u/Eastern_Selection335

I'm not talking about the obvious PMO. This is a list of things that removing them helped me see benefits from SR straight away:

- No social media (reels are basically soft porn).

- No "Easy money" chasing habits (gambling, trading).

- 90% less sugar (no desserts, cakes, cookies, sweets, pastries, chocolate, ice cream).

- No caffeine (Switched to decaf).

- way less phone screen time (I put the phone in the other room from 7pm till 1 hour after waking up).

- No news reading/watching ( if it's relevant to me I'll hear about it from my surroundings, I don't need a constant update on everything).

Making those changes + SR made me focus more about my wife and kids. I'm cleaning and fixing things around the house more, playing with my children more and going to the gym more often. Add the regular SR benefits and I'm a completely different person than who I was 6 months ago.

I was diagnosed with ADHD last year and started medication 5 months ago. This led me to quit many addictive things in my life like trading, sweets, caffeine, porn and eventually any visual stimulation while masturbating.

A couple of weeks after I stopped the visual stimulation something interesting happened - I asked myself the question "do I even feel like doing this anymore?" Which made me realise I don't. I really didn't feel like it anymore.

This moment led me to stop masturbating completely. Then the social anxiety went away, I became more focused and energetic. My relationship with my wife, my kids and friends improved so much. I then looked it up online and found out about SR. And I'm so glad I did.

Thank you to this community for helping people step out of the vicious PMO cycle. I appreciate all of you.

I simply can't find it. Been looking for years and Rick dangerous was the closest I got. I believe the game I'm looking for had elements from Rick Dangerous (the enemies, the weapon boxes) but it was a different game.

I think it had Indiana Jones vibes to it (possibly Egypt themes). Side scroll. Once I see it I'll know. But it's not Rick Dangerous.

So I've been clean for 1 year now from porn after being addicted for about 30 years or so.

I was diagnosed with ADHD about a year ago at age 45 which helped me a lot to understand how my brain works and how I get easily addicted to stuff like that. Since starting adhd medication 3 months ago I've also been clean from emotional snacking and trading (I was addicted to trading for 8 years and overweight since I was 30 years old. I lost 7 kg since starting medication because I don't snack).

The problem with an adhd brain is that my mind will never stop looking for high-dopamine activities so I need to stay alert that I don't replace old addictions with new ones. for example, I've slowly realised that in the past month or so I've started going more often to the reels section on Instagram to get my daily soft porn fix from girls there. Once I realised that I've uninstalled IG.

Do any of you have adhd and experience the link with addictions and if so, how do you deal with it?

I've been on Concerta XL for 2 months now (currently on 72mg) and I feel EXHAUSTED.

I then realised that I'm just working like crazy. I mean, I don't do overtime or weekends but once the meds kick in I'm so productive from 9am till 6pm and it's only when I wake up in the morning that I realise how tired I am.

To be honest I don't even like what I do so I feel like is this it? I just give 100% to my employer now? It's SO not typical for me so it feels like a mini identity crisis..

Anyone having a similar experience with meds?

I started my YouTube channel 3 weeks ago and I have 3 videos on it. I truly believe in the quality of my content but I only get about 100 views on each video. My first video has 1k views but it was only because I was lucky enough to post it on a sub-Reddit and get great feedback from people who are my target audience.

Do you people mostly count on consistency, quality and the YouTube algorithm to push the videos over time? Or do you try to "help" the algorithm by getting people from outside YouTube?

I've been on Concerta XL for over a month (did a month on Elvanse before).

When I took the 18mg and 27mg Concerta XL the first couple of days I felt headaches but then they worked great most of the time. Since I switched to 36mg I feel like I kinda lost most of the benefits but gained anxiety.. is that normal? I'm a bit anxious about moving to 54mg that it will make me more anxious.

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Is the anxiety creeping in a normal stage in adjusting to the higher dosages?

Me (46M) and my wife (41F) have been married for 10 years. We have 2 kids (ages 8 and 4) and I always felt like me and my wife kind of have the opposite roles in the house in terms of the typical couples. I'm more emotionally open and like to talk about things and enjoy having deep conversations about anything. My wife is the opposite. She doesn't like talking much, which I was always aware of but it got much worse since the kids were born. There's less talking meaning there's less intimacy which eventually leads to less sex.

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We both work from home for a few years now and she can go on for full days without saying a word. She just doom-scrolls her phone for hours or chats to her close friends.

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I do almost everything around the house. I clean, I take care of the kids and cook. She mostly has two tasks - doing 50% of the laundry and driving us around (I don't drive because of anxiety issues when I'm behind the wheel).

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I feel so alone in our relationship and every time it comes up she'll listen and we'll be ok for a couple of days and then she's back to her routine of not talking all day.

If I get her to talk about her feelings (which is hard to do) she'll repeat the same thing that she is worried about money and that all her friends own a house or can afford to not work if they want to. I tell her I understand her and would like to own more things or have some more stability financially but there's really not much I can do about that. We both work full time and we make a decent salary.

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In the past 6 months I came to the sad realisation that we might just separate at some point because we simply can't communicate and because she's always busy looking at what others have that we don't while we have a beautiful life and I just can't seem to be able to help her focus on what's good.

Is it possible that the algorithm keeps videos and shorts on zero views because of copyright issues? I don't mean copyright strikes (which is obvious), I mean just the green copyright issue.

I've filled a dispute on a copyright claim on free to use music I've downloaded and I've noticed the video stays on very low views while the dispute is still in process.

Hello,

I'm new to Davinci resolve (came from after effects).

I was editing a video and then realised I have a sync problem in that video. I've placed the original media in a new timeline and shifted the audio a bit to fix the sync.

is there a way to swap the edited video with the new timeline ? (like in After effects where you can swap a video with a precomp).

thanks!

Like the title says, I've recently switched after 1 month on Elvanse which gave me mostly bad side effects. Elvanse hardly did anything during the day but then made me so tired in the afternoon. The worst thing was that I was then totally depressed in the evenings.

I started thinking about giving up on medications but the titration pharmacist suggested I try methylphenidate for the 2nd month so then I can decide which one worked better. I'm only on 18mg on Concerta XL (now on day 4) but I'm already noticing the focus during most of the day and the fact that I'm fine during the evenings.

I have noticed I wake up really tired in the morning after 7-8 hours of sleep. I guess it's because the medication completely wears off during the night then my body gets really exhausted.

Hopefully the next dose (27mg after 2 weeks) will keep this going and I can stay on this medication.

So today after 4 weeks on Elvanse (2 weeks on 30mg, 2 weeks on 50mg) I've decided with the titration pharmacist to switch to Concerta XL because I get more side effects on Elvanse than actual benefits. I've had headaches, teeth grinding, nausea but the worst one was the crash in the evenings and the depression that follows.

I felt the medication working in the morning but my mind was still all over the place jumping between tasks.

Has anyone been through the same path and can say if switching helped and pros/cons between meds?