#untreated adhd

[ontheoutside-lookingin]

Look at me go. starting my bedtime routine when it’s not even 4am yet. leaps and bounds. achieving the impossible. doing at all and then some. a true warrior.

[groovyfrogones]

Been thinking a lot about my struggles with habit making, really how the thought of making any habit feels like chewing on glass, and I think I've found a solution (maybe).

Forming a habit feels so labor intensive, fatiguing, and requires consistency that I can't really uphold. I'm chronically ill and ADHD so those characteristics are kinda the opposite of what I need.

You know what isn't so bad in the moment though? Choice. Instead of nagging myself with "oh this habit needs to be made and if I forget I'm a bad person", I can reframe it in the moment.

Say I need to clean up dishes before bed, I can say to myself. "I want to choose to do the dishes more." And so now when I face the choice, dishes before bed or 10 minutes more of hobby time, I can say to myself "well we said we would choose dishes so let's do that then."

I feel like decision fatigue has such a strong hold on my day to day actions, as I try to make routines but always fail at trying to plan them. When the expectations are there ahead of time though I can deliver on what I promised.

I'll continue to think on this to see if I can apply this more to my life, and start working on real self management.

[kazuallh]

neurodivergent folks is it normal to start hallucinating like randomly or like

[nattousan]

🏳️‍⚧️ trans people in my phone! 🏳️‍⚧️

A celestial being has given you the chance to go back to your life at 14 to do life over but with your current mind and memories...

tell me why

[mbrainspaz]

once again I have put myself in a position where I have 4 hours to do a week of work.

[the-demi-jedi]

Dear ADHD people,

So I've been struggling with undiagnosed / untreated ADHD for a huge chunk of my life, to the point I'm considering getting some diagnosis and eventually some meds.

The thing is - I'm a writer and I'm curious how do the ADHD meds affect the writing process. I guess they can either turn me into an unstoppable writing machine without any procrastination and distractions, OR they'll make me lose my edge and turn me into a Normal Boring Adult™ - sometimes I think it's the utter mess in my head that allows me to commit acts of half-decent writing.

Does anyone have any experience? Is there anything else about treating ADHD I should know?

Thanks a bunch!

[heliographist]

 i could 100% see myself dying from one of these dental abscesses. if this happens and somebody stumbles on this i am very sorry i didn’t take care of it in time.

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

Executive dysfunction is winning today do I keep fighting or do I crawl in a cave and accept my fate

[bruisedconscience-reblogs]

have some leftovers in my fridge i wanna prepare

the food’s in a metal tin that cannot under any circumstances go in the microwave

i have untreated adhd & therefore horrible memory retention

on my way to the fridge i had to chant to myself over and over “i cannot put the food in the microwave as it is”

this is a very bombastic / staccato phrase when spoken aloud, in a shakespearean sonnet / heavy metal kinda way

i now have to focus on the words harder rather than the metal track my brain is trying to put behind the words, henceforth making them lose their original meaning!!!

[fallforwinter]

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Back to zero? Come on, me, you did it again, you hurt him. And now he's tired of being neglected by you, walking alone in this relationship.

Googled it and tried to blame it on my ADHD, but that was kinda the truth???

Shit.

Haha no shit. It's just me, not my ADHD. Sorry. That was my fault. I am the one without any sense of responsibility. On top of that, no plan for the future. How messed up can my life be?

[bruisedconscience]

i think some ppl don’t know how much mourning and loss u have to deal with when you have adhd. like sure, just bc i forgot i had a snack immediately to my right and had to throw it out sucks in general, it happens to everyone on occasion, after that happens to you 4 times in just a few weeks it gets demoralizing. like I want to enjoy things and I should get to, regardless of how kooky zany my brain makes my humor or personality. it hurts. happens with all sorts of things: appointments, flights, interests, people.

[girl-in-the-thunderbolt-suit]

Just heard that it can take up to 3 years to get an official diagnosis for ADHD. Soo.... 3 more years of being a chaotic unfocused clown? Great.

[spvrkvoid]

Had a thought: I only truly lived in childhood. What I want now the most is bearable amount of responsibilities that I'll be capable to manage and feel okay, not burned out or like I'm slowly dying, I want to feel alive again. And rest

[superpower-neurodivergence]

ADHD strikes again

Was making some chocolate whipped cream to put on a peanut butter pie for Pi Day. Got bored waiting for the mixer. Stepped away for a few minutes to do something else. Lost track of time. Came back to the kitchen to find chocolate butter in the bowl and chocolate buttercream everywhere else.

[spectralhero]

Honestly the worst thing for me about having high functioning adhd is the time wasting and being aware of it constantly but not having the...motivation to take action against it but knowing I should.

Like I see the problem and the impact of it but it's just...ugh.

This is honestly the only thing that really pisses me off about it all because of the overall impact of it on pretty much anything.

Yeah I am annoyed by the shitty clutter thing I do by putting stuff on every surface in my room or something, which can then lead to the floor also getting its share of stuff but it is easier to deal with and sort out.

One dumb example of my time wasting is I have hundreds of non-fiction ebooks that I have collected over the years and I want to read all of them but I just...can't stick to it long enough. The number of ebooks keeps increasing because I love learning new things and I see interesting books and I'm like "Yes I need this one too" but my brain is a bitch about doing something productive about it.

As a young kid I read like crazy, just going through books and my parents almost not keeping up to get me more books but then it started to change as I got a bit older. None of us knew what it was because of where I grew up and when I grew up. People didnt have a name for this shit back then. You were seen as lazy and I was even called a tomboy because I preferred the outdoors and getting dirty and playing with Lego and doing sport stuff because it was more stimulating for me. And of course playing with our dogs! Dogs are the best treatment tbh.

So naturally I did great when it came to participating in sports. I didn't do too bad in school academically but if I had treatment back then I would have done so much better. The damn procrastination and making shitty mistakes because of not properly paying attention bit me in the ass. Let's not even go into the resulting mental bs it caused and the impact of that.

Anyways! Got sidetracked lol.

I have had so much time since the pandemic started to read those books or at least start!! But it just...didn't happen. And that stresses me out!! Time wasting is the worst.

It is like that 3pm appointment that wastes your entire day... but only worse.

I'm just glad I can game for hours 😌

My frustration levels are high today can you tell? Lol.

Also I miss having dogs. They are the best.