Op seems to be on a bit of a crusade - don’t let it get to ya. While I’ll agree that recommending drugs specifically isn’t particularly helpful: I imagine you made the recommendation because you believe that the poster may have ADHD… which could be a thing they may want to look into. A lot of people go undiagnosed and are positively miserable as a result. It wouldn’t hurt to edit your original post with: strikeout and clarify your reasoning. I think your heart was in the right place ✌️
It’s a crusade to push back on negative habits I see around me? What makes it a crusade instead of just pushback against a normalization inside this community that doesn’t always help and the trend-ization of a medical issue that shouldn’t be a fad?
I agreed with your perspective on not suggesting drugs, however you seemed equally defensive about the mere mention of ADHD as well. It is perfectly acceptable to suggest to someone they get checked for it if they are struggling with some very common symptoms. OP was genuinely looking for suggestions there and a number of people had the same suggestion. Seemed reasonable enough to me.
As far as “fad” goes- It’s been thoroughly researched and isolated down to a specific chemical imbalance. Is it common? yes- but it’s also been suggested that a lot of current environments are designed to fuck with your attention; Someone with ADHD would be far less able to cope with it. Perhaps it’s just more noticeable now.
I dislike the idea of drugs as a “fix” as they are not and the idea of fixing is not very reasonable an end goal.
Also yes the world is designed to pick at that and it clearly is affecting and dragging down people further up the spectrum of capable time management.
This culture of recommending specific name brand drugs is not one I am comfortable with and one I don’t agree with doing as it really only supports the manufacturer and not the sufferer.
I think we agree that people should be able to get real and helpful diagnoses but I disagree the path of getting there that is often used skipping steps and is far to socially spread, especially using the same mechanisms that eat at people to make their symptoms worse.
The first option offered should not be lifelong drugs to take.
That’s why I waited until four other people replied. Thanks for looking out.
Op seems to be on a bit of a crusade - don’t let it get to ya. While I’ll agree that recommending drugs specifically isn’t particularly helpful: I imagine you made the recommendation because you believe that the poster may have ADHD… which could be a thing they may want to look into. A lot of people go undiagnosed and are positively miserable as a result. It wouldn’t hurt to edit your original post with:
strikeoutand clarify your reasoning. I think your heart was in the right place ✌️It’s a crusade to push back on negative habits I see around me? What makes it a crusade instead of just pushback against a normalization inside this community that doesn’t always help and the trend-ization of a medical issue that shouldn’t be a fad?
I agreed with your perspective on not suggesting drugs, however you seemed equally defensive about the mere mention of ADHD as well. It is perfectly acceptable to suggest to someone they get checked for it if they are struggling with some very common symptoms. OP was genuinely looking for suggestions there and a number of people had the same suggestion. Seemed reasonable enough to me.
As far as “fad” goes- It’s been thoroughly researched and isolated down to a specific chemical imbalance. Is it common? yes- but it’s also been suggested that a lot of current environments are designed to fuck with your attention; Someone with ADHD would be far less able to cope with it. Perhaps it’s just more noticeable now.
Alright. I agree with everything you say.
I dislike the idea of drugs as a “fix” as they are not and the idea of fixing is not very reasonable an end goal.
Also yes the world is designed to pick at that and it clearly is affecting and dragging down people further up the spectrum of capable time management. This culture of recommending specific name brand drugs is not one I am comfortable with and one I don’t agree with doing as it really only supports the manufacturer and not the sufferer.
I think we agree that people should be able to get real and helpful diagnoses but I disagree the path of getting there that is often used skipping steps and is far to socially spread, especially using the same mechanisms that eat at people to make their symptoms worse.