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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 11 months ago

"If I say I'll get something done, I'll get it done. No need to remind me every 6 months about it."

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Showering, I'll get to it eventually, and if someone reminds me i won't

[+] [email protected] -6 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Yeah, but like... You really should be showering every day. If someone is telling you to do it, You've likely gone too long.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You don't say. /s The problem isn't ignorance. It's a lack of motivation and / or depression.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Leave your cell phone in the shower and only use it after you take it. Force them changes.

Meds organizer on top of your phone in the morning with a bottle of water right there. No more missing meds.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

But you still have to both remember and be motivated to leave your phone in the shower, or put your meds on top of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yep, it's all about those initial steps though. Once you start that routine it's hard to break and becomes part of the ADHD 'ocd needs to be in its right place' habit.

Depression meds will help with the same thing. It's always that initial push though which is why taking meds right away when you wake up is so important. Once you get it as automatic as putting on your glasses

while also ynderstanding what the meds are doing

it helps.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I don't have routines though. I can get a routine going for maybe a few weeks, but if anything interrupts it, it's over.

I'm not on ADHD meds yet though, so hopefully they'll help.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"I can't do things."

"Well do I have a solution for you! Here's a list of things you can do to help you do things!"

"But..."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ah, yes. You have problems with your memory, have you tried just remembering? 🙄

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Yep, that one is ridiculous too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

For me, pill organizer next to the espresso machine and so it is part of my morning ritual. But yeah we all gotta find our best coping strategies.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Bingo

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Showering has never become a habit for me. Hygiene has never become a habit. I have to physically make myself do those things and often enough, I don't have the spoons to do them

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Showering every day might be excessive for some.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Do you actually need to shower every day? Or is it just a cultural thing that doesn't really have any basis in science?

I mean, if you're not doing much or straining yourself all day, you don't really sweat or get dirty.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's on the to do list. which means it'll get done

sometime

when I remember I have a to do list and the things above it on the todo list are actually a lower priority than this or can't be done right now

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

*and the things above it on the too list are higher priority and I'm procrastinating them harder than this

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I feel called out by this statement. At least something is getting done though.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

I'm doing it. I'M DOING IT!

Jeez.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

I honestly don't understand how they can expect that of us. It's rude is what it is.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Sometimes I have a hard time telling when ADHD memes are sincere expressions of a shared experience or people putting thier friends on blast.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This is the most relatable thing I've read today, which is really saying something considering the multiple hours I've spent on Lemmy so far, a platform full of relatable posts.