This is my experience being diagnosed with ADHD at 29 as well. Things seemed fine from the outside. Well paying, stable work. However, I had an incredibly difficult ability to do anything that needed intrinsic motivation, and my self-image began suffering as a result. I was constantly finding motivation from external factors and/or fear of rejection/failure and/or adrenaline to accomplish anything.
The first time I took a central nervous system stimulant (Modafinil as a nootropic) I could suddenly book my dentist appointments, and book a doctor's appointment to talk about mental health, and book holidays I'd been putting off. And read several chapters of a book in one sitting. And make my bed and remember to brush my teeth. And check in with friends I hadn't heard from in a while. Normal life stuff. Is this what neurotypical people can do!? I wish my frontal lobes had more activation and bloodflow by themselves.
My GP didn't understand how I could think I had a problem since I could maintain a 9-5. My family compared me to my less "obedient" ADHD older brother and never had me tested. I am pretty sure my mother has it but is in denial.
Dr. Russell Barkley has some great videos explaining how ADHD is an intention disorder, and how knowing and doing are separate parts of the brain.
Thanks for sharing! There's a lot of misinformation about ADHD out there. I'm glad that there are treatments that help right away (unlike most psychiatric conditions).
The most important factors in life are determined by the social and psychological and external and internal bio-chemical environment. One has much freedom to change and improve these environments.
What you're feeling is normal. I just read some of your previous comments, and I think you'd find some help in talking about this with a counsellor of some kind. Many people get bouts of feeling hopeless and unsatisfied. This is the perfect thing to mention to a doctor or reach out to a professional. It is so incredibly common. You don't need to bottle these feelings up. You know there is a problem, please reach out to someone!
On the flip side, I get tend to get inflammation when I consume too many added sugars. This usually manifests as joint pain, headaches, and breakouts. It has forced me to have a much healthier diet. Thanks for sharing your insights!
Depending on the type of tea you drink, this could be due to the calming effects of l-theanine [1] in tea.
I have the genes that extend caffeine half-life. If I drink an American large coffee, I get anxious. I can drink a whole pot or two of green tea and feel a nice lift in mood.
As others have mentioned, any coffee after noon and I can't fall asleep until around 2am. I avoid caffeine most days except for the occasional morning kombucha.
If anyone wants to read another stream of conciousness post -- mine devolves into shambles about my poor typing skills (a measly 48 wpm and trying not to hit backspace) and constant re-evaluation.
http://pastebin.com/vdkupSdy
Sure, but now look at Highrise's visual approach. We know that they have A/B tested in the past, so I am going out on a limb to say that they continue to do so. They have a human element in their hero image on their homepage, and they include an image of a smiling influencer near the top. I'd reaffirm what others have said and test for your audience! I am not affiliated with business of the case study in the link you posted.
https://highrisehq.com/
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I had to read some of secondary sources to understand the implications of this paper.
Ultimately, studies show that on average human traits are typically due 1/2 to genetics and 1/2 to environment. However, some traits are more skewed one way or the other. For example, bipolar disorder among twins was about 70% due to genetics and 30% due to environmental factors. All traits researched were somehow impacted by genetics.
Also for about a third of traits, the nature part wasn't dependent on a specific gene, so gene isolation to help predict traits is not always possible.
What other major takeaways from this study do you find interesting?
>The most interesting aspect of these results is that for many traits there is no detectable non-additivity. That is, gene-gene interactions seem to be insignificant, and a simple linear genetic architecture is consistent with the results.
We already knew this sort of from animal studies and evolutionary theory. But it's interesting to see it confirmed in humans.
The implications of this, is that it will be very easy to predict phenotypes from genetics. We don't need to model complicated interactions between genes like many people thought, and can simply take the genes that correlate the most with a desired trait.
This means you could do a large enough study and find every gene that correlates with intelligence, and create the optimal combination. Creating humans orders of magnitudes more intelligent than any human who has ever lived.
Thanks! That is interesting. I would love to see that happen -- even if there are ethical issues to consider. Maybe we can start by making the most genetically intelligent rabbits or something.
> Ultimately, studies show that on average human traits are typically due 1/2 to genetics and 1/2 to environment.
Well, no. Without a qualifier, it only makes sense to say that traits are 100% due to genetics. Replace a human in whatever circumstance with something that shares no genetics with a human (say, a rock), and you'll find that the power of the environment to make it behave in normal human ways is underwhelming.
What this is saying is that of the variation that humans display, about half is generally explained (in a statistical sense) by (a particular definition of) genetic variation among those humans. Humans vary from zero to zero wings, and the heritability of wings (in humans) is therefore undefined. It would be hard to conclude from this that our lack of wings isn't due to genetics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum#Tinnitus
"People who both suffer from tinnitus and hear the Hum describe them as qualitatively different, and many hum sufferers can find locations where they do not hear the hum at all. An investigation by a team of scientists in Taos dismissed the possibility that the Hum was tinnitus as highly unlikely."
The first time I took a central nervous system stimulant (Modafinil as a nootropic) I could suddenly book my dentist appointments, and book a doctor's appointment to talk about mental health, and book holidays I'd been putting off. And read several chapters of a book in one sitting. And make my bed and remember to brush my teeth. And check in with friends I hadn't heard from in a while. Normal life stuff. Is this what neurotypical people can do!? I wish my frontal lobes had more activation and bloodflow by themselves.
My GP didn't understand how I could think I had a problem since I could maintain a 9-5. My family compared me to my less "obedient" ADHD older brother and never had me tested. I am pretty sure my mother has it but is in denial.
Dr. Russell Barkley has some great videos explaining how ADHD is an intention disorder, and how knowing and doing are separate parts of the brain.
Thanks for sharing! There's a lot of misinformation about ADHD out there. I'm glad that there are treatments that help right away (unlike most psychiatric conditions).