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A casual community for people with ADHD

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How do you guys cope? (lemmy.world)

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I'm 35, with diagnosed ADHD and brain scarring. My memory feels so fried and it's almost Impossible to finish a task. Where I live it's almost Impossible to get actual medication for something. Doc always gives herbal treatments and it helps nothing.

Is there a way to help myself without meds?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Caffeine and weed.

But also, accepting that your brain is what it is. Don't fight it. Find ways to work with it.

Some ideas.

Wherever you have a pile of something, put a basket. I used to have one laundry basket and it would end up unused, with piles of clothes all over the floor in lots of different rooms. Now I have three laundry baskets and no piles.

When it comes to putting things away, make it easy to put away, but hard to take out. If you make it hard to put away, you won't put it away and you'll probably lose it.

Reminders are only useful if you don't ignore them. If you catch yourself ignoring reminders, change how the reminders come in, or change how the reminder sound. I'm on my third sound for my medication reminders. Switching it up helps.