u/AccomplishedEgg1008

Is there anyone with ADHD who has taken the PMP exam online?
I know a lot of people recommend taking it at home because it’s your own environment and it’s more comfortable but the problem is that I have ADHD. My eyes dart everywhere when I’m thinking and I often read while moving my lips. I’m very concerned that this would be a huge issue for the proctor and I’ll get disqualified.

Folks with ADHD I’d love to hear how you manage the test! Whether it’s at an exam centre or online

I broke up with my partner a few weeks ago due to a porn addiction that he willingly divulged to me. TLDR; he divulged it about one month after we became a couple and I immediately said it was a dealbreaker. He promised to work on it and asked for a chance. I said yes, with the agreement being that he will start therapy and disclose to me everytime he uses porn or has a desire to use porn. He did well with the disclosing for a few weeks but soon it was radio silence. I let a few weeks pass before confronting him and he admitted to using porn and not telling me. He also admitted he had not looked for a therapist. So I ended things.

Here’s where it gets complicated. He begged me for couples counselling and immediately arranged a sex addiction therapist appointment after we broke up. After his first session, he told me that the therapist said he DOESNT have an addiction but that he is autistic and watching porn has become a RITUAL for him. The therapist also said that following sessions will be to help him deal with his autistic traits and no further work will be done on the porn thing because it’s not an addiction.

I have never heard of this and have no idea what to do. His porn use was very frequent, 2-3 times a day from what I could tell when he was still disclosing it to me. It had also affected our sex life because he has death grip syndrome. Has anyone dealt with this before? I am completely lost.

I just switched to Vyvanse 30mg from medikinet 20mg/ Ritalin 10mg and the first two weeks or so were great. Good focus, very little side effects. I still had my daily two shots of espresso with no increased heart rate or palpitations.

The last two or three days have been different though, I notice palpitations, increase heart rate on Vyvanse even without any coffee, my focus seems more scattered and it doesn’t seem to work as well as the first two weeks.

Has anyone had this issue with Vyvanse? I miss the effect it had on me the first two weeks, it was perfect :(

I see so many posts here that follow a similar pattern. Partners of PAs are unaware of the addiction, their partners are generally wonderful people, good partners and attentive parents.

Then D day happens and it is absolutely devastating and heartbreaking. PAs promise to change, partners try to get over the hurt and betrayal. It’s a long and arduous road for both.

My question is: if your partners were the wonderful people that they are, but you knew about the porn addiction at the beginning, would you have left?

I’m stuck in a situation where I’ve met a wonderful man, loving, kind and stable but he has a compulsion with porn and masturbation. Is being a wonderful person aside from the addiction enough? I struggle to answer this question and would love to hear the advice from partners who are dealing with a PA.

I (30F) just got into a new relationship with my boyfriend (38M) we’ve been together for about two months and things have been great, besides the sex. From the first time we had sex, he had trouble getting hard, staying hard and finishing. He told me it was because he’s on antidepressants, and needs to take medication to get hard to have sex. Fast forward a few more weeks, he’s on ED meds and it doesn’t work either. He gets hard but still cannot finish. He then comes clean and tells me he has a masturbation issue, along with watching excessive porn. This opened up a old deep wound for me, for my ex boyfriend had the same issue and would constantly make me feel terrible that he couldn’t come, and I later found out that he had a bad masturbation and porn addiction, that devastated our sex life.

I asked my new boyfriend directly, whether this is something he plans on changing. He said yes, he hates that he has this compulsion and is actively working on it. The sex got better for a few weeks, it still took him a long time to come (one hour) but it was an improvement.

Yesterday, we had sex and couldn’t come even after three hours. We tried again later in the day and again, he couldn’t come even after an hour. Throughout the two sessions, he kept coming up with possible reasons why. His sinuses were acting up, the weather was too hot, the ED meds were not working. I’ve seen this pattern before, in my ex-boyfriend where he’d find many other reasons to avoid the fact that it was a masturbation issue. I asked my new boyfriend whether he’s been masturbating more and he said yes, and got a bit sheepish. He said he’s gonna do a cleanse and that he wants to stop, but he can’t seem to stop.

To all partners and ex-partners of PA, does it ever get better? An addiction to porn/masturbation is definitely a deal breaker for me. But I don’t know whether it’s too early to call it quits or whether I should give him more time to get better.