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Has anyone ever taken a stimulant for ADHD and it cured your manic mess but simultaneously erased your creative joyful childlike wonder at the world and your interest in the people you share it with?
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Am I cured or broken indefinitely to better suit โadulthoodโ?
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As I wade through the vibrant and manic mess that was the BEFORE STIMULANTS and I look out onto the starkly dull and muted tones of the AFTERS STIMULANTSโฆ the pendulum swings and I violently and obediently bend with it.
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I can balance my budget now. Proficient in punctuality and productivity. Finishing work projects that used to take weeks? EASY. Calculating and efficient, I am almost unemotional as I smash through barriers that once kept me at a stand still for weeks.
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The counter balance to these super abilities is glaring:
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1. I find it difficult to produce an ounce of creativity.
2. I am colder, more calculating.
3. I find empathy over other peopleโs emotions a far off tingle of familiarity I reach for and only brush.
4. I find even accessing my own emotions to be difficult.
5. I find little pleasure from completing tasks just a dull and far off โ
that reminds me of pleasure but has none of the organic material.
6. I lack spark behind my eyes.
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In conclusion, the video I filmed for todayโs YOUTUBE launch feltโฆ soulless and lacking. It felt disingenuous. I wasnโt talking to YOU, my mental health friends. I was just โฆ talking.
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TO BE BRUTALLY HONEST: Iโm unsure how to proceed with the channel, with my contentโฆ with my identity outside of MANIC PIXIE DREAM GIRL โฆ I feel really really defeated if Iโm honest. Iโve spent my entire adult life in survival mode and for the first time, on this new medication, I can see dozens of strategies to LEAVE SURVIVAL and CHASE AFTER THRIVEโฆ but I didnโt think it would COST MEโฆ my personality, my creativity, my identity.
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Idk but, I guess .. thatโs the way with these things. Mental health, medication, stabilizationโฆ
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Mental health isnโt โpretty and punctualโ so said my producer tonight. It can ALSO be โimperfect and valuableโ. Nothing is a perfect science, everyone is just doing their best I guess.
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Fighting your own brain ๐ง daily, hourly, weekly, monthly, yearly is exhausting work. Iโm so deeply proud of everyone out there choosing to fight another day. I hope to continue being as brave and resilient as you all are.
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Itโs 12:00am. Iโve officially missed the โNEW VIDEO EVERY SUNDAYโ standard I set for myself and I have to admit Iโm taking it very poorly and I feel pretty defeated, but I had to come let the few who support my cross platformโฆ that Iโm sorry I couldnโt get there today.
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Returning to YouTube after being run off by a parasocial making very real threats years ago, has been a delicious dream of mine for so long.
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I just deactivated both my Instagram and Facebook as they were both just reminding me of this missed deadline, of this empty channel, of what feels like a failure. In the age of comparison and competition, TO BE A HUMAN IS NOT EASY.
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So Iโll regroup, recoup, lean into coping mechanisms, touch base with my therapist + psychiatristโฆ and keep trying to find a way through.
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Thank you for your interest in my content.
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I appreciate you deeply.
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I anticipate that this hopefully โฆ wonโt be the end.
๐๏ธ xoxo borderlinebelle
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Having bpd is literally the worst thing ever. A mood swing can hit you literally anytime any second of the day. Youโre literally at the mercy of this fucking illness. Does it care that two seconds ago you were having an amazing time with your friends? No. Does it care that no will understand why youโre frowning and sitting in a corner when you were literally laughing two seconds ago? No. It doesnโt give a fuck about anything or anyone. Not one thing. It just consumes you. And makes you hate yourself for being like this because thereโs nothing you can do about it. Nothing.
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