My logical brain vs the part of the brain that's actually in charge. I wish the logical part of the brain won more often
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Yep. Knowing what the solution is only compounds the guilt for not doing it. Let me ignore it by focusing on other things just a little bit longer.
Side note: I'm most productive when I'm about to hit a deadline. I hate that about myself. I'm always relieved if / when it doesn't blow up in my face. Had two of those in the past two weeks. Both looked like they were gonna be disasters when I was cranking them out. In both cases. the disaster was averted. Holy shit.
Gee, buddy boy, wish I fuckin' could!
For those not in know: it's like telling someone with a broken ankle to "just walk". That's why it's important to know that ADHD should be treated like any other handicap.
Stop trying to make me feel bad about feeling bad about all my bullshit.
If I don't have a long enough stretch of time to do it all at once, I ain't starting it.
But seriously, getting medicated has done wonders for being able to start multi-day projects. I'm learning VBA right now because I want to automate some of my processes at work. I'm finally cool with starting something I can't finish today. Generally, I want my code to do some fairly specific and complex things. So I'm happy to spend a few hours tweaking a block to make it do exactly what I want, and it feels so good when it works as expected. But before getting on meds? Nah, I wouldn't even entertain the idea because I wouldn't know where to start. Medicine helps me draw up an outline of what I want to do with my code, then achieve those tasks bit by bit.
And that's applied across everything I do. It's okay to not finish today. But it's important to start.
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Imagine having a working executive function
If I COULD just do the shit, it would not be a source of stress
But there is a logic in that: shit is finite, or at least it has a finite speed of income. The more shit you do the less shit is left. If you do shit fast enough you can reach the state when you have a minimum shit at a given time. It is good.
Why do you have to personally attack me like that?