#however this creates the problem of I Forget To Take the Meds because lunch isn't a consistent time every day
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Sometimes my brain cooperates with me.
Other times it's a sneaky little fucker.
When I got covid in July, I stopped regularly taking my Vyvanse because being ill fucked up my routine for weeks. I've still not managed to get back into a routine, so I've basically not been taking it for months.
Totally unrelated, I've been super frustrated about not being able to get stuff done at work and fell almost a full month behind. This greatly distressed me, but I was incapable of motivating myself to get things done and get caught up - and of course, the farther behind I fell the harder it became to try to push through to get stuff done.
Is the solution obvious to you? Cause it wasn't to me. Until I remembered at the end of last week that, hey, I have medication I'm supposed to be taking in the morning. And what do you know - I took my meds for two days in a row and I caught up on about two weeks worth of stuff over those two days.
Not only that, but I got a lot of stuff done around the house that had fallen woefully behind. Laundry. Dishes. Putting things away that have been sitting out for weeks/months.
#part of why I haven't gotten back into the routine of taking them is that it suppresses my appetite#and while I was sick with covid I was struggling to eat enough because it made me feel ill to eat#and I can tell at lunch that I'm just not interested in eating but I NEED to eat because I'm literally shaking#so the solution has been to just wait until right before lunch to take the meds#however this creates the problem of I Forget To Take the Meds because lunch isn't a consistent time every day#therefore I don't have a consistent trigger to be like 'ah yes I should take my meds'#I desperately need structure to address the ADHD but I'm incapable of creating the structure I need because of the ADHD#and no alarms on my phone do not work#because if I'm in a meeting with a student or my department I have to mute the alarm and then it gets put off/forgotten. inconsistency.#I'm sure I'll stumble onto a more workable solution at some point but FUCKS SAKE I'm so tired of brain-not-work-syndrome
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