ADHD roadblocks
22 Sep 2025 04:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneI have been thinking about the ADHD struggle, and I decided I should buy the Barkley book on adult ADHD and also a copy of How To Keep House While Drowning; I added them to my cart at the online bookstore, then didn't order them because I didn't have the executive function to do that yet. I found some potential replacements for the charger of my laptop that just broke as well, but didn't manage to finish comparing them and decide.
Other stuff I need to do and have been unable to start includes:
-make an appointment with a new gp to discuss my meds. I have been wanting to do this, but I'm not sure if I have to call them to do it, so I have to poke around the online portal (😩) to try to figure that out.
-take a series of blood pressure measurements at the same time on different days both with and without my adhd meds, including eating at the same times on these days. The necessity of planning and scheduling has kept me from getting to this for the past year. It would help the doctor a lot if I could do this before that appointment.
-try to get Wax to make an appointment with her GP.
-investigate those adhd apps and see if one can help.
-investigate a discord server I was given a link to. Maybe interact with people.
-make appointments to take Tristana (weak splintery claws) and Rowan (lost weight, other stuff) to the vet.
-start clicker-training Sipuli and Tristana to do tricks like the cat behavior specialist recommended over six months ago.
-get the nibling triplets to agree to schedule a meeting where they will each show us a sweatshirt of theirs we can measure.
I think a lot of what's blocking me from several of these things in the last month, anyway, is that they feel like projects that require planning and stamina, but so much of my bandwidth has been going to anxiety about the driving test (two days from now) that there wasn't space. This is extremely normal for me and obviously a fallacy, but I guess I've been feeling like the time until the test was mostly short enough that I should just try to minimize anxiety and worry about all the other stuff after. And I didn't want to take my adhd meds in between.
Other stuff I need to do and have been unable to start includes:
-make an appointment with a new gp to discuss my meds. I have been wanting to do this, but I'm not sure if I have to call them to do it, so I have to poke around the online portal (😩) to try to figure that out.
-take a series of blood pressure measurements at the same time on different days both with and without my adhd meds, including eating at the same times on these days. The necessity of planning and scheduling has kept me from getting to this for the past year. It would help the doctor a lot if I could do this before that appointment.
-try to get Wax to make an appointment with her GP.
-investigate those adhd apps and see if one can help.
-investigate a discord server I was given a link to. Maybe interact with people.
-make appointments to take Tristana (weak splintery claws) and Rowan (lost weight, other stuff) to the vet.
-start clicker-training Sipuli and Tristana to do tricks like the cat behavior specialist recommended over six months ago.
-get the nibling triplets to agree to schedule a meeting where they will each show us a sweatshirt of theirs we can measure.
I think a lot of what's blocking me from several of these things in the last month, anyway, is that they feel like projects that require planning and stamina, but so much of my bandwidth has been going to anxiety about the driving test (two days from now) that there wasn't space. This is extremely normal for me and obviously a fallacy, but I guess I've been feeling like the time until the test was mostly short enough that I should just try to minimize anxiety and worry about all the other stuff after. And I didn't want to take my adhd meds in between.
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Date: 22 Sep 2025 04:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 23 Sep 2025 02:33 am (UTC)This is way too relatable.
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Date: 23 Sep 2025 04:24 pm (UTC)