u/ImpressOk0

I’m a HSP with adhd as well. In the past, I would never contribute and post here on Reddit. I finally worked up the courage and I just started recently. Now, I feel very sad and feel like leaving Reddit altogether.

Since I’ve started contributing and posting, I’ve been experiencing extreme rejection sensitivity and disappointment. I’ve had some good experiences, but the majority has been negative.

I feel I’ve been just asking reasonable questions or sharing an experience and some posts get excessively downvoted for no reason.

Does anyone else experience this from downvotes or mean spirited judgemental messages or comments?
Ive even experienced this from a mod of another sub for mental health!

How do you deal with it and separate these negative feelings? And stop them from affecting your feelings of self-worth?

Hi just wondering who moderates the moderators? There’s some great ones out there but also not so great. What happens if you encounter the latter when trying to post?

To be clear for mods, I’m not asking for medical advice, just shared experience.

Made a really long post on my experience but didn’t get any replies. Condensing my journey. And will be approaching next steps with my doctor.

Aug 2025 first diagnosis ADHD (inattentive) and medication trial

1st med: vyvanse 30 mg. Side effects and little benefit for first few days.
\-cut to 15mg, 10mg, 5mg. Less benefit and alot of side effects. Discontinued
Procrastinated 7 months before seeing the doc again

2nd med- Methylphenidate hydrochloride (Ritalin) 10mg. Benefit for 2 days then intense side effects and headaches with no benefit. Discontinued

After trying the 2 medications, I feel my headaches have stayed and progressively gotten worse, I’m also not able to concentrate at all, and anxiety worsened. Sleep feels permanently disrupted as well.

Has anyone had similar experiences and have things gotten better? How have you coped with side effects?

Everyone has different chemistry and I try not to get my hopes up, but feeling very discouraged. Was hoping to get my life back on track. Any advice or sharing experiences with side effects and medications is highly appreciated.

Hi everyone. I know you all may be used to this but I apologize for the long story and rambling. I would really appreciate some advice for anyone that’s experienced similar things and if there’s anything I should bring up to my doctor on the next appointment.
I was diagnosed with ADHD inattentive in Aug 2025. Had never previously taken any stimulants or ssri in the past.
I was happy to finally be diagnosed later in life and finally could understand why I struggled so much more than others around me with many things. I was excited for the hope I could finally start to get my life back together.

I started doing a medication trial that month with vyvanse 30mg. First day made me feel very jittery, anxious, strange, angry and hot. Couldn’t sleep at all that night and next few nights. I couldn’t concentrate. It freaked me out and I didn’t see any benefit. Second day I got alot done at home, but all the negative side effects still. I was reading online and thought the dose may have been high so tried splitting the pill in 2. Continued having the negative side effects and was not able to work. Discontinued for a few weeks and let my doc know. He prescribed me 10 mg pills and told me to try that and also try half dose of that. I continued to have negative side effects but some days I was able to be slightly more productive. Because of all the negative effects and not being able to work I discontinued totally and doc said we should try a different class- Ritalin . I had to go on vacation at the end of Sept-October so I didn’t want to have any negative effects around that. I filled the prescription but only took a single 10mg pill, hoping to try it out when I returned in October. I didn’t notice any effect from the Ritalin the first day. The vacation ended up being quite stressful, I also got sick when returning home. Was overwhelmed with everything and work started getting really bad.
I took like 2 months (Nov -Jan) to recover mentally from that before I thought to try the prescription methylphenidate. Because of what happened with vyvanse, I tried it on weekends only. The first 2 days were great. Didn’t have any negative effects and had improved focus. On the 3rd day I took it before work and everything started going downhill again. Intense headaches and I couldn’t concentrate or look at the screen (my work is focusing on a computer screen for the entire shift). Since it was so bad I thought to discontinue until the next weekend. When I took it on the next weekend I still got the bad headaches and started hyper focusing on the wrong things (surfing the internet) so I got nothing done. Also couldn’t sleep at all. I gave it a shot a few more times on the weekends but it kept having the same effect- bad headaches and no productivity. So I discontinued altogether and contacted my doc for an appointment. The earliest was over a month out. I ended up getting so stressed and overwhelmed with work, along with headaches that wouldn’t go away and had to take a leave from work. When comparing my productivity with vyvanse and Ritalin, I felt vyvanse was a little better. I had some leftover pills of vyvanse so tried 15mg this past weekend. I didn’t have the jitteriness from last August and didn’t get any headaches, but 0 productivity, and scrolled Reddit for the entire weekend - I made myself a list of what needs to be done. I’m at this point now. Is there anything I should recommend or highlight to my doc? 🙏

Hi, beginner runner here and shoe enthusiast! I have the Nike vomero plus for running and love the cushioning. Has anyone tried the vomero plus for travel and long distance walking?

I need to bring a shoe on vacation for long distance walking, as well as some short runs. Had a lot of foot pain on my last vacation and want to avoid a repeat of that. Looking for cushioning stability and support, and also able to handle cobblestones and uneven pavement. Has anyone had a great experience with a particular runner? Im trying to travel light and I don’t really want to bring along multiple shoes.

I own Vomero plus, On Cloud runner2, Hoka Clifton10, NB X more5, vomero 18, Adidas supernova rise, Puma forever run nitro.

I’m open to buying any new shoes as well.
Has anyone had any experience with any of these or any other brand/model for travel and walking?

As the title states, on Reddit home page, after scrolling for 5-15 minutes, it will randomly scroll to the top of the feed, so I will lose whatever post I was looking at and have to scroll back down. Sometimes it freezes and randomly refreshes the feed without warning. Why has this been happening in the new update? I've never had this issue before updating to the latest iOS version.