from romeo stevens
"high sensitivity to negative feelings in general with rejection just being of extra highlight"
"When I'm not stimulated enough I'm more likely to notice unwanted stimuli"
"Lack of a felt sense of progress and not knowing how to generate that for oneself"
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dovetails pretty well with the "escape addiction" stuff but i hadn't linked it to "ADHD"
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The key feature of escape addiction is that it's an attempt to escape something, which means where it's escaping *to* is less relevant for understanding it than what it's escaping *from*.
If you take away the games or the porn or w/e you'll just find a new escape.
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WHOAAA LOVE THIS
point 3 feels particularly relevant to me, not sure I've sent it phrased that way before but it tracks so hard
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Also, novelty and interest are the same feeling IME, and they feel magnetic
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Unlike most adhd resources, is great analysis. Where did you find it?
I've been experiencing meditation/mindfulness to help with paring back the branching and coming to a point of making progress to the goal. The key seems to be noting & embodying every desire at once.
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This was an interesting read, especially as someone who doesn't really know many people with ADHD IRL (hence why it's taken me almost 3 decades to look into it)
I would also add to the rejection sensitivity part: I'm v sensitive to being misunderstood. If someone rejects me ...
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For something I think is just completely wrong, that I don't believe, it's easier for me to completely ignore + dismiss them as ignorant. But if they're slightly closer but it's still not right, I feel so much more frustrated, I think partly because I know that changing their ...
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