• frickineh@lemmy.world
    22·
    1 year ago

    My brother in Christ, I can assure that at my age, alcohol is only going to enhance the suffering pretty much immediately. Reality sucks butt, but reality plus middle-aged hangover is an express ticket to hell.

    • erogenouswarzone@lemmy.mlEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      Yes. I drink a beer and I’m hungover for 2 weeks. No shit.

      Edit: I hit it hard in my younger years, probably ruined my liver beyond the point of healing itself.

  • WhisperingEye@lemmy.world
    17·
    1 year ago

    Been like this until my OCD became a problem and recently started on pills to help me get through the day. Boy, I can say they work!

      • WhisperingEye@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 year ago

        My OCD is mostly thoughts and almost no behaviors. The pills help me to ignore the thoughts. But they’re still in my head but easier to control

        • DessertStorms@kbin.social
          4·
          1 year ago

          Thanks for responding, and I’m glad they’re helping you! Being able to control the thoughts even some must make a real difference…

          I’ve been considering meds for a while, but I worry that they either won’t work or have some unexpected side effects that make life worse, hearing from people who actually use them helps in trying to ease those concerns…

          • Promethiel@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 year ago

            Not OCD, but ADHD. Otherwise same attitude towards rx drugs, especially since my parents opted against them when first recommended as a child.

            In my lucky case, it took 2 hours after taking the stimulant medicine my brain was lacking to maintain a coherence state (aka a flow state), for me to feel like the world’s greatest fool for having waited until I was in my 30s.

            The day is literally seared in my memory levels of life changing.

            Highly encourage you to discuss with your healthcare/psychiatry provider and strongly consider trying them. The side effects are often charted and entirely avoidable in many cases. The most important thing is a dialogue with a professional.

            • DessertStorms@kbin.social
              2·
              1 year ago

              I appreciate your response and glad you found meds that work for you!

              I don’t know how this works with ADHD, but being autistic I know I am much more likely to experience side effects (as I have in the past when I tried different meds), so it might not be that easy to avoid or clear cut to prescribe in the first place, but yeah, the plan is to speak to a gp at some point, there just always seems to be something more urgent to be dealing with…

              • Promethiel@lemmy.world
                2·
                1 year ago

                Yes, I wish you the best of luck in finding a GP that will listen finely to your subjective experience.

                That is absolutely key, and often the most difficult part—especially for anyone with any degree of neurodivergence—to the point I almost gave up trying to advocate for myself.

                Even with my (reportedly? I don’t know how these things are measured to be honest) lesser degree of neurodivergence many meds side effects affect me differently.

                If you can find a provider that already has experience diagnosing autism in adults, they might be the kind of provider whose opinion on the specifics of the side effects you might want to seek.

                I wish you the best of luck in your journey towards ease of being, fellow person.