Tell HN: If you have trouble focusing on projects/meetings, see a psychatrist
I did the same two years ago and it&#x27;s been transformative. There are people who will tell you that medication isn&#x27;t a complete solution, or that it&#x27;s not the best one. They&#x27;re not wrong, but telling someone who is drowning that they just need to learn how to swim isn&#x27;t doing them any favors. I was 40 when I was diagnosed, and understanding the implications of that diagnosis has made my life much better. My first couple weeks of medication made me far more aware of the people around me, which was totally unexpected. I wrote down that it was like putting on snow shoes, or adding a block warmer to your car. Obviously those metaphors won&#x27;t mean much to people who didn&#x27;t grow up in a cold climate, but the crux is that easy things are much harder than they are for other people. The weird part is that because you&#x27;re so used to easy things being hard, hard things aren&#x27;t that much harder, and when you&#x27;re warmed up you perform as well or better than your peers. But soon everything cools off, and making a sandwich is a grueling decision again.<p>One thing that eventually pushed me towards trying medication is that I realized I had already been self medicating with coffee. Sometimes when people say &quot;they aren&#x27;t a person until they&#x27;ve had coffee&quot;, that might be true. The problem is that coffee lasts an hour or so and makes you jittery and hungry, while Adder-all lasts 4 ~ 8 hours and mildly suppresses your appetite(s). They&#x27;re not wrong: sleep, exercise, diet, being social, etc also improve your emotional state, but when making a sandwich seems impossible, the first step might be to stop drowning.