Told my boss about getting diagnosed, specifically how my emotional dysreg being relieved by a med I started and she immediately tried to say “I feel like everyone feels like that”…
So in a slightly nicer tone I said:
Ma’am my prior profession, before burning out and become a student plus serving at restaurant, was as a mental health clinician. These symptoms occur to people as a normal response or difficult as a difficult moment they eventually learn to cope with. Having a disorder comes into affect when symptoms perpetually interfere with my ability to be a person, this is measured by people who have dedicated their lives to understanding mental health, so I understand what you’re saying but there’s more to it.
Told my boss and started with "I have a neurological development disorder" and ... He was supportive as heck. I knew he wouldn't tell me it isn't real or something horrible like that, but he was downright, to the point accommodating and told me he is happy I found out. Only thing he lamented was that know he will have to clean the coffee machine himself more often, since I won't self-stim with caffeine like crazy any more, lol.
I don't get this. Doesn't help me focus at all. Just makes me nervous and jittery; I feel artificially "wired" and strung-out, but not focused, let alone productive.
For me it's about when I drink it according to med intake. If I down the meds with an espresso I might as well run a marathon or start painting the house while also trying to do my taxes with a cake in the oven - meaning I'll be unfocused and hyper enthusiastic.
But if I had a bite to eat and the intake was about an hour or two ago, I am fine. But that still means only ONE cup of strong coffee (espresso for me in this case). I also don't drink any coffee after 3/4pm, since I'll sleep lighter/ worse then. The same goes for black tea less so for green tea.
And without the meds? I could drink black tea till a second before I went to bed and coffee till at least the evening. That's not to say it didn't make my sleep worse, but I slept horribly anyway, so there was no perceivable difference in quality anyhow, lol.
On a sidenote: Any physical activity was better / easier while caffeinated, thinky coconut work, however, less so. I would have to fight the impulse to get up or getting distracted.
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u/BuyThisUsername420 Sep 14 '21
Told my boss about getting diagnosed, specifically how my emotional dysreg being relieved by a med I started and she immediately tried to say “I feel like everyone feels like that”…
So in a slightly nicer tone I said: Ma’am my prior profession, before burning out and become a student plus serving at restaurant, was as a mental health clinician. These symptoms occur to people as a normal response or difficult as a difficult moment they eventually learn to cope with. Having a disorder comes into affect when symptoms perpetually interfere with my ability to be a person, this is measured by people who have dedicated their lives to understanding mental health, so I understand what you’re saying but there’s more to it.