u/DenverBroncos_Fan

This post contains content not supported on old Reddit. Click here to view the full post

My primary care doctor has been treating me for anxiety for more than five years. We slowly increased meds until I finally stopped displaying anything externally, but was going insane internally. My wife of 15 years finally convinced me to bring up ADHD, something she’s swore I have since we first started dating. After discussing symptoms with my primary care physician, she put me on Vyvance and it changed my world. My anxiety disappeared. I could have conversations without having to work at it and pre plan them. I could be in areas with multiple people talking and not be on the verge of a panic attack. It’s so calming that I occasionally take naps on it, which I could never do before. (I relied on alcohol to sleep before this, and my drinking has been reduced dramatically.)

I finally had my ADHD test a couple weeks ago and found out my results yesterday. I really wanted honest results so I had zoned in and focused as hard as I could on the test. Apparently I did too good and he says I had no attention issues at all. I’m part of the 90 percent of adults he sees who have diagnosed themselves with Facebook and just enjoy taking stimulants. I just have severe anxiety and stimulants naturally fix everything, so I don’t need them anymore. He was a total condescending dick about it.

I’m going to have a follow up with my primary care physician in a couple weeks and I’m terrified that we’ll have to go back to square one on my meds. Has anyone else dealt with something similar?

ICP was a huge part of my life growing up. What I always loved was how it felt like they were poking at everything… religion included. It came off sarcastic to me. Like they were exaggerating it on purpose. Almost like “this is what it would look like if all this was actually real.”

Like I spent days of my life preaching joker cards to my friends. It was like the antireligion focus on justice and not some weak ass higher power who couldn’t do shit about all the corrupt and disgusting power hungry fuckers out in the world.

Then they came out saying they really do believe in God and it just threw me off. Changed the whole vibe. Stuff that used to feel like commentary suddenly felt more… literal.

I kinda checked out after that.

Now my son found my old CDs and we’ve been listening again. And yeah, I still love it. That hasn’t gone anywhere. But that piece of it still bugs me. I can’t really separate it now.

Not trying to start anything. Just curious if anyone else had that same reaction or if it never bothered you.