Y’all ever just forget to eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner?
Ask me about professional wrestling.
@Dreampipe said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):
Y’all ever just forget to eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner?
If something is tickling my brains happy interested stim center I will forget anything else exists. Been hard to get in that zone lately tho.
Had a panic attack this morning about a possible spine injection for another condition. So my anxiety and everything was on high today and it totally threw my ADD into high gear. I couldn't focus long enough to eat lunch.
Look! Not a meme!
Fight, Flight, Freeze,... Fib.
Interesting read, I cannot count how many times I've 'panic lied' comming up.
So with the chaos - I've been without my Wellbutrin. I've been so... bleh. I thought maybe I was cycling down into depression.. and then realized it's more that I'm completely unfocused versus wanting to die.
Picked up that refill right quick, yo.
I fucking hate the feel of fine grain shit like flour and cornstarch.
....but i made homemade bread a couple of weeks ago (it turned out poorly b/c the yeast got killed), and fucking loved the feel of the dough.
@Wretched But do you have a custom phrase for indicating to other members of the household when it's one state or the other?
Because those get great, and if anyone doesn't have them, I strongly encourage it. If you have them, share, dammit!
This week's new addition to the household list was, "Can't watch that right now, it's googling-how-to-do-shit o'clock."
Oh fucking well.
@surreality Sorta! I just go 'Gimme a min my brain is being bullshit right now'
@Wretched said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):
is this why I keep staying up until 4am watching baking videos and I have like, ten tabs of videos-to-watch open and I get distracted from things to wa-
yeah it absolutely is.
I'm realizing I'm an extremely project oriented person. Whether that's a tangible goal in RP, telling a specific story, or getting a platinum trophy in a game, once I've decided I'm going to do something I go all out until it's done. It's my ADHD superpower, my hyperfocus going insane until I literally do 16 hour binges and tap myself to exhaustion (hi, final fantasy 7 remake).
How do I apply this to goals that will actually help my life? I want that $$$.
@Selira said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):
How do I apply this to goals that will actually help my life? I want that $$$.
The eternal fuckkiing question.
I feel like I hyper-focus on all the things I should not. Then lack focus on the things I should. Also, I feel like I'm very intuitive to people around me, but totally oblivious to things online. Like oh, I offended you online - I thought you were just being funny. Or oh you were being funny, I thought you were being serious. This causes a lot of anxiety and miscommunication to happen or wrong assumptions to happen (by myself too not just others I own it). Because it takes me 1000x times the effort to communicate without body language and physical tells. Yet in life, I'm like use your words not just your actions to communicate.
My super power is my own brain's double standards.
@RightMeow said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):
I feel like I hyper-focus on all the things I should not. Then lack focus on the things I should.
Oh God yeah.
What's the best way to get me to do something I've been putting off for a month? Giving me something else I need to do by tomorrow.
