Dr. Micaela

have or not have in your life that's going on.

And once you have that, it's actually a lot easier to move forward than like, oh, I have a diagnosis because each diagnosis, you could put a hundred people in this room who all have autism and they could all be 100% unique from each other, which is another problem with our mental health conditions and diagnoses is that each one can manifest so differently depending on the person.

Yeah.

I'm going to go to the next question.

Um, how do I deal with extreme boredom after starting to recover from ADHD burnout stress and everything feels meh.

Oh God.

Um, I joke with my colleagues at work that my favorite place of existing in life is on the cusp of burnout because that is like the most exhilarating and where I'm doing the most of all the things.

And, um,

enjoy everything and feel stimulated and enriched, but it is a very short move from ideal to like raging burnout.

And so if you're recovering from ADHD, burnout, stress, or neurotypical work-related life-related ADHD, uh, uh, burnout slash stress, um,

it is really easy to get impatient and to feel actually like extremely uncomfortable.

And this question is really referencing like a meh feeling.

People with ADHD, boredom in particular is like,

can be as uncomfortable as like that feeling of like crawling out of your skin like oh my god I'm I'm like starving I'm dying of thirst and I'm like I can't deal with the fact that I'm just like bored or like not like intensely stimulated.

And so, the fun thing about this is anytime we make changes and actually particularly in recovery.

And this is, this could be from an emotional recovery, maybe a shitty relationship or burnout from ADHD work life etc.

It's the same concept when we're dealing with recovery from a physical injury.

which is why I love that somewhere along the way we made physical health and mental health like two separate fields and areas and studies and even insurances, at least in the United States, when they are intimately connected and work together or don't work together.

So

When we are in recovery, it is uncomfortable.