Distraction

[Mike1988]

Sometimes, I am lost in my world.

Confused and restless.

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Hey mike!

Happy to see you part of the community! 😀

Dude, you’re not alone. I feel you and I understand you entirely. That’s my daily kinda like, routine or whatever haha 😀. What works for me, is about a years worth work on find my way of seeing the enjoyable part of some of my struggles in life.

I laugh about my situation, I laugh at how silly I can be and respond in certain situations and I don’t let things get to me as much anymore.

Reason for it, ADHD brings intense emotions. It’s great when we feel great, but if you’re like me, I rarely notice when I get great feelings but when I do I enjoy and love it 😀. That said, just keep that this mind:

“My emotions have the power to overtake me, but I won’t let them”

I just thought about that but hey it’s true and an easy way of settling yourself down from anything negative. and that’s the key.

I have found myself in a much better position anytime doing what I mentioned above, i spend more time enjoying and appreciating my life. Anyone or anything not contributing to it, bye bye.

It’s very very important to love yourself. To befriend yourself. To appreciate yourself. 100% all the time. Your words in this post say to me, it’s time to rebuild that love again. We start life at 100% loving, appreciating, befriending ourselves, we allow ourselves to drop that amount as we go through life.

In my view at least. Thinking about it that way helps me be happy and makes it extremely easy to convince myself of these facts. (I call them facts because they are my personal facts, they can be yours if you choose that, it’s ok if you don’t find anything and everything that makes you happy and not have words like in this post in your head, ever, whether it’s true or not, you deserve happiness and you deserve to enjoy your life)

Love you man, you’re not lost. Maybe confused and restless 😄 I’m there with you man. You’re so great and valuable to the world, telling yourself you aren’t, is your reminder for maintaining the love you have for yourself. Keep at 100%! Always man. You deserve and owe it to yourself.

Again love you and I’m here for you any way that I can be there for you. Don’t hestitate to reach out

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Hi Mike1988 . I bet all of us have felt that way before. Like somehow we are disconnect from what is important to us. I relate to the restlessness. Mine comes out as irritability and distraction, and a drive to DO SOMETHING to feel better. I think it's related to Dopamine deficiency, personally. But there ARE things you can do about it... ways to reframe it, by living into what you want instead of focusing on the discomfort of the moment. What 'living into what you want' is will depend on you personally... what's important to you. A Therapist, Coach, or Support Group could help with that.

I suggest becoming a member of an online support group, so you have another place to chat with our community.

Have you checked out add.org? They offer support groups all for a relatively low cost of membership. Highly recommended.

Hang in there... things get better. Welcome to the Tribe!