r/videos • u/Jtaimelafolie • May 30 '17

This guy's presentation on ADHD is excellent

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JowPOqRmxNs
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u/GloriousGe0rge May 30 '17 edited May 30 '17

I've already had a massive post about this before, but when I was diagnosed with ADD I had no idea how much of my life it was affecting.

Until I saw this video about 3 years ago, it shook me to my core, everything he said lined up and made sense now. I used to go by the name BallisticGe0rge because of my short temper. I always thought that was just who I was, but this explained it.

Edit - Here's the entire series of his presentation, anyone dealing with ADHD should definitely watch it.

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u/Valendr0s May 30 '17

Me too. I always knew I was kinda 'ADD', but then I watched his videos and I realized I was pretty severely ADD. And that it was affecting my work, my relationships, and my life in general. I got tested, was put on medication.

I like to say that the first day on medication was the first day I was ever actually AWAKE. I'd never known what AWAKE felt like. Not a caffeine high. Not a 'I just found a new thing I love and am obsessing over it" up feeling... but actually awake. I thought everybody else was constantly exhausted and lazy and bored and so so so angry all the time... But they were just better at working past it than I was.

But that first day on medication... Oh... this calm, awake, interested feeling. That explains why everybody else seemed to be able to so easily act in a way that was nearly impossible for me to act. They felt like THIS. It just explained so much.

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u/GloriousGe0rge May 30 '17

Part of that is definitely the "high" that wears off, but part of it never goes away, you're right.

The best way I could describe it at the time, was like that part in the movie The Fly, where Jeff Goldblum feels freaking fantastic and able to do everything in his life better, with more confidence and more control and quicker thinking.

It honestly makes me wonder if one day I'll too mutate into a horrible insect.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '17

That high is the best feeling in the world. I threw out all of my pills because I liked it so much.