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I'm going to do what online recipes do, I promise just this once. I want to talk about why I stopped medication, but first I have to complete my Epilogue travel anxiety post. This is the puzzle that started the blog If you click back now, you can see my own photo while standing in the same spot. I guess, this jigsaw puzzle and my interest in puzzles has been a thing that made me think, that I cannot possibly have ADHD. I probably only do a jigsaw every 3 years, but I hyper focus on and push through. Almost like a compensation mechanism I guess. I have a question. What is your compensation mechanism for maintaining your own self worth amid the malaise of ADHD doubts? Meds I am drug averse. I avoid, it's just I do not like the idea that chemicals can change me. My Aunt took an OD, when I was around 10, so that perhaps also informs my view. I rarely use paracetamol for example, although I often do have headaches. I once went through a phase where I polished off a bottl...
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(Stantead feeling nervous) The altitude is roughly 37,200 feet, and the engines have lowered their pitch now. It's ages since I felt that immense power of take off, that deep throat roar. Jet engines are marvelous. (I got to start one once). I just don't travel nor fly much lately, I'm quite low carbon. So now that we are almost half-way to a long weekend in Prague, I am starting to relax a bit. I have always hated border controls and flying. Although if I think for a minute, flying I love, but airport security I hate. And yes, being bored on a plane is exactly the right time to start yet another blog. I really hope I can keep this one going. (Enough time to imagine the worst) When your brain always thinks the worst, your life sux for any kind of travel. I got stopped by security again this time, this seems to happen almost half of the plane journeys I take. Finally worked out why I get singled out, border controls make me nervous, which makes you st...
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