(M56), has anyone helped their issues with ADHD with a routine spanking sessions?

[Motto]

I have realized that when I was routinely spanked and disciplined, I had less symptoms from my ADHD. My next door neighbor, her and I would have a weekly maintenance session and she knew just how to get me just near my breaking point. She would also talk about all the the things I did not accomplish the week before. I ended up more organized and had a less cluttered mind. Unfortunately, she moved away and now I’m back to my old self. I don’t want to take medications so, I’m in need to find another spanker to schedule a maintenance routine. I’m just west of O’Hare International Airport in Illinois. 
Has anyone else out there with ADHD that has the same success?

[OhRedhead]

Spanking will not fix the underlying mechanisms driving ADHD. I know this from personal as well as professional experience. Perhaps they provide you extra structure, which can be helpful, but they would never take the place of therapies we know are efficacious. I wish you luck in finding what works best for you.

[spankingpurist]

Agreed! Treatment for ADHD continues to improve.  Recently, researchers have identified one gene which seems to be responsible.  If further research confirms this finding, quite likely new and even better treatments will be on the way.

[GonnaGetIt]

I don't think it actually *helps* my ADHD but I have noticed that (of people ive communicated with of course) an unusually high number of us spankees report having ADHD and seem to feel it somehow (at least minorly) may tie into our spanking desire/need

[SpankerGeek]

Please don't use spanking as a substitute for actual treatment for ADHD. That is not a smart idea.

[Peanutty]

On 3/8/2023 at 11:17 AM, Motto said:

I have realized that when I was routinely spanked and disciplined, I had less symptoms from my ADHD. My next door neighbor, her and I would have a weekly maintenance session and she knew just how to get me just near my breaking point. She would also talk about all the the things I did not accomplish the week before. I ended up more organized and had a less cluttered mind. Unfortunately, she moved away and now I’m back to my old self. I don’t want to take medications so, I’m in need to find another spanker to schedule a maintenance routine. I’m just west of O’Hare International Airport in Illinois. 
Has anyone else out there with ADHD that has the same success?

I found that we had to be quite careful to not discipline for things I could not well control, given the disability. It veers into possible abuse; and worse, I believe that I was often abused as a child for being neurodivergent (only discovered as an adult,) when I had absolutely no idea what, if anything, I had done wrong to anger my parent. 

[DominantMelody]

On 3/9/2023 at 8:38 AM, OhRedhead said:

Spanking will not fix the underlying mechanisms driving ADHD. I know this from personal as well as professional experience. Perhaps they provide you extra structure, which can be helpful, but they would never take the place of therapies we know are efficacious. I wish you luck in finding what works best for you.

 

[DominantMelody]

Ohh really 

[secretman]

ADHD treatment does mention the idea of an "accountability buddy" which, if you read the description... sounds suspiciously like a spanking relationship. 

https://takecontroladhd.com/blog/category/adhd-accountability

Obviously spanking isn't "ADHD treatment" - the benefit is from the relationship itself, the reminders and follow-up and the connection. Otherwise, it's possible that spankings can give a bit of a dopamine hit that helps sate those cravings in an ADHD brain for a while, although that's still not "treatment" any more than occasional exercise is treatment. But lines like this make me think "100% a spanking relationship" - 

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 - There is no fibbing or exaggerating on your updates.

 - Get uncomfortable.

 - One of the things I loved about my personal trainer is he would, at random times throughout the week, ask me what I had eaten that day. Believe me when this happens enough times, you really stop before reaching for the doughnut because you don’t want THAT text message to come through that day.

 - Make sure the person you choose is not too easy on you.

It's funny to me how that's a "vanilla" thing that creeps awfully close to a spanking discipline relationship... 

Edited May 15 by secretman

[Overrmykneemiss]

I am not advocating either way however I know that a caring spanking can relieve stress and help to focus, I would not mind trying this myself as in the past I have helped a few female ee’s with good said results.

best of luck.

 

[Bramblewine]

On 3/25/2023 at 10:27 AM, Peanutty said:

I found that we had to be quite careful to not discipline for things I could not well control, given the disability. It veers into possible abuse; and worse, I believe that I was often abused as a child for being neurodivergent (only discovered as an adult,) when I had absolutely no idea what, if anything, I had done wrong to anger my parent. 

This is the main reason why I'm leery of getting into any kind of disciplinary dynamic at all, and why I insist that if I do any funishment scenario, the reason I get "punished" has to be something entirely under my control. Any hint of punishment for something I might not have full, 100% conscious control over is a trigger risk, after growing up with undiagnosed ADHD.