Wait what did I come into this thread for again? Oh yeah, ADHD!

[Glisten]

@Newstory  or you could just go to this website and find the organisation in your State 👍🏼

https://www.adhdaustralia.org.au/ 

[Losingmyshiz]

Love

[Glisten]

@Jynx  I just saw this on ADHD WA FB page

 

[borke09]

Howdy fellow ADHD'ers. I am currently struggling with not spiralling on my days off from work. I find that I easily slip into depressive thoughts when I don't have anything planned for the day and if I can't keep my brain occupied.

I recently came across a video where a person recommended a list a little bit like this (below), and I am giving it a go today. Does anyone here have any similar recs they do on days off to stop the stuck-in-bed-brain spiral?

📚 Library Day 📚
- Allowed to rot for 2 hours
- Feet on the ground, open blinds, use the restroom
- Play something while making breakfast (no visual stimulation)
- Eat breakfast in the dining room (NOT in the bedroom)
- Put on a comfy outfit
- Pack bag for library (headphones, tablet, laptop, chargers)
- Stop for a fun treat on the way
- Go to the library and work on emails, tasks to be done
- Once that’s done, read or draw (something fun and calming)
- On way home, get food and sit outside
- Back at home, go for walk IMMEDIATELY (10/15mins)
- Come inside, shower, relax/do something entertaining
- Make dinner/girl dinner
- Relax in bed at 10pm at the latest

[Glisten]

Hello @borke09 👋🏼 

Thank you for putting up this list. 
It’s really good. 
Coincidently I just came back from the library LOL

[Halster]

This is fantastic Glisten.

Thanks for posting.

I had no idea about ADHD. I can't believe I have been asking for help from 3 different therapists and a psychiatrist on ADHD for months and months now. Nothing. Take a pill. Then I started researching it and was horrified at the impacts across my whole life and how it had been hidden but always affecting me.

I won't go into my story here - I have complex mental health.

Thanks so much for posting this. I am so happy I found SANE myself one very dark night alone via Goggle recently. None of my many health professionals over many years ever referred me to SANE despite me asking for exactly this sort of service.

I am so happy to finally have found peers who understand me and are living with mental health issues and sharing their experiences, resources, insights and ways forward. It is so good. Thanks Glisten.

I am trawling through this very long post on ADHD and read all the stuff already from the original forum last year. I hope people keep posting stuff. Thanks to everyone who has and will contribute.

ADHD is not for me anything like I imagined it was when I was diagnosed very late in life... I had no idea of the severity of it and the pervasiveness of it.

Researching it on my own suddenly made sense of so much that had gone wrong and was still going wrong. I am really upset my psychiatrist did no education about ADHD when she diagnosed me... just a pill. Hopeless.

I ended starting to educate my therapist about ADHD. I stopped seeing her.

Anyway. I am very blessed to have found SANE and to finally connect with an organisation that can provide practical real and useful help from people who understand vs from people who study things in a lab.

Thats a very long post. You can see my ADHD is alive and well this afternoon and I am quite time with a bit of emotional dsyregulation kicking in too.

Thanks once again to everyone in this post thread.

Halster

[Jynx]

Oh I only just saw your meme @Glisten haha love it! 

Ooh @borke09 stealing that! Thanks for sharing! 

@Halster eyyyyy welcome to the club! It's such a mind-melter, getting a late diagnosis ay! I was 27 when I started connecting the dots, and holeee moleee my life has changed a lot! Been a bit of a mixed bag - first was understanding and self-validation for like the first time ever. No, I'm not incompetent, dumb, lazy, or otherwise a weaker human than everyone else - my brain just different! Allowed me to forgive a lot of the awful things I used to say to myself. So my self-esteem shot right up! Buuuut I also stopped masking, stopped pushing myself to try to behave 'how we're supposed to' (whatever that means), and the fallout from that is that I am soooo behind on my life admin, I have driven a few people out of my social life due to unleashing the full torrent of ADHD brain rot that is whatever I'm hyperfocused on at the time, and I now have an acute awareness of all the ways I struggle due to these damn executives who just keep on dysfunctioning! 

Wait... where was I going with that.... Woops, got on a tangent. Just thought I'd share my experiences I guess, to show you and everyone here that we're not alone! Yay! And also to give yourself a solid chunk of time to process your new diagnosis, and all the joy, relief, horror, grief, and any other wild emotions that might pop up. 

I'm so glad you found the forums friend, I think sometimes it's like we speak an entirely different language to neurotypicals, so it's always nice to find a space where we all get it, we speak the same language! I hope you can find better professional supports too, folks who are either neurodivergent themselves or very well-versed in it! 

Hooray, love this community!

[Bubala]

Hello, my first ever post. Brave me…maybe you all don’t bite? 

For my 65th birthday present,  a month or so ago, I got a diagnosis of ADHD Combined, Autism (1) RSD; GAD and possibly PTSD. 

Aha moment. Thats why I am who I am.

To be fair one psychologist suggested 21 years ago I was ADHD. Clever me knew she was wrong because I didn’t hit plasterboard walls or need Ritalin. I had been watching the media.  Maybe not so clever me.

I am so glad I did the testing…5 hours of it. 15 tests. 4 hours of psychologist reporting. 

Now I can’t work out if I am: 

Joyful - there is an answer
Yippee - I can be who I am 

Sad - Blow look at all those missed opportunities.

Happy- Ah that is why I can’t hold loads of friends.

Cross - I have seen in excess of 16 psychologists over the years. I have lost count. Why didn’t more of them pick the troubles? 

Confused - where to next? 

Anxiety - there might be an answer for this constant state. 

Too scared to go on the big forum just yet. 

However reading the posts sure sounds promising. 

[Glisten]

Hello @Bubala Welcome to the forum.

I’m so pleased your first time post is in this thread.

I was diagnosed 23 years ago with ADHD, dyslexia and anxiety. I have been medicated ever since.

Since that time 3 generations of my family have been diagnosed with ADHD.

I have found advantages to having ADHD, for example hyperfocus can be very useful.

My lifestyle has to be very organised. Everything in its place and a place for everything.

@Jynx is very knowledgeable. I have learned a lot from Jynx 

Clink around forum you’ll find lots of good threads. There’s a good Music thread in the Social section of the forum.

Outside of woodworking, this forum is my happy place, populated by the nicest friendliest, caring people.

To get someone’s attention just do @ and two or three letters of their name.

Stay cool, drink water and take naps.

G

[Shaz51]

Hello @Glisten , @Jynx , @Bubala , @Halster , @borke09 , @Losingmyshiz 

Loving this Thread soo much