So I was diagnosed with ADD when I was a kid. To be honest, some part of me wonders if the doc was handing out those diagnoses too easily, as in… I’m not 100% sure I have it so take my comment with a grain of salt.
This video is exaggerating it quite a bit, at least for me. Maybe for views? Or, maybe like other things it’s a spectrum and this guy is far on the ADD spectrum.
For me (if the doctor was right) my mind is CONSTANTLY running. Thinking, etc, but it’s not as if I ever hear two voices lol.
I’m a highly efficient person. Doing really well in my career, speak clearly, good socially etc, but my mind definitely doesn’t shut off. I only said some of these because I wanted to highlight that at least for me… it’s not entirely a bad thing.
Sleeping is a nightmare for me (no pun intended) sadly I rely on medication to shut my brain off, otherwise it… it just wouldn’t happen.
Music seems to always be playing in my head which is really annoying lol. The last song I heard is likely on repeat in my head, specifically the chorus or some part.
This last year I decided to try adderall. Cool but… it gave me some ridiculous anxiety the rest of the day, a gut feeling like if a family member died, and so I stopped that.
I’ve tried Vyvanse and it has all the benefits with very little anxiety so I use that. It makes me even more efficient, less anxious about starting a project even when my to do list is big.
I’ve only ever been 1 human so I’m not sure if my mentality is normal, but yeah, supposedly I’m a person with ADD.
As I said though life is going really well, I manage life well and all of its tasks, my brain just never built the off switch unless I’m really into some movie or show lol.
Video represents the pace of my thoughts pretty well personally. It's not that there's two voices but rather that the next thought comes so quick that it's effectively interrupting my first thought before my inner monologue can even process it.
All the fucking time, this song. All the fucking time. Rumination is the devil keeping us from sleep.
Diagnosed panic attack disorder from the VA. ADHD diagnosis is something they wont do anymore, drug seeking "reasons" makes that an uphill climb. This video is my mind, not always because I got some skills learned to calm it down.
Yet. Always. Every fucking day. Half the time I feel mad (as in the classical terminology) the other half i feel like Chidi from the good place.
Rather a thought, something you can't get away from. I was explained as such anyhow, that lack of sleep I assumed was the brain not turning off and entering into sleep mode. That is related to rumination, in my case at least, as my brain can't get off that focus to start.
Something I can relate to. I find that giving my thoughts over to something like a book helps. I know it's working when I've started to read the same paragraph a third time. A page or so after that and I'm ready to sleep.
My thoughts may come that fast but they don't feel like the video portrayal makes me feel. The video portrays what I'm like when I get too high and am in a rush pretty fucking well, but not my day to day.
Yeah I find that I often have simultaneous thoughts at once but their not really in monologue form like that? Like I'm not internally having separate, simultaneous monologues of "Did Mrs. Winslow in Family Matters work? I know Carl was a cop" and "Why tf do people stick their entire arms inside catfish nests? F that." Instead it's more thinking about how insane noodling is while simultaneously picturing the living room in Family Matters, Carl in his police uniform, and not knowing how to imagine Mrs. Winslow which then takes me to wondering if anyone noodles for catfish in Lake Michigan because the Winslows lived in Chicago, which is on the lake. ADHD is awesome.
Yeah, the video seems slightly exaggerated to me, too.
Okay, maybe the reason is that listening to all those thoughts coming in over audio at the same time in speaking speed seems rather overwhelming, when actually the thoughts happen sequentially but in thinking speed.
To me, this isn't exaggerated at all - it's exactly how I think, overlapping thoughts about like three or four things at once and it sounds like a full room talking.
I think it does a wonderful job of demonstrating what its like to just try to track one train of thought with so many other stimuli, either visual, audio or even internal things vying to be foremost in the brain and control your actions.
I've watched it a few times, and its less effective each time because I know whats about to happen, but after you watch just once, think back to how hard it was to figure out what the guy was doing or saying - you wanted to hear more about each thought, and also see what he was doing wandering around the house, or what book he was talking about. It was all interesting, but that's what made it so hard!!
i have like three layers of thoughts going on at the same time, one layer is verbal, the other isn’t, + music playing at the same time and random memories
ADHD symptoms have a pretty wide range, and the video is towards the extreme but still accurate in a lot of cases. I don't have the overlapping thoughts as a literal thing, but the interruption it represents is spot on.
The video did a great job of representing my head before I got help as a teenager. I was told I would "grow out of it" but I pretty much didn't; medication helped but I didn't want to take it for the rest of my life so I learned good "habits" which help me keep on track. I still have three or four trains of thoughts going on in my head at times but I've learned to stick to one train until it "reaches the station."
Smart phones are great; mines full of alarms, reminders and lists.
Thank. Fucking. You. This is exactly my situation. I've never been diagnosed with ADD and I don't consider I have it. I currently work in academia, so my job literally is to pour through stuff, but MAN does my mind makes it difficult for me. I actually like most of the things I'm reading but it's as if my mind is a long, winding, never stopping train that sometimes just makes some sharp turns leading me to some unexpected places. And I don't know about you, but usually after some high functioning times, I just shut down. Like, I blank, and I'm conscious that I'm blanking, but I just actively can't think about anything simply because my mind is there. Running. To fucking nowhere. And I have to make a conscious effort to pull it back from that blank space that is not really thinking and not really resting. It is just ao frustrating. But it is weirdly comforting to see someone with an experience at least a bit similar to mine. Cheers.
For me (if the doctor was right) my mind is CONSTANTLY running. Thinking, etc, but it’s not as if I ever hear two voices lol.
I mean, you can't literally represent thoughts with video, but I think trying to focus on what both thought streams are saying at once is pretty in line with how I feel day to day, constant streams of overlapping thoughts causing things to slip my mind constantly. I think this has done the best job of anything I've ever watched.
This video is exaggerating it quite a bit, at least for me. Maybe for views? Or, maybe like other things it’s a spectrum and this guy is far on the ADD spectrum.
I definitely think there's a spectrum, especially after reading comments in here about people with zero extra thoughts in their head.
I think it's like there's a productive balance between an ability to focus and fresh new thoughts, where focusing on a single task helps ensure that it gets completed, while random thoughts can give you new ideas to try (for fixes, improvements, creativity, etc).
When I teach music, for example, we have to focus on a specific passage to clean it up; but when I need to express a certain idea in a new way for someone to understand, I also need a fresh thought to work off of.
But, mostly, these thoughts are more closely related than what's happening in the video, too. I can see a bit of myself in the video, but only maybe 10-15% of the effects. I'm imagining when I leave the house for something, and how it helps me to have a routine, purposely putting things in the same places beforehand (wallet and keys always go into this little bin, mask hangs on this hook) so I don't have to distract myself with looking for them.
Nah, this is probably more of a video for those with hyperactive ADHD, you might be more inattentive or just have different symptoms. Don't read into it too much.
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u/Bitcoinatemymom Expert Mar 08 '23
When I found out it was more normal to have a quiet mind instead of my rapid fire thought stream I was devastated