If my brain had hands I would accomplish great things : adhd

[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That only really happens if there is no immediate threat of doom. If there is, I am the most productive person on the face of the Earth but only due to the sheer terror that results from last second procrastination.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

if you leave ti to the last minute it will only take a minute

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

It's super time efficient.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah... homework was done 5 minutes before class starts...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

"I can do it on the bus!".
Reader, he could not...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I wish i were that fast back then 😁

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (6 children)

it's called executive dysfunction

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then I power through what should have been my whole day of work in 2h30 before going to bed. Then I go try to sleep very late on an adrenaline high, wondering why I tend to burnout, cause I'm so great at this.

Anyway, the medication seemed to have calmed me down a bit on this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Oooh. I felt this. My thing is, when facing a deadline or something, procrastinate until I forget about thing, then when I'm reminded the day before, start work at 10pm sharp, stay up until finished, convince myself I'll be fine with only 2 hours of sleep, go to bed, sleep through my alarm, show up several hours late, unbathed and generally in a disorderly state, frantic and panicked.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You have to tell us, you know that right? I am waiting for this moment for 4 decades.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm in more or less the opposite scenario. I used to be able to actually do shit, then something snapped and it's far more difficult for me to do anything efficiently. I think what snapped was effectively my self confidence. After a period of existential crisis, things stopped feeling so important all of a sudden. So the herculean effort that allowed me to complete all my work and keep up on everything stopped being possible, because it briefly became impossible leading me to recognize how unsustainable that was.

Now I'm in a position where I still try to get what I need to done, but I try not to stress about it so much and I prefer to do what I want. And making myself do what I need to do is partially a matter of medication (Vyvanse) and partially trying to find reasons to enjoy/prefer the tasks that are important for my survival, then capitalizing on that intrigue/excitement.

Basically, I guess it comes down to choosing to accept whatever our current reality is and trying to work from there. There are reasons that I'm fortunate, just as there are reasons others would probably say I'm falling behind in life. Doesn't really matter in the end. All any of us can do is what we can actually do. If we don't allow that to be enough, we'll drive ourselves insane with the dissonance.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I listened to a podcast a few years ago that was really transformative in my way of thinking. (I can't remember the exact podcast but I linked one that talks about procrastination); and below is a transcribed excerpt from the episode:

Fabrice explained “want” traps. For example, you may sit at your computer cruising the internet or playing digital games, all the while telling yourself “I really want to get to work on my paper,” or taxes, or whatever. But in point of fact, you DON’T want to get to work on the thing you’re putting off. You WANT to be doing exactly what you are doing.

We “trick ourselves into thinking we want something (like doing our taxes) when we really want to be doing something else (watching TV, playing computer games.) So, once again, we are telling ourselves stories that don’t map onto reality.”

Our real “wants” are the result of an unconscious cost-benefit analysis we make in our head, where the choice that comes out on top is our real want. It’s only when I really start doing my taxes that I’ll know this is what I want to be doing (probably because the urgency of the matter made the cost-benefit analysis tip in that direction).

David was trying to see if this concept of “wants” can be helpful in therapy but had trouble seeing how this might help someone who’s procrastinating.

Fabrice explained it like this: First, we need to realize that we are doing what we want in the moment; so, it’s a choice. Next, we can make our cost-benefit analysis conscious and see that we’re only considering short-term factors (e.g., it’s a lot more comfortable right now to be watching TV than doing taxes). Finally, we can develop some empathy for our future self (the one who will be pulling an all-nighter three weeks from now, or who will have to pay late fees) to reevaluate our cost-benefit analysis with more complete data.

Fabrice also explained that procrastination can sometimes be difficult to treat because it’s an addiction.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did that a lot recently, but the past week I decided that I hated spending all day thinking about the tasks more than doing them.

I’ve been forcing myself to just do it and I’ve been getting through it pretty quickly and not having that task loom over me all day.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

This feels good when I can actually do it. Most of the time it's just suffering though.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

[x] I'm in this photo and I don't like it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Yes. Meds can help this. Meds can also make the problem worse. As with all drugs, set, setting and dosage,

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Literally procrastination.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I tend to get something done every day but my weekends get shot because it takes me so long. Im not diagnosed with adhd or anything else but I feel like my life is just a long string of being behind on getting things done.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Yep, and to help it somewhat I've been setting alarms. If I can't get started and am stressing to do the thing, I'm presuming I won't and just take time of till the next activity. That way I end up doing nothing, but not burnt out

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I made a meme of this exact phenomenon before my original instance went belly up, can't get it to upload but the text was:

"People say being ADHD doesn't come with superpowers

But can a neurotypical feel the exhaustion of a task without ever getting up to do it?"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is me all day every day recently. I'm stuck.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Hey, I don't remember giving you permission to post my thoughts.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Me.. right now... Oh god someone send help

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you can find help, let me know, I also need help with this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

But your brain does have hands. They are your hands. Your hands are wired directly to your brain.

And yes, there's five things you would have to or want to do, but do not quite know which to start or how you should exactly to do them and you end up doing anything else you are confident with.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes and it's getting worse and worse every year.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

if my brain had genitalia

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