Patients responded well in times of ‘high environment demand’ because sense of urgency led to hyperfocus

From the “This is only news to neurotypicals” department

  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    117·
    2 months ago

    that’s the only way I ever submitted anything in college lmao

    wait what do you mean I’m now suffering from permanent burnout and near adrenal exhaustion and inability to execute on any of my hobbies anymore? No that clearly just means I need more caffeine and to work harder because I’m lazy

    • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.netEnglish
      311·
      2 months ago

      I’m pretty sure my baseline cortisol levels could kill a small animal. And probably shortened my lifespan by a few years.

      My AuDHD is flavored by several varieties of anxiety and crippling depression, the former undiagnosed for most of my life and the latter two only being treated sporadically. I’ve had my episodes of shining in times of chaos (usually at work) but my brain’s go-to response is freeze.

      It’s not very effective.

    • rhombus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      That’s what drives me nuts about saying we “thrive” in stress. Equating being functional with doing well is so detrimental to our mental health, because we may be hitting deadlines but we are suffering miserably while doing so.

  • Granbo's Holy Hotrod@lemmy.worldEnglish
    611·
    2 months ago

    I work in incident management. I feel comfortable when everything is on fire. Look around like it’s surreal that everyone is so panicked.

    • stoly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      34·
      2 months ago

      Seriously. How do people not just stop, look around, and make a decision?

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      17·
      2 months ago

      I wonder if that’s why we’re here? We’re the people that act first when the animals attack the village…

      Don’t be fooled, though. It adds up.

      • SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        7·
        2 months ago

        I’m the one who is awake by the fire when the sabretooth shows up at midnight. I’m the one going around telling everyone to get outside, the house is on fire. I’m the one who is suddenly at the bottom of the small cliff, still steaming and naked from the hot tub, doing first aid assessment on the partier who fell off. I’m the one who burns for 14 hours and gets the team to push that working build out minutes before going live.

        There’s dopamine in there. We’re starved for it daily so we can go hard in some way when it counts.

      • AnyOldName3@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        It makes sense, but it also makes sense to design society so that situations where it’s helpful happen as rarely as possible. If some people are predisposed to being a good firefighter, it doesn’t negate the fact that you don’t want buildings to catch fire in the first place, so you still want to teach children not to play with matches, teach adults not to keep lighter fuel near their heater, and ban companies from selling combustible cladding to insulate tower blocks. Prevention is better than cure. You just then have a load of people who aren’t great at being anything except a firefighter, ready for fires that never happen, and under the current system, forced either into jobs they’re bad at, or into chronic stress to get consistent productivity.

  • I'm back on my BS 🤪@lemmy.autism.placeEnglish
    521·
    2 months ago

    AuDHD here. I got put on Buspar for anxiety once. It worked amazingly well at getting rid of anxiety. Unfortunately, I learned that anxiety was the only way I accomplished anything meaningful. I would have to be anxious that I would disappoint someone or something would result in terrible outcomes if I didn’t do it. When the Buspar got rid of anxiety, I lost my drive to accomplish anything. I remember telling the doc, “I don’t feel like doing anything. I just sit there.” So, I was taken off of it.

    My personal psychological intervention for ADHD was military training instilling discipline and increasing anxiety to illicit the military discipline to avoid doom. In other words, I accomplished everything meaningful by pretending I was in war. Accomplishments weren’t accomplishments to celebrate. They were avoidance of harm to feel relieved by. A life full of fear rather than pleasure and pride.

    omg I can’t believe I just figured that out rn lol 😆

    • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      We are fighting a war. Try not doing the things that stress you out. Straight to living in a van down by a river.

      But man, what a carefree couple months it gets you. Like mana from the sky, a blissful oasis in a sea of hurt, never to return.

  • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlEnglish
    41·
    2 months ago

    Its crazy too becauae I am almost never stressed until SUDDENLY I AM, GOD FUCK I AM SO STRESSED WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED HOW DID I LET THIS GO UNNOTICED FUCK

    • bitjunkie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      This is what Prozac and Atarax are for, at least until I can somehow finagle an early retirement

  • Moonguide@lemmy.mlEnglish
    38·
    2 months ago

    This worked until I developed GAD. Now it’s hard to get motivated and hard to wind down, lol.

    • Ænima@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      If you figure out the motivation thing, give me buzz. For winding down, I found that doing mindless sorting tasks is good for relaxing. For instance, I build LEGO things, my son plays with them and takes them apart eventually, and I sort them back out. One time, I went through my son’s old clothes and made a list of what was in each box. I felt so relaxed after the clothes logging! It was a nice little Saturday!

      We are wired differently. “Winding down” doesn’t look the same for us. It’s just hard to find the right task to let our brains relax.

  • fracture [he/him] @beehaw.orgEnglish
    321·
    2 months ago

    More than half of adults with ADHD also experience anxiety. But, Sibley’s study shows this might not always be a bad thing. skip past newsletter promotion

    this article feels… really gross. like wow, ADHD people thrive under stress! i wonder how they ended up like that

    it also doesn’t seem to have any regard for the wellbeing of the people in the study, just their productivity, although it could just be being presented poorly by the article

    just shitty overall

    • FiveMacs@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      Study’s don’t have to study every aspect…they can focus on just one…like someone with ADHD and how they handle productivity during stress.

      Personally, I wouldn’t want wellbeing in the way when reading about ADHD peoples stress and productivity. Stick to the point and don’t add feelings garbage into it.

  • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    321·
    2 months ago

    NT “journalist” : Breaking news: CPTSD & ADHD are closer relatives than previously thought.

    NDs : …

  • idiomaddict@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    2 months ago

    Isn’t that the medical basis for why we take the stress medicine? Like, isn’t this one of the very few things we actually know about ADHD?

  • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    2 months ago

    Yeah I’m terrible at normal mundane activities, god forbid paper work or writing a report. But when there is a fire, I turn into Superman. It’s weird. It’s like the chaos fuels me.

  • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachtsEnglish
    25·
    2 months ago

    I basically have permanent anxiety because of this. My entire life, tasks have been driven by fear and anxiety. My emergency response is fucking amazing because of this. I broke my wrist last year and was in a zen mind state. Handled it like it was nothing and didn’t panic. It makes me wonder if software engineering was the wrong field for me and I should’ve instead been an ambulance driver.

  • AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    2 months ago

    Someone had to carry out a study for that? I thought that’s common with ADHD.

    Stress just turns on a switch in the brain which would otherwise be off no matter how much a situation warranted it.

    • BruceTwarzen@lemm.eeEnglish
      16·
      2 months ago

      When i was 14 i had my first real big assignment in school. We had to write 14 pages about something. We had like 8 weeks or something. My teacher looked specifically at me and said: that’s not one of these things that you can start in seven weeks and think you get by.

      I knew what i had to do and i had time to do it. Anyway, i started the friday when i only had 3 more days left, didn’t find the book i was looking for so i did the whole thing on a sunday and got an A. It was there where i first wondered if something is wrong with me or if school is just bullshit.