[dgellow]

> One thing I'd like to point out, that is utterly unrelated to anything you're saying, is that people with ADHD can be hugely productive on things that they find interesting.

Just sharing some personal thoughts: my main issue is not to be productive, but the lack of control over what I can be productive at. It's the most frustrating feeling ever. You get a new cool idea and can spend 2 weeks being the most productive person ever working on it. But you know it doesn't matter and you don't really care. You can see yourself being obsessed about it but also that you did not decide to find this specific thing motivating/interesting. Then you struggle for months to do very basic stuff you actually want to be productive at.

[mijoharas]

I definitely relate to that as well. One thing to note is that that particular aspect is one that I think the meds can help a fair bit with I think.

Obviously I don't know whether you're already on them or not, but if not, maybe try them?

(Obvious caveats of me having no idea about your own situation apply).

[dgellow]

Thanks, that’s good to know.

I’m in a large city in Germany where access to medication is very strict, so we will see.

I’m in the process of being diagnosed formally since a while now. Since the pandemics psychiatrists are overbooked which results in 6+ months between appointments, so everything is very, very slow :)