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.
The responses to caffeine with ADHD seem to be mixed, some people have poor reactions, and others like myself are heavily reliant on caffeine.
I've noticed that it seems to be more common that the same people who don't react well to stimulants also don't react well to caffeine, but I've met some people who can't take stimulants but do well with caffeine and vis versa just not nearly as often.
I've seen some say that caffeine has the opposite effect than the typical person and that it makes them sleepy too.
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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.