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What’s the most terrifying experience you’ve ever had?

20 years ago, almost to the hour, (only remember as it was a long Easter weekend), I’d sat up from the Thursday night and had worked my way through ~40 Shrek 2 ecstasy tablets over that timespan. It was later reported in the papers they were adulterated with methamphetamine. Which explains why we were hiding in a closet watching every fault on the wall turn into some sort of insect and scurry away.

But the real killer was the gravity bongs with cheap hash (there was literal bits of plastic bags in it as filler). On my 10th one or so I got kicked back out my body like I’d just been hadoukened by The Ancient One and was in some plane in space where I could see all my memories like wee tv screens. I was pulled back into the current timeline and was hovering just above my body for a second before being jolted back in.

I immediately had excruciating pain in my wrists and it felt like invisible inter-dimensional chains were being dragged through them. Not metaphorically. It felt mechanical. Deliberate. But the worst bit was the time loops. The same minute kept repeating for what felt like an eternity, I could see time rewinding and it’d repeat the same minute again and again and again until I realised I had free will and told my cousin to phone and ambulance before I jumped out the window to break the loop.

And that kids, is how I got persistent hallucinogenic perception disorder and about a decade of sleep paralysis (every night).

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Taxed indeed

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YOU cAN aCtuallY dO ThINgs to cONTroL iMpulses.

Save your patronising nonsense - stop trivialising and dismissing a real neurological condition because you lack the awareness to understand the condition doesn’t impact everyone the same.

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Taxed indeed

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Seems like people don’t want to drown in sadness, they’re trying to express pain, connect, and maybe find relief instead of bottling it up alone. If anything you’re the one with the weird dismissive vibes.

People with ADHD struggle with tasks like cancelling subscriptions because ADHD affects executive function, which makes it harder to remember deadlines, manage time, and follow through on boring or repetitive admin tasks that don’t have immediate rewards. It’s not abstract eejit.

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Do you agree?

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Unless you forget to do the whole career set-up thing and just bounce from one hyperfocus to the next.

This is a warning to anyone under 30; pick a well defined role that has a title and is transferable.