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Re:Ask HN: I'm in a rut. How did you get out of yours? by gedy on Monday July 25, 2022 @01:05PM (#32227401)
Yeah it's interesting to me how little this gets talked about now days, but back in the 80s teenagers called it "antimotivational syndrome"[0] to describe what happens to stoners.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amotivational_syndrome

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Re:Ask HN: I'm in a rut. How did you get out of yours? by pydry on Monday July 25, 2022 @01:23PM (#32227743)
I get all of those symptoms periodically without weed or any other kind of drug to make it happen. Maybe there's a confounding variable there.
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Re:Ask HN: I'm in a rut. How did you get out of yours? by JohnBooty on Monday July 25, 2022 @01:42PM (#32228085)
The symptoms in that linked article overlap with a lot of other conditions, for sure.

ADHD inattentive type, etc. Even low testosterone can cause a lot of those symptoms.

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Re:Ask HN: I'm in a rut. How did you get out of yours? by eurasiantiger on Monday July 25, 2022 @01:28PM (#32227816)
Yeah that’s now called undiagnosed ADHD, because that’s what it is.
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Re:Ask HN: I'm in a rut. How did you get out of yours? by avree on Monday July 25, 2022 @01:44PM (#32228116)
Yeah, my motivation goes up when I smoke weed, not down. And it took me until I was an adult to realize that I was using weed to treat undiagnosed ADHD. I still enjoy smoking weed, but don't have a dependence on it to function now that I have a proper diagnosis and treatment.
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Re:Ask HN: I'm in a rut. How did you get out of yours? by dxscorp on Monday July 25, 2022 @01:56PM (#32228318)
Does the treatment involve other drugs? Just curious
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Re:Ask HN: I'm in a rut. How did you get out of yours? by avree on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @01:43PM (#32253751)
Yes, I take Focalin XR now.
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Re:Ask HN: I'm in a rut. How did you get out of yours? by silksowed on Monday July 25, 2022 @01:59PM (#32228368)
this is me but before a diagnosis and treatment. i think its time to go see doc
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