u/Negative-Toe803

Was sitting in the bath the other day and suddenly felt like I was falling over to one side and I couldn’t get up. I got to the point that I was submerged before I could get up and it kept happening and I felt sick and that my chest was beating hard. Got up and went upstairs then sat on the fooor shaking with double vision for an hour. I then threw up A LOT and continuously. I went to go look in the mirror and I was fully grey. My mum drove me to my aunts who is a doctor and said it was vasovagal syncope. The whole thing lasted a few hours and I was sobbing the whole time, is it definitely vasovagal syncope or what because I don’t think I actually fainted?

Was sitting in the bath the other day and suddenly felt like I was falling over to one side and I couldn’t get up. I got to the point that I was submerged before I could get up and it kept happening and I felt sick and that my chest was beating hard. Got up and went upstairs then sat on the fooor shaking with double vision for an hour. I then threw up A LOT and continuously. I went to go look in the mirror and I was fully grey. My mum drove me to my aunts who is a doctor and said it was vasovagal syncope. The whole thing lasted a few hours and I was sobbing the whole time, is it definitely vasovagal syncope or what because I don’t think I actually fainted?

Would post on adhd sub Reddit but auto moderators take it down.

So both my brother and (probably) my dad have quite bad adhd. I’ve grown up watching my brother work without a diagnosis and then after. Before he was diagnosed his work ethic was terrible and inconsistent but he managed to get relatively good marks at school (he goes to a very good one) to now after a diagnosis being able to put in work and revision to a level I haven’t seen before. I’ve always found myself just along side him in terms of work, I can’t revise for any exam in advance it just doesn’t stick in my brain unless I feel a massive sense of pressure. Often leading up to a big test I just get completely overwhelmed and break down and start crying while my mum tells me it could all have been avoided if I just revised earlier. When I try and revise earlier, I genuinely just sit at my desk doing nothing for hours at a time until I inevitably start crying. But the crazy thing is I do well in school, I can pull a miracle the night before and scrape a decent mark, but I always have the unshakeable feeling that I could be doing better. I’ve done those online tests (though I seriously doubt their reliability) and always got ADHD and I have so many of the classic symptoms like anxiety and disorganisation and anger issues. I feel like I’m in a nightmare sometimes where I’m incapable of doing work. I’m in my school special need department for other reasons, but as I had mentioned feeling like I was adhd to my mum she mentioned it in a netting with them. They’ve been kind of useless but they sent my mum and dad a questionnaire which they filled in and came back as me being severely adhd. However when they snet it to two of my teachers it came back completely normal. A test is 2k and nhs takes forever and GCSEs are soon what the hellu do I do, is this a sign I shouldn’t get tested or what? Need help really bad is it even worth getting a test without teacher recommendations?

I’ve always felt very weird to say that I ‘enjoy’ or consume true crime content, it feels quite voyeuristic and macabre to trivialise someone’s whole life like that. I’ve tried listening to these YouTube true crime podcasters. I started with Bailey Sarian, but I feel like I morally had to stop because she’s just so unserious and it feels like she’s mocking the victims when she has whole segments solely focused on how she can’t pronounce their name. I moved onto Kendall Rae after that, but the ad breaks are relentless and apparently she’s not as ethical as I thought she was. Just listening to YouTube podcasters in general feels wrong when I know that they’re doing this independently to make money rather than like being part of charity. I quite liked listening to Serial but the episodes are incredibly long form and they’re often fairly grand scale and complicated. I also really enjoyed the book ‘Framed’ by the innocence project, and it’s that kind of like ‘authorship’ I think I would actually find palatable. Who is an ethical true crime podcaster who’s had NO controversy and actually helps people without sounding like a callous valley girl? Is it even possible to find someone like that?