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(23M) I got diagnosed with ADHD at 18, but had suspicions for years prior to that as my GPA was 2.6 but my test scores were quite high.

I coasted through my teens, I’m now 23 and still don’t have a degree.

To give some examples of how bad my mental state was:

I constantly repeated myself needlessly in conversation.

I had major anxiety at the thought of doing the littlest amount of work.

I woke up and went to bed scared and sad about my past, present, and future.

I couldn’t focus on anything, I would be reading a book and go 3 pages before realizing I had no idea what I was reading. And when I decided to try again I would forget to focus from the start and read a whole paragraph, 8 times even.

I had little energy at all hours of the day even on 8-9 hours of sleep, even with exercise and a great diet.

I couldn’t make myself look people in the eyes, I had a constant feeling everyone knew my thoughts.

I would bite my lip, scratch my scalp, etc. out of anxiety and couldn’t make myself stop, it was completely automatic.

I couldn’t force myself to keep an open or upright posture, I just felt like the weight of the world was on me, beating down.

I would get nervous any time I spoke to someone and I would talk fast or mumble or trail off my speech, feeling guilty for wasting their time with my interaction.

I would let all of my problems build up until I had a near panic-attack before dealing with them.

My finances were a mess, I was lucky to have parents who supported me for so long.

TL;DR very high anxiety, ADD, and schizophrenic-like mindset about life.

Then I tried Magnesium. I tried Magnesium Glycinate from Doctor’s Best to be exact.

I’ve tried magnesium in the past with spotty results. But just recently I read that you need 6 mg per kg of bodyweight. For me that’s 460 mg. So I take 3 100 mg pills in the morning and maybe 1 at night if I feel like it. This was the switch flip.

I work as a substitute for 4th and 5th graders (who constantly yell in class for 7 hours of the day, luckily they all love me as their teacher, I’m long term). Since getting this job, as much as I found it fulfilling, I would get home at 2 pm and crash for 4 hours, wake up and eat then go to bed and do it all again the next morning at 6. I would close my eyes and see little ghost hands floating in front of me, and when in a quiet room I would hear little kid’s voices saying my name.

Now that I take magnesium I get home and feel at 80-90% until bed time. It’s changed my life.