I badly need a nap and can't figure why so I'm just going to listen to my body and comply. Not buts, no whys, just do it.
Same as I do with the gym.
If I try to fight it or analyse it I won't get anywhere other than wasting the rest of the day and I am starting to think these naps are a necessity and the possible solution to all of my problems.
I tend to overwork, overexert, ask too much from me.
Also my body has gone really cold and the house isn't cold
@maikel I used to avoid naps but definitely found benefit from just letting myself have them. I nap regularly as my body just seems to need them no matter how I take care of it and how much I sleep at night. Seems to help my overall function to just take them.
this year I'm going to VASTLY introduce automation into my daily routine.
the goal is to avoid decision fatigue.
Main unmedicated problem: decision fatigue
Main medicated problem: analysis paralisis
The same I have this code for storing what am I getting distracted with, i'm going to create plenty of other shortcuts and automations AND notifications into my PC and mobile phone to steer me into the right direction everyday.
unmedicated every task has equal emotional weight, so I do whatever is right to do next which tends to be "whatever FEELS right" because really, here feel = reason are the same.
medicated, every task has different emotional weight, so doing what feels right RARELY means doing what is actually right.
this is the reason I've got to switch from med to unmedicated often. Stuff that shouldn't get ignore gets ignored. The DRIVE I get from meds is so driving that I lose track of what are the actual priorities.
One thing I'm learning is that I can operate easier on VERY little dopamine.
But after certain time of the day, that little dopamine, causes brain exhaustion and physical exhaustion too. I start to yawn proffusely all the time and I have a thirst for caffeine that is incredible.
(my thirst for caffeine completely vanishes on Elvanse, if anything caffeine feels repulsive while medicated but I probably conditioned myself for that)
Its all about the possible grey scale between Au and DHD. The things that bother me the most about ADHD fit more into the autism over-sensitive senses than into ADHD, but why exactly does Elvanse help so much in that regard. I don't get it.
can you suffer from sensory overload without having autism? I don't fit in anything else of autism, just the sensory overload.
"People with ADHD display hypersensitivity to sensory stimuli from a young age; this hypersensitivity often persists into adulthood"
says wikipedia, but why specifically so much NOISE? I can cope with all other senses most of the time but noise.
(and i'm also incredibly ticklish off meds, my skin is too sensitive too)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_overload
The key question is really, why only half the day.
@maikel from people I know with adhd, seems noise overload is common. Several people I know with ADHD wear anc when out to because of noise overload. That鈥檚 just anecdotal from people I know but I鈥檝e definitely seen/read that adhd people can have sensory sensitivities too.
anyway, off to nap. Bye.
