ADHD Paralysis Tips

Getting started is the HARDEST part! Once you get started and feel productive, it’s easier to keep going!

If you think you have ADHD, I made a worksheet to help determine if you meet the diagnostic criteria and talk to your doctor about it!

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[savetimeshan]

Getting started is the HARDEST part! Once you get started and feel productive, it’s easier to keep going!

[nicspringer]

When you have ADHD it is very hard to get started and if you do then its even harder to stay on task. Alot of people with ADHD including myself tend to do better when someone is there with you, even giving you some sort of direction to keep you on task and take it one step at a time. ADHD paralysis feels like the mix between a mid anxiety attack and utter confusion. I myself have alot of trouble staying organised and often find myself completely forgetting what i was even trying to do in the first place. Its not laziness, its not stupidity, its not ditziness or common forgetfulness. Its a real thing that people have and it sucks

[Aurora]

Timers were my friend. Mine broke, haven't used one in a long time. I used it for everything. Talking on the phone, being on the internet, taking a nap, etc. Thank you for the reminder!❤

[ashleycook]

Thanks. I was in scroll paralysis. Put away the closest thing...a bill that I paid first, then put in the trash. Back on my productivity game. I needed this.😊

[meatbxndit]

That last tip would actually work if I had actual friends

[ticketforepic]

She thinks we have people, that's adorable.

[dennylekstrom]

I just recently started seeing a therapist (again for the 3rd time) and he taught me so much about the sympathetic nervous system and the vagus nerve, read c-ptsd. He brought to my attention after an initial assessment that, aside from c-ptsd, I display a lot of symptoms of ADHD. After working through some of it with hypnosis and learning more about what is actually real and what is a result of a traumaresponse, I relate SO MUCH to your shorts content. I didn't know these things were so closely related to ADHD 😶 I tick off pretty much every box of the situations you bring up in your videos. It's actually nuts. Thank you for being brave and spreading awareness!

[rarajay]

I thought it was just me that I always want to call my friend to do responsibilities or clean my room

[Neyjina]

I sometimes count backwards from three. Three two one GO!
Helps me to get started.

[shadowfall]

After having kids I learned to take everything in chunks. I think my problem was my parents never had yhe patience to slow down and show ke so they babied me and did it all for me.

I finally learned being on my own how not to he soo overwhelmed by everything. Closests, drawers and organizational stuff are still tough but I can do them.

[Babygirl-cx]

Your so right it’s much easier to get started than trying to do it all at once 💯

[roxywyndham]

I always feel like it will never get clean and then I take it one step at a time and then it does 😂😅

[jagl]

Something that I also find that helps me is doing the easiest thing first or the thing I would rather do even if it’s the lowest thing on my to-do list.

There’s a lot of bad advice saying to do the hardest thing first to get it out of the way. Those people were clearly not thinking of ADD/ADHDers when they threw that out there lol!

[SoldOutJESUS]

Almost every add paralysis video is about cleaning which is about the only thing I don't have trouble with

[BessieTaylor]

I set timers too get started on cooking, laundry etc. 25 mins then I force myself out the bed. This works wonders, also a air fryer so I don’t have to stand by the stove all day.

[nic]

This may sound completely dumb, but it works :
Imagine you are at the Olympic Games. The whole crowd is cheering. You are a professional athlete and your sport is <insert chore here>. Continue the scenario in your head while you compete for the first place on the podium. Use a stopwatch to track your time. On the next Olympic Games, your goal will be to beat that time!

[tylergann]

A great pointer that works for me. The only way I can do anything is first taking a shower, getting dressed, putting shoes on & fixing my hair. Sometimes I need to go out & drive around in order to get my mindset

[SUNSHN_DTS]

I always assign music to each task I can’t make my bed in less than an hour without Taylor Swift or Coldplay

[stellamariss]

I have major issues with getting started on speeches and essays. Or any projects like that. I can’t explain how impossible it seems to just start. It’s like my Brain is in a constant of overwhelmed and chaos and I can’t seem to get my thoughts together when it comes to finally sitting down and starting. It’s like I have no idea how to actually start. And I just make little baby steps that never actually end up in the finished product cause I wasn’t actually engaging in the assignment. It feels like I have no idea a what I’m doing but I can sit down and explain to someone else how to do it.

[BlizzardSnowMew]

I really need to figure out if I have ADHD. I’ve watched several of your videos and relate to sooo many of them. I’ve suspected I have ADHD for a long time, but have always pushed it off and just “dealt with it” because I could get by.

Fairly recently, I started doing commission based 3D modeling work, self employed from home. I *love* modeling, but the inability to get started or stay focused most the time is *so frustrating.* If there’s a tally of things I need to get done for the same project, or if it’s an object/style/mechanic I haven’t tackled before, it gets way harder to start, or go to the next tally when I’ve finished one. It’s not fair to customers because my workflow is inconsistent as all hell. If I get to the point where I’ve been working consistently for an hour so, sometimes I’ll work on it non stop for 8-12. My roommate could come in and ask what I want for dinner and it would go in one ear and out the other. The exact same thing happened pretty much all through school. I have to stop what I’m doing and sit there and process what I’ve just been asked. The exact same thing happened pretty much all through school. Since it didn’t effect anyone but me, and I still got good grades, dealing with it wasn’t as important to me. Thought maybe I was just young and had bad work ethic. The fact that it’s not just stayed but gotten progressively worse, I want to try and figure it out.

Definitely going to try this tip, and maybe start calling some of my friends who do similar work to work at the same time in a discord call or something. I also did that survey and submitted an audio recording, so hopefully I can figure out if I have ADHD or if I’m just really bad at time management.