Fuck. Im surprised how much ADHD affects me and how I’ve made it this far in life without treating it. It’s like the only time I’m on point is when there’s a swinging blade over my head
The pinned post explains this very well, but there aren’t really such things as adhd symptoms that are exclusive. People with adhd just tend to have these problems so often that they interfere with normal living and usually they have multiple of these problems
Knowing is half the battle. Now that you know, you can try the various coping mechanisms to deal with your ADHD. If those don’t work and your ADHD is severely impacting your life, you should consider seeing a professional to get some medication to alleviate some of the symptoms.
This is just stimming. I was talking about things like using a notebook, setting up more regular alerts etc. There’s various coping approaches one can do to alleviate some of the problems with ADHD
Sorry for my misunderstanding. As English is not my first language it’s sometimes hard for me to understand certain words but also alarms whould be a good idea and I will start to use them.
Alright, so first I want you to have a proper understanding of ADHD. The presentation that I’m about to send you is 9 years old so some of it’s information is outdated but it’s still a really great and comprehensive info about what ADHD actually is. The presentation is available in 3 parts and it’s 90 minutes long total: Part1Part2Part3.
When you watch this presentation I recommend watching this under 14 minute video about how to treat ADHD, it’s not perfect but it should give you directions: Link.
And now there’s my coping strategy that motivated me to do things in the past (I messed up and stopped using it and I don’t remember what I did wrong. But it wasn’t fault of the strategy though so I want to go back to it soon.). I used point/token based economy to motivate me. It works on the basis that you have to do a task to get points which then you can use up on nice things/activities.
1.) Find a task manager that works for you well. To mark how much tokens a task is worth you just put a number at the beginning or the end of it’s name, for example “(+2) Study 30 minutes for the exam”.
2.) To track your earned and spent tokens find a money tracking app and instead of using it for tracking your spendings and earnings of real money you will use it for tracking those tokens.
3.) Make a price list for common tasks and activities where you write down how much something costs you to do or how much points you will earn for doing them. It will take some experimenting to come up with a balance that will work the best for you.
4.) Make as much activites cost you tokens so you have more incentive to earn points. IMO it’s better to have many activities that cost you a little tokens than making an one general activity that costs you a lot of tokens.
5.) You can “buy” activities in different form, for example “buy listening music for the whole day for 5 points” or “Buy listening to music for 1 hour for 1 point”. It’s up to your creativity how you will organise those things.
6.) Don’t make prices/rewards for different tasks/advices cost the same, make more interesting activities more expensive and less interesting activities cheaper. Same goes for tasks, more important tasks will give you more points while less important tasks will give you less points.
7.) I almost forgot, you will also need some kind of schedule to plan your day so you know what to do instead of lazing around. Don’t make the schedule too strict, make spaces between task so if you delay one task it won’t affect the next tasks. Also make a time for breaks and stuff.
8.) Regardless of strategy you use to cope with ADHD, DO NOT GET TOO EXCITED! If you get excited and push yourself too much you will get burned out quickly and lose your motivation. Do everything with balance.
A lot of these are things everyone does sometimes. If it’s something that is happening multiple times a week, or multiple times a day, then it might be worth taking to your Dr and filing out the test.
Full time student + full time work is a LOT to handle, even without ADHD.
Self-suspecting autistic here. I got 11/24 so long as I’m allowed to interpret ‘ADHD paralysis’ as a general task paralysis (otherwise it’s rather begging the question). I can always commiserate with ADHD people’s difficulties, but I don’t seem to have the same noisily chaotic inner world that they describe.
Sup, I just wanted to let you know that I have a severe ADHD and my brain is pretty silent so not everyone with ADHD has a noisy mind. I still daydream a lot though.
There’s an interesting overlap in the definitions and symptoms of mental abnormalities. For years I thought I was just a little on the autism spectrum. Similar to what you describe. A lot of symptoms describe me, but I don’t get the racing thoughts/daydreaming often associated with ADHD.
I still think there’s an element of autism based on some of the lack of innate awareness of social constructs. I had to actively take interest in figuring out why people responded poorly to me and actively change my behaviors just to do what comes naturally to many people. I also get overwhelmed by certain stimuli like crowds, noise, etc. At a certain point that feeling becomes mentally painful.
But then I saw the common behaviors associated with ADHD and realized that maybe that’s a better fit in some ways, or at least also a very good fit. I feel like the venn diagram is two circles that almost overlap entirely for me.
I "win" twice and fill half the remaining squares. Still, I didn't know until I was 41 and am still waiting on a formal diagnosis because the NHS has been deliberately underfunded for so long and I never got around to sorting out going private!
Got Bingo in Row one then had surprisingly few other hits. Does it count as an impulse buy if you think about buying it suddenly but don’t get around to buying it until a month later?
It can be a sign of a few things, like anxiety too, but it can also just be a sign that someone’s bored.
Like with most things, it doesn’t mean a lot on its own, but if it’s being done in excess, or uncontrollably, then it could be a sign of something else.
I uncontrollably play air drums or tap drum patterns with my hands and feet any time I’m idle. Like, idle for more than 5 seconds. If my hands are busy, I’m kicking double bass drum patterns with my feet. If I’m walking, its air drums or pseudo beatboxing quietly. It never ends.
Actually, that’s not true. It does stop sometimes; only when I’m in a severely distressing situation or horribly depressed. That’s how I know my shit’s fucked up; the drums stop. :(
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