Wow. Sleep - it isn’t as I try to get good sleep every day, but the moment I lie down my brain gets into overdrive.
Exercise - great. If I wasn’t bored to death while doing exercise it might work.
Music - great. I get headphones and start vibing to the music, forgetting what I wanted to do in the first place, but I apply creativity and make AMAZAING playlists…
Really, who ever wrote all that down has no ideas what ADHD is. These are calming ideas for normies.
Watching funny movies - yep, I do that for four or six hours at a time, but it doesn’t make me more productive.
Sun - hmm, all the vitamins I take haven’t cured me, neither did crusing in my old convertible getting sunburn on my neck and arms
Pets - You really want a pet to stay at my place, where I have to regularly take care about them? Poor pet. I might forget feeding for a few days. O. t. o. h. I have a lot of plants, every single one quite drought resistant by natural selection.
Stay positive - yeah, as long as my impulsivivity isn’t giving me intrusive ideas.
Ok, I have lived all my life with my own ADHD brain, and I really do have a number of strategies that help. But crap like this guide trivializes the struggle and it doesn’t make me calm, it just makes me angry.
If your exercise bores you, find a different way to exercise. Team sports, Martial arts, Mountainbiking, Road biking (in a group), Aerobics with music, dancing, rock climbing, trail running, are anything but boring.
I also feel like it helps getting a membership in a gym or club that offers many of those options, so one can mix it up and easily try something different every once in a while.
Wow. Sleep - it isn’t as I try to get good sleep every day, but the moment I lie down my brain gets into overdrive.
Exercise - great. If I wasn’t bored to death while doing exercise it might work.
Music - great. I get headphones and start vibing to the music, forgetting what I wanted to do in the first place, but I apply creativity and make AMAZAING playlists…
Really, who ever wrote all that down has no ideas what ADHD is. These are calming ideas for normies.
Watching funny movies - yep, I do that for four or six hours at a time, but it doesn’t make me more productive.
Sun - hmm, all the vitamins I take haven’t cured me, neither did crusing in my old convertible getting sunburn on my neck and arms
Pets - You really want a pet to stay at my place, where I have to regularly take care about them? Poor pet. I might forget feeding for a few days. O. t. o. h. I have a lot of plants, every single one quite drought resistant by natural selection.
Stay positive - yeah, as long as my impulsivivity isn’t giving me intrusive ideas.
Ok, I have lived all my life with my own ADHD brain, and I really do have a number of strategies that help. But crap like this guide trivializes the struggle and it doesn’t make me calm, it just makes me angry.
STOP TRIVIALIZING.
If your exercise bores you, find a different way to exercise. Team sports, Martial arts, Mountainbiking, Road biking (in a group), Aerobics with music, dancing, rock climbing, trail running, are anything but boring.
I also feel like it helps getting a membership in a gym or club that offers many of those options, so one can mix it up and easily try something different every once in a while.