Undiagnosed or unmanaged ADHD can feel like living in a permanent loop of โTomorrow Iโll finally get my life together.โ You genuinely believe it every time. Tomorrow youโll be productive. Tomorrow youโll start that project. Tomorrow youโll fix your routine. Then one day you look up and realize years have passed and youโre still waiting for tomorrow.
How do you explain to someone who grew up in a happy healthy family that their most stressful and chaotic moments don't even compare to what I dealt with every day growing up?
I always think the deepest wound CPTSD leaves is the one that says you are fundamentally too much and not enough at the exact same time. Too emotional but also too closed off. Too needy but also too independent. Too sensitive but also too guarded. The impossible standard of someone who was never allowed to just be human.๏ฟผ
A crazy part of Complex PTSD is the realization certain events in your life were really traumatic, but you didnโt even consider them as such because they werenโt as bad as everything else youโve had to survive.
adhd executive dysfunction sucks because you're just sitting there and your brain is like
YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME
no work done. no rest gained. literally no point of this at all
Apparently thereโs a name for this with ADHD: revenge bedtime procrastination.
You spend all day forcing your brain to focus, function, and mask, then at night your brain finally feels like it has a second for itself and doesnโt want to let it go.
So you stay up even when youโre exhausted.
Anyone else?
also go fuck yourself, though i'm sure you already do since I can't imagine anybody could love a self centered impatient "lady" like you. Keep Girlbossing.
To the lady behind me in the McDonald's drive thru who told me to "Get out of the middle of the fucking road" when i stopped for 2 seconds, a little patience would make everybody in your life thousands of times happier.