Current thoughts from an ADHD brain

You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave.

Hello!

I thought I’d do bullet points this week as I’ve been writing a lot lately and stringing coherent sentences together feels hard today. My brain needs a rest.

So here’s a flavour of my thoughts, all happening simultaneously at any given moment.

• I keep meaning to tell you about Goblin tools. Someone told me about it months ago, “designed to help neurodivergent people with tasks they find overwhelming or difficult”. It helps you create to-do lists, estimates how long tasks will take, gives you recipes from ingredients you input and helps rephrase things like text messages, or emails when you might need to sound more formal or, more friendly and jolly etc. I find it so useful, especially the recipe thing.

• I’ve been very distracted with one project whilst trying to finish another. Yes, I still do this. It’s annoying. But on the bright side, I have a new thing to buff to a shine and send out.

• Feeling overwhelmed when making decisions.

• Wanting to do everything NOW. And if can't, then feeling like there's no point.

• Realising meds don't "fix" me (see above) and yet understanding that they do help. They are just much less effective on the run-up to my period when Oestrogen plummets.¹

• Re-establishing accountability check-ins with fellow creative adhders. When I stop a habit, because of an illness or holiday or whatever. I find it difficult to re-establish that habit, even though I know how much it benefits me.

• How do I still not have a definite title for the new novel?

• Time is slipping through my fingers.

• The book I’ve just read is brilliant and is putting me off writing that new thing.

• Needing a holiday (don't we all) but then feeling overwhelmed by the preparation and planning this takes.

Here’s a moment of peace from my weekend in the Peak District.

1. https://psychiatry-uk.com/women-and-adhd-how-menopause-can-affect-women-with-adhd/