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Offline Seraphina

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Re: How do you deal with ADHD?
« Reply #15 on: October 25, 2024, 09:48:38 AM »
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    • Quote from: bookofbirds on October 22, 2024, 10:01:25 AM
    my main symptoms are getting distracted and taking too long to complete tasks

    Have you ever investigated the four temperaments?  Because distractibility and being slow are traits of a melancholic temperament.  Drugs can mask the traits, but at what cost? 
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    Re: How do you deal with ADHD?
    « Reply #16 on: February 23, 2025, 08:41:30 PM »
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    • Pray don’t medicate 

    Don’t medicate

    Please 

    ADHD medication suppresses appetite and has many other bad symptoms 

    Drink real milk and try the GAPS diet

    Pray for discipline

    I too have adhd
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    Re: How do you deal with ADHD?
    « Reply #17 on: February 23, 2025, 10:33:11 PM »
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    • ADHD Meds are bullcrap
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    Re: How do you deal with ADHD?
    « Reply #18 on: February 23, 2025, 10:38:10 PM »
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    Re: How do you deal with ADHD?
    « Reply #19 on: February 23, 2025, 10:38:56 PM »
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    • Quote from: hgodwinson on October 22, 2024, 04:27:28 PM
    I'm currently on 100mg of a new medication called Foquest and 2mg of a helper med called Guanfacine.

    I've previously been on Vyvanse and Concerta of similar dosages and have found this to be the best so far.

    They work best with consistent good sleep too; and are a great help for fasting during Lent.

    Godbless you too.
    Get off concerta the side effects are too much 
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    Re: How do you deal with ADHD?
    « Reply #20 on: February 23, 2025, 10:40:06 PM »
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    • Quote from: Seraphina on October 25, 2024, 09:48:38 AM
    Have you ever investigated the four temperaments?  Because distractibility and being slow are traits of a melancholic temperament.  Drugs can mask the traits, but at what cost?
    ADHD is also a symptom of a sanguine temperament (fickleness, lack of self control) there is a reason it is represented by wind!
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    Re: How do you deal with ADHD?
    « Reply #21 on: February 24, 2025, 06:05:14 PM »
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    • Quote from: bookofbirds on February 23, 2025, 10:33:11 PM
    ADHD Meds are bullcrap
    I am confused.  You started this thread in October.  Are you off the meds now?  Did you find an alternative to help you?
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    Re: How do you deal with ADHD?
    « Reply #22 on: February 24, 2025, 10:23:01 PM »
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    • I ended up parting ways with my shrink in October and went un-medicated until early January when I decided to see a different shrink because I enrolled back in college. Since January I have been on 5mg of Adderal IR but honestly I don't even think it's worth it. Sure I work faster and studying is easier but they do make me mentally ill (Anxiety) and time moves way too faaast. Like Predestination said the symptoms are lame...

    What helped from October-January was some variation of the GAPS Diet (mostly meat, raw dairy and fruits), cardio (swimming/sprinting), fasting, and prayer! 
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    Hopefully I can get back to where I was previously! 
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    Re: How do you deal with ADHD?
    « Reply #23 on: February 24, 2025, 11:07:27 PM »
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    • :pray: that you do.
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    Re: How do you deal with ADHD?
    « Reply #24 on: February 26, 2025, 02:49:42 AM »
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    • Quote from: bookofbirds on February 24, 2025, 10:23:01 PM
    I ended up parting ways with my shrink in October and went un-medicated until early January when I decided to see a different shrink because I enrolled back in college. Since January I have been on 5mg of Adderal IR but honestly I don't even think it's worth it. Sure I work faster and studying is easier but they do make me mentally ill (Anxiety) and time moves way too faaast. Like Predestination said the symptoms are lame...

    What helped from October-January was some variation of the GAPS Diet (mostly meat, raw dairy and fruits), cardio (swimming/sprinting), fasting, and prayer!
    :pray:
    Hopefully I can get back to where I was previously!
    Another GAPS diet victory, it works for autism too. Might as well just make the jump and go full carnivore YOU WON’T REGRET IT, fructose is even more glycating than regular glucose. 
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    Re: How do you deal with ADHD?
    « Reply #25 on: February 27, 2025, 01:58:34 PM »
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    • How would you manage a carnivore diet for lent? You can eat fish still right?
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    Re: How do you deal with ADHD?
    « Reply #26 on: February 27, 2025, 02:48:29 PM »
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    • Quote from: bookofbirds on February 27, 2025, 01:58:34 PM
    How would you manage a carnivore diet for lent? You can eat fish still right?
    Fish, if you are going extra traditional you cut out eggs and milk but still can have fish and if you are trying eastern lent you can have crab but not regular fish 


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    Re: How do you deal with ADHD?
    « Reply #27 on: February 27, 2025, 03:20:52 PM »
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    • Was diagnosed with it in the 80s as a kid.  In high school, I thought ADHD was a lie and stopped taking anything. I figured it was all a big lie for decades.  Then, last year I heard about how ADHD folk think and behave, and heard explanations about diminished dopamine receptors and all that.  I now think it's real, but I do not advocate meds for it.  

    Speaking for myself, at some point I had to put down the viddya games, and I taught myself to appreciate reading, writing, critical thinking, and things of that nature.  At this stage of my life, I'd probably even not mind mathematics.  If I need energy and focus, I drink coffee or some sort of caffeinated drink.  

    The ability to hyperfocus is a gift.  Boredom while the rest of the herd is easily amused with mudane things now makes perfect sense to me.  Avoid the drugs, and don't give them to your kids.
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    Re: How do you deal with ADHD?
    « Reply #28 on: February 27, 2025, 09:34:38 PM »
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    • Quote from: SimpleMan on October 23, 2024, 10:16:18 AM
    I don't really disagree with you, though I'm not going to attempt to plumb the root causes of these phenomena.  I merely meant that I see a kind of "witch hunt" in which there is this paradigm of the "normal person", and anyone falling outside of that paradigm has a label slapped on them, and where possible, they are medicated with a goal of drawing them closer to the norm.  (I don't suppose there's really a medication for autism as such, though there certainly are medications for ADD/ADHD.)

    I just have to wonder (again, aside from truly morbid cases) what harm it would do, just to let eccentrics be themselves, and let their eccentricity lead them wherever it ends up leading them.  And one other thing that I see as significant, is the tendency to want to "medicate the boy out of boys", and make them these docile creatures who want to sit for hours and read books, get their lessons, IOW, to be more like girls, instead of being rambunctious, quick-witted youngsters who learn best in other ways.  Unless it would be in the lower grades, coeducation really isn't possible, boys and girls are just too different.  Pius XI warned of this in Divini illius magistri, but where do you see his teaching being followed anymore?
    medication for aspergers is called talking to people, you pick up social cues and become normal pretty fast (also gaps diet)
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