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I told the psychiatric nurse who supervises my meds, on a day when I was pulled over in a parking lot talking to her on the phone because I'd forgotten we had a virtual appointment so she called me to ask where I was, that my planner works about 85% of the time, as long as I LOOK at it in the morning/before I start work. She said, "85% is good. I'm happy with 85%." That sounds like a goal to aim for in life.

This is how I aim for that 85%.

Written because of a discussion I was in on possible ADHD elsewhere online.

cut for long post on how I ADHD )

BOOKS AND OTHER RESOURCES

Cutting this section separately in case you don't want to read the rest, just want resources )

Anyway! That's a giant-ass post about ADHD and my coping strategies (and others I've heard). Could it be a hell of a lot shorter if I edited it? Probably! Am I going to? No! I hyperfocused all afternoon on it and now I'm hungry and have lost the hyperfocus so if I wait to edit it, it's not getting posted.

Have fun!
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A couple of people on my DW have been talking about their writing techniques. As I’ve recently left a couple of long comments on Reddit about mine, from the lofty heights of a total of 110,000 words in two years on a third-draft-stage novella and unfinished novel, I’m posting them here. (Mostly because they were to people who were in the same place I was before the switch flipped and I was able to actually produce a coherent story, not because I’m an expert. And I want to keep them for reference as I’ve posted variations of them several times.)

Read more... )
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Link: What ADHD is Like (for me). Just reading it, nodding, going "It me...it me...it me..." at almost every single entry there. :/
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I'm back on the ADHD meds again, after several years off. Pharmacy shenanigans abound. Last month, because I have to slowly increase the amount when starting to avoid potential liver issues, the pharm tech was confused by a 1-month prescription for 90 25mg pills that involved taking 1/day for 7 days, then 2/day for 7 days, then 3/day thereafter. It took a long phone call, at one point during which he triumphantly claimed to have my 3-week course of medication put in properly, so I had to inform him this was not a 3-week-course type of medicine, it was an ongoing maintenance med. And then after he figured that out, and had to call the pharmacist over to override the computer, they didn't have the full amount of pills so I got a partial scrip that day and came back the next for the rest.

And then I didn't realize until Dec 31 that they hadn't given me enough for the full month at 3/day for the final two weeks, and I figured that the holiday would make things worse, so instead of wrangling with them again I opted to drop down to 2/day, which lasted me until today, when I had my next appt. The doc* concurred that that was a reasonable thing to do.

Today, when I have taken my final dose, I have a new prescription in for 80mg this time because she decided that was less likely to confuse them than 3 25mg pills, so naturally the Walgreens app says my prescription is delayed because they're out of the 80mg pills, the bot that answers the phone says the prescription will be ready after 12 noon, and the website says I don't have a prescription.


*technically a psychatric nurse, but that's too long to type out every time.

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