I hope a "hurray, we're here!" post is okay. Thank you so much for existing. The subreddit I was most concerned about losing was /r/adhdwomen, and after a difficult evening last night and morning today, I was really missing the community and compassion of my fellow neurodivergent ladies. I'm very grateful to find this, and I thought I might not be the only one.
And hey, if you've got a struggle today you'd like some commiseration for or a victory you want to celebrate, I'd love to hear it!
My struggle today is getting knocked back to step one in the doctor process yet again - made an appointment Friday that got cancelled with no explanation last night, and I can't get a new one with that practice for 8 weeks. My tiny little bit of victory is that I've taken the first step on Plan D and have ideas for Plan E, though I'm really sweating whether I'm going to get anywhere with anything before I run out of meds.
Excitement! Suspense! ๐๐คฆ๐คท
I'm trying to keep my humor instead of collapsing into a puddle, which is why I'm so particularly happy to find this community.
I'm also a bit more worried about the niche communities on reddit. If some of them don't pop up on their own then I'll start to create some.
A victory and a struggle, I stayed up too late setting up my lemmy account and have destroyed my sleep schedule but I was able to remember to put out the trash at 4am before I went to sleep.
It's hard but stick with it! I'm trying to change my meds and all the appointments suck because I go so used to a phone call for renewal once every 3 months. Especially since my doctor would just call me later if I missed the phone call.
I'm so glad to find this here! This was the main sub I was afraid of losing too. I just started EMDR therapy today to start undoing a bunch of the crud I picked up not realizing I was neurodivergent as a child. It'll feel good to still have this outlet for people who get it.
I would love to know anything/everything about your EMDR experience, if you have the time and inclination to share. I have been considering it for PTSD after a yellow jacket attack last summer, but I didn't realize it could help like the kid-crud stuff. That could really change my life. Are you doing it online or in person?
It's a wild experience! I just had my first major session yesterday, and I kind of feel like Pandora's box has opened and everything is just rushing out after I so carefully tamped it down for decades. But my therapist is great and spent two sessions working on self care techniques before we started, so I have tools to stay as stable as possible through the process. I'm doing it online.
In short, highly recommended, but be prepared for a mess and make sure you and the therapist click really well!
I saw this post and went and did some reading tonsee what it was all about. This is very interesting. I wish you the best with it and hope it works out well for you. Might keep this in mind for a time I feel ready to deal with myself.