Inattentive consultants who worked both unmedicated and medicated what was the main difference you noticed tactically?

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I can focus more when medicated

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Do you feel more relaxed and present? Also do you tend to bump into things unmedicated?

I work really well under pressure but it stresses me out. When medicated, I find myself in less “11th hour” situations. Either way i always figure it out and get deliverables in on time but doing it without medication is way more stressful and requires me to stay up later, etc

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Yeah this is me. I have medication but work decently without it after ages of learning to cope, but if I don’t load my plate up with stuff to do I get really inattentive and lazy which has a snowball effect. So if I want to be unmedicated I have to find the balance of being crazy busy enough it’s sustainable and minimizes stress, but it’s a razor thin line

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Unmedicated I’m distracted, procrastinate eternally, find it hard to start, but when I do, I crank out work quickly. Medicated, I can focus, but I’m overfocused, overanalyzing, overly detailed. Either way makes me take too long, but tbh about the same amount of time. Both are frustrating idk anymore.

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Interesting. Honestly finding work you find interesting enough is usually enough for me

Medicated - I can work on one project for more than an hour and get it done. I also have just 1-3 streams of thought at a time. Like being in a library.

Unmedicated, I work on multiple things in an hour and don’t finish much. Also I have numerous streams of thought going on at once. My mind is like a noisy stadium most of the time.

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Without medication, I’ll avoid certain critical tasks like they’re a plague. I can’t get my brain to care about the consequences. The thought of doing those tasks feels like torture, and I’ve tried everything. I’ve tried pushing through, forcing myself to not think about it too hard, tricking myself by getting myself treats and sneaking in the work, etc.

Once something gets “boring” or a little too unfulfilling, it’s over for me lol I almost failed out of school bc of this. As soon as I take my medication, I can’t logically understand why I was avoiding it for so long.

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I was unmediated until late 20s and during two pregnancy. I was about to function okay at work with good routines, deadlines and doing tasks I enjoyed. I found that my mood significantly increased on adhd meds. I tend to get very stuck when overwhelmed or bored, which made me depressed. The meds help get me over the hump.

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