I'm not made of money!! Leave me alone!!

I'm so sympathetic to this ogre.

Sometimes the reason is because the author is pretentious.

This is how I accidentally named one guy "ThisGuy" and the other, "Thatguy."

On the plus side, Jim Bob the bridge builder is a long term friend I keep looking up when we visit town.

Never watched the show but I googled her and the problem isn't that she's a fatty. It's that her face shape is so round, so people see more fat than if there.

I'm probably a good 50 pounds heavier but my family has obscenely high cheekbones so even as a fatty I have those hollows in my cheeks that people assume is thin. It's not the weight there, it's bone structure.

Pointing out that Jesus was absolutely not the only person who carried a cross and was crucified is an excellent point. The cartoonist absolutely missing the whole... thing with thos image.

I know how easy it would be to write a romance book.

I know it would be better than the majority of what's being printed today. (Chuck Tingle being the obvious exception; no one could approach their greatness.)

The problem is I'm awful at marketing, and I could never compete with... all... this.

Long way to go for the joke but I appreciate you.

The boyfriend last night was surprised I didn't watch the debate.

"They've both been president. I was paying attention. I know what their presidencies will be like. Why listen to them talk about it?"

I bet he'd hate bears, if he were to switch fields.

I named my Decidueye "Indy" for Indian Ghost Pipe. (I always follow a plant naming scheme.) These are cool as hell.

As someone else said upthread (and I've told a lot of people myself) if you're depressed but know you can focus and accomplish things, the first thing you accomplish might be suicide.

This is one of the few places where I agree with standard practice. Depression first, then ADHD.

This right here is why so many people with ADHD end up changing jobs so frequently.

I remember that, and I have to say that this attitude contributed to me not thinking there was any point in pursuing help for my MDD.

Don't let the world being shit demoralize you into not trying to improve your lot, ladies, gentlemen and citizens.

I play this on my android phone. It's free, ad-free, and you can pay to support.

The updates have been awesome. It's extremely difficult, and it's not unusual to die a buncha times before your first success.

Tell your kitty I love him.

Yeah. The lockpicking tools I use and want to use and can't use is just nOrMaL bEhAvIoR u guiyzz!!

We have ADHD. One of the hallmarks is hyperfocus. We will, several times a year, sometimes a month, hyperfocus on a "hobby" and do it every moment we're awake and not at work or school (to the neglect of eating or bathing or sleep) and then, at random, be unable to do it anymore to the point where we can't, even if we want to.

This is an ADHD community. When you see us complaining about "normal" things, we simply aren't putting in the thirty caveats that explain why this thing we're complaining about isn't "normal," because we don't have to explain ourselves to other people with our conditon.

And there is nothing more annoying than hanging out in a safe space for your condition and having people constantly show up to try to explain that this is "normal." It's not. We know it's not. There's books about it. Studies about it. We just shouldn't have to explain the background details of what makes this abnormal every goddamn time!

I don't know what to tell you then. About a billion studies since have said that people with ADHD who use their prescription as directed will not get addicted. I've taken it every day for a month and then forgotten it. I regularly forget it before I leave for work so I keep a spare bottle in my purse with a single dose or two just in case.

I think it's easier for a person with an addiction to get a diagnosis and then abuse it than it is for a person with ADHD to get addicted to the medicine. But also it doesn't do any of those things for me that would get me addicted; I'm told it causes euphoria in people. I'm told it causes high energy. I'm told it's basically a party drug! I can take it and all it does is make me focus on stuff I'm supposed to instead of whatever I happen to focus on.

As for the opiate thing, I've been prescribed them for pain and I hate how they make me feel. My pain has to be truly god awful for me to actually take one.

So I guess what I'm saying is obviously your experience isn't invalid but I disagree on your takeaway. (Wish I replied after I woke up and took my meds so this answer wouldn't be a billion words long and meandering lol)

The thing about mental health is, if your brain chemicals aren't buttfucking you, you can live not because someone else might care, but because you care.

That should be enough.

You are enough.

After extensive reading there isn't any real answer for this question. Studies into why men or women choose specific methods are scarce. Speaking from personal experience, I chose poisoning because I didn't want to leave a massive bloody mess behind for someone to have to clean up.

One study (with a small sample size) that asked men who survived an attempted suicide using a firearm showed that many of them answers they picked the gun because it was available.

Of two of the men I've known who committed suicide, one used a gun (behind his house and was found by two neighbor children playing, just awful) and the other hanged himself.

I think we need to do more research into why before making a definitive claim.