ADHD Mojo

Over the holiday I decided to purchase an Oculus Quest 2  "for my family."  It turned out to be a surprisingly good purchase and I use it nearly every day.   The best game on it is BeatSaber , a dance-type game where the player uses virtual light sabers to slice colored blocks flying at them while a heavy-base soundtrack keeps the groove.  It took me about 10 seconds to fall in love with the game and I tell everyone that BeastSaber alone makes the Quest 2 worth the price of admission.   But little did I know how much more I could get from it. After the holiday was over it was time to get back to my day job, which I do from home.  One morning,  as happens sometimes, I was having trouble getting started.   Even when taking Adderall, if things are off, if something, like, say- an insurrection at the nation's capitol - were to lure me into my news feeds, then it can be very hard to get into work.   So this particular morning about a week ago, I was struggling to get going. 

How do I know this is going to work? I am a bit obsessive about this question when considering any kind of intervention, but there is something I obsess about even more.   I can research with mainline medical sources such as WebMD or The Mayo Clinic , or dig deep into medical journals, or read the about what we’ve learned from long experience in well-known treatments, but the thing that always bugs me about medical research is that it is a game of percentages.   Even a good treatment might only work on half the people who try it.   Or worse, it might “work” but only make you 10% better.   So, even if I have a good feeling some treatment might work, I still have to ask after the treatment: How do I know what I just did worked for me? When I started seeking professional help for ADHD, I thought long and hard about whether I would start medication.   I tried every habit change, every process I could think of and exhausted those with years of practice before I let myself give drugs a try.