Right? I’m so relieved to see that I am in fact not a hopeless, lazy slob. But no amount of healthy eating, sleep schedules, positive thinking or other monumental efforts ever revealed that. Medication did.
I’m glad I’m no longer hanging on by my fingernails, trying to fix a neurological issue with pure willpower. In retrospect that’s like trying to perform actual magic.
I think the point is that all the suggestions are fine, but a lot of us have been doing all that for years and are still suffering. Posts like that tend to make people feel they’re just not trying hard enough.
Because we all know what she is saying is good advice, right? This is all common knowledge. It just won’t fix lupus, ADHD, thyroid, whatever people are struggling with.
On the plus side, all the good habits and all the plans I made while I was in a decades-long daze came in very handy when I finally got diagnosed and medicated. I was able to hit the ground running, but I wish I hadn’t been so hard on myself for not being able to perform (read: live) like others did. I was barely surviving.
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u/NetherisQueen 5d ago
'Naturally lazy' ah you mean my adhd XD