Motivation is my worst enemy.
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- farquadsquads ( @hikikoma@ani.social ) English48•9 months ago
Putting your foot down and telling yourself to do something then not doing it because nobody tells me, not even me.
- LillyPip ( @LillyPip@lemmy.ca ) English14•9 months ago
1: Cut all those chains and never get anything done!
2: …
3: There’s no profit in this. - tslnox ( @tslnox@reddthat.com ) English11•9 months ago
So is that why I’m decently productive at work but it’s a miracle if I can force myself to do the laundry or load the dishwasher or other chores?
- Baggie ( @Baggie@lemmy.zip ) English6•9 months ago
Very likely. I find it also has a lot to do with environment, like work is the place I go to get stuff done, home is the place I play games and chill. So when it’s time to get stuff done at home, the wires get crossed a bit.
- lightnsfw ( @lightnsfw@reddthat.com ) English6•9 months ago
I started a bullet journal to manage my days and it helped a lot with this.
- Mnglw ( @mnglw@beehaw.org ) English14•9 months ago
this worked wonders for me
then bullet journals lost its “new” factor and now its dusting in the corner w all the other calendars, organisers, diaries and notebooks I tried to start
- 🏳️⚧️-🇵🇸 TGhost [She/Her] ( @TGhost@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•9 months ago
Exactly the same. I should read them to laugh a little or cry and then burn them all
- Mnglw ( @mnglw@beehaw.org ) English6•9 months ago
this one hits hard
- TimewornTraveler ( @TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ) English5•9 months ago
making appts and being really strict abt scheduling things has really helped. creates accountability without exactly telling me what to do.
and bringing an early bag, so that i can be entertained when i show up early to things (never gets opened but I’m usually only 5 min early/late now cuz I’m not scared of being bored while i wait!)
- Rob Bos ( @rbos@lemmy.ca ) English2•9 months ago
Past me can’t tell me what to do! F that guy!
But yeah, works well for me too. Throw your hat over the fence.
- ☭ SaltyIceteaMaker ☭ ( @SaltyIceteaMaker@iusearchlinux.fyi ) English1•9 months ago
Past me is an idiot and future is a pushover. Present and past me always bully future me by giving them all the tasks
- Cosmiss ( @Cosmiss@beehaw.org ) English2•9 months ago
I feel called out. Which is a little terrifying since I’m about to go back to school for graphic design with the plan that I’d be doing freelance work and have to get myself to be productive on my own.
- Jay ( @warpslide@mstdn.ca ) 2•9 months ago
- rekabis ( @rekabis@lemmy.ca ) English2•9 months ago
It’s even worse when it’s mashed up with other issues that run at cross-purposes to it.
I’ve got a particularly nasty Voltron of ADD combined with Asperger’s, and holy hell does it give me the ability to concentrate for hours on my least important and most useless tasks, while violently rejecting that which is critically due to get done.
- CalicoJack ( @CalicoJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•9 months ago
I feel that in my soul. I’ve got ADHD and bipolar disorder, sometimes they align in absolutely awful ways. Experiencing hyperfocus and mania at the same time is a special level of hell.
- Markus29 ( @Markus29@feddit.nl ) English1•9 months ago
As someone with ASD and ADD I feel ya
- Zink ( @Zink@programming.dev ) English1•9 months ago
Ouch. This one cuts deep.
The dude in the middle is even making the closed eyes zen concentration face that I do 20 times a day.
- JasonDJ ( @JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ) English1•9 months ago
Memes like this are why I asked to be screened for ADHD as an adult. Thanks for this. Vyvanse is the best thing to have ever happened to me, when I can find it.
Combine ADHD with BED and #ThisIsWhyImFat. “I want to lose weight and get healthy”…”too fucking bad”.
- alansuspect ( @alansuspect@aussie.zone ) English0•9 months ago
Some of these memes are scarily accurate to me, I’m very seriously considering getting a diagnosis.
- JasonDJ ( @JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ) English2•8 months ago
Do it. Whats the worst that could happen, you find out you’re normal?
Or you could self assess first. The diagnostic criteria is public knowledge.
My wife tried to talk me out of it, talking about Ritalin zombies from elementary school. Honestly if anything, compared to my baseline I feel like a superhuman when my SSRIs and amphetamines kick in. Then I realize that that’s what “normal” is supposed to feel like.
- fine_sandy_bottom ( @fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de ) English0•9 months ago
Can you elaborate a bit?
The meme’s from this sub often do resonate with me, but I had understand that most of these things are commonly experienced by people just generally, but a diagnosis of ADHD will depend on the degree to which these things are experienced, and the harm they’re causing.
I do struggle with my mental health, (as in, struggling to be productive because I’m paralyzed by anxiety), but thus far (I’m 41) I’ve managed to hold it together. I’ve built my own small business with a few staff. IDK if I’d call it “successful” but it’s enough to provide for my family so I must be “functional” in some capacity.
I’d love to be diagnosed with whatever thing that is easily treatable with whatever drug that will cure all that ails me, but having been on and off SNRIs and SSRIs over the last few decades, I know that’s a promise that meds rarely fulfil.
- dinozaur ( @dinozaur@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 1•2 months ago
yep. ugh