#adhd stigma

[scretladyspider]

No, ADHD isn’t caused by iPads and screen time. We’re seeing a rise in diagnosis because professionals are recognizing that it’s not just hyperactive, white, middle and upper class little boys with bad grades. Not because of more access to the internet.

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[91vaults]

It’s interesting to me that people veiw using stimulants (without diagnosis) in an academic setting as “cheating” The thing is is that there’s no “merit” that exists inside a vacuum “raw intelligence” aside the people who do better will be the ones that can fit exercise, a decent diet, sleep into their time will do better, those who can afford tutors will do better and those whose circumstances are stable and don’t have to deal with all kinds of things (disability, oppressed etc ) are posed to do better. And all that aside stimulants probably aren’t going to do as much for somone as they think they will (it could very much make things worse) Misusing prescription medication for this purpose shits me to no end because it creates shortages, contributes to stigma and makes it a pain in the ass for the rest of us (like good luck me trying to move interstate if I wanted too). And i don’t think it’s good to normalise it and make people think they have to go to those lengths for fear of being left behind. But no, I don’t think it’s cheating and i don’t think it’s helpful to frame it that way

#adhd #adhd stigma #adhd medication #adhd meds #medication stigma

[chronic-cane]

I mentioned that I was doing an analysis of the news reports going out about the Adderall shortage and my professor was like "oh yeah I had a student do a study about people who took non-prescribed Adderall!"

I sat there like "yeah, and I'm studying how that's the first reaction people have to the drug and how it can impact the people who need it for medical purposes"

Yeah, that research is important too, but that's all I fucking hear about.

#adhd #adhd stigma

[destigmatizeme]

Here’s an idea, Elon: Don’t give medical advice when you clearly don’t know what you are fucking talking about.

Are there people who will attempt or complete a suicide after taking Wellbutrin? Yes. It’s an antidepressant. Antidepressants are unfortunately associated with suicides, but that doesn’t mean that they are the cause of them or that you should avoid antidepressants.

Elon may think he’s helping—though given his general tendency toward douchebaggery, I genuinely doubt that—but he is not. He is stigmatizing usage of psychiatric medicine. Guess what that can lead to? Suicide. The very thing he thinks Wellbutrin causes.

#stigma #elon musk #mental health stigma #twitter #mental illness #mental health #medication stigma #medication #antidepressants #wellbutrin #depression stigma #major depressive disorder #depression #adhd stigma #adhd

[vangoghinthehead]

i just want to tell everyone i know, that they're not paying attention. whether it's not recognizing how far i'm falling behind, or not noticing my lack of sexuality. i'm having dreams where i can't breathe, and no one is trying to help me. it's a metaphor, but no one is listening.

#anxiety #adhd #adhd inattentive #adhd in adults #adhd in women #dream interpretation #social anxiety #diblitating adhd #asexual #asexuality #ace #aroace #aromantic #because no one is educated enough to notice that either #anxious adhd #anxiety culture #adhd culture #aroace culture #ace culture #adhd stigma #i need a therapist #writing instead of sleeping #mental health coded dreams #poor mental health #neurodivergent #neurodivergent student #closet ace problems #adhd problems #codependent problems #my post

[adhd-positivity]

So I'm new to the whole adhd discovery thing. I was diagnosed late 90s at 5yrs old but there was no proper research then and doctors guinea pigged me as well with meds back then.

I grew up with the stigma that It's bad to be adhd and so now that I'm finding stuff and places like this I'm getting some relief knowing I'm not some crazy.

I would put more but don't wanna "life story" ya.

Also I was inspired to put this when I saw flapping my arms was a normal thing for someone like me. Silly I know. Also also writing this is driving my anxiety off the walls but I feel I gotta do it.

Hey, I’m so proud of you!

I remember the stigma! I was diagnosed in the early 2000s as a 7 year old, and I was ashamed to tell anyone for so long. There were leaps and bounds made between the 90s and 2000s in terms of medication, but it was still very frowned upon when I was a kid.

I’ve been working to unlearn that shame and fear myself, and I’m so happy when I hear stories of other people fighting the same battle and winning! I still don’t disclose to employers, but I do tell friends and family. I’ve found most people are willing to listen and learn.

I wasn’t given much information besides “attention deficit” when I was diagnosed, so I didn’t realize that so many of other the things I struggled with were also symptoms of ADHD. The hyperfocus, executive function issues, etc.

I’ve been learning so much about ADHD as an adult, and it feels like I’ve gotten an explanation for so many things that didn’t make sense when I was a kid. I’m so glad this generation has access to this information, and that that stigma has lessened.

I’m glad you’ve found a safe space here 💕

#asks #adhd stigma #positivity #adhd

[system-of-a-feather]

BTW if you think calming corners, sensory rooms, and other forms of dedicated spaces to handling overload, anxiety, or intense emotions in your house is something only for kids - or even worse - only neurodivergent kids, you are largely denying yourself a very helpful resource based on social norms.

Having a space dedicated to being safe and with easy access to things to help lower overstimulation and calm intense internal experiences is something that everyone can benefit from having

Not just kids

Not just neurodivergent kids

Not just neurodivergent adults

Not just mentally ill adults

Everyone - even the hypothetical person with no mental illness or physical disability

There is nothing "immature" about having spaces organized to make your difficult times easier to handle and I think everyone should consider dedicating maybe even just a shelf or corner in their place to having an abundance of self care resources

Self care is not a limited resource and not something that you have to be "bad enough to have"

If you think its a good thing for parents to provide their kids with rooms / spaces dedicated to different ways they can self regulate, then you should agree that if you are also dealing with any levels of difficulty self regulating, that it should be a good idea and good thing to provide yourslef with rooms / spaces dedicated to ways to help you self regulate

Children and adults both have emotions and life experiences that are hard to regulate / handle and both need ways to relax and calm down

Self care, sensory rooms, and coping / calming corners are resources that can help both children and adults with those difficult moments

#alter: fei #alter: riku #as someone who just realized that I don't need an office (ie the socially normal safe space that I used to have) #and instead could just have what all my neurodivergent kids have #and even just young kids have had in their classrooms and theraputic spaces had #and that it worked much better and there was no reason - other than the implications of mental illness and thus social stigma of having one #as to why I didnt just have one #and i am zero percent regretting it this is so much better for my mental health #actuallyautistic #autism #adhd #actuallyneurodivergent #actually neurodivergent #actually did #actuallydid #dissociative identity disorder #ptsd #self care

[adhdandcomics]

i know part of why people don’t take adhd seriously is because of the stigma around it about us being all jokey jokey all the time & the infantilization that comes with that but. can i be real for a moment.

it is TRULY mind boggling to me that the worst most life-upending symptoms i experience only manifest themselves in a way that makes me feel like i’m living in an episode of seinfeld. that i’m playing sims on hard mode. that i’m that little character in deltarune being piloted around by a truly incomprehensible outside force of will i have no ability to reckon with.

like, ok. sure. my brain is only motivated to do things by power of “is it entertaining enough”.

it’s ridiculous. it does not matter how it is entertaining. as long as it’s interesting. so you cannot do ANYTHING that is boring. or you will simply die. (and often times that's not even enough either)

#adhd #text #neurodivergent #waughhh #god i have a lot of thoughts about the jokey jokey stigma thing i mention in passing. that i need to make another post on #but it keeps accidentally turning into a 10 page essay

[moonlit-positivity]

Please stop pathologizing yourself. You're a human being at the end of the day. Getting so hung up over how you handle your symptoms & whether or not you're "right" or "wrong" to act that way? This only induces more shame, guilt, humiliation, and fosters more resentment for your inner self talk.

There is so much talk in recovery spaces about how to be this perfect idealistic vision of health at every possible stage. But that is not realistic at all. People have trauma. People have mental breakdowns. People have anger and rage and people have to live and go through things before you ever really know what to do with some of this stuff, how to handle it, etc.

At the end of the day, finding solace in your diagnosis can be cathartic, of course. But if you're dragging yourself through the mud because of what you've been handed in life and not knowing how to carry that like the Mona Lisa? Thats causing you more harm & distress than you'd think. Your diagnosis can be helpful for clarifying what's going on up there in the spicy brain noodle shop, but to be completely honest that's about it.

Why?

Well, because you're still you. You're still a human through and through. No matter what you've done on this earth, no matter what you were born with, no matter what you've been through- you deserve to rest easy knowing you're doing the best with what life has given you to work with.

So long as you're not trying to hurt anyone? Or if you're trying to be a little bit better than you were yesterday?

There is no need to further drag yourself down because the spicy brain demons don't dance the way society wants them to.

You don't deserve to suffer for the way society frames this shit. That is one of the best things you can learn how to do, is break free from the constant need to pathologize yourself at every nick and turn. Sometimes you just do stuff because you want to, because you like it, because it's helpful and beneficial to how you live. You don't need to put yourself in a straight jacket for that.

#recovery #ptsd #trauma #mental health #boundaries #healing #mental health discussion #adhd #autism #stigma #npd #bpd #pathologization #self esteem #self love #self care #mental health discourse #cluster b pds #self diagnosis #neurodivergent #neurospicy

[the-kestrels-feather]

Man, I wish I'd known that my ADHD diagnosis was a "get out of plagiarism allegations" free card. That would've saved me a ton of time in college.

#james somerton #for legal reasons this is a joke #actually adhd #and so very tired of people using it as an excuse to be a shithead. #people doing shit like this is part of the reason why there's such a stigma around having adhd like??? #somerton is a special kind of shithead but like. it's becoming more and more common to make it a get out of jail card and its infuriating

[91vaults]

I had a thought that Maybe stimulants in the treatment of ADHD is so contentious because of the combination of two factors:

1.) Relatively speaking does the medicine itself have more risks and side effects than other commonly prescribed medications? OR does it have this Aura of danger around it because there's an illicit market for it? 2.) Is ADHD contentious because it's much harder to pin down than other issues and on the surface be explained as things that most people deal with? So essentially you're taking this big scary addictive drug and using it to treat the fact that ""someone can't concentrate for a little bit""

If ADHD was more accepted as a condition that deserved proportionate treatment OR the drugs didn't have as many side effects and weren't subject to abuse. Then I don't think it would be as much controversy.

#adhd #adhd stigma #adhd medication #medication stigma #stimulants #stimulants stigma #adhd diagnosis #adhd meds

[neurospicyyy]

Y’all stop romanticizing and/or dismissing ocd and adhd, it’s not a joke. That’s stuff we have to live with. Thanks. 👍

#Like- im constantly in thought #Cant turn my brain off #And compulsively searching things and doing things. And I pick my skin. I HAVE problems #But it’s a joke to you apparently #like- you call anyone who has it worse than me a slur and call anyone like me or better “QuIrKy” #My mind is in a dark place #and you don’t seem to get that #If I hear one more neurotypical person go: “sorry UwU im so ocd” I will lose my FUCKIN- #and while we're at it #how about you be nice to pw cluster b personality disorders and stuff as well? It would be nice if you didn’t treat narcs as less than huma #Cuz they have feelings too. #actually adhd #actually ocd #ocd #adhd #stigma

[crimsoncosmic]

Just coming here to say that:

Narcissism and being a narcissist is a mental illness. It is not an adjective you can use to describe your ex who just happened to be a bit of a jerk.

Bipolar is a mental illness. It is not an adjective you can use to describe somebody who’s just a bit moody

Psychopath/Sociopath are both extremely stigmatized mental illnesses, and should not be used as a word to describe someone you simply just don’t like

OCD isn’t just being a perfectionist and being obsessed with cleaning.

ADHD isn’t just some quirky trait and having a lot of energy. It’s actually a learning disability

Autism IS A DISABILITY. It’s not a “different ability” it’s a disability, and it’s okay to acknowledge it as that.

Narcissistic Abuse isn’t a real thing, and the term only “narcissistic abuse” only causes more stigma around people who have NPD

That’s all.

#narcissistic personality disorder #narcissistic abuse isn't real #adhd #autism #ocd #end the stigma #bipolar disorder #stop using mental illnesses as regular adjectives

[enbycrip]

I am noticing a very serious and sustained media assault on people needing prescription drugs recently.

Panorama has attacked pain management drugs, ADHD diagnoses that could potentially lead to the NHS prescribing drugs to manage that, and now antidepressants. The same antidepressants pain management services are trying to claim are a replacement for pain management drugs btw. (They’re not. I take both.)

Given how much the Beeb are in the Tories’ pocket, this basically feels like a way of trying to shift the narrative about a disintegrating NHS (destroyed by Tory policies) into “you don’t actually need these anyway”. I.e. once again trying to victim blame sick and disabled people.

And the truly shittiest thing is that this will kill people. There’s still *so* much stigma around mental health and medication. People will flush their own drugs. People will flush the drugs of people they are caring for. And then people will have MH crises there is no capacity for the NHS to handle, and people will die.

#nhs #uk politics #oh ffs panorama could you not pls #bbc #chronic pain #chronic illness #mental illness #antidepressants #medical disableism #systemic disableism #disableism #ableism #stigma #adult adhd #autistic adult

[zoeinflowers]

Well, I think I lost a friend yesterday when I told them I have Adhd. But at least the new Percy Jackson Series came out today as compensation!

#percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percabeth #adhd #there's still stigma folks #lots of people dont believe in mental health

[kitten-forward]

#mental health #mental illness #mental wellbeing #positive mental attitude #mental wellness #positivity #adhd #self healing #therapy #body positive #stigma #neurodiverse stuff #self care #self love #mental health stuff #mental health support #mental health struggles #actually mentally ill #mental health stigma