Why People Who Have ADHD Burnout So Often

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[johnwalker]

The ADHD experience:

- You constantly have to give 200% effort.
- Your results make it look like you only give 20% effort.
- Other people perceive you as only giving 2% effort.

It's often a very frustrating existence.

[Tigermund]

Its really validating to hear a health professional express the viewpoint Ive held my whole life

[XIIchiron]

Literally my whole life has been this cycle of putting in the effort until inevitably something happens to disrupt me and I collapse. It's like there's no point building anything because the minimum effort to keep at it becomes too much.

[jazzyj]

This is why ADHD relationships are so nice. My girlfriend and I are both ADHD. she just gets me. I don't have to make excuses, I don't have to mask or pretend to be someone I'm not. I am accepted. And I have a partner who is equally as weird as me, which makes the companionship even better.

[CJandEllie]

I am burned out just being here. People have called me anxious, careless, disorganized, scattered, etc...I'm sick of being misunderstood and sick of trying so hard.

[dstbnny_ch]

"you just introduced yourself and you forgot what this person's name is" brought so many war flashbacks to my mind

[Rohtix]

I love being designed for a completely different existence! It's not soul crushing at all!

[firewalk]

Pairing the feeling with also having injustice sensitivity that comes with adhd/autism and it means not only am I burnt out but I’m incredibly hurt and frustrated by a world designed for me to not function in it even though I try so hard.

[_Chessa_]

I get overly angry at myself. The anger is intense when I don’t do something and it leaves me exhausted when I didn’t even try to begin with making me more angry at myself, and at the same time depressed, scared that I didn’t try and shame and guilt for not doing it.
I have so many many many “projects” in my head. All I can do is imagine myself doing it but never actually doing it because I feel I won’t be perfect at it or I feel too lazy to start it.
I’d love to not think about it for once and just do what I want to get done and do. Have over a thousand unfinished projects. It’s ridiculous! The worst one is me not being able to land a job.

[redgreen]

“You have to try extra hard…”
Yeah, I wasn’t even down for the amount of effort life takes without adhd

[PARoth]

Years ago, the book that changed my view about myself as well as the trajectory of my entrepreneurial life was Thom Hartmann’s “ADHD: A Hunter in a Farmer’s World”. It didn’t erase the challenges but it made me very goal directed and much more satisfied with my results and life.

[Usiris]

Explains why I don’t care to have friends. Too much effort, man

[PaulElmont-fdxc]

And it leaves you so tired. A phone call can leave you exhausted.

[andrewz]

I’m at the point where I don’t believe autism and adhd are problems in and of themselves. Rather they feel that way because of everything being designed by and for neurotypicals. Hopefully as we progress and evolve we will build societies that leave no one behind.

[hOFalt]

This video reminded me of how fortunate I am to have friends and family that accept me despite how annoying I must be at times.

[Safeara]

This is a very good explanation, short and clear. I feel it also applies to autism and CPTSD, and I've never been able to explain it well to others.

[samanthakim]

I have a friend with diagnosed ADHD and we just let her do as she wants to because we can't force her to do the things she doesn't want and I got used to her attitude. Every time there's an activity about art, there are times she doesn't want to do it, but my other friend guides her and she ends up doing it(and focused too).

[julyol]

Just recently got to meet a close friend"s fruends. And I can't count how often, through that evening, I thought "Am I attentive enough? Did I interrupt anyone? Am I talking too much?" And I am a really really good communicator, and I'm neither shy, nor anxious, nor negative. People usually enjoy my company and think I'm super unflappable. But, boy, did it not come naturally to me...

The bullying I've gone through, because I just couldn't shut up, when I should have or got distracted. The oversharing. The brutal honesty. And not understanding why others weren't like this, why I had no control, while they seemingly did. And the resentment for other people, that I built up over the years, thinking others were just fake 99% of the time.

I had to fall into a serious depression as an adult, failing in uni, and get into therapy for that to get diagnosed with ADHD. And suddenly life made sense. I can't overstate how amazing therapy and meds and generally knowing what's going on was. Like stated above, it's still a struggle, especially since I wouldn't medicate for a night out. But it's a different, better life anyway.

[tuskan_parahdus]

Thank you putting this in to words. I spent my school days masking and then spent hours with homework so I could learn at least something. When people look at my old grades they just comment that I did ”alright” but they could have been better without realizing how much effort I had to put in just to keep up. I felt like underachiever while having symptoms of burnout.

[MrAchsas]

I have adhd and autism and its honestly just torture
Someone help