Not even bad. At 80% completion you must have experienced at least 90% of the game.

>>746719189
damn this hit to close

>>746719189
Not vidya but i started full metal alchemist brotherhood. I binged watched it all but the last 2 episodes. It's been years no idea why and I don't care about finishing it

>>746719308
The Ubisoft model of completion. Game is 70% complete but you finished all main and side quests.

I'm so glad I don't relate to these anymore. Just see things through. It's not hard and you don't have some made up mental issues you are just lazy and looking for the next dopamine hit

>>746719189
Such judgemental image. Most of you normies couldn't imagine being different.

>>746719189
Plenty of games fuck up their third or fourth acts.
We have so many games now. There's no point in forcing yourself to finish a game that's no longer fun.

>>746719689
laziness is helluva drug

>>746719189
I got out of this partially because demoralization posters on this site really started to piss me off. The fact that someone would so easily say that everything will be terrible and never good again really got on my nerves. Especially more and more as good things happened and I realized that these guys have been saying this stuff for years. My brain became aware of what causes it, it started to suppress it until it finally purged a lot of it from my own mind. I still sometimes feel random bad emotions, but have become a lot better at identifying pointless doomerism.
Tldr: The obsessive mind can sometimes do good things if it becomes disenchanted with bad obsessions.

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Honestly at a certain point you should be settled into a single game genre or franchise. It's abnormal to keep jumping to a new game with a new twist.

Most people play a single thing. Whether it's pokemon, call of duty, GTA, dark souls, world of Warcraft, Mario.

At this point I struggle to try new games because my brain is locked into the shit I like. I don't even get past most tutorials before I'm bored and having to learn a new thing.

>>746719995
This
Trying to be king of a medium or genre is a trap. Just because a lot of discussion is about a variety of things, doesn't mean most people are actually enjoying all those things. You'll just burn out if you don't pick favorites and stick mostly to them, only picking up something new when you genuinely feel interested in it.

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>>746719395
same

>>746719995
Some genres of games have so little games worth playing you either expand your horizons, replay them 100s of times like a retard or you find a new hobby.

Your problems are self inflicted, you just know it'll be a lot of work to fix them. :-)

>>746720819
Or you be the change you want to see in the world and make your own contribution to the genre. In the age of Unity and AI programming, it isn't really hard to make a game. Although it is still quite hard to find a solid idea.

>>746721121
The biggest misunderstanding of those like us with obsessive minds, is believing we don't know that it is all our problem. You really don't understand what it is like, both the problems and the surprising benefits.

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>>746719995
>most people play a single thing
>lists the most popular franchises of all time
this, is why you should expand your horizons and play shit no one else does. talking about bing bing wahoo or ugly westoid face games like witcher all the time turns you into the sorts of psycho subjects we see making threads on /v/ all day every day. You don't get good conversation out of people who play those games all the time.

>>746721372
you talk like you think you're the only real person on the planet

>>746719689
Being perpetually lazy to the point where you don't even engage with things you know you enjoy IS a mental issue.

>>746719995
>it's abnormal to not be autistic

>>746722740
who are you quoting? are you illiterate?

>>746719995
This is literally the exact opposite of what you should be doing, trying new things and keeping your mind active by learning them is not only fun but very good for your mental health
Half of the people on this board who cry about boredom are like this, they just do not try anything new

Big tip.
Howlongtobeat.com.
Never start a game longer than 20 hours.

>>746722917
>This is literally the exact opposite of what you should be doing, trying new things and keeping your mind active by learning them is not only fun but very good for your mental health
you do know there's more to life than videogames, right?

>>746721348
>I'm so special and different, you wouldn't get it

>>746722990
Anon you do understand which board youre on right

>>746719995
The irony is that doing this just makes you play everything else. If all you play is mario world, you'll play tarkov and build some ranodm neuron that makes you enjoy mario world in a different way.

>>746719189
ADHD is misdiagnosed brain worms. One of the most easily detectable and curable things on the planet with no public health support by the way

>>746719189
To be fair most games become worse mid/late game

>>746722990
This, learning things and taking up new hobbies is good to keep your brain from rotting. But forcing yourself to consume a bunch of media for mediasake is just going to make you miserable and not like the medium anymore.

>>746723693
A good late game let's you be all powerful and do insane decadent shit like you are a supervillain or something. Just give the player enough content to be entertained like this for a few hours and slap on a ceremonial end state.

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>>746719189
This is not ADHD. This is a nice way of saying that the game is boring. Stop being so nice about it. Why would you even blame yourself if YOU're the one who doesn't have fun playing the game? Just do something else retard. Get into an uncomfortable position where you'd wish to play the boring shitty game rather than staying in a shitty position. Life must be good for you, you self loathing motherfucker. Lock the fuck in, bitch. Challenge yourself for once.

Thank you for reading my internal monologue.

>>746719308
You mean 80%, retard

>>746719189
I'm the same way, but honestly the last 20% of most games, even really good games, suck. That final stretch is always a slog. Play until you get bored, then just watch the ending on youtube or something.

>>746719745
it was probably made by someone with ADHD

>>746719745
only normalfags say "normie"

>>746722990
Wrong, men are born for games. They are the purpose of life.

>>746719689
>Just see things through.
Yeah but why though? It's completely inconsequential whether I beat some game or not, at least I can't refute this view and that's the problem.

>>746719189
I'm pretty sure I actually have ADHD, waiting in line makes me feel physically sick, I get tired with people very fast and tend to just walk back and forth where I'm forced to wait, space out a lot and I also have a terrible habit of making small mistakes or oversights in stuff I'm good at, should I get tested? Does the medication help? Or is it just gonna turn me into a drone.

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>>746719189
It can only cause you grief if you let it. Quitting a game is just as good as "finishing" it. That applies to more than just video games. You had your fun quit being a bitch.

>>746724090
Normie used to mean non-4channer before neurotypical became widespread.

>>746724256
The medication helped me stop doing the small mistakes, where my level of focus is now continuous, even months after I last took medicine, apparently because it does normalize your brain development over time. With all the details you describe it seems really likely that you have a case. For me I also stopped getting annoyed by small little delays out of proportion, but at one point after some years of taking it, methyphenidate was making me irate with people against my own will so I switched to vyvanse and had no such problem since.

>>746724256
do you have a healthy sleep schedule? do you stare at a screen 16 hours a day?

>>746719395
Spbp

>>746725002
I should probably at least get a sitting for it.
>>746725025
I think my sleep schedule is quite alright but I do get anxiety when it comes to appointments and fear of missing them so I tend to wake up way earlier than I need to, I always make sure to show up early by like a hour. I do get a lot of screen time but I kinda need to due to work.

>>746723575
How? I want the cure please? It is discipline?

>>746725398
De-worming medicine is one of the most prescribed medications in the third world, I am sure you can figure out the rest

>>746721348
>>746721121
I'm with first anon. Copium is used to avoid tackling the core of the problem.

>>746724256
You are unironically better off getting a sleep study first, and seeing if its actual ADHD or the brain damage variety from lifelong poor sleep.

You are also a lot better of looking up the cognitive therapy, so you can stop feeding your habits.
Remember: There is no wheel if you are not on it.

>>746725535
Could it get rid of the fecal born brain worms that cause homosexuality? What about curing toxoplasmosis? This shit could be huge, we could live in paradise.

>>746719189
for me it's
>80% through
>feel the end coming
>start to play slower and do meaningless side stuff

>>746725695
Toxoplasmosis is also easily testable and treatable. It correlates with aggression and early schizophrenia, so you can see why (((nobody))) would actively campaign to cure it globally. France has the highest rates by the way.

>>746725695
ivermectin legitimately cures most of that, it's what it is actually for

>>746725535
You are not the anti cat schizo are you? I have taken ivermectin and fenbendazole for other reasons and they did not fix my ADHD

>>746725878
did they cure your cancer?

>>746725939
Don't know if I had cancer, but whatever I had it's gone

>>746724090
Not that anon but I always felt like Normie just "rolls off the tongue" better than Normalfag which is a mouthful.

>>746725878
kek I'm not, I think he's on another vacation right now. I don't mean to imply ADHD isn't a thing at all, but too many people have "brainfog" that gets waved off as some behavioral or attention issue for it to just be a mass development of the exact same issue.

>>746719189
All me except the video part, instead I just throw everything into "Watch later"

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>>746719189
>Spends weeks mentally preparing for a task that takes 15 minutes to complete
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH

>>746719189
>found all the collectibles
>did all the side missions
>beat the story
>didnt unlock all concept artwork
>didnt unlock all the bad custom outfits
>87%
Nah im good. I beat it.

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>>746719189
>mentally preparing for a task that takes 15 minutes
>abandon things I'm not good at
>actually, I abandon things I'm good at too
>can't follow my own schedules, need outside judgement to stick to it
Give it to me straight, is this adhd or am I just a low discipline fag? I never once suspected I had it, but lately I've been wondering. I always thought that just meant you are easily distracted and your mind constantly wanders.

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>>746726249
Yeah that describes me to a T

>>746719189
because endings suck, endings are unpleasant in general
but usually because it goes like this
>start game
>learn systems
>find ways to exploit those systems
>level up
>have fun trying to min max
>not reasonably possible to min max any further
>game presents no new challenges or new systems to let you learn and exploit
>game presents no content that requires you to utilise its systems to more than like 30% effectiveness to actually overcome it
so start a new game, get new systems to learn and progress through until the challenge disappears again
and don't say "well just artificially limit yourself omg" the fun is not in beating a challenge with a level 1 character with a club, that is almost devoid of fun. the fun is in the levelling and choices and progress and exploitation of strategy and mechanics you want to use

>>746726335
Could be laziness, could be ADHD, could be learned attention disorder. In most cases, I’d bet on the last one in 2026.

>>746719189
I relate to most of those except I don't drink coffee. I can't sleep already why would I take something that makes it worse. I feel like I just lie in bed with my own thoughts for like 8 hours. I can't stop the internal monologue for more than a few seconds at a time but most of it is not even important, just thought after thought about random things. Deep sleep is like a myth to me, i'm aware of even the slightest sounds all night.

>>746719189
I do the
>game on main screen, podcast or vtuber on second, and music app playing my favorites on random on top
sorry not sorry

>>746719189
to be fair most games are comically frontloaded and the last 20% is phoned in padded out garbage with a terrible ending

>>746726856
try wim hof breathing

>>746719189
>Get to final boss in EBF3, 4, and 5
>Don't beat it
>Abandon game
Lol, whoops.

It's incredible how OP did not name a single game, you fags are just larping.

>>746726856
Coffee is for waking up in the morning. Weed is for going to sleep in the evening.
That's what's helped/helping me, as someone with the same sleep issues.

>>746719189
>play game extensively
>think i'm becoming pretty good at it
>check out a wakthrough and the guy playing is perfect at it, plays like a machine
>realize i was never actually good at it, just decent at best
>know I will never be that good because I already feel like i reached the peak of my skill
>instantly become demoralized and the will to keep playing the game goes away for good
>drop the game and look for something else i can pretend to become good at
>rinse and repeat with every game
>also do the same thing at every aspect of life
The only winning move is to do nothing.

>>746719189
Play a game where hitting 80% takes several thousand hours like me.

>>746725863
If I ever run into a faggot I'll start slipping him some because I think the result would be funny.

>>746719189
Only half of these are true for me

>>746728054
it doesn't cure gayness, that's some schizo shit

>>746727884
I can't do drugs. I might be a fucking loser, but at least I can say i'm not a drug addicted loser. It's the last shred of dignity I have.

>>746719995
I lke Pokemon and Dark Souls, but I feel like you can play through GTA on the side, you can play any single player game on the side, you don't need to lock into one genre. Stick to your main games and try something new from time to time

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>>746721372
>>746722740
>>746722917
>>746723449
Now when I say people typically play one thing, I mean on average it's the same thing they like, and occasionally you go and try something new when you want variety.
Like once a month you see a new movie or try a new game. But most of the time everyone is going back to what they know is good.

I definitely go out of my way to try new things but I replay Elden ring and have thousands of hours in fromsoft games because that's my comfort. Don't lie and say you don't have your go to thing you replay more than anything.

isnt this just normal human behavior
why do we need to label every negative attribute people have with a mental illness

if your disease’s cure is literally any random stimulant its not real

>>746728317
If you think this is normal human behavior you're retarded. I'm sure to someone on /v/ it feels normal though.

>>746722937
I don't get these because I feel like the average person is speed running compared to me. The average time it takes for anon is triple the time for me.
And I'm not even a completionist I'm just slow. If an anon said it took them 12 hours to beat I'll be halfway through with 30 hours on record

>>746728197
That's fair. It costs a pretty penny too, depending on where you live.
I can't imagine going back. Everytime I'm on vacation, I'm prepared for sleepless nights and it's as hellish as it used to be.

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>>746719189
you don't have ADHD, your attention span is fried

>>746719189
Me when I hit the Hermit boss

>>746723920
This, so many games front load everything while the ending is just shit. Too many quests that haven't been completed, if you didn't follow a guide your weapons aren't the optimal or cool ones you wanted. The last area is always unfinished and ugly. All the hype either works or doesn't so you don't care.

>>746719189
>reach 80% of the game
>lose the will to continue
That's because majority of games are very much frontloaded. So you reach a boring part = you lose interest.

>>746728157
I do know that fetishes are caused by unresolved issues from youth that affect how you express love. Realizing them can make you very rapidly lose the fetish. Unraveling a faggot would almost be more fun.

>>746728317
80% of Harvard students have self diagnosed themselves as ADHD and required assistance. It doesn't affect their graduation or opportunities, Infact it gives them looser deadlines, more resources, and fucking self enhancement pills that objectively make you study better. There's no downside to over diagnosing yourself because we've incentivized these traits by offering advantages.

>>746728317
>why do we need to label every negative attribute people have with a mental illness
Because ADHD behavior isn't compatible with modern society.

>>746725330
You really should, NTA but I have ADHD, used to take Concerta when I was younger when I was first diagnosed but stopped during early high school because I let some LITERAL retards convince me that maybe it was just a misdiagnosis when school life became easier with friends and fucked most of my 20s up as a result. I got back on Concerta about 2 years ago now and it's been truly one of the most positive and tangible improvements to my life. Between it and speaking with my psychiatrist (I get it covered through insurance with work) it has made me feel like I've shed my skin and become the more idealized version of myself I wished I could be when I was wasting my time unmedicated. I'm more focused at work, with my hobbies, I've even finally gotten on track with taking care of my health and losing weight. The only thing that sucks is the ~1-2hrs of medically induced depression from the dopamine crash when the effects of the medication start to fade later in the day.

If you take this advice seriously, don't go into it expecting identical results. Everyone's journey is going to be different, but I truly sincerely suggest you take that initiative in getting a sitting to discuss your options with your doctors, no matter how hard it might seem. If you find a plan that works with you, I sincerely believe that you too will find tangible improvements to your life as well. It'll be worth that effort. If anything I wish this whole process was easier for people with an actual diagnosis to get the help they need. (and FUCK the people who just play armchair psychiatrist and just say they have shit like ADHD without a diagnosis. This type of shit is serious and this stupid attitude had only made it harder for those who need it. It pisses me off these days to see people play pretend without ever putting in the effort to get an assessment.)

>>746728776
No pill can compare to the power of locking in through pure will. This is when the next great invention or art piece is made.

Should I go to a doctor and ask for pills? I've thought I was extremely lazy my whole life but in retrospect it's probably untreated ADHD

>>746723917
No, because the end of the game is the last 10% of the experience and until that point it's just more of the same.

>>746729037
I unfortunately don't have an easy way to get a diagnosis because actually seeing a doctor is basically impossible in Canada.

>>746719308
Unless it's Witcher 3, where at 50% completion you've experienced 90% of the game but it just keeps fucking going for some reason.

>>746729549
if you're serious, unless your doctor is SHIT they are going to get you referred to a psychiatrist first to undergo an assessment. ADHD medication are not just some magic bullet, as they can have negative impacts on your heart if prescribed recklessly. Even if they don't, ask to get referred for an assessment first. Don't try to rush it.

ADHD pills are like if Spiderman decided to suppress his Spidey Sense.

>>746728701
Some people are just born with some fetishes

>>746729820
I'm actually Canadian too, I understand the struggle, but yeah it can be tough if you resort to just sitting on a waiting list for the referral. When I spoke with my family doctor about getting treatment again I actually did let myself sit on a waiting list for a full year because my doctor wanted me to get reassessed first. After a while tho my mom actually told me the name of the medication I used to take (thank god it stuck in her head after like 20 years) and I just booked a meeting with my doctor where I basically said "listen, I know I have ADHD, I had the diganosis when I was kid, I had to go through mid 2000s special ed for it, and I took concerta and know the very deliberate shift in my academics where I went from a straight A student to a B grade student or below when I stopped taking it in high school, I'm certain I do not need the reassessment and should just go back to my medication."

After that she made me sign a waiver, and then started by prescribing me the lowest volume dosage possible and we progressively bumped it over time until we found the sweet spot (I kept a written log of how I felt throughout the day over a 3 month period) I've settled into 27mg now. I'm not sure the process of getting in touch with the private sector for an assessment to get around the waiting list, but it may be worth exploring if you think you need help sooner rather than later.

>>746730467
>When I spoke with my family doctor
I moved provinces 6 years ago, I'm probably another 8 years waiting to get one.

>>746719995
I dunno, I feel like this'll lead to having a rather unrefined gaming palette and inability to make cross-genre lateral connections on influences (which is something I especially enjoy as someone who aspire to someday be a dev). Genres also cultivate transferable skills between them you wouldn't expect.

Anyway, back to my 30th+ playthrough of any given Mega Man game.

>>746729984
If you are born with it it is not a fetish, it is natural.

>>746730638
It may vary by province, but you could consider taking a drive around your local area to see if there's any clinics (even walk-in clinics, thats where I go to see my doctor) that have signage looking for new patients. Our population has been going down since the new government closed the loopholes with temp visas (iirc our population went down in 2025 and has been going down all of 2026 as well as temp visas have expired over time) so you might find places looking for new patients now. I know from the last time I saw my doctor in August that they have signs up signifying that they are open to take on more patients, but I live in southern Ontario. If you feel really desperate, again, don't be afraid to look at the private sector.

The hardest part is just getting the diagnosis and the paperwork, once you have it keeping the prescription up is easy because you can take that to basically any pharmacist and have the majority of it covered under your provincial health care service.

>>746722232
He's right though. I can tell you're the exact type of golem he's talking about, kek.

>>746719558
It's fine. Al blowing up a wall with the philosophers stone and stepping out of the dust cloud while Ray of Light plays for the first time is the peak of the series. Ed beating Pride is also good. Father is boring and just a victory lap.

>>746731151
Sadly none of the ones in my area are, population here is surgong, the population of the town I'm in is planned to 10x over the next 20 years.

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>>746728306
Severe autism.

>>746729489
Pills + locking in beats locking in alone every day. I'm sorry you had to find out this way kiddo

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>>746719189
Isn't that just called getting bored?

>>746731384
You'll have to keep a finger on the pulse then. Don't let waiting to get in with a family doctor get in the way of looking to get a sitting in though. If you wait to get a new family doctor and only then ask to get referred to a psychiatrist you're just doubling the waiting lists you need to sit through (literally all they are doing on their end in this context is just sending emails out and waiting for replies.) It IS possible for you to do that busywork yourself, in your position that's probably the best course of action. Better than waiting to get someone to put you on a second waiting list.

>>746719189
ADHD isn't real, it was made up by (((psychiatrists))) to push drugs on children.

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>>746719189
>diagnosed with adhd as a little kid
>thought it was total bullshit and did well in school anyway so ignored it
>eventually shit like everything in op image starts driving me completely insane to where I genuinely cant take it anymore and adhd meds are the only thing I never tried so I see a psych about it and try Vyvanse for the first time
It's been like a month now and holy fuck, it's like I've been drunk/high my whole life without even realizing it and im just now sober. Genuinely feels like someone took my brain out of my head, cleaned out all the oily dogshit infesting it, supercharged it and then put it back in, and I would've avoided so much misery if I had at least tried this when I was like 20 instead of waiting until now, any miserable ADHDniggers reading this who have never tried stimulants need to do so ASAP this shit is making me like 200% less mentally ill

>>746719995
This is only true of zoomers, whose gaming demographics disproportionately represent genuinely mentally ill autists and vapid normies. Anyone who grew up playing single player or local multiplayer console games, which is the vast majority of people pre-7th gen, is used to playing a variety of things that are fun in completely different ways.

I play all sorts ranging from 2d platformers, 3d platformers, racing, FPS, JRPG, CRPG, ARPG, Metroidvania, 3D melee combat, imsim, whatever. I genuinely enjoy all of those genres, and what I enjoy even more is each game being different from the last. I'm not interested in playing the same thing over and over with incremental developments. I'm tempted to say you're not really a gamer if what you enjoy is a very specific niche interest and community rather than video games as a whole but I don't know if that's something worth gatekeeping.

>>746731964
Kind of hard to do when your ADHD gets in the way of everything. It would have to be a straight up matter of life or death to be able to get me to put in that kind of effort. Not to mention the matter of extreme social anxiety making me making a phone call physically impossible.
I literally ended up homeless for a month because of that.

>>746729489
No true, we can see the leap in innovation in both politics, economics and engineering from the discovery of coffee. People have been taking stimulants since the beginning.

>>746729820
>>746730467
Kek I was Canadian then I married an American and got out of that Shit hole. Now I just laugh at these posts. I have sincere fucking pity to anyone still stuck there. I recommend doing literally anything to get out, apply for a student visa elsewhere and go in debt if you have to.

>>746732550
One day I had a Ghost energy drink and a canned coffee in one day and I entered a state of euphoria that lasted hours. I was very productive at what I did and felt like I could do anything. Then I decided I'd take some entertainment time and it was fun, but it led to me lazing off the rest of the day. Maybe I should do it again and actually dedicate it all to productive shit this time.

>>746732242
You just outed yourself as the abnormal who only plays games and treats it as a serious hobby. Like i said, the vast majority of people play a few games once in a while and they'll circle back to the same games on repeat because that's normal. It's not in their interest to expand a fucking horizons of gaming, they would rather take a vacation to another country or try a new restaurant and eat something new.
Some people are serious foodies, or gamers. It's the serious enthusiastic specialist hobbyists like yourself who are blind to the vast average of people who treat it as a distraction and comfort.

>>746729037
I'm also on Concerta but sometimes I wonder if it's really working. It sounds like you've benefitted from it a lot more, how much do you take?

>>746732296
Trust me, I know from experience. Even if it's something where you can only make meaningful progress during the rare days when ADHD is not actively working against you it's just matter of trying put in that effort. It doesn't have to be every day, the fact that you're even talking about it and choosing to confront it alone is solid progress. In fact, what got me started on my own process was seeing the same type of images like in OP on Twitter. What kept me focused was trying to keep the end goal that I'll be better off and learning to recognize when ADHD was working against me. Being able to notice it would then lead to me getting frustrated with it, and that frustration would serve as fuel to keep up the initiative. Just gotta keep the eye on the prize and the belief that it'll be worth it in the end.

>>746732761
Some anons were talking about ADHD meds earlier. I remember experimenting with some to see if I liked it. I remember I was also unemployed at the time so I would take a Vyvanse in the morning then make a yummy coffee and feel the most euphoric buzz for hours and play world of Warcraft classic alongside binging Star Trek TNG. Then I'd write a script for a video game essay I thought I'd produce for YouTube.
It was fucking amazing. But I noticed the burnout was shit, and I would get mean to my gf, so I went off them. I had a friend who was taking it and he would be so fucking mean to his gf because you're just taking meth at the end of the day.

Anyway I stick to the legal over the counter stims like redbull.

>>746729037
>>746732917
Whoops sorry, I missed your post mentioning the dosage >>746730467

>>746731987
it is absolutely real

>try to read a book
>finish a sentence, have to go back to read it again to "internalize it"
>keep doing this for like 80% of the book
>never read books because of it

>try to remember something extremely basic that I always know
>can't do it
>suddenly know it again 10 min later

>try to learn math as a kid
>literal hell

>try to learn anything new
>make no real progress in a day so that means I'll never grow and never bother with it again

>>746732917
I take a single dose of 27mg every morning, it usually sticks in my system until around ~6-7pm (which is perfect for my work schedule.) It helps a lot when you can pair with other sources of healthy dopamine (for me I've been pairing it with going on runs in the afternoon, but I've been blessed with a WfH job with an hour break to find the time to do it.) But don't be too discouraged if it just turns out that Concerta doesn't work for you. There's no magic bullet so it could just be that you need something different for your unique brain chemistry. If it wasn't this complicated there wouldn't be so many different options to begin with (and why I lament we live in a world where this overall process isn't easier)

>>746719995
You sound really boring. I play almost all genres and am extremely good at them too, able to stomp most top players. I think you just gave low iq.

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What kind of jobs would my fellow ADHD anons recommend for an anxious, inexperienced, unemployed loser such as myself?

>>746719995
I have certain things I always come back to, and favorites of course, but I'll never understand people who refuse to branch out and try new things. I've been finding new vidya to play this year and it's been some of the most engaging times I've had with games in a long time. I could understand if it's a kid who only plays Minecraft or Fortnite, but at some point everyone should step outside their comfort zone.

>>746719189
How do I stop being like this
>buy tons of games but never play any of them because I get overwhelmed and afraid I'll "miss things" or something retarded like that
>sit around tabbing through 4chan/discord/twitter until it's nearly bedtime then in the last hour do something "productive" (watch half of a movie)
>put everything off for weeks/months/years
is seppuku the only way out

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>>746733236
Like 99% of books fucking suck to read but once you find the one that is well written and interesting you won't have that issue of forgetting to internalize the details. Majority of writers are mongoloids, it's hard to find the good ones.

Chris Wraight is the only author I consistently been able to enjoy and he does short Warhammer stories that are peak to me. Lord of Silence and the scouring were so fucking good and it has ruined Warhammer because nothing has been as peak as these. So easy to understand and know everything from the moment you open them.

Most books I read are like pic related. Pure dogshit.

>>746733318
Ivs played more games then you for sure. I also know myself my confidently than you and can settle into a game I like like a well work sweater. You sound like you're insecure and trying to impress others rather than satisfy what you actually want.

>>746733519
Everybody branches out, but everybody also settles into he same regular comfort material at some point. If you consistently try new thing every week you're either neglecting your real life enjoyment or unemployed.

>>746733741
Holy fucking ESL

>>746719189
Games usually don't evolve past the 30-40 hours mark, and when i figure them out they become a slog.
I don't have ADHD disorder, long games are just boring.

>>746733650
Imagine trying to convince me, who actively suffers from lack of focus, that all my issues are made up and it's actually the writers fault for being shit.
Must be nice being normal I guess?
How would you feel if you didn't eat breakfast this morning by the way?

>>746733650
That was a painful to read.
>1953
>Google

>>746732684
I actually took a trip to Austin Texas years ago and lived with a girl I was seeing at the time to gauge how I overall felt about the US. I had no issues with the people (everyone I met during my stay were pleasant and kind) but it's just not for me. My family benefited greatly from the various social services here in Canada that I know they wouldn't have had access to in the US, so it's easy to better appreciate those perks even with the knowledge that I could on paper be making more money south of the border (although went accounting for cost of living it's not by much.) If things truly go to shit my plan B country is Portugal, my dad was born there so I got easy access to EU citizenship as a result.

The only things I wish were better is the housing market (not a unique issue to Canada) and overall availability of doctors for others. However I firmly believe both are temporary issues as more boomers die and get the fuck out of the way.

>>746733479
junior school janitor

>>746733058
This is what I also notice. Being super happy is great, but if it isn't contained to something brief like a burst of laughter, it often leads to a terrible empty feeling when it leaves which can cause stress and make you more impulsive. I personally also feel like I become aloof whenever I enter a too euphoric state. I view my life like some grand comedy and really want to mess with people because it seems fun. It is almost like becoming too stimulated makes me drunk. The only time I've felt like it doesn't result in much bad is if I induce a euphoric state as I'm going to sleep. Any slump would happen while I'm unconscious and it is good to go to sleep happy and satisfied. This is of course induced by mental process, not taking a bunch of stimulants when I'm trying to go to sleep. Although whether I become stimulated or not from the mental process, since I nearly always have energy anyway I am used to sleeping with it. It is cool to find ways to strategically use emotional states like euphoria and try to minimize the negative ones while maintaining a balance to ensure slumps don't hit too hard.

>>746733650
I thought I was alone in this. Everytime I read sci-fi it just feels like the writers tries to sound smart, by inserting all manner of meaningless technical mumbo jumo.

>>746719189
how do i fix this?

>got diagnosed with ADHD at 28
>decide I'm not going to be some retard who let's it rule my life, do a bunch of lifestyle changes to try to get my shit together
>get Ritalin and take it so I can finish projects on time for work
>run more often
>force myself to finish games
>quit caffeine
>...
>flash forward 5 years
>quitting caffeine just made me even more retarded
>ritalin makes me incredibly horny to the point where all I do is jack off instead of work
>still don't finish games
At least I'm in shape from running.

>>746733479
WFH call center job. Sit browsing 4chan and watching TV all day while paying half attention and filling out some databases whenever a call comes in.

>>746734272
Anon the reason your family is on assistance is because the entire nation is mismanaged so poorly it's almost impossible for anyone to live a basic life.
My entire working years I've never managed to get above minimum wage. Even after getting educated no jobs wanted to pay me above that. And the only cars I could buy were used, they were beyond worthless because of the shi winters.

Within a month of living here (in bay area California) I got hire to sit on my ass for $26 an hour, and the car I found was in perfect condition at a way lower cost used. The food is amazing and the people are great. I also have health insurance not that I need it.
I'm a completely average low ambition guy. And I've already found a comfortable living out here. Canada is holding you back in a thousand different ways that you couldn't be fully aware of until you leave.

>>746733932
Oh I was just saying that most authors are shit and most people struggle to read because of this issue. You seem to be a pathetic insufferable nigger who suffers from learned helplessness. I was being nice and offering a suggestion and you acted like a fag for nothing. Enjoy the rest of your shit life.

>>746733236
>>try to read a book
>>finish a sentence, have to go back to read it again to "internalize it"
I have this exact same issue. I can get to the end of an entire paragraph or even a page before realizing I haven't been paying attention and can't recall a single detail despite having read every word. Sometimes even when I read it again with the direct intention of taking it in I still find myself ignoring it like there's some sort of screen in front of my brain and only pick it up the third or fourth time.

>>746735123
yea I also get a sort of "blanking out" disassociation state where I can literally read every single word but each word just goes in to the void after it's read
I cannot even imagine what it's like to be 100% normal, it's very obnoxious.
It's even funnier because I can write far easier than I can read

>>746733236
>try to read a book
>finish a sentence, have to go back to read it again to "internalize it"

I have the same issue, and I also can't memorize names in books for crap which is awful

but I used to love reading as a kid, which is kinda odd
I sort of "experienced" books, rather than actually picking up on what was written in it
I still got the gist of it, I just couldn't recite details for crap

I wish I could go back to that, that was fun
I think it was school book reports that ruined it for me

>>746733479
carny

>>746732065
30 years of misery and always feeling like I fall behind everyone else. Moved house three times, love doing logistics, then I do nothing but play high as fuck intense horde shooters. I can work more than fine and take care of myself, but my social life has always declined. Started talking to a professional, Im gonna try meds, sick of not being able to pick up a sock for months or properly talk to friends.

why does everyone have adhd nowadays

>>746733581
get a job where you're away from home half a year and don't have internet/pc access.

>>746736184
It is pretty much just one of the two macro temperaments a person can have but our society favors the sedentary and menial so the sporadic and rapid are driven insane by it.

>>746735683
>open fantasy novel
>Krrznak met with Krrzznok in Ve'leanor seated next to Elwyhrr, prince of Veihlwhayr, Fylanhour duke of Vy'lneaor, Agwaynsthyor son of Agwaynsthur, prince of The Rock.

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>>746736098
Good luck anon, you absolutely should. I'm almost 30 as well so my situation was very similar. You're also in luck because for me at least, the most surprising effect of the meds is that they really totally obliterate my social anxiety and make me way more talkative, outgoing, and come off as less egregiously autistic. Tons of the absolute worst things about my brain that engulfed me in internal torture and self hatred every day of my life are just almost totally gone on epic meth pills

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>>746721372
>this, is why you should expand your horizons and play shit no one else does.
right but when I do that I get told to buy an ad, get called a tranny or everyone ignores what I post

>>746732917
NTA but for me concerta helped with focusing in the moment but not with long term goals, but elvanse fixed that and helped more.

>>746734675
Caffeine is the nectar of the gods, if I don't take a few cups I'll spend the rest of the day with brain fog and do nothing. I don't know how people got anything done before coffee was discovered, but then again life was a lot slower back then

>>746733236
I have this problem but only with boring books (studying, etc). My favorite kind of book to read is very descriptive fiction because then it's kind of like watching a movie

>>746736773
Yeah LoTR starts out like that, dunno why tolkien absolutely needed to describe all the family trees in Shire only to barely touch on it again in any meaningful way, this kind of world building is just boring and confusing

>>746733479
You have skills, anon. Find out what they are and what you can do without effort. I spent five years for masters degree in engineering, ended up working a lowly field IT position. Pays peanuts, but is why Ive managed to live unmedicated for so long. In general a practical trade is very good for ADHD since it's constant use of hands with constant feedback and consequences. Try construction.

>>746732065
Lisdexamfetamine dimesylate did nothing to me.

>>746719995
Based post. It's just shows maturity when you know what you like and won't like instead of aimlessly just going for "new refreshing things"

after around the 120hr mark into a game i tend to feel really burned out and take a pretty long break. like a month i'll go back to it and finish it or whatever

>>746737535
Might've been too low a dose or just might not be right for you anon, it's crazy how differently these things affect different people. For me, it was immediately like night and day despite going in pessimistic 100 percent expecting it to either make me feel lobotomized or make no difference at all

>>746719189
>be born 300 years ago
>parents think you are a changeling and drown you in a well
>life becomes better for everyone else

>>746736184
Doctors in the 2010s were handing adhd meds out like candy, so everyone who was in on the joke got a diagnosis. There were law and accounting firms where basically every employee had an adderall prescription. Now people who actually have the disorder(or think they do) are learning about the symptoms from social media, so you have a second wave of people seeking diagnoses.

>>746719189
It's a pretend disability, most games are just shit and don't respect your time, especially today, when they are engineered to extract money out of you first and provide entertainment second.

>>746738237
This, we've allowed dysgenics to thrive and worse we've let them become a voting bloc. We've capitulated most of society to these deadbeats, and now nobody wants to even enter the downtown areas of major metropolises.

The only answer is making it a law that all babies be gene edited and purge anything that doesn't fulfill the baseline.

>>746719689
ADHD has many attributes that cannot be be misconstrued as laziness. You will never know what it's like to have your mind switch to an entirely different topic mid conversation so that you stand there looking like a retard after a losing a solid minute of dialogue, to not be able to gather your thoughts at all or process anything at all because a street is too loud, or to lose your keys only to find that they were in your hand the entire time. Time blindness is a big one too. I literally have to keep a giant clock on my desk or I can easily lose hours while feeling like 20 or 30 minutes passed. Things like CBT helps, but you're just setting yourself up for massive failure if you feel you can just power through without creating a ton of systems to compensate and constantly reinforcing them every day.

>>746719189
Thats the game's fault though

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>>746719189
Fuck off, I do not have ADHD.

>>746738237
>>746738783
both of you retards would have been ground up into animal food if we enforced controlled eugenics

>>746726249
>>746726371
you can do it
even if it takes time, you know it won't kill you to delay it, and if it will hurt you to delay it, then you won't delay it.
you'll appreciate the day when you spend less time thinking and more time doing all of the things that need to -eventually- be done
the kicker is that doing tasks as they come gives you more time to think, which is the point you'll appreciate what you e done! remember, thinking itself is a task, and if you can skip out on labor, you can skip out on the internal back and forth
don't shackle your hobbies, chores, or work to praise / criticism.

>>746739943
Nice projection

>>746740569
>every argument against me is projection

>>746719189
uhhh i might have adhd this sounds a lot like me

>>746734670
if you want to fit in with normal society your only option is meds

so many games have the same design to the point where this is pretty accurate though, you reach a certain point where you just know you've seen and done all the game has to offer, the rest is just a slog to tie up the loose ends of the story or something

>>746719189
>unable to focus because the stimulant (coffee) makes your thoughts bounce around constantly
>doctor i think i have ADHD, please prescribe me adderall (meth)"

>>746719189
nofap + cold showers fixes all these things

>>746739943
its not about eugenics or genes. its about keeping the fairies away. i dont want gnomes in congress

>>746740976
Complete opposite, ADHD fags function much better with coffee

>>746740976
Pretty sure coffee has the opposite effect on people that have ADHD. As in, it literally makes them sleepy.

>>746719189
>play game
>get bored
>don't play game
>repeat
>woe is me i have a mental problem
shut up retard
if you've cleaned your room and made your bed and you're living within your means, do what you want. if you're in dire straits outside of your hobbies, pirate the things you're using for escapism and write a journal on them if you feel like you're not absorbing the right entertainment (and limit playtime to after whatever self help goal you should be setting).
past all that though, everyone gets bored of games. it's not special. don't kill yourself over it.

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>>746740738
I don't care about fitting in, I just desire to be productive. It's paralyzing

>>746719189
do adhd meds even help with shit like this or are you fucked for life?

>>746742024
ADHD meds don't fix it entirely on their own. You still need to build good habits now they're capable of doing so.

I noticed I started doing this after highschool idk why. So many anime finales I have had downloaded for years and every time I think it's about time I watch it I instantly bail before I even start. Saekano final movie is an example. I downloaded it as soon as it came out and here it is 7 years later still unwatched. I think I started telling myself at some point I just don't want things I really like to be over, especially since it feels like everything is just worse than it used to be. I can't bring myself to give anything in this fantasy isekai slop era a chance.

>>746734838
To be clear, they're not "on assistance", my sister developed a chronic illness. There was no "holding back", she was simply born under a cursed star. At best you could look at it as a stroke of bad luck lol. I gave the US an honest shot when I lived in Texas for a month, it just wasn't for me. I'm very comfortable about where I'm at, but I got lucky and landed a great stable job here, I get paid well and above the curve, so I make it a habit to count my blessings. I wish it could be as easy for others.

I'm glad you found happiness in the US tho. No shade in making the decision to immigrate, in truth I have more respect that when you felt unhappy in Canada you took the initiative to seek opportunity in a place that suites your needs better compared to people like those fuck-ass alberta separatists too cowardly to do something as simple as applying for a work visa to just move to the US as if it would be difficult for someone with even a baseline Canadian education to find work compared to the nations most US companies import labour from.

>>746741440
>>746741479
ADHD faggots are liars. the hyperactive ones (ADHD) all chug coffee and energy drinks and the slow and sleepy ones (ADD) have a vitamin deficiency and don't exercise enough.

>>746719689
I don’t think it’s good to just wallow in your own difficulties and be a perpetual doomer about it, but it is in fact the case that the brain is very complex and people are different and some people have significant trouble with focusing and attention, and we know this through looking at brain activity. That’s all. Of course you can always learn to remedy that and break bad habits and learn to work with your difficulties.

>>746743287
Diagnosed ADHD here, I rarely drink coffee and never touch energy drinks because they give me the shakes and make me feel unpleasant, without waking me up or helping me focus.
Adderall sucks even worse, but it works because I feel much less unpleasant while getting stuff done.

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>>746743287
>duuuuude just like go for a run and eat some steak bro that fixes everything
Kill yourself neurotypicals normalfag or slime

>>746722917
This, recently I forced myself to try games outside my comfort zone and had a better time than when I autistically put myself in genre boxes only playing games that are "my thing".
There's nothing wrong with having a comfort game to go back to or dropping shit halfway through after giving it a fair shake, but only ever playing one genre or even one game is the wrong call for the absolute vast majority of people.

>>746719745
As someone with ADHD, a lot of these are way too specific to not be written by someone with ADHD. It's self depreciative shit.

>>746719189
This pic isn't relatable
How is this relatable for anyone
What the fuck guys some of these are comically silly

>>746719308
agreed
80% gives you most of what a game has to offer these days outside of the autistic shit like completing the bestiary or item log or find the doohickey in the asscrack of the cave hidden behind a wall you have to smack 11 times

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>>746719995
I don't try new things very often, but I still play like four different genres pretty regularly.
Hell I'm pretty sure you could do that by like like... playing the libraries of popular series like Mario or Megaman.

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>>746733741
>game I like like a well work sweater

>>746744202
It is good advice though for people with ADHD or autism or fucking schizos or w/e, to be as healthy as possible. Obviously won’t cure anything, but I’ve noticed signifiant improvement in my attention, focus and mood after getting fitter and eating a proper healthy diet. Symptoms are still there but it at least makes it a bit easier to get through the day.

>>746745724
I need to stop phone posting, my autocorrect is unbelievably fucking retarded.

>>746746810
Hey, at least it was pretty funny this time around

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>>746719189
>abandons anything he isn't immediately good at
>spends weeks mentally preparing for a task that takes 15 minutes to complete
>watches a video on mute while listening to another, all while distracted by his own thoughts
>Got nothing done all day, still feels overwhelmed and exhausted
aaaAAAAAA FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU

>>746719189
The worst one is when the indecision causes you to become stressed and feel insufficient and then your mind takes this negativity and lets it flow onto the entertainment your wasting time on and it ruins it for your by creating irrational feelings and then you are left with nothing to do but sit around and feel dissatisfied. Always be mindful of where feelings are coming from before you let them control your behavior towards something else.

>>746732065
same but amphetamines just flat out do not affect me unfortunately

>>746738448
>were handing adhd meds out like candy
they still are
>were law and accounting firms where basically every employee had an adderall prescription
there still are
even today in 2026 every other finance faggot, IT monkey, and college student has an Adderall script
t. IT monkey with a Vyvanse script

>>746732065
Tried all types of ADD meds and they do make me focus but they also have me tweaking and unable to sleep, and I already have severe insomnia. I got diagnosed with ADD when I was 16 but I sometimes wonder if I really have it because I always hear how stimulants make ADD people super calm, but I’m super sensitive to them. But I have literally all other symptoms so I dunno.
Now only meds I take are low doses of antipsychotics+melatonin+magnesium glycinate in order to sleep and I still get 6 hours if I’m lucky. I hate my life.

it doesn't even matter
after spending the last couple of years forcing myself to finish the games I play it has become abundantly clear that most devs give up when they game is like 60%
The last levels are always shit you've seen before but multiplied and tedious and always feels like it's testing your patience. and then you get to the 15 phase final boss fight with 3 different ending fake outs and I'm just done

>>746749448
have you tried weed for sleep

>>746749667
I smoked a lot of hash when I was younger and it did help me sleep a lot from what I remember. Sadly very illegal where I live, basically seen and treated the same as heroin. I don’t have contact with any of the people I used to buy from and I can’t be assed to do the whole dark web thing. I used to when Silk Road was online. But I’m trying to stay away as much as I can from substances now, I don’t drink anymore either.

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>>746719189
This and what I believe to be AVPD are destroying me
>all the free time in the world yet spend most of the day lurking or jerking off and then squeeze in maybe two hours of vidya before bed
>have actually important shit to do now but I flip flop through my priorities so much that nothing ever gets done
>want intimacy so bad to the point of mental anguish but I'm too lazy and afraid to download a dating app
>takes ages to work up the courage to talk to anons outside of here and then I never talk to them again
>always feel like I'm not welcome or I'm in the wrong place no matter how close I think people are to me or how familiar I am with my surroundings
>always feel like I'm doing something wrong, and when I do something wrong for real, I swear off ever attempting it again
>always feel like my friends are going to abandon me and move on with their lives while I'm stuck the way I am now
>confidence and self-esteem are non-existent
>will never be in a relationship because the stress of finance, living and sleeping together, meeting relatives, and all the drama that can come with it destroys the few good things that make it worth it

>>746750176
I've notice this sort of shit being much easier to overcome when I don't use 4chan much. But at the same time, 4chan is the main place where I can discuss a variety of subjects so completely giving it up for a long period of time isn't too feasible. Maybe if I got a girlfriend I could use her for social interactions I don't want to burden my family with (like all the weird shit I discuss here). But I don't want to start looking for one until I have a decent amount of money to make me not look like a loser. I want to develop games to maybe get a bit of extra money I can use for investing and shit. But this shit of course destroys productivity so it takes me longer than it should. My problems feed into each other. If I don't do my best and succeed eventually I'll get forced into some desk job or some shit and then my life will collapse because my mind simply isn't structured for that shit. This fear is the only thing that really drives me. But it can also put me in a bad mood at times. Sigh

>>746745589
you're a normalfag

>>746750176
I relate to all of this. The worst part is that I have overcome all of it multiple times in the past but I always regress back to it eventually.

>>746719189
He just like me fr fr

>>746719189
everything except the caffeine bit is my, for some reason my lineage is blessed/cursed with being ultra drug resistant to everything, so coffee does nothing to me