TLDR;

I get diagnosed as ADHD, and get some drugs (Vyvanse). It works pretty well, and changed my life a lot.

I conducted a personal case study this weekend: I didn’t take my Vyvanse for two days, and the results were a noticeable increase in pacing around, getting easily distracted, and feeling irritable towards my family.

For friends who suspect they might have ADHD, and feel it has already affected life, study, work, and relationship, I highly recommend using self-assessment scales for self-testing:

ADHD SELF-REPORT SCALE / ASRS

Understand yourself, and take action. It will save your life.

My Story

I originally wrote a lot of content here, but I realized I hadn’t organized it well. So I deleted it.

Overall, I’m still exploring the topic of focus and productivity and don’t yet have any best practices worth sharing.

The changes brought about by medication are very noticeable, both the benefits and the side effects.

Oh, by the way, there isn’t one single certain technology or technique that can perfectly solve the problem of high productivity, nor there is certain one that can perfectly solve the problem of how to live a happy life.

“You do action A and you get result B”. Does it sound familiar? Does it sound simple? I call it “ROMANTIC narrative”, which is heavily used by content creators, marketing people and sales people.

And what’s moore, simple != easy

Placing all hope on a specific medication, a specific app, a specific behavior pattern, or a specific thinking paradigm is NOT RELIABLE. Any one of these, take a try, might show short-term effects and make you feel better.

That’s just “feel better”, and “feel better” is fine during exploring new stuff. But in the long run, it’s merely a brief period of trial and error. Once the external environment changes or new insights emerge internally, it might no longer be suitable for you. If you don’t continually reflect and update it, that technique will become obsolete.

Just like my weekly recap, haha.

What we need to seek is a system, and this system can only be gradually acquired through continuous self-exploration, making mistakes, failing, and summarizing.

Make a plan, try them all.

OK that’s enough, these words make me feel I am like a old people who always intent to teach somebody else, just like a 老登.

Q&A, More Things I Want to Share

If you have other questions, just feel free to ask me, leaving a comment or DM me.

You could find me at https://bento.me/zhiqiang

is ADHD a buzz word on social media and new business trap? like Sugar and Insulin

I am not sure. It might be, but it’s not important.

could “Behavior Therapy” work?

Yes, it works. But it could NOT work as well as drugs.

If the effect of medication is 95 points, the effect of Behavior Therapy might be 20-30 points.

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