Gratitude isn’t just about the good times. I’ve written a lot over the past seven years. Join me on Substack where I will be sharing those stories and more soon.
@drjenwolkin I’ve always seen it as a defense mechanism, a last-ditch effort to avoid overcommitting. I don’t just reject demands, I reject anything I’m asked to believe or accept. I literally have to overcome automatic rejection 100 percent of the time. (And I’m using “literally” properly.)
The Republican Party quietly deleted their own ad attacking Ken Paxton's record on crime... because Paxton is now the Republican Party's nominee to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate.
Figured if the ad is important enough to delete, it's important enough to see...
ADHD isn’t laziness. It’s a dopamine starvation diet.
You sit down to do the “simple” task.
Laundry. Email. That one assignment due in 3 hours.
Your brain: “Nah. Zero reward detected. Abort.”
But put a gun to your head (metaphorically) with a deadline tomorrow at 9am?
Sudden hyperfocus. 8 hours of god-tier productivity fueled by pure panic and spite.
Why? Because your brain runs on a fucked-up reward system. Normal people get steady dopamine drips from routine stuff.
We get it from urgency, novelty, challenge, interest… or pure “fuck you, I’ll show them” energy.
Bruce Springsteen appeared on Stephen Colbert’s show tonight and COOKED Trump and his goons
“I’m here in support tonight for Stephen, because you are the first guy in America who lost his show because we got a president who can't take a joke…. and because Larry and David Ellison feel they need to kiss his ass to get what they want. Stephen, these are small minded people. They got no idea what the freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about”
Studies confirm that ADHD brains struggle with object permanence beyond visual range. This is why ADHDers leave things out, keep tabs open, and resist putting things away. It is not laziness. It is a neurological survival strategy.
Dear trans people:
🏳️⚧️ You matter 🏳️⚧️
🏳️⚧️ You are loved 🏳️⚧️
🏳️⚧️ You are valued 🏳️⚧️
🏳️⚧️ You are important 🏳️⚧️
🏳️⚧️ Your identity is real & valid 🏳️⚧️
ADHD has a tighter link to difficulty letting go of objects than OCD does. Not because you are a hoarder. Because your brain uses objects as memory anchors. Getting rid of the thing feels like getting rid of something you need.
Trump had one of his worst mental health episodes yet last night, posting over 55 times in 3 hours. Here is the list:
10:15 PM - Accuses Obama of attempting a coup in 2016
10:15 PM - Says Obama worked with CIA to overthrow Trump
10:15 PM - Reposts tweet saying Obama is a “traitor” and that he should be arrested
10:22 PM - Attacks dominion voting systems for 2020 election saying they switched votes
10:22 PM - Says Fulton County, GA had their 2020 fraud exposed (there was none)
10:23 PM - Accuses Obama of personally making $120 million from Obamacare (wtf?)
10:23 PM - Cites quack lawyer Sidney Powell on the 2020 election
10:24 PM - Posts fake JFK Jr account that says Obama wiretapped Trump Tower
10:27 PM - Demands Senator Mark Kelly resign
10:29 PM - Claims neither Biden nor Harris were in charge of the Biden admin
10:29 PM - Attacks Fulton County, GA again
10:29 PM - Posts Fox News clip of Rep Ro Khanna
10:30 PM - Demands Jack Smith be arrested
10:30 PM - Accuses Obama, Clinton, and Comey of treason
10:39 PM - Reposts a tweet from a MAGA account saying they have secret intel proving Clinton and Obama committed crimes
10:39 PM - Reposts a MAGA tweet saying Hillary Clinton should be sent to Haiti
10:40 PM - Says the DOJ is “working hard” to arrest his enemies for treason
10:40 PM - Reposts a tweet attacking his own DOJ and Todd Blanche for no arrests of political enemies
10:40 PM - Posts a TikTok video of people stealing from a convenience store
10:41 PM - Posts a TikTok of someone taking a Door Dash order
10:41 PM - accuses Obama, John Brennan, and Clinton of sedition and treason again
10:42 PM - Posts a video of a man on CCTV footage knocking over food a waiter was carrying
10:47 PM - Calls Obama the “most DEMONIC FORCE” in American politics
10:47 PM - Posts a tweet from Mike Flynn saying 2020 election wasn’t fair
10:49 PM - Attacks Dominion again claiming they stole the 2020 election (it wasn’t)
10:51 PM - Reposts a fake Charlie Kirk account that claimed Obama blocked Hillary Clinton from being prosecuted
10:53 PM - Claims Obama was part of Hillary Clinton’s emails in some way
11:28 PM - Claims a senior Democrat just testified under oath that Senator Adam Schiff leaked classified information
1:13 AM - Attacks the New York Times for reporting on the reflecting pool
This man is clearly not well.
ADHD + anxiety is being terrified of discussions, arguments and/or confrontation because we can't keep our thoughts straight enough to verbally express them in a convincing manner.
The moment we need to recall important details or facts our brains short circuit and even though we can
"see" the detail we am trying to recall it gets unintelligibly blurry.
So the end result is we have no confidence in our own thoughts and opinions all because they won't co out right.
I hate how ADHD has been sensationalized as the fun mental illness but having it literally feels like walking around with some very specific kind of dementia that is actively ruining your life at every step and the culprit is always you.
Today, His Majesty the King visited the Canadian Cross of Sacrifice at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, USA.
This monument honours the Americans who, moved by a sense of duty to fight for freedom, joined the Canadian Armed Forces in the years before the United States officially entered the First World War. It was later rededicated to all Americans who joined Canadian forces in the Second World War and the Korean War.
His Majesty’s act of remembrance is a powerful reminder of the bonds between our countries.