re: therapy... I'm doing it! and I've found it to be pretty helpful. I don't think it's the ONLY reason this past year has been the biggest change for me, but it's a part
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I registered late and missed important classes once (or twice), so I've got (hopefully) one more quarter next year before I'm done.
Role playing games are particularly inspiring, what with a custom main character that can react in various different ways to situations in the game. Which is why I've started a Baldur's Gate + Imoen Romance Mod novelization. And plans for an Arcanum fic, too. Starring a primped and pampered debutante who grows into a warrior mage of legendary power and, naturally, saves the world.
Do you have any offline friends you feel like you could confide in? Because I think their opinion would be a lot more valuable than mine, since they know how you are from day to day. However, my unexpert opinion is that this is sometimes how I feel on days when I don't take my meds, so maybe it's the ADD acting up. But I have a feeling there might be something else going on there. I wouldn't go so far as to call it depression unless I knew more (though the increased interest in your favorite activities does NOT rule it out at all, the symptoms are different for everyone), but I think a professional opinion really couldn't hurt. You have a psychiatrist to prescribe you the ADD meds, right? Maybe talk to them and tell them how you've been feeling lately, see what they think. I hope you feel better.
I have a normal medical doctor prescribe my meds. Trying 30mg adderall now, works better than the Concerta but doesn't fix all my problems like I absurdly hoped it would (also attacks my appetite with a vengeance previously unknown to me). I don't think it's meant to fix crippling laziness, which is what I suspect I've been using ADD medication to do for a few years now, in addition to dealing with my ADD.
Anyway, I'll be seeing a Seeleklempner (German equivalent of "shrink", literal translation: "soul plumber") on Thursday.
I'm on 30 mgs of Adderall, I like it much better than Concerta. The appetite thing is a little rough, though - it's one of the main reasons I was so skinny. I've gained a little weight lately though, which I'm told is good, but it's not exactly easy to convince a teenage girl that gaining ten pounds is a good thing. Anyways, back to the topic at hand, I know what you mean about the laziness thing. I know that most of my focus problems are ADD, but sometimes I just don't know where the ADD ends and the laziness begins.
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Role playing games are particularly inspiring, what with a custom main character that can react in various different ways to situations in the game. Which is why I've started a Baldur's Gate + Imoen Romance Mod novelization. And plans for an Arcanum fic, too. Starring a primped and pampered debutante who grows into a warrior mage of legendary power and, naturally, saves the world.
Suppose I should link to any of this stuff?
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Anyway, I'll be seeing a Seeleklempner (German equivalent of "shrink", literal translation: "soul plumber") on Thursday.
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Hope the soul plumber (ha!) goes well.
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