SaddieTheMad

SaddieTheMad, 1 day ago

¡Con el osito Bimbo 🐻‍❄️!

SaddieTheMad, 2 days ago

Both.

SaddieTheMad, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

Spanish (native), English (fluent).

Edit: Me emociona leer que tantas personas están aprendiendo español 🫶…

SaddieTheMad, 2 days ago

Make playlists of songs within your vocal range and sing! It’s so much easier in the shower. You’ll flow.

SaddieTheMad, 2 days ago

Bipolar disorder is kind of severe by definition (mild cases are still impactful), but there’s a milder version called cyclothymia or cyclothymic disorder. Depending on the person, it can be managed without medication, and a common comorbidity is ADHD.

A recent paper reads:

Cyclothymia seems to be often associated with coexisting ADHD symptoms, although this comorbidity is understudied.

The paper is called “Clinical characterization of coexisting ADHD symptoms in a sample of adults with cyclothymia: A preliminary observational study”.

It says:

In our clinical sample, nearly half of cyclothymic adults present with ADHD symptoms.

That’s a lot. I hope more papers come out soon.

SaddieTheMad, 16 days ago

Mines are recycling the same plots in different locations each season.

SaddieTheMad, 16 days ago

Both, depending on the month. I have bipolar disorder.

SaddieTheMad, 25 days ago

Get the “How to ADHD” book. The YouTube channel is good, but the book is an incredible guide for both the person with ADHD and their loved ones.

SaddieTheMad, 25 days ago

I use Daylio because I started there years ago and I don’t want to lose all the data.

I have used and liked eMoods. I even donated because I liked that it is designed for bipolar disorder. In regular mood tracking apps, “happy” is the highest and there’s no manic range, so one has to improvise a scale. eMoods doesn’t have this problem.

Another one made for BD is Bipolar UK Mood Tracker. I have always found their bipolar mood scale useful, so I remember enjoying the app.

And lastly, UP! also contemplates mania. I didn’t like it as much as the others because I felt it had too many elements (this was years ago, though); but one useful thing is that if you track too many high or low moods, it sends you a notification with a warning. That’s nice.

SaddieTheMad, 16 days ago

Many teachers liked me, but they definitely were frustrated because they thought I was relying on my good tests only, as if I thought that being smart was enough in life. They warned me that hard work was also necessary.
I don’t blame them, and it is kind that they were worried about it, but it was not an attitude or belief, it was ADHD! A teacher even detected my memory problems and suggested a to-do list, but she didn’t know that even acquiring those habits is hard for us.

I wish my teachers knew more about ADHD as all the clues were there. An early diagnosis would have helped me a lot.

SaddieTheMad, 25 days ago

Also, cognitive disengagement syndrome or CDS. (It is not recognized yet by the DSM, though).

SaddieTheMad, 25 days ago

I was reading about the Wahls Protocol (kind of paleo, if I’m reading correctly), and now keto. I honestly don’t like them. I like my potatoes, my tomatoes, corn, fruits, etc. But I might try a balance between my starchy and sweet foods and these diets and see what happens. Just slowly because depressive episodes and executive dysfunction make changes difficult 🐢

Thank you for the article!

SaddieTheMad, 16 days ago

You could use a medical directory such as this one. This one is Mexican and it has filters so you can find an ADHD expert within the clinical psychologists. Contact them.

If you allow me a piece of advice, don’t be cheap with these people. Just because they are used to earn miserably doesn’t mean that it isn’t hard. Living super tightly, stressed because it isn’t enough to save for the future… That’s the reality for many psychotherapists in Mexico —not all, but many. If you can pay them justly because of the euro (obviously considering your needs too), do so, please.

SaddieTheMad, 2 months ago

I don’t know. When I was younger, caffeine made me sleepy. Nowadays, it makes me focus.

It’s great to finish activities, but I cannot take it frequently as it affects my mood if I do so (bipolar disorder). It’s only my emergency focus 🪄.

SaddieTheMad, 4 months ago

No, attention issues can be caused by depression, anxiety, stress, bad sleep hygiene or problems like sleep apnea, and many other things.

SaddieTheMad, 5 months ago

Tah-MAH-lehs would be more accurate. ‘Females’, read as in Spanish, would be feh-MAH-lehs.

It’s easy, you read Spanish as if every vowel had that ‘h’. Vowels do not change their sound.

That’s a horrible explanation, right? Here. That’s how you always pronounce the vowels.

SaddieTheMad, 5 months ago

I just wanted to let you know that I read you and I feel you, even if we come from opposite worlds.

SaddieTheMad, 5 months ago

Social anxiety intensifies

SaddieTheMad, 5 months ago

This disorder is highly genetic, though. It is my case (and I embrace being the crazy aunt this generation).

SaddieTheMad, 5 months ago

Well, the science behind takes those possibilities into consideration.

The studies include children adopted into bipolar households, and they do not develop bipolar disorder as often as biological children; and also children of parents with bipolar disorder adopted by non-bipolar and relatively healthy families that develop bipolar disorder nonetheless. These studies also include twins with bipolar disorder predisposition who, even when separated and given different environments, both develop bipolar disorder.

Stress plays a part. For many with predisposition, stress gives the push. This is known as the diathesis-stress model. And, yes, some people develop bipolar disorder without known bipolar relatives.

Yet:

Bipolar disorder is frequently inherited, with genetic factors accounting for approximately 80% of the cause of the condition. Bipolar disorder is the most likely psychiatric disorder to be passed down from family. If one parent has bipolar disorder, there’s a 10% chance that their child will develop the illness. If both parents have bipolar disorder, the likelihood of their child developing bipolar disorder rises to 40%.

From: www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/…/causes/

SaddieTheMad, 5 months ago

Here: github.com/XargsUK/awesome-adhd

My personal choices are…

• Russell Barkley, phD
• Dr. Tracey Marks
• How to ADHD
• ADHD ReWired
• ADHD Experts

And you asked for sources, but these tools are great…

Apps

MyTherapy Pill Reminder: Notifications are annoying enough for me to take my pills.

Alarm Clock for Heavy Sleepers: I am not a heavy sleeper. I use it as my default alarm because it is highly customizable and it lets me snooze whatever time I need to snooze from a list of options I decide. Also, you can have alarms with different behaviors.

Bitwarden Password Manager: It’s impossible to remember all your passwords nowadays…

Everyday objects

Clever Fox Pocket Weekly Planner: Before, I had reminders and to-dos everywhere (phone notes, post-its, to-do app, alarms…). Now I only use this notebook. Everything is here, from “do laundry” to “Friend’s birthday”. It’s been very helpful.

Fidget cube from Antsy Labs: It’s the original one! It’s nice.

Loop Experience Plus Earplugs: Expensive, but effective and comfortable.

This, and a minimalist lifestyle are helping me. I share it, just in case.

⚠️ By the way, learning about ADHD is chaotic because people have different takes on it. There’s the “I am a researcher, an expert, and all my years of study have let me to conclude that ADHD is not what the DSM tells us but something different, similar but different” (e.g. professor Russel Barkley). There’s the “ADHD is what the DSM says because that’s the experts’ consensus. If we discover something new via sufficient evidence, it will appear in future editions of the DSM. Of course there are other things to say about the disorder, but they are too new and need more research” (e.g. Dr. Tracey Marks). And then there’s the “ADHD is not even a disorder, it is just a brain that’s different from the average brain. ADHD is therefore not understood by psychiatrists but by people who live with it, and we say that it resembles the description from the psychiatrists but it has additional traits” (e.g. the neurodiversity movement).

Sorry for the long answer! I hope it helps.

SaddieTheMad, 9 months ago

It looks like the zodiac symbol for cancer, rotated: ♋

SaddieTheMad, 9 months ago

I am disliking this sentiment. I am on the Fediverse because Sync’s developer and many others were betrayed by Reddit and I wanted to show solidarity and to ‘punish’ Reddit by leaving. The Fediverse’s values are admirable, but I do not share them all. I believe in supporting good projects, even some that are private if they don’t pose a risk of destroying something bigger, and Sync is a good project that can be easily abandoned without consequences if something goes wrong.

SaddieTheMad, 9 months ago

You are right about that. I would add that non-human lives are also valuable. I especially believe animal suffering is terrible, ours and others. We are enough to help humankind and also repair injustices to and help other beings.

What I wanted to comment is that I felt this image intensely because it is kind of symbolic. It represents the beauty we are capable of, the way we can be brought together by beliefs and dreams, all destroyed by greediness, selfishness, and unnecessary violence. It is tragic. It is not the value of the building itself, which is debatable, but this I explained.

Sorry if my English is weird.

SaddieTheMad, 9 months ago

Learning philosophy (and sciences, arts, etc.) is great. I think their real problem is to be dogmatic or arrogant, which is ironic.