Motivation is my worst enemy.
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yep. ugh
Putting your foot down and telling yourself to do something then not doing it because nobody tells me, not even me.
So is that why I’m decently productive at work but it’s a miracle if I can force myself to do the laundry or load the dishwasher or other chores?
Very likely. I find it also has a lot to do with environment, like work is the place I go to get stuff done, home is the place I play games and chill. So when it’s time to get stuff done at home, the wires get crossed a bit.
making appts and being really strict abt scheduling things has really helped. creates accountability without exactly telling me what to do.
and bringing an early bag, so that i can be entertained when i show up early to things (never gets opened but I’m usually only 5 min early/late now cuz I’m not scared of being bored while i wait!)
Ouch. This one cuts deep.
The dude in the middle is even making the closed eyes zen concentration face that I do 20 times a day.
I’ve recently taken up using a check list app to make sure I do the million stupid little dumb things I need to do during the day and it’s been really helpful.
Which one do you use may I ask? My life is hell.
1: Cut all those chains and never get anything done!
2: … 3: There’s no profit in this.Memes like this are why I asked to be screened for ADHD as an adult. Thanks for this. Vyvanse is the best thing to have ever happened to me, when I can find it.
Combine ADHD with BED and #ThisIsWhyImFat.
Some of these memes are scarily accurate to me, I’m very seriously considering getting a diagnosis.
Do it. Whats the worst that could happen, you find out you’re normal?
Or you could self assess first. The diagnostic criteria is public knowledge.
My wife tried to talk me out of it, talking about Ritalin zombies from elementary school. Honestly if anything, compared to my baseline I feel like a superhuman when my SSRIs and amphetamines kick in. Then I realize that that’s what “normal” is supposed to feel like.
Can you elaborate a bit?
The meme’s from this sub often do resonate with me, but I had understand that most of these things are commonly experienced by people just generally, but a diagnosis of ADHD will depend on the degree to which these things are experienced, and the harm they’re causing.
I do struggle with my mental health, (as in, struggling to be productive because I’m paralyzed by anxiety), but thus far (I’m 41) I’ve managed to hold it together. I’ve built my own small business with a few staff. IDK if I’d call it “successful” but it’s enough to provide for my family so I must be “functional” in some capacity.
I’d love to be diagnosed with whatever thing that is easily treatable with whatever drug that will cure all that ails me, but having been on and off SNRIs and SSRIs over the last few decades, I know that’s a promise that meds rarely fulfil.
I hear you, and I’m no doctor or psychiatrist. I do know, for myself, a combination of SSRIs, amphetamines, and talk therapy have helped me tremendously. I’m actually in the process of switching off the SSRIs for something else now due to side effects.
I’d see a lot of these memes and get a chuckle but then realized that these seem to be more relatable to me than most others. Things like OPs, or ADHDinos, or w/e.
Side note, public service announcement, up to 80% of people can experience sexual side effects from SSRIs. More often this leads to poor medication adherence instead of dealing with talking to your doctor and finding other therapies. It’s incredibly common and there’s no reason to feel embarrassed or anxious for it, but poor sexual health can certainly exacerbate symptoms of anxiety or depression that the SSRIs are usually used to treat.
That wasn’t directed at you. That’s just for everyone (but especially SSRI patients and their partners) to know.
I started a bullet journal to manage my days and it helped a lot with this.
this worked wonders for me
then bullet journals lost its “new” factor and now its dusting in the corner w all the other calendars, organisers, diaries and notebooks I tried to start
It’s even worse when it’s mashed up with other issues that run at cross-purposes to it.
I’ve got a particularly nasty Voltron of ADD combined with Asperger’s, and holy hell does it give me the ability to concentrate for hours on my least important and most useless tasks, while violently rejecting that which is critically due to get done.
I feel that in my soul. I’ve got ADHD and bipolar disorder, sometimes they align in absolutely awful ways. Experiencing hyperfocus and mania at the same time is a special level of hell.
Spot on
Except I think of it more like this
The trick is games. When the computer gives you an objective and then your score, you don’t feel like it’s some other asshat trying to play you. You’re doing the playing!
Now get Habitica from the play store.
Habitica worked for about a month until it lost the new factor and I just never looked at it again, just like all the other habit apps
