Emily McDonald

And that's why, at least in my experience and the experience of many people that I work with, they don't necessarily help you focus on the thing you need to focus on.

They just help you feel super motivated and alert.

And whatever you do after that is your choice.

Jeez.

Medication would hit for me and I'm on an hour long, hours long rabbit hole scrolling like online shopping or whatever, because it's like whatever you're doing when they hit is whatever you get locked in doing.

And so I realized, OK, I still need to develop agency and train my ability to direct my focus, because without that, I mean, the medications weren't helping me necessarily direct it.

So when I learned that though, when I learned how they work and just how they impact the nervous system and I just made the personal decision to stop.

I stopped taking them.

It's saying not good, I think, depends.

I mean, I don't want to be like, oh, they're bad because they helped me and they were sort of a crutch that allowed me to transition.

Similar to depression and anxiety, right?

You don't want to be on depression medication your entire life, right?

You take it for it to be kind of that bridge to allow you to do the inner work.

I don't think many people do, but I also don't think it's their fault because it's not something that doctors tell you to do.

Right.

So when I was diagnosed with ADHD, it was just like, okay, you have ADHD.

Here's the medication.

No one ever told me you should also train your executive function.

Now it takes a simple Google search.

Now that I know the term, if you search executive function training in ADHD, it's like,