I use Lunair to guide me through it because left to my own devices I'll forget where I am in the count (thanks, ADHD).
I enjoy meditation that focuses on breathing. A key point of breathing meditation is that everybody loses focus. ADHD sufferers only lose focus much faster, more often and for longer. You are supposed to have stray thoughts and mentally go elsewhere. You need to accept it then refocus on breathing over and over again. The purpose of breathing based meditation is not to get the higher score of seconds between distractions. It's to constantly practice pulling yourself back. Thanks to the magic of neuroplasticity, the more you pull yourself back, the easier it becomes and only then do you get the benefits of longer periods of undistracted focus.
Edit: Forgot to add (hehe ADHD) this form of meditation, you also practice acceptance. Its natural to be disapointed/frustrated with yourself for getting distracted. By practicing awareness, acceptance and refocus on breathing, you also improve acceptance via the same neuroplasticity. This in turn lowers anxiety and improves calm, making the whole process even more beneficial.
I suggest you drop the tech like lunair, because for whatever amount you feel it helps, its actually defeating the purpose of meditation. You trade a small bump in your focus score for the benefits of building new neural pathways via neuroplasticity that will bring long term benefits.
Just one person's opinion, but I hope you find it worth looking into.
The demand is insatiable, and unmet. Price based demand destruction is only part what were seeing here. Whatever can be made will be sold. We can't supply enough to meet demand so we ration by price.
Sort of. Medical science doesn't know exactly, but there is good evidence pointing to genetic, epigenetic and environmental factors during gestation and early development. There is also things like subclinical (minor) cases then age and covid really amping them up.
That's a lot to digest, but one part caught my eye that maybe I could help with.
All because I was prescribed incorrectly by a doctor mistaking my ADHD for common run of the mill depression.
The word "depression" is a loaded word, where everyone that uses it means something different. The general public's use of the term usually means the mental condition of long term irrational sadness. People can't see the good in daily life even when its there. The medical field uses the the term to mean decresed neural activity somewhere in the brain.
I'm oversimplifying a bit, but its still essentially correct to say both ADHD and the Sad form of Depression are neurobiologically similar/same root causes - problems with neurotransmitters causing certain areas of the brain's synapses to fire more slowly. They are BOTH depression of neural activity.
ADHD is where various parts of the brain, but not all, have synapses that fire more slowly because of insufficient neurotransmitters. The brain's many parts work best as a team where all parts are firing at the same speed resulting in normie behaviour. An ADHD brain gives off weird behaviours because a the complex signals that would normally zip around the brain in an instant with an in-sync brain, now gets certain signals and processing delayed and out of sync because parts of the brain were working too slow, and others were normal. The mental messages in your brain are now out of order due to delays in signaling. The revelation I hope you can see here is that your doctor did not misdiagnose you with depression. To have ADHD is to have depressed neural activity. The medical term for slower functioning synapses is "depression."
The sad form of depression is usually the same thing as ADHD - neurotransmitter economy problems, but specifically in the areas of the brain that govern emotion. This also Depression, in the neurotransmitter synapse firing sense, but is also in the sad sense. Similar underlying cause, different areas of the brain. You can also have sad depression when the whole brain, including emotional centres are firing slowly.
ADHD = Neural Depression leading to out of sync brain processing
Depression (sad): Neural Depression in emotional processing centers.
Respectfully disagree. It means everything. It is an unfair burden for you to bear, but your existence is a beacon of light for everyone who struggles with acceptance of diversity and seeks basic human rights. You are not alone.
Whatever causes ASPD.