I cannot function without stress. I don’t work better under stress, I can ONLY work if I’m stressed. So all my life I’m rushing and hurrying artificially even if there is no objective reason to do that. This model was working great for me all my life until now when I’m in my twenties and my body is collapsing with GERD, proctological issues, bruxism, headaches, tinnitus, fibromyalgia… They say, “Oh, you just have to do things based on novelty and interes” but bitch you cannot make EVERYTHING interesting and new. When I start to give a fuck about everything and relax I end up doing no shit. And honestly I don’t know what to do. The meds they were giving me just cause the same stress artificially elevating my noradrenaline and the evening crush is even worse compared to days when I’m stressing myself on my own means. I feel myself in a “stress yourself out and die or don’t do anything and die as well” situation… Psychiatrist and meds, psychologist, supplements, weekly meetings in ADHD support group, physical activity, good sleep, good nutrition, all these ergonomical lifehacks like “pomodoro”, “make the task easy”, “just divide the task into subtasks”, “reward yourself”, “body double”, “listen to podcasts while cleaning” etc… All this shit is not working. There is no brand new method left that I haven‘t tried and I’m deeply frustrated. I can only stress myself out until my body completely desintegrates. Just venting

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    21 days ago

    Hey Bruce Banner! Hulking out is definitely your super-power, but ya gotta temper that a bit. Learn to bring on the chemical dump without the hangover and self-hate.

    When my buddy starts getting expressive, hand-wavy and amplified, we know it’s the situation and not him or anything else. He’s gonna be legendary in like 5 minutes, talk too fast for human parsing, and lay down code or rescue a cat or macGuyver something awesome; then he’s gonna get emo and regretful and think we judge him for it, as the chemical dump purges.

    It’s all good.