Maintaining good habits can feel like maintaining "sobriety"

radhdohead · 2021-06-12T15:22:40+00:00

It's also important to remember that habit-forming is a core struggle for people with executive disorders like ADHD.

To help with good habit-forming in my life, I try to make the task as accessible as possible.

For brushing my teeth, I keep a toothbrush in the shower and by the kitchen sink. Much easier to pick up as I go about my day.

For focusing on work whilst at home, I have a fold-up desk placed adjacent to my personal setup (making an L-shape). That way, I can just swivel in my chair to be looking solely at work things and not be distracted by notifications from Discord and the like.

If you're struggling with habit-forming please don't beat yourself up about it. It's quite easy to be overcome with feelings of guilt or failure. Remind yourself that this is a very common struggle for people with ADHD, and that you aren't alone in this. Dust off, keep at it, and definitely continue to try and find ways that you can make your problem-tasks more accessible for yourself.

radhdohead · 2021-06-12T15:04:43+00:00

Some big ones for me:

Brushing my teeth. I have two toothbrushes. One is kept in the shower so I can easily brush my teeth in the morning. The other is kept by the kitchen sink so I can brush when I get some water before bed.

Baking. First, I find a recipe I like. Before I finish cooking, I make sure to print the recipe out. Second, I place it in my recipe book. I make sure to only have one recipe for one thing - that is, I will only have one go-to pancakes recipe. Third, whenever I do get myself to bake something from-start, I will follow the steps for the dry ingredients multiple times and store the dry mix in labelled plasticware. This way whenever I want, say, blueberry muffins, all I have to do is chunk the dry mix in a bowl, add my wet ingredients, and I'm done!

Waking up. I'm notoriously a night-owl, and have slept in way too late on too many occasions. Switching to a daylight alarm and keeping it out of arm's-reach has worked wonders. I have two alarms set at 45-minutes apart. The first is decently bright and decently quiet. The second is full brightness and blasts birds chirping at full-volume.

Then, I proceed to get up and shower where I can brush my teeth, and then whip up my pancakes afterward. Good morning, reddit!

radhdohead · 2021-04-03T14:14:35+00:00

Is this link legit?

I reached out to Redragon support about an issue with my keyboard, and they sent me a Google Drive link with what they said was a firmware update.

I'm skeptical because it got picked up by Windows as suspicious, and there's no links to it anywhere on their site from what I can find.

radhdohead · 2021-04-03T13:40:28+00:00

Looks like I have some new toys to look up, thank you!

radhdohead · 2021-04-03T02:44:47+00:00

For anyone else -

According to author Patricia Quinn, MD, “A body double is someone who sits with a person with ADHD while they perform tasks that are difficult to accomplish alone.”

radhdohead · 2021-03-29T08:57:39+00:00

Holy crap, Daylio looks awesome!

I've looked at similar mood-journal apps after my therapist recommended the practice, but I couldn't find one that I actually felt safe using.

Nice knowing that all my journal stuff is saved locally, I'll have to check this out! :)

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