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Re:A Survey of Programmers' Cannabis Usage, Perception, and ... by MissionInfl on Thursday December 23, 2021 @12:47PM (#29664301)
Sorry if you have heard this before but you may have ADHD or something similar. I found myself in a similar pattern of using cannabis to motivate myself to do the more boring tasks that inevitably come up being a full time software engineer and after several months of therapy was diagnosed with ADHD.

FWIW, I find that if I have a boring task and attempt to use cannabis to power through it, half of the time I complete the task with vigor and then other half of the time I do literally anything else. So my story is as similar to yours as those saying that cannabis leads them to be anything but productive.

Re:A Survey of Programmers' Cannabis Usage, Perception, and ... by datavirtue on Thursday December 23, 2021 @01:56PM (#29665144)
I tried getting help for ADHD years ago but found it very difficult to get help for an adult that is high functioning. I'm pretty sure I have it but all the diagnostics focus on young children. The office where I had evaluations was loaded with whacked out kids. They just don't see it as a problem compared to those kids and the diagnosis is heavily focused on childhood behavior and excludes adults. The doctor, who I struggled to find, was really disorganized and lost my case file and forgot about me after several visits. Total joke.

I have to keep self medicating I guess.

Re:A Survey of Programmers' Cannabis Usage, Perception, and ... by uberduper on Thursday December 23, 2021 @02:21PM (#29665411)
Talk to your primary care physician. Let them know you're struggling to focus and it's impacting your ability to function at work. Get a referral to a counselor and do a telemed appointment. Answer the handful of questions (truthfully). It's not like there's a series of tests for ADHD. It's just behaviors that are common to people with it.
Re:A Survey of Programmers' Cannabis Usage, Perception, and ... by MissionInfl on Thursday December 23, 2021 @03:15PM (#29665977)
Telemedicine is great for avoiding those whacked out kids. I was able to find a great therapist (who I have never met in real life) through a mental health startup made available to me by my employer.