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[Meme] The struggle is real, especially when The Focus hits on new creative work (i.imgur.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Depicted in the image is Sisyphus pushing his legendary boulder up a hill, written in the boulder are the words, "The fucking dishes and the fucking laundry."

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Straight up though I recently learned a really weird way of editing pictures for creative distortion (it involves Audacity (the sound editor)) and I straight up forgot to do both before work.

Yesterday and today.

Good news is I learned a lot on how editing those pictures works. Bad news is tonight's dinner was cereal eaten out of a mug with a fork.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish I'd focus on my creative projects...

I guess the medication worked after all, I wasn't so convinced at first. But now that I don't have it anymore, I definitely feel the difference.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The medicine gives you a normal amount of focus, which isn't magical or anything. That is why you don't notice it until you don't have it.

Like water or food, you don't know what you are missing until you have enough and then don't.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think I also just need therapy to learn habits with which I can make the best use out of these meds

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am on medication because I couldn't stay focused long enough to develop some habits. Now I can still do them even without medication because of being able to develop them and enough repetition, but medication still helps with developing new habits!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It definitely helped with some things, but not so much with others. Is to be expected, though.

Anyhow, I'll talk to my doctor about it, how to proceed. Methylphenidate didn't feel all too right to me, even if some things worked, like craving less sugar

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's what medication is ultimately for. To help you learn those habits.