speedycat2014

Interesting. I always wanted to play the drums but figured I was too uncoordinated.

I really enjoyed "INVESTORS DELIGHT!" On 0 Samarkand Rd.

What's the story with these places?

OP, this person knows what they're talking about. One of the screening questions when I was diagnosed with ADHD had to do with clumsiness. My own parents used to call me, "An accident waiting for a place to happen."

I have slowly been able to improve my clumsiness a little bit, by exercising regularly with a trainer 5 days a week. One of those days is a balance-focused day and after 2.5 years I'm actually able to hold poses and (mostly) stay upright and steady. But it was SLOW going.

The night before my 50th birthday, after I had been taking this class for 7 months, my husband and I were on a sunset cruise and his phone fell out of his pocket and over the side of the ship. I reached out with one hand and successfully caught it. THAT KIND OF THING NEVER HAPPENS TO ME!

I celebrate that day every year as much as my birthday now. I managed to show off hand eye coordination before I was 50!

Get screened... :)

This is what I'm counting on. I'll admit, I've gone back to read some things briefly, but I'm not participating there. Once I can't use RIF to browse, it's over.

I vape most evenings after 5pm. I have ADHD and comorbid depression and anxiety. The strains I like to vape keep me motivated and help me unwind, enjoy my evening, get things done around the house, and stretch/do yoga, or some gentle exercises before bed.

I fall asleep easily each night after weed helps me get all that done. I dream just a little, and they're often lost the minute I stand up.

When I take a break, every few weeks or over vacations, it's harder to go to sleep initially, but my dreams are a little more vivid when I do.

My most vivid dreams occurred when I was taking Prozac, which wrecked my body in every other way, so I don't associate dream intensity or recollection with overall health anymore. I'm physically and emotionally much healthier off Prozac, vaping weed most nights, than I ever was on the stuff.

Edit: Seeing some usage discussion, I go through about 1/2 an ounce every 4-6 weeks vaping with a Volcano.

I have found that by brute force hitting the button between Subscribe and Pending enough it eventually switches to "Joined". I'm not proud of my troubleshooting method.

Simply holding a glute bridge for at least a minute for several rounds during a workout helped me start activating glutes that had been deadened from sitting at a desk job for two decades. I will often do up to 10 minutes of glute bridges in a 30 minute workout.

I usually combine glute bridge holds with upper body work using dumbbells (press, diamond press, skull crushers, flies) so I'm getting weight work in while activating my glutes.

Also mix things up with one legged glute bridges and glute reps (up and down with a weight on your hips). A key for activating your glutes during these holds is to make sure that you are pressing your heels into the ground, not your toes.

As you get those muscles used to firing during the holds, you should start to feel them activating more during squats, etc.

It's "safe" to work out but you'll want to make sure you aren't compromising your form any due to being sore.

I'd suggest making today a lighter weight workout or just focusing on cardio. Getting your muscles moving will increase the blood flow, which will help speed up getting things back to normal.

Mazel tov!

I don't mind if you take Earl Gray for your tea, or simply earl gray. It's things like neglecting to put in paragraph breaks and a complete lack of punctuation that really bother me.

I also have a bias against u/ur etc. but I'm annoyingly pedantic about things like that. If Weird Al mocked it in "Word Crimes", it's likely on my list of peeves.

I believe Reddit is to blame... because everything bad comes from them right?

And I fully support your hypothesis here!

Regardless of how you choose to write things out, it's always good to see another feline based username in these parts.

Yes, servers can disable downvotes. Beehaw does that, for instance. I'm on lemmy.world which allows both. I prefer both because I think it helps silence bad faith participation with less active moderation, but I respect that some places don't want it.

It's a challenge to be sure. I can't say how I get something started necessarily, that's often just the luck of the draw and how well my meds are working that day.

But I have ADHD and I try to be aware and quickly recognize when I get into a "state of flow" and preserve that state whenever I'm there, for as long as possible.

What this looks like, is my husband bringing me food if I am on a bender cleaning out a closet or heads down working on a presentation at work.

It also looks like me staying at work late unexpectedly because I can't interrupt a good flow, or coming home and delving right back in as soon as possible.

Or me not remembering or caring to eat until I run down so much I can't keep going.

So as you can see, I use both healthy and non-healthy "coping mechanisms".

I exploit the state of flow whenever it comes, as much as possible, and muddle/hobble through when I'm not there. Of course, coming up to a deadline increases the chances that I'll get into a state of flow, if not just out of adrenaline and fear of really screwing up and missing a deliverable.

Edit: You mentioned that you're on meds for depression. If your primary diagnosis is something like ADHD and the depression is a secondary, comorbid condition, treating the ADHD will be very useful. My psychiatrist diagnosed my primary issue as ADHD and didn't want to start treating me for depression until we worked through getting me on ADHD meds and getting on the right meds, titrated at the right dose helped a huge amount. Once my ADHD was under control, my depression and anxiety were reduced considerably.