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Meditation can help. Therapy can help. Doing something engaging to distract yourself can help (ideally something that isn’t gonna make you feel worse in the end, playing with a pet or listening to music > binging on junk food or booze)
Remember that you can’t control whether crappy things happen but you choose how you react to them. (Of course, easier said than done)
As someone with ADHD I hear you but FML is the meditation angle such contrived bullshit. Like biiiiiitch I can't go 1 minute without moving or mind racing or anything else.
Now for people with ADHD like me. What I found helps me is running. Running is the only time I am at peace. All my senses are being activated at once and therefore I'm at my calmest.
Edit - also want to add that running is solitary. So I also get to say "fuck off" to the rest of the world.
I think running is very similar to meditation for a lot of people, just in motion instead of standing still lol
I also hate the excessive hype around meditation. I think what matters is finding something to focus on. If people prefer to stay immobile and pretend to think about nothing good for them, but you can also focus by doing sports, arts, cooking, reading etc. and, in my opinion, those come with bigger benefits for your health and mind.
Yeah, we’re all different and there’s no one size fits all. I find meditation helpful, when I remember to actually do it, but I hate running with the white hot hatred of a thousand suns. :)
I find that meditation does get easier with practice. I’ve been told that running also gets easier with practice but even when I was a pretty healthy and HWP teenager, every single week of cross country was as miserable as the last.
Maybe try cycling? I can't run well, but cycling is fun and much less painful than running for me.
And I would add, practice. A continuous practice of the things you stated. Healthy things in moderation.