Ignacio [he] @ Ignacio @beehaw.org

Spanish guy, who likes open source software and has just discovered the fed

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The psychiatrist of the national health system from my country (Spain) said that, as I was diagnosed being an adult, I'm not allowed to take any stimulant for ADHD because it's illegal. If I was diagnosed being a child or a teenager and was prescribed stimulants back then, it would be different.

I'm playing FreeDoom: Phase 1, and downloaded some wads that work perfectly with FreeDoom, like D2TWWRI, Plutonia 2 and TNT Revilution.

I'm in Spain. But I think that regulation is European, I didn't see any Spanish regulation about that.

If we accept bots, I prefer those that can be summoned by the user, as it happens on Discord. If we accept bots either summoned or not by the user, they must be identified as such on their profiles.

But in no way I'll accept bots that pretend to be a human user or that can interact in the same way a human user can, neither commenting nor posting nor voting.

I only had anxiety symptoms when I was untreated. I don't remember experiencing anxiety neither on Concerta nor on atomoxetine. But every person is different.

As I said, my next appointment is next week. I'll talk to her about those struggles I still have. Those benefits I experience are really good, but they're not very useful when I can't start doing my tasks and taking care of my responsibilities. That, and the damn dysgeusia.

Sometimes, when I go to my competitive service lessons, I always get distracted and use the phone to search random things from time to time. That's something that rarely happens when I'm at home.

It would be interesting to take both pills in that case. But I don't think things work that way.

I was on Concerta until March. But it turns out that if you were diagnosed during your adulthood, it's illegal to prescribe stimulants to you. My former private psychiatrist didn't know and didn't care, but my psychiatrist in the public health system told me that. So, no stimulants for me.

I know that feddit.de is dedicated to German language and Germany. But if you don't talk German and you're not allowed to talk in English, you can do very few things. Same thing with the server dedicated to French language and France, and so on.

I'm on three servers right now (the other two are sopuli and kbin), and although I'm not as active on sopuli as I would like, I'm kind of active on kbin. The amount of news is overwhelming, I can't complain about that. But it's true that most of those news, either they are from negativity to doomerism (which, for a person with two mental disorders, some kind of anxiety and at risk of having depression, is not good), or they're exclusive to the US (which, for a person living in Europe, I don't give a shit about what DeSantis said or did to a random citizen in Florida).

So, that limits my interaction to memes, Ukrainian war news, sometimes ADHD content, open source games, and nothing else worth of relevance. That would make almost 5% of the total content on Kbin and other servers I'm on.

I don't know what kind of solution would be the best to handle this. The only thing I can say is to block all communities/magazines that are not relevant to you. But as you said, that leaves you with almost empty content or with old content. I don't mind old content, unless it's older than several weeks, but emptiness is really depressing. Even being Beehaw a small server compared to Reddit, this server is federating with other servers, and still...

One solution I can see about posting news is to post news in your native language, and provide a translation in the body of the post. On Reddit, those translations were a comment pinned. That way, we'll have less US-centric content and more global content from other countries outside Reuters source, which is in English and limited in global content daily.

But about the other things, I don't really know.

I think today was very hot in my town (30° C). Hopefully temperature will be a bit lower by Friday.

It's atomoxetine, and it's a side effect called dysgeusia. I realised that few days ago, while searching on google for weeks, because the list of side effects in the manual is almost infinite and any ADHD brain like mine can't deal with those long lists.

I finally discovered why my taste is messed up since I'm taking my ADHD medication. It turns out it's a side effect that doesn't disappear, and apparently I can't do anything about it.

Besides that, I've been hyperfocused in this game called Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. Trying to pass the main dungeon, but dying miserably because of things.

And I'm watching two TV series, after several months without consuming any media, except for the news. One is "Red Dwarf". The other is "Doctor Who".

I'm playing Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup (DCSS for friends), trying to get the Orb of Zot unsuccessfully.

My best runs so far are with a Minotaur, although a Gnoll is good too, more or less. The farthest I've arrived so far is Dungeon:12, and Orcish Mines:2 were nasty the two times I achieved to get into it.

Dealing with my executive dysfunction. I managed to study for 90 minutes this Monday morning, and I tried to continue that same afternoon, but I couldn't do more than 30 minutes.

I need to put my head in order to avoid those situations, but I can't.

I've never created other users besides the one that is created during installation. And I don't know how restriction can be done.

I used browser plug-ins to restrict access to certain sites, but only for main domains, not for subdomains.

Turn-based games are better because you can have them opened without nothing happening in TTY2, for example, and doing serious tasks on TTY1. Doing that while playing Slime Rancher or GTA4 is really difficult, if not impossible.

Besides, main lack of turn-based console games is graphics and a deep history.

I want to study through my documents without feeling the tempation of playing doom, or watching some YouTube videos, or scrolling memes mindlessly on Kbin. Those thoughts lead me to perform those tasks. Having ADHD sucks.

• Stellaris.
• Rimworld.
• Dwarf Fortress (Steam version).
• Steamworld Dig 2.
• The Talos Principle.
• The Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall.
• The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind.