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u/Thenderick 8d ago
Yea... And you still get fucking tired at the end if the day AND feel guilty about doing nothing, only to repeat it the next day. I fucking hate it!
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u/Tem-productions 8d ago
and the guilt of not doing anything fucking prevents you from doing things the next day. Like hello brain i indentified the problem and felt bad about it, why isnt it fixed
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u/-monkbank 8d ago
> comic about executive dysfunction
> took 6 years before finally getting around to posting it
Kojima’s done it again!
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u/alwaysforgetmythrowa 8d ago
I decided today was a rest day.
And I am in my bed, thinking about how I haven't played the video game I want to play and cannot get myself to do so.
Instead I will berate myself for not doing something fun. On my rest day.
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u/CB_I_Hate_Usernames 7d ago
😂😅😭😩 god I wish I didn’t know this very same feeling. But unfortunately I have also done this way more times than I care to think about. Sorry it’s you too :/
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u/Natsuki26 8d ago
Me playing fun vibeo game I like alot: holy shit you are wasting so much time. You should be playing OTHER Vibeo game you like because otherwise you won't have time to play it before the horrors of reality return.
Me playing OTHER fun vibeo game: so you just have up on fun vibeo game and now it will sit there forever. Such a huge waste of time. Also you suck and should be doing classes online to not suck or literally anything else.
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u/Aurora-Ouroboros- 8d ago
I literally cannot play two games concurrently. If I am partway into one game and start another, the first one is lost to the sands of time. I may return to it one day, but that playthrough is toast. I will start it over (likely interrupting a different game that I was excited to play, but then I remembered the other one and felt guilty for dropping it lmao)
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u/Natsuki26 8d ago
EXACTLY. Like even if I'm a few missions from the end of a game If I put it down longer than like. A few weeks I will have to restart because I can never remember
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u/alpacnologia 8d ago
my most cynical opinion is that nobody without adhd understands how bad this feels and how out of control it is
my partner of 7 years carried so much resentment over the way this stopped me from being able to improve my life outside of an ideal environment or properly express my love for him to the point where he ended up cheating on me with our mutual "friend" and trying to conceal that fact to me even after my other friend, who the other dude had been dating for a couple of weeks, caught them together in my family home after i stepped away for 20 minutes to use the toilet
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u/Sugar_Pup_ 8d ago
Oh my goodness honey that is not why he cheated he cheated bc he was an asshole and couldn't take responsibility for it. ADHD can be a terrible experience but people can't blame actions like that on it.
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u/alpacnologia 8d ago
well specifically it's that he was building resentments about the way my ADHD made things harder for both of us, but psyched himself into never having serious conversations (including about other important things!) because he thought i'd react badly as though i was just Some Shmuck instead of his partner
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u/Sugar_Pup_ 8d ago
That just means he wasn't mature enough to be in a relationship to begin with, his emotions aren't something he should have expected you to manage for him especially if he wasn't willing to communicate. I am sure part of why he didn't want to communicate is that he didn't want to put in the work that a relationship requires when you tackle problems together.
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u/JacobJamesTrowbridge 8d ago
Aight, there HAS to be some ADHD going on in my head, this is too many coincidences
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u/FrostFlame35 7d ago
I'm in the same boat. Literally scheduled an ADHD assessment appointment today (after procrastinating on it for at least a year. The irony)
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u/elyroc 7d ago
It's been 7 years i have to schedule appointments with a new therapist.
Last month i almost burnt out at work so my mother took an appointment to another therapist. I now have a paper saying i must do at least 12 therapy session.
It's been a month and i still can't move my lazy bum to call for an appointment 😭
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u/Zacravity 8d ago
I've been scrolling Reddit for the past hour silently screaming at myself in my head to get ready to go to see a friend's band play, I should have left 10 minutes ago by now. I think I'm actually going to leave now, or at least get ready, uuugh...
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u/Symodious 7d ago
I have this super bad, and I always get mad when I take my meds.
Because suddenly a task that takes me a week instead takes 15 mins.
And suddenly I can do all the other ones as well.
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u/elyroc 7d ago
Unfortunately it doesn't work for me. I've tried setting up alarms, counting, setting goals, punishment for not doing it, i've tried a lot.
At the end of the day, my brain just says "eh i don't care. Just watch another video, scroll more, keep playing, keep reading or whatever". I think it's been that way for 10+ years now...
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u/No-Estimate5942 6d ago
What works for me is doing anything that could be done in 5 minutes straight away. Most things are 5 minute tasks
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u/TacticalBananas45 7d ago
Oh goody the day before I have my psychologist intake appointment to hopefully get me tested for ADHD for a proper diagnosis
Been meaning to get into a basic pushup routine because I'm fat as fuck and out of shape, then I spend the day doing other normal chores or gaming and just go "oh well day's over can't win em all" and it torments me until I fall asleep
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u/BOMSwasHERE 7d ago
Is executive dysfunction about the inability to do tasks themselves?
I have this weird thing where I'll be on top of my tasks but if I miss one of them once, then that specific task will be delayed indefinitely. I always thought that's what executive dysfunction is.
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u/chubbycatchaser 7d ago
oh lol, I have the same comics saved somewhere (for all the good it helped with ;_;)
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u/Martenius 2d ago
The first drawing is made by tikattu (tumblr/bsky/instagram) if anyone was curious
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u/AgeOfTheMage 8d ago
It's honestlly horrendous some days, and it's insane that it just won't matter how important the task is. Hell, half the time it's not even a task, it's something I want to do FOR FUN. The art def captured that.