Any tips for overcoming executive dysfunction?
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Here are some things that helped me besides medication:
1) Be kind to your body and your brain will benefit. Less sugar, more sleep, long walks when it's nice out.
2) Is anybody in your life making you feel so bad it makes you kind of foggy? Is it possible to get away from them? I think much more clearly since I divorced someone who constantly called me stupid, FWIW.
3) Get a calendar app and put absolutely everything in there. It doesn't have to be fancy—I just use Google Calendar—but having your phone remind you of your tasks and events is great. Never ever tell yourself you'll remember. You won't.
4) Map out every single place you go in a different app. It doesn't matter if you know the way. It matters that a screen in front of you shows a giant turn arrow or a voice comes through your car speakers telling you to go left. This way you don't get distracted, miss a turn, and end up late to stuff.
Start with cognitive behavioral therapy and check into medication if you’re not already being treated for ADHD.
I had it managed pretty well for years just keeping a routine but that got tossed with COVID and having a child. I tried all the apps, timers, organization methods, and such but only medication seemed to have helped. Even more than when I was able to manage it to a degree
Write your highlights and proud moments in one place (or an app!)
This isn't from my effort alone omg. Years ago I had access to an executive coach & she changed my life.. so simple but when it builds up wow.
This isn't from my effort alone omg. Year ago I had access to an executive coach, Water, & consult AI overlords. Lol
Here's what I do when it's serious -
"ADHD & Anxiety No EF Left (not one)"
1. Workout + glass of water
2. spill all thoughts via Dictation into text via note
3. Go to Goblin Tools Copy and paste note Goblin Tools !
I like to trick myself and say "what's one little step I could do to move this an inch?"
A lot of it is tied to those broken promises to the self in my experience. External or internal expectations so unrealistic it's traumatic.
So if you can prove to yourself, you can do the thing that's scary. It's easier to make that move or ask for support.
Transparently it took so long for me to actually remember my strategies and write down my post that I lost it so I decided that good enough just has to be enough. Lol