u/GodsBicep

This is exactly the issue with how ADHD is treated in this country with a lot of people.

If you go through stuff like homelessness, prison, addiction, severe mental health issues etc.

They won't help you. Yet these things are far more likely with those with ADHD.

ADHD impacts 2-5% of adults

Yet:

32% of homeless people have ADHD

25% of prisoners have ADHD

60% of people with severe mental health (schizo disorders, bipolar, psychosis) have ADHD

23% of addicts have ADHD

So many of us are just being left to rot.

I was homeless 16-19 and then again 22 to 25 and because of that I ended up developing severe MH issues (schizoaffective disorder, C-PTSD.) Im 31 now and I feel my life is a constant state of flux. I go from being manic/psychotic, to taking my medication for a few weeks and then stabilising, but then because of various ADHD factors, I procrastinate taking my meds, picking my meds up or doing healthy shit and then once I start going psychotic again I grow fearful of my meds. Rinse and repeat.

Im aware of the reasons why stimulant meds wont be good for me and to be honest I agree. I know I would take a lot at once to chase the dopamine, I know they might make me psychotic. However, without help for ADHD I wont be able to leave psychosis/mania for any reasonable time to fix my life. There's non stimulant medication out there and Im sure theres CBT out there but they take one look at my file and think its too much hard work.

I feel trapped.

Well fellow East Anglians we better enjoy these few days of lower mid 20s because it looks like its right back at it again next week

After typing that Ive decided im gonna longboard to a supermarket thats 2 miles away to get some coffee so I might get stuck in one of the freezer aisles

I know some will say i shouldnt try and handle them. They arent native to the UK. Theyre currently occupying a niche that seems to not be occupied on the UK too much because the cast majority of these had recently caught grass hoppers in their nest. So these arent struggling spiders at all. Pretty cool to see as theyre not very common yet in the UK

These are the summers I was always taught were going to happen when I was in primary school in the 2000s. Its startling to me that people can experience record heat temperatures year on year and still think climate change is a myth