ADHD memes

Yeah thats what you say to youreelf at 5 am when the birds are chirping and the sun is coming out. "Its fine ill just sleep for a couple hours and get up, and then I'll get an early night tonight to make up for it".

I'm under your bed now! You really should clean under here btw

My last therapist said "ADHD is the smoke, the fire is usually trauma or autism."

Turns out I have both. Welp, middle-age is as good as any time to start reconciling that your entire life has been a constant struggle to keep a mask on and nearly every crisis I've dealt with might not have been a moral failing on my part but actually a dysfunction of some executive control from masking for so long and hiding my own PTSD.

Whichever you got going on in there, I highly recommend working on the basics. Get more sleep. Make better separation between work and leisure time. Eat better and hydrate better. Try to reduce caffeine and other self-medications. Stop drinking entirely. Get some daily exercise even if it's just a light walk, particularly after work/class, it really, really helps your brain create healthier separations between work/chores (survival) and rest (loafing and relaxing, playing games, watching media.)

The other thing I want to scream at everyone from the rooftops, no matter what your exact mental-health issue is, this is universal:

Your brain is not a reasonable, rational calculator of logic, it is a story-telling machine designed to tell you stories to explain what you're feeling in order to create some sense of cohesion with the world.

And that's it, that's all it does, all day long. The stories do not have to make sense, it doesn't have to be reasonable, and you will often think the stories are accurate because they come from your own mind, you will add to the stories, you will roll them over in your brain over and over, feeling worse and worse, hating others, hating yourself, despairing for no outside reason... it's like being enslaved to your own brain. Learn to identify when you start feeling strong feelings, and watch your brain very carefully, be aware of the way your brain will start ruminating as soon as you feel a negative feeling. If you can nip it right there, if you can break the rumination cycle, you will realize that your own brain is just sabotaging you from the inside and all the stories you tell yourself are fantasies or exaggerations of reality. It might not cure your mental health, but it will give you your days back, it will give you time and energy to fight it harder and more intelligently. You are not your brain. Your brain is not logical.

For some reason I want to get into skateboarding again and also started learning guitar

I’m going to learn how to:

Program with a basic language

Sketch a still life

Draw Celtic knotwork

Run for my health

Do photography with my phone camera

Etc.

All of these are cheap or free with tools one probably already has. You can take decent pics with a phone, you already have pencils, paper, and pens, and programming can be learned for free online (assuming you have a laptop or PC to work with it on)

There's a lot of hobbies you can start your free

Trust me, I've got a lot of free dead hobbies under my belt

Nope. I am not rich at all and this is my weekend.