I don't know if I have it or not. But exercises also helps me just to focus and I enjoy more the work.

I got diagnosed with it a couple of years back. I knew I had it, but I wasn’t diagnosed.

The evaluation is simple. They gave me a questionnaire with ‘have you ever’ questions. You rank them (think “a lot”, “often”, “sometimes“, “no”). Then they score based on that.

And let me tell you, filling that out made me start crying. All the shit I had put my mom through while growing up, school, college, etc.

But hey, I got the diagnosis. I have meds I can take if I need them. I currently don’t do it everyday because I simply don’t have to for what I do day to day. But if I’m working on something that requires me to hold regular hours at work or on some projects that are more conceptual, I have to.

All this to say, the test is simple and pretty quick. If you are curious, you could take it.

> All this to say, the test is simple and pretty quick.

Just to curb peoples expectations a bit, I started the process of getting diagnosed about two years ago, got the diagnosis less than a year ago, and I'm having the first meeting with a doctor who can actually prescribe meds next week. No part of it has been simple or quick. So I guess YMMV.

Oh wow. I didn’t expect it to vary that much.

I’m actually near a big university and I’ve heard it’s hard to get diagnosed here. I however don’t attend the university so the doctors I went to are outside.

My experience is in Indiana.

Have you ever noticed whether it's easier to be productive late in the evening?

Yes.

Like @disiplus, that happened to me for a long time.

During high school, college and afterwards, it was just easier to work at night and just stay up until very late. Also having a deadline around the corner gave me the right amount of stress to finally code the solution.

It’s not like I didn’t try to work during the day or wasn’t thinking of trying to solve the problem. I actually thought of it and worked out things in my head, I just had trouble sitting and coding it during the day. At night, very late until early in the morning I would just sit and dump it all out.

Side projects can still be like that.

At work, I’ve learned to manage it. I really enjoy the position I’m in. I work on a lot of projects, have a set of tasks that maybe fill half my day during the week but I can be pulled into meetings, called to fix something else, review code, or help other devs.

It’s can be a lot, but it’s working right now.

That's very similar to my experience.

for years that was how i worked, without medicine i cannot work in the morning. but i would regularly stay till 2am working.

I have no diagnosticed mental health issue but I was like that too until very recently. I started running once (sometimes twice) a week since a month and I noticed I can wake up before twelve now, I’m generally happier during the day and I can start doing things instead of just thinking a bit easier, even if it’s still far from perfect.

My advices for people who didn’t run for years like I was:

- starting low (500m or 2min) is the key. Better run a little than not

- increment a bit each time

- an Apple Watch (or other tracker) is awesome to set a goal and track progression during running. You can export health data on a PC and then do geek stuff with it