If I don’t take meds I feel I should be doing things and then feel bad when I don’t.

Or if I do take meds I get a lot of things done and feel productive but zaped of energy.

Hobbies are either invested in and dropped or I just feel ‘bored’ and don’t want to get any of the stuff out to do them. If they stick around a bit longer they then feel like a chore or become a larger project and just another thing in the to-do pile and not relaxing.

Where is the off button and how do I relax?

  • Infynis@midwest.socialEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Weed helps for me lol

    I’ve also found that if I have enough projects, I can often switch between them to keep myself feeling good. So I have like 5 different fiction pieces in writing, I’m in the middle of three different books, and twice as many TV shows. I have a handful of videogames I know I can play in short bursts.

    For me, it feels like I’ve embraced “being ADHD.” People often tease us for being distractible and never finishing anything, but I think I’m starting to realize I just operate on a longer timescale than most. As long as I have enough bodies in orbit, I can keep myself balanced between them, because I’ll always have somewhere to go to find myself