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How do you live a busy life with ADHD? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 days ago by StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works to c/adhd@lemmy.world

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I've never been so busy, I made the life altering decision to go back to college at 30 to get an engineering degree. I generally like math and I love building things and messing with electronics, it should be the perfect fit. But after starting at calc 2 and now doing 5 or 6 classes full time, working, and planning a wedding. I feel like I'm stretched thin.

I'll get off of school and my brain feels like molasses. I'm medicated but I still feel like everyone is learning at twice the speed as me while I reread the question to make sure I actually understand the wording.

There's some of you out there who are engineers, scientists, doctors with ADHD, who go out and do community stuff, go to the gym, live life and even socialize.

How? How do you do it? How do you keep up with such a constant schedule and try to understand new concepts every day on top of that? How do you not just curl into a ball and closing up into yourself to stop being overwhelmed?

I feel like I'm doing life on hard mode and it sucks

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[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 4 points 6 days ago

Yeah, you’re kind of running things on a high difficulty setting. And it’s worth noting that comparing yourself to others is a waste of energy - they’re unlikely to be learning at twice the rate you are.

This is kind of where you stack rank priorities and if you can’t eliminate any - you accept they won’t get a large percentage of your attention - or you try to hyper focus on it to burn it down and get it completed and off the list. Hopefully things like wedding planning are one of those things that will drop off the list eventually.

I tend to break up my day into different phases.

8-12 - fresh: critical thinking and learning new things with minimal distractions.

12-4 - dull: maintenances tasks, reoccurring meetings, things I can juggle and multitask with.

4-10 - molasses: brain dead tasks like working out, meal prep and hobbies like gaming or preparing for the next day.