cleaning with ADHD is a nightmare. it’s an endless cycle of finding a half-finished chore and stopping the one you were already working on, then remembering that something else needs to be done and getting started on that, then finding half-finished chore and
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i have the solution! i call it ‘junebugging’.
have you ever seen a junebug get to grips with a window screen? it’s remarkably persistent, but not very focused. all that matters is location.
how to junebug: choose the location you feel you can probably get some shit done on today. be specific. not ‘the bathroom’ but ‘the bathroom sink’. you are not choosing a range, you are choosing a center; you will move around, but your location is where you’ll keep coming back to. mentally stick a pin in it. consider yourself tethered to that spot by a long mental bungee cord.
go to your location. look at stuff. move stuff around. do a thing. get distracted. remember you’re junebugging the bathroom sink and go back there. look at it some more. do a different thing. get distracted. get a sandwich. remember you’re junebugging and go back to the bathroom sink.
nt’s will go crazy watching you, and if they demand to know When You Will Be Done you will probably have to roll them in a carpet and stuff them up the chimney. you’re done when you feel done, or you’re too bored to live, or it’s bedtime, or any number of other markers, you get to pick. but the thing is, by returning repeatedly to that one spot, you harness the ‘hyperactivity’ part instead of wasting all that energy battling with the ‘attention deficit’ part.
not only will the bathroom sink almost certainly be clean, and probably the mirror and soap dish too, you might’ve swapped in a fresh toothbrush, a new soap, you might’ve unclogged the drain – you will probably also have cleaned or fixed up several things in the near vicinity, or in the path between the sink and where you get the fresh toothbrush, or maybe you did your grocery shopping cuz you were out of soap, or maybe you couldn’t find a clean hand towel and ended up doing laundry.
this is good. you got shit done! it wasn’t necessarily Cleaned The Bathroom in the way nt’s think of it, but screw ‘em. things are better than they were.
plus you worked off enough energy to be able to sleep. which is not small potatoes when living the ADHD life. :D
Don’t let the adorable name fool you—this is some Seriously Good Advice. May be useful for brain fog and depression, too!
I saw this post forever ago and this advice is unparalleled in its effectiveness. It helped me get thru my internship and it’s currently helping me unpack all my stuff
this isnt autism or a meme, but im sure a lot of my followers on this blog would have adhd too and might benefit from this!
who needs a healthy diet and exercise when you could just not eat for 4 days then binge until you puke
People like to forget schizophrenia/schizoaffective/schizotypal isn’t just “seeing things”. It’s severe social anxiety even with your family or best friend, disturbing recurring thoughts, violent thoughts/plans, being overly sexual, sensory overload, wanting to cause chaos just because you totally could, thoughts of self harm, etc. Its not pretty girl with pink, dirty hair following something across the ceiling.
We’re fucking terrified, not beautiful and tragic.
- it’s okay to eat
- it’s okay to have fat, because it’s natural and it doesn’t make you ugly or unlovable
- stretch marks, scars, moles, etc are totally ok
- your body is wonderful exactly the way it is
- please be kind to yourself
- i love you so much
Schizophrenia needs awareness. Dissociative identity disorder needs awareness. Obsessive compulsive disorder needs awareness. Dementia needs awareness. Depersonalization needs awareness. Tourette’s syndrome needs awareness. Kleptomania needs awareness. Bipolar disorder needs awareness. Dermatillomania needs awareness. Trichotillomania needs awareness. Schizoaffective disorder needs awareness. Selective mutism needs awareness. Borderline personality disorder needs awareness. Narcissistic personality disorder needs awareness. There are so many things that need awareness. Don’t preach advocacy for the well known disorders or conditions and then shove everything else to the side. Please, don’t limit your knowledge to just a select few.
sometimes I forget how withdrawn and separate from the world and reality I actually am, and always have been.
Concept: we stop using the word “psychotic” to describe anything other than people who experience psychosis.
dear psychotic friends
yes non-psychotics you can reblog this. in fact, please do.
here’s a list of things you’re not inherently for simply having psychosis:
- a criminal
- a violent person
- a bad person
- scary
- weird/odd
- any other negative thing people think people with psychosis are
why? (numbers correspond)
- unless you’ve committed a crime, you’re literally not a criminal.
- not violent? you’re not a violent person. end of story, friend.
- bad people are bad because they do either extremely bad things or waayyy too many bad things. doing a few bad things here or there that aren’t severe don’t make you a bad person.
- what you experience may feel very scary and others may be scared for you, but know that you aren’t a scary person. scary people do scary things (this doesn’t include reacting to your symptoms!). scary people do not experience scary things.
- your symptoms and your reactions to your symptoms dont make you weird. they arent you. they arent part of you. they’re what you experience.
- y’all, most psychotic people are angels. you are an AMAZING person.
