You got me curious, so I read your other comments :) And yes, I totally can relate to " I frequently get completely engrossed for periods of a few weeks on a topic - beyond healthy levels of interest. But one day, it's just gone - vapid."
This is coupled with a bit of a shopaholic tendency where I'll buy anything that would be useful for my new topic of interest (I didn't use to do this, but now I have disposable income so there's no more barriers to doing it) and sometimes by the time everything I bought arrives, I'm just no longer interested.
It's been useful for work because occasionally I will have unhealthy amount of interests in something that will be useful for my work. It's just that it's not controllable.
I relate to what you say about stimulants, however one problem I have is that if I'm not very well rested, concerta makes me sleepy. Unfortunately, I have a newborn so sleep is compromised and that means that right now stimulants cannot help.
Yeah I have the same problem with purchasing stuff for projects - having high income makes it a little too justifiable. When it applies to work though it can be very useful.
This is coupled with a bit of a shopaholic tendency where I'll buy anything that would be useful for my new topic of interest (I didn't use to do this, but now I have disposable income so there's no more barriers to doing it) and sometimes by the time everything I bought arrives, I'm just no longer interested.
It's been useful for work because occasionally I will have unhealthy amount of interests in something that will be useful for my work. It's just that it's not controllable.
I relate to what you say about stimulants, however one problem I have is that if I'm not very well rested, concerta makes me sleepy. Unfortunately, I have a newborn so sleep is compromised and that means that right now stimulants cannot help.