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Not to mention voluntarily installing some of the worst spyware…
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For someone who’s suspicious. Any links or tips? The community page was thin as f.
It was a meme version of this article which caused me to seek a formal diagnosis.
https://themighty.com/topic/adhd/icnu-william-dodson-adhd-motivation/
Did you get help? I’m scared even my wife doubts me.
It took me about a year and a half to go from having a diagnosis to actually doing anything about it. Like it took my career going off the rails to take the diagnosis from the specialist to my family doctor.
My wife was skeptical at first, but now is very supportive. And to be fair it was about 10 years between my first inkling and the diagnosis so I suppose it’s fair to say that I was also skeptical at first.
I’m now on my second medication and in counseling. I’d say it’s only kinda working. The most effective thing has been to set things up to take advantage of urgency/accountability.
Also if you go to the comments sections in some of these places, it’s just a bunch of people skipping over long paragraphs of text saying basically the same thing over and over again while they interject their own little spin on ADHD using run on sentences that are so long they’re basically incoherent so no one reads them anyway.
I’m not sure if this was on purpose, but this comment complaining about run on sentences has one period. I love it.
Imma need a TL;DR on this one probably.
idk why but i never got tiktok. the all-powerful mystical algorithm that hijacks your brain just didn’t work on me. it’s all politics bullshit and lame facebook memes.
hell, the fedi (both lemmy and the microblog-verse) has “wasted” more of my lifespan overall than tiktok.
If you told it you didn’t like that content it would just try something else. Or searched your interests so it knows what you’re looking for. My feed is full of only my interests 99.9% of the time. Everyone complaining about only getting cringy content is really telling on themselves here lol
Everyone complaining about only getting cringy content is really telling on themselves here lol
even in the deepest, darkest, secret-est parts of my soul i have no interest in any content (a) in Arabic and (b) of imams. i can’t even understand a word of Arabic and am not religious, yet apparently that was the most up to date profile tiktok had on me the last time i tried it out. (which was the 3rd time or so) and i even made an account and signed in.
the politics bullshit and lame facebook-grade memes were the “best” it could muster. as in, the only things i understood.
maybe it works better in an english speaking and not-religious-asf country.
Nah you probably just didn’t give it much of a chance then. Especially if you think it caters to the religious crowd lol. They get torn apart in my little corner of tiktok. My entire feed is cooking, crochet, gardening, gaming, cats, random memes, and for some reason chickens. I don’t know why it decided I wanted to see people’s pet chickens but it was indeed very correct. The only political stuff I get for the most part is people I follow in politics
This is like telling a crack head that there is an awesome support group for addiction in this dilapidated crack house down the street.
That’s precisely my reaction. Shorts is like damn crack. I look up after two hours, “Shit, I have to get up in a couple hours”
I’m honestly amazed that I haven’t succumbed and downloaded it.
I accidentally got sucked into YouTube shorts which is basically the same thing. Be careful out there.
Same, but like it’s not even good. Like I bet tiktok works because the algorithm is good and shows stuff you actually want to watch, but on YouTube Shorts I skip over most of them. Still keep scrolling tho
It doesn’t really seem like it honestly. My buddy’s girlfriend watches a lot of tiktok and it usually looks like multiple minutes of flicking past random bullshit to find one thing she likes, then rinse and repeat.
At least on Lemmy when I’m scrolling multiple pages of shit to find something I like, I’m not being immediately assaulted by your video I didn’t want to watch on every post I scroll past.
Lol dude come on. You’re really trying to pretend you scrolling past content on here is somehow different? And you’re speaking for someone else with no personal experience yourself? This whole post is giving boomers from Reddit tbh
Why are you supporting tiktok so strongly in this whole comment section, are you trying to convince people to waste their time on another app which only purpose is to use your time instead of doing something useful? TikTok is poison for ADHD as it is only another thing you can waste many hours of your life on, which is stopping you from actually doing the things that need to be done.
Hours enjoyed aren’t hours wasted. You don’t have to be productive to be happy. I’m just disappointed in my fellow millennials. The way you all sound like boomers on Facebook weirds me out. The way you pretend your flavor of social media somehow makes you superior is entertaining at least.
I mostly agree with them though, because a lot of the content on tiktok is pretty much useless stuff that wastes your time you have to scroll a lot to actually get somthing useful that is well researched. On lemmy most of the posts have proper content and articles(ignoring memes).
I prefer this misinformation vortex
For actual tips though, healthygamersgg on YouTube/Twitch is an excellent resource. He is a licensed therapist and has a ton of adhd videos and other topics.
He is a licensed therapist
Get outta here with your “license therapist” bullshit. This is the internet! We have no place for that. Everyone knows ADHD can be cured with prayer and Clorox mixed with camomile.
Edit: I feel like it goes without saying, but for the love of god, don’t take that advice seriously and go check out the YT channel. I repeat don’t drink bleach tea.
This is only the half of it. Dude spent years becoming a monk and learned a bunch of meditation techniques and practices that have been transformative for me. I’ve been looking at ADHD resources on YouTube for years and no one else I’ve seen there have the insights he does. I ended up purchasing his guide but just going through his YouTube catalog I’m still finding videos that are gold.
He’s also given me a lot of topics that taught me how to actually recognize issues that I had, and to bring that to my personal therapist to talk about. They really work well together!
This might be a personal issue, but to me the vibes feel off with him. I’m not against someone self promoting, it just seems like every video of his I’ve seen has him wedging his $75 guide and $600 “group coaching” into conversations whenever he can. I’m not saying he’s wrong about anything or that his videos aren’t useful, he just comes off as very used car salesman to me.
Why is that wrong? He also has an insane amount of free content on YouTube.
If he wants to sell his guides for $75, yeah I think that’s overpriced but he can set the price he wants. It’s the whole group coaching thing that seems most sketch to me. A group of up to 7 people all having what he legally can’t imply is group therapy, but the website advertises that it helps reduce anxiety and depression. His brand is all about mental health, and to me it just skirts too close to doing a bait and switch.
I’m also not a huge fan of the math on their customer cost:coach payment. For group sessions it’s $30/session/person, but their coach base salary is $20/hour and “up to” $37.50/hour. There aren’t any insurance costs or office rent or anything else like this being eaten up here.
All of this stuff is technically legal, I just find it distasteful and it makes me suspicious.
Also if you think $75 for a guide is expensive, a single therapy session can be $90+
I’ve paid more than that for therapy sessions, I’m well aware of how fucked the costs are. But they aren’t comparable. Therapy is a one on one session with a licensed professional who is providing you with an evaluation and potentially treatment, versus an ebook written by a doctor. I’m not saying it’s useless information, but you can probably get comparable books from your local library for free.
It’s not wrong but any time someone is giving advice and selling something at the same time, it calls into question their motives and integrity.
Just means we should be suspicious, that’s all. Lots of scammers out there.
He’s literally a licensed therapist
and Dr. Oz is a cardiac surgeon. not to say healthygamergg is scamming or anything, but medical professionals with media careers should be treated with at least a little skepticism.
That’s a really extreme and insulting comparison. Can you post an example of anything that’s remotely questionable content from healthygamersgg?
I mean that thing where he said to stop eating any/all spicy food and eat plain yogurt if you have anger issues seemed a little weird. Like can offer some plausible deniability but it seems like the notion comes more from “traditional medicine” and iirc there’s not much research on the subject. One of his chatters challenged him on it and he basically told them that maybe some of the ancient wisdom actually has a point, the science just hasn’t caught up yet, trust him on this one. I don’t disagree with the sentiment in general, science won’t always have the answer to a specific question, but I do get weary when people use try to use that to offer their specific remedies.
And someone can’t be licensed and potentially be pushing their own products for financial gain?
Not really saying that’s exactly what he’s doing but just saying they’re licensed doesn’t put a person above reproach, especially when it comes to selling things to people.
You just described having a job lol. People use their licenses to make money, that’s the whole point!
Bruh, actually doing the job, not selling books or “not group therapy” group therapy sessions lmao
Maybe something like the sponsorblock addon could help
Although that only hides the sponsored segments, they’re still there, and potentially influencing the advice he gives.
Slightly off topic - describes most social media influencers in a nutshell… particularly sponsored reviews lol
Edit: clarification
A lot of his approach seems to be based on vedic philosophy, and all that is available free if you don’t want to go through him. You can walk into a temple and leave with free books because they believe knowledge should be free. All they ask is you pass the book on when you’re finished.
I’ve got nothing against the guy though, I don’t know enough about him, just pointing out that you can get the knowledge free if you want to.
I like Dr. K and think the content he puts out is important and useful, but there are a few items with his approach that I don’t appreciate. In a few of his earlier videos, he uses an example of a farmer vs. a hunter (or something thereabouts) to explain why certain unproductive thoughts can be reoccurring in people. I find that this has a lot of overlap with evolutionary psychology, which has an evidence problem and is often employed by “mindset grifters” to move product. I’m not saying that Dr. K is one of those grifters, but I’m concerned that his employment of it might “soften up” viewers to that kind of logic. So that when an actual grifter employs it, the person would be more receptive to being scammed.
But even so, I still want to stress that I think there’s a lot of good in his content and I think offering as much free content as he does is a public service.
Edit: sorry, i forgot to tie this back to your comment. He often in his earlier videos tied back those evolutionary psychology examples to concepts in Vedic philosophy and meditation. I think that could be dangerous for the reasons above, with the added issue of tying evidence-based science to things that can’t be evidenced (like someone having a certain tendency present in Vedic thought). I have the same objections to that as I would astrology. But of course if people find either of those things helpful to their mental health journey, more power to them.
I intentionally don’t do TikTok for this reason. I would literally get nothing done. I do watch tech videos on the side while working. Then YouTube started pushing shorts aggressively and I caught myself scrolling shorts for 2 hours and did zero work.
Why would anyone trust tik tok ad a source for ANY information at all?! That’s like watching the Sifl and silly episode where they dance to the Du Hast video to learn German.
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I mean if it’s searching the rest of the internet at least it’s directing people away from tik tok
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So, basically a search function? That’s like, pretty normal and not a bad thing (and not a search engine).
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like tik tok either. It makes no sense, and the spying is evil and bad, but having a search function within an app is…not?
That… what? That exists. It’s called a search function lmao . You’re gonna be real upset to know that there’s a search function here too
DU HAST MESH
Reminded me that we were playing this song on the radio as a kid and my friends mom turned it off because it might be satanic.
I love “misinformation vortex”. Too true
Memes and shitpost can only get you so far. Plus, it’s not a very professional thing to do, like fidget toys. Only working on ways to remain focused and taking medication can help adhd.
Anti- Tik tok instant upvote 😎 lol
I’m sure 1 in 100 TikToks are probably good, but I just can’t make it through the amount of bad videos on there… the good stuff gets shattered on other platforms anyway.
By the way, I was helping a buddy job hunting… holy cow, TikTok has a huge number of open jobs, like 650 in Seattle alone.
TikTok bad, upvotes to the left.
This place is full to the brim with 40 year old boomers.
Wow, “have you tried surrendering your decision making to this algorithm?”
“I think my phone is more interesting than gardenwork”
Bro that’s ADHD!
“I sometimes forget where i put my keys”
That’s ADHD for sure you should get medsOn ADHD-TikTok everything is ADHD
I was about to comment something rude, until I read the last line.
I feel like it was pretty obviously taking the piss regardless.
THATS ADHD!!!
I was about to comment something but then
As terrible as tiktok can be, it is literally the place that showed me I have adhd… later confirmed by profesionals once I knew to ask. Had I not dabbled on tiktok during the pandemic, I’d probably still be wondering what’s wrong with me… not that I’m saying adhd is “wrong”, just that for 40 years, I always knew I wasn’t neuro-typical and couldn’t function the same as others without having any answers as to why. I would frequently fall into a debilitating spiral of self-loathing and mental abuse, convinced that I was somehow at fault. Finally, having an answer has helped immensely, and unfortunately, I have tiktok to thank for this.
Same boat, except I was diagnosed before hand. I was scrolling one night and adhd content started started to appear where people were talking about how it impacted their lives (albeit via stupid lists). It actually pinpointed a lot of behaviours I exhibited and put meaning to them. I was sceptical at first but started to see more and more of the same behaviours being highlighted, so I wrote them down and took them back to my shrink, who sat down and went thru them with me and we started to work through them. Was actually quite helpful.
