out of the slow cycle of: symptom -> doctor -> check for specific deficiency -> supplement. Check for everything proactively. In many countries, you can go directly to a lab and have your blood taken there, if your doctor doesn't play along.