GET OUT OF MY HEAD
GET OUT OF MY HEAD
GET OUT OF MY HEAD
GET OUT OF MY HEAD
this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2025
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Echoey too too too
And...slimey?
The ell is this in your head?
Or 47.
48 for me
So you’re saying it’s not going to get better for me next year either?
I’m afraid not.
But that’s probably true for most people, so ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I resemble that remark. Well a lot closer than 33 anyways.
44 here. Technically I was diagnosed with "ADD" (the H was added later) back in 1988 or so. My parents were of the mind that kids in general have a lot of energy and little attention and kept me off of Ritalin as a result.
Ya know what? I get the sense that this supposed malady is being diagnosed in sufficient numbers that it's just the standard state of a huge percentage of humanity. Frankly, I don't think we evolved to squat in cubicles and stare at screens all day long.
Hypothesis here: Unnaturally focused attention is an unhealthy mutation that only benefits those who exploit them.
Everyone has some symptoms of adhd. Adhd is characterized by having many of them, and in far greater concentration than the normal population.
"everyone pees too but if you're doing it 40 times a day something is probably wrong"
Just turned 30 on Saturday. I haven't written my book, played my guitar or finished the dozens of projects I have lying around like I planned to do for the last 10 years.
Don't worry, by the time you are 50 it is exactly the same.
- :/
Hey now, it only took me 18 months to install the replacement screen roller on my front storm door, after waiting about as long to purchase it.
One day you too will complete something on your list and think, why the fuck didn't I do that months ago and then proceed to repeat the procrastination process on the ever other 30 minute task.
I was diagnosed and started treatment in 2nd grade. I'm 36 now and I still do this all the time.
33?! Those are rookie numbers!
No one told you when to run // You missed the starting gun
This song motivated me a lot, graduated at 30.
Now if only I had known that they started letting transbians transition, then I would have done that much sooner too. Wasted so much of my life.
You all believe it when you tell yourselves those things?
I tell myself those things, but I kind of know I'm lying when I do it
Yeah, not at all. I stopped believing a long time ago. I dont bullshit myself nearly as much anymore. I think it helps me to be more realistic because I know that, even medicated, I am a total basketcase.
I feel you. Brain chemistry is rough when it's off.
Why is Lemmy so depressed? Guys, I’ve been there, but a mental change is ahead. And I know you hate me for saying this, or think I’m cringe or whatever. Just find the thing that really drives you.
No idea what that could be? Little pro tip: your anxiety can guide you. What scares you most? Talking in front of a group? Go join a theater club or something. You’ll probably find cool people.
Mostly because having a disorder that is a daily reminder of how much work it is just to function on a day to day basis and apparently remembering the fuck ups way more than the good things since the fuck ups are basically the same thing each time. It feels worse and worse each year, and honestly my biggest fear is that I will get dementia and not be able to tell because it that is how I have felt my entire life.
That said, reminding myself that I'm doing pretty well is the counterbalance that keeps me going. I've accepted my limits and just roll along with becoming a jack of all trades that still has to relearn anything I haven't done for a few years. Meds help while they are active, but they don't work 24 hours a day.
"I've accepted my limits and just roll along with becoming a jack of all trades that still has to relearn anything I haven't done for a few years."
This is tremendously relatable, and captures one of the things that I genuinely feel proud of. There are days where I'm like the person in the OP, but the more I practice at understanding and leaning into my nature, the easier it becomes to break out of that wistful cycle of internalised ableism
My anxiety guides me.
Today I get to bask after three days of deep cleaning my home! It is a good day today!
Though, getting a new dishwasher installed is what sparked it, anxiety drives me to get my stuff done. Why waiting until last minute sometimes can produce my best work (yet sometimes can cause disaster still).
I also pushed myself onto a leadership position at my work once. A two year commitment. I had to do a lot of public speaking, I absolutely hated it, and cursed myself for doing it to myself, but it was to bring me out of my comfort zone and I knew the payoff was to help and be a voice for my fellow employees I represented. It was tough.
Hell yeah, for me, using my anxiety as a driver for change has been massively helpful in my life. Face it- then its faced, I still have the anxiety but I understand it and can objectively react to it in a positive way. Introspection is a hell of a thing.
Great to hear that you accepted your anxiety as your 'friend'.
Oh it's not a friend, but definitely well known about
my anxiety guides me. i have no idea why i have it.
Medication is not the magical pill that solves this issues. Sometimes things are easier to be done with meds. Sometimes not.
It definitely pushes me in the right direction. Though yes sometimes it takes a bit more, mental fortitude that is not meds. Takes a bit from both sides.
I'm 40, and still do this. what do i win?
55 Sorry
If you're lucky, you win the wisdom to understand that no amount of wishful thinking can brute force yourself into being a different person, and you understand that this cycle is borne of internalised ableism.
You win the chance to try again tomorrow — not at being the productivity powerhouse you desperately wish you were, but at being someone who works hard to be kind to themselves — someone who reluctantly embraces the messiness of human existence and tries to find opportunities to work with their ADHD, rather than against it.
It's a bittersweet prize, because it just boils down to "more work". However, it's work that has a chance to build personal fulfillment, instead of stuff that seems engineered to make you resent yourself.
40 is gonna be a rough milestone
My sweet summer child.
Dxed around 30, felt like I hit my head after because I had traumatic shit happening and was trying to relearn how to be alive, feel like I am just waking up at 35 again lol.
40, but yes
58?
And, (inhales) my family doesn’t believe me still!
Stop believing that you are the merely sum of your actions. Thoughts are creations same as objects. Take joy in the ability of your mind to create all manner of things both comforting and terrible. Such is the power of thought, that you hold all the ingredients of a universe within your consciousness.
I stopped fighting and just embraced the horror. It's the world that's wired wrong, not us. Let's enjoy farniente 😊
... and then I said "Actually my life is pretty full already and that stuff doesn't actually need doing."
Still have a dad bod as a virgin! Wow!
That hurts