Also, do you get burnt out easily and care less about your job/passion/career? I get tired. I show up to field placements for education and i just don't want to be there, but I do... Its so strange. Do you care and don't want to show it, or do you sometimes just not care?

(I am referring to your job of course)

As a rule I don't believe the hype -- but I am there for others. Not everyone gets this... (This isn't limited to the workplace.)

I constantly acted like I didn't care at my old job even though I felt like the most motivated worker some days I would be the best worker there and made everyone else look lazy and other days I would fall behind from making careless mistakes and just pretended that I didn't care because I had no respect for my employer as many didn't. I do that constantly for everything when I make mistakes and just say what ever like I don't care but really I ****ing hate it. I'm still not on medication and am hoping that some of the stupid things that I do will stop once I start on it.

Every day, I tell myself I don't want to go to work. I hate the thought of going in. But, when I get there, I'm fine. I'm SERIOUSLY bored with my job, but I can't even think about leaving it as I would NEVER get the money I make now and I'd lose 4 weeks of vacation. Stuck!

I got fired from my last job......I had to sit at a desk.....I hated being there. I used to be in outside sales, which I loved, but that company closed down.

For now I'm playing poker to get by, which is liberating, because I can play when I want and I have nobody to answer to. I'm not making a ton, but it is enough to get by. The problem with this is, off my meds I am a horrible player. I make bad decisions on impulse, without thinking. Very baaaaaad.

It varies. When what I'm working on will affect someone else in a significant way, I get terrified that I'll fail them and can care a bit too much.

On the other hand, when it comes to arbitrary deadlines, or things that only affect me, I will either get them done a few minutes before the deadline, or after it, and I likely won't do a good job. Its not that I don't care, I fully intend to do them well and in a timely manner, and often set aside time in advance to do them, but I don't, and by all outward appearances, it seems like I blew them off and didn't care.

it depends; it's funny people think I'm calm but I'm either zoning out or freaking out quietly at my desk. my mind is usually racing; then there are those who think I'm completly flaky (random comments / wandering around forgetting what I was about to do). but i think a lot of them see I'm over-devoted sometimes. I am kind of caught up in it at the moment.

Sometimes, on a really bad day, it is hard to care about most things.

I think that when I was in school, struggling to get even very low grades, I projected that I did not care as a defense mechanism. I did not understand why I would do well on tests, but was unable to do my homework.

Nobody else understood it either and rather than try to assert what appeared to be the absurd position that 1. I am reasonably bright 2. I want to get good grades 3. for some unknown reason, I cannot make good grades

There is no way to square that situation outside of an ADD perspective and nobody every thought of that in the 80s. So I had to decide that I just did not care. That actually makes sense to people - you can do it and you dont do it because you dont care - we get it.

Can do it, want to do it but dont do it? Thats crazy. Crazy is hard to explain.

Sometimes I don't care about anything and sadly no one but then the next day or whenever I start to feel that things aren't so bad I do care. I think my boss just thinks I'm lazy and that's not true. I think she also changed her opinion about me ever since she found out about my ADD/depression and other life stressors.