Ungh. Bad #executivedysfunction day. Stuff to do but just wanna stay in bed.

Today's workflow:

1. Sit down to work
2. Have #ExecutiveDysfunction
3. Get upset about not doing work
4. #Depression makes work impossible
5. Take a quick break
6. Repeat from step 1

Quick notes to myself before I forget them from tonight's therapy session.

* Starting using task lists take complicated tasks out of my brain.
* If a task seems too complex, break it down into smaller chunks until I find a task I think I can complete.
* Consider labelling tasks as main quests & side quests, so that I can consciously productively procrastinate if needed.

#EvieTherapyMoodDiary #NoteToSelf #therapy #ExecutiveDysfunction #neurodivergent #AuDHD

@aby

Often, it's "merely" getting started that takes the most mental spoons. It's the proverbial breaking the seal.

#ADHD
#ExecutiveDysfunction

Oh great, thanks #executivedysfunction! Perfect!

I have a #hyperfocus and I I have a weird obsession related to it, but you won't let me do anything about it!

I want to make a #guitar songbook for "my" songs with all the chords how I recommend myself to play them

I bought empty tab notebooks to put this in

How exactly do I want to organize it? *Obviously* just trying something is out!

OK, I'll google #DIY songbooks. Better open these ideas in browser tabs "to read later".

Nothing.

#adhd

As someone with #ADHD-related #ExecutiveDysfunction, I have to say that getting an #Instantpot has been a bit of a gamechanger. Wonderful to spend 5-10 minutes just throwing everything in a pot and then forgetting about it for an hour while it cooks and cools down.

Nice little episode of the #PidgenholePodcast about trying to cook with #TraumaticBrainInjury and #ExecutiveDysfunction issues. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pigeonhole-podcast/id898642299?i=1000625867043

I am feeling somewhat seen by today's #QuestionableContent strip 😅

https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5122

*cries in executive dysfunction*

#WebComic #neurodivergent #ADHD #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #ExecutiveDysfunction

Allowing my mind to get off the reigns this weekend to relax. It's very much highlighting my own personal struggles with #ExecutiveFunction (i.e., how much #ExecutiveDysfunction I have).

I'm doing a mixture of flicking between tasks & getting easily distracted down rabbit holes that absorb me for hours without me noticing the time past.

I'm not letting myself feel guilt over these, as I'm allowing myself the space to do this.

#EvieTherapyMoodDiary #therapy

I've found that following a pattern helps me spend less time in #ExecutiveDysfunction or #FOMO #reading hell.

I read a non-fiction work, a fiction work, then something I remember fondly and/or want to experience reading again as an adult. Repeat.

So far, I'm starting new #books much easier. There is far less worry about losing track of a book I want to read or finding the "perfect" order because I can always any new book on my list can always be at most a few books away if it interests me.

I made homemade granola bars! Take that, #ExecutiveDysfunction!

#ADHD

What do the rest of y'all do on days (or weeks) when you just... can't?

#mentalHealth #executiveDysfunction

A #Firefox extension that changes the new tab screen to a to-do list.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-todo/

It's the most effective to-do I've ever used because it's in my face every time I'm getting deep into surfin' the 'net

#executiveDysfunction #ADHD #cerebellarCognitiveAffectiveSyndrome #frontalLobeSyndrome #Planning

Cette phase ou j’arrive pas a aligner 2 idées a la suite.

J’ai des idées en rafales mais pas moyen d’agir car je passe automatiquement a la suivante 5s plus tard.

#ExecutiveDysfunction #AuDHD

Told partner and kids that I couldn't take them to the pinball museum (60+ tables all-you-can-play) today until I finished the emails I've been putting off because I put them off too long and now I just keep putting them off because it's worse and a vicious cycle. And you know what? I DID IT! I SENT THE THING! Ok, carry on. Imma be over here basking in my brief but hard-earned victory. #anxiety #executivedysfunction

3 seconds into using goblin tools and it already feels like it's changed my life 😭 the hype is real! godsend for #adhd #autism #neurodivergent #executivedysfunction

My problems with #ExecutiveDysfunction have been really dogging me for the last however many weeks. And for once, I can't really tell if it's #MECFS or #MoodDisorder stuff.

But it's as though everything on the to-do list is in the subsection known as miscellaneous. And I can neither shift things into proper categories to get them sorted, nor just start at the top of the list and work down.

And I'm bothered by how much I'm not bothered. I have a bunch of stuff I really ought to do, what with being a grown-up and all. Do I care? Not much, really.

I care, in theory. But IRL? Not so much.

I know people who get Seasonal Affective Disorder, but if that's what I've got it's a first. It's the relentless light of summer that breaks me.

So yeah, here I am. Slouched in a pile of stuff called Miscellaneous.

Bin maximal energetisch und motiviert aufgewacht hier aufzuräumen und zu lernen, nur um dann festzustellen, dass mein Gehirn vergessen hat, dass ich ja auch irgendwo ANFANGEN muss und naja sagen wir so ich zerbreche mir seit zwei Stunden den Kopf was am wichtigsten ist und wo ich anfangen sollte. 🫠

#ADHS #executivedysfunction

I don’t have to go to work until 10am tomorrow. This is good because it means I don’t have to get up at 4am, but also terrible because it means I’m going to spend all morning waiting to go to work.

#ADHD #executivedysfunction

I skipped a couple #adhd med days in the first couple weeks and felt pretty low. Oh no, I'm addicted to meth!

I skipped today and other than feeling a little sleepier than usual, had no ill effects.

I mean...other than ADHD itself. Some #executivedysfunction on setting up travel arrangements, but my usual tricks worked.

(Basically, strongly constrain the problem so it can be solved in a single step. Large open-ended confusing tasks overwhelm me.)