Reply To: Sluggish Cognitive Tempo

[ashockley55]

I’m thinking Sluggish Cognitive Tempo because of how tired I am, plus the anxiety stuff, plus the excessive procrasination.

And YES! @MarieAngell when I took the medication, the thing I valued most about it was how it allowed me to not be so devastatingly tired all the time.  Stimulant meds are used in some Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (which I’ve wondered if I have) patients, and I can see why.

My thing though, and the reason I was SO disappointed in the meds, is that they gave me energy, they gave me the get up and go to get CERTAIN things done, and helped me a bit with following through with getting things done, selecting which things to do, doing them quickly, instead of doing them in a sort of distractable dream-like fog, but they did NOT help me do things like writing or school work.

I was able to have the energy and motivation to do housework, but not the calmness and focus to sit down and write.  Very disappointed about that.

So when I saw that stimulants aren’t often effective for SCT, I’m wondering if that wasn’t why – they give you energy, some focus, but not the calm, not the slowing down to allow you to do things that require a significant amount of brain work, things that you really want to do, but somehow can’t will yourself to do, because of that anxiety/procrastination thing that seems to be so high particularly with Primarily Inattentive/SCT.

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