Me in executive dysfunction, imagining how sweet it would be to be done with the task:
I hate how relatable this is.
Its why I love "getting organized" and making a well structured plan of what I will do the next day. It makes me feel so accomplished that I wake up the next morning and realize I already got all the dopamine I could get from making the plan. It's basically like I already did all those things. So there is no reason to rush and do them now.
The key is to do just enough so you woke up feeling the need to complete the tasks. It's a constant struggle. Sometimes it feels you did too little and was like "why do I bother" and end up postponing everything and the other end is what you've just described.
But when I got it right, chef's kiss
And then there's their child:
"fuck I still haven't done that. I need to do it soon. It can be later, but I need to do it. It's been months already, anytime now someone is gonna complain I didn't do it. Hopefully this week I will"
Holy shit, that has a name?!
... Am I supposed to seek medical advice now or what?
I did after finding too many of these memes very relatable
I’m very glad I did
Good to hear that. Scrolling through some recent posts here rings enough bells that the possibility would haunt me in the back of my mind for a while. But where to even start?
Thanks for sharing
But where to even start?
If you live somewhere with socialized healthcare, start by visiting your general practioner, your regular doctor or "doctor's house" and say you suspect you relate to having executive dysfunction (ED). Mind you, ED can be symptom of other things than just ADHD (like ASD), although that is the most common culprit. Hopefully they'll advice you on where to go next, in my case it was a psychiatrist where I had a waiting list of almost 2 years, but if you go private it's probably a lot faster.
At least in Germany, it's hopeless. I just paid the whole thing out of picked, in addition to my EUR 1,100 insurance premiums.
(US only) Contact insurance, ask for a psychiatric nurse practitioner or med manager. They have the degrees to prescribe meds, which are a LIFE CHANGER. the first time I took a stimulant I ended up working on paperwork for like three hours straight, I could actually focus. I didn’t even realize my background YouTube vid ended for like an hour. Once I realized that I was able to focus for that long so effortlessly I genuinely cried.
Also, a 1-2 punch of meds and therapy is best.
I knew memes can save a life! Just need to up the dose and try to scroll 3 % more every day.
Why not both
Yes, followed immediately by painful bouts of guilt. Not enough to motivate me to do anything about it. But guilt nonetheless.
I like that you doodled it and it came out pretty good.
Thank you!
Guess I'm just lazy :/
Are you tho? Like, would you be able to get up no problem or are you actually unable to do it
Read Laziness Does Not Exist. Highly recommend,
I’m struggling with this now. I have a project at work and I am stumbling on it hard. I’ve done well with smaller projects and help desk, but I just can’t seem to stay focused on this larger project. I’m afraid of what the consequences will be
Oof, I know that feeling! I find that my brain doesn't want to start a task that I know I can't finish in the same day. Makes tackling a large project like that incredibly daunting.
I've found the best way to overcome that feeling is to break the project into daily tasks. In a sense, turning the large project into many smaller projects helps trick the brain into getting the dopamine. Small wins help!
Yeah, I ended up moving on to another task in the project, which I think will actually make finishing the one I was stuck on easier. I’m still stressed but less than I was. The momentum is nice, just have to keep it up. I’m looking forward to when i finish this and move on to help desk :P
Can ADHD be acquired? Or rather a symptom of other cognitive affliction?
As others have said, it's a life long thing, but a lot of the patterns can be brought on in people who don't have it with consistent sleep deprivation and a state of tiredness and exhaustion. If you're starting to relate more and more to ADHD memes well into adulthood, try to get a few nights of good sleep!
Good suggestion, I do feel exhausted and could use more sleep. Thats an easy-ish thing to try, framing it as an health improvement experiment might do it.
ADHD is contagious, like AIDS
Unfortunately, some people still believe this is true, just like some people believe AIDS is contagious by touch: https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2015/08/17/432541935/belief-that-mental-illness-can-be-contagious-contributes-to-isolation
I mean, you could get a psychosis which results in executive dysfunction. I have a friend who had a psychosis which changed him quite a bit.
I did not consider that possibility, I'll ask the blue rabbit who lives in my hat, tonight. :)
Well, he explained his psychosis as him suddenly not being able to sleep and then talking to nordic gods like Thor and Loki when his episode was happening, so if you start talking to that rabbit and don't sleep for like a week, then yeah, maybe it is psychosis 😅
The talking to Gods(or chairs or trees) bit is definitely the weirdest bit of psychosis because really you're only talking to yourself, and I've found I can kinda trick myself into revealing it's a psychotic episode by forcing revelation that my brain isn't prepared to fill in and it gets a bit obvious. Odd stuff, the mind.
anti-AI repost:
Please brain, let me get up and do it
Is the movie Kill Bill a metaphor for a distracted mind becoming focused?
Quentin could turn his life around on his own after a friend considered it wasted.
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/KE-bZ008aYw
That's by definition not ADHD. I am still wondering if I can get something helpful out of the movie.
The lighter side of ADHD
