Ask HN: Feeling guilty for doing the bare minimum at work

Re:Ask HN: Feeling guilty for doing the bare minimum at work by marvin on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @02:32PM (#27595349)

It might have been unhelpful way of formulating the response, especially in the light of OP's comments about getting treatment for anxiety and depression.

But the comment was probably meant to highlight that there's a sense of ambiguity in medicating what's likely a natural individual difference in brain chemistry. Many diagnosed with ADHD would be considered perfectly well-functioning in a society where hunting, defense or other stressful, spontaneous physically and psychologically demanding activities were common. Many of them would excel at it far beyond the ideal office worker.

So in that sense it can be considered a critique of contemporary society's requirements and standards.

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Re:Ask HN: Feeling guilty for doing the bare minimum at work by emptysongglass on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @03:38PM (#27596180)

This may be true for tribal societies but we don't live in one anymore and unless I go try and join the sentinels at Sentinel Island, which I have a 99% chance of being killed before reaching, I have to find a way to live and prosper in the society we do have and that's by medicating.

I tried for a decade to make myself work "naturally". Almost left to be a monastic forever. At some point you have to pick up the same shovel everyone else is holding.

Unless you want to pay me 100k to keep trying to do my own thing.

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Re:Ask HN: Feeling guilty for doing the bare minimum at work by slingnow on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @12:13PM (#27606187)

The original topic of this post is someone who is well liked by their coworkers and by the sounds of it plenty productive in the eyes of the company. So your idea that you have to conform at all costs is pretty shaky at best.

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Re:Ask HN: Feeling guilty for doing the bare minimum at work by emptysongglass on Friday June 25, 2021 @12:55AM (#27627270)

I'm not responding to the original post.

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Re:Ask HN: Feeling guilty for doing the bare minimum at work by forz877 on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @05:15PM (#27597318)

I feel like I hear this statement a lot, but is there any real evidence of this?

First, I doubt there is any historical evidence of such a phenomenon.

Second, ADHD isn't nearly as prevalent enough in the general population to suggest that it's society.

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