Dr. Micaela

We are over it.

We wanna, we're impatient.

We're like, come on, let's get back to like regular functioning.

I don't wanna be hobbling around on like crutches or in a cast.

I just wanna walk and I wanna do stairs and I don't wanna have to wait for an elevator or I don't wanna be bored.

I don't wanna just relax.

I want to feel stimulated and excited and do all the things.

And part of recovery is healing and healing is a slow-ish process that does require patience, something that people at ADHD often don't have a lot of.

And so it is kind of antithetical.

I would say just like with a physical injury, we do physical therapy, we take baby steps as we are improving.

And so thinking about what would be my cognitive or emotional baby steps.

So do not fucking go and pick up 10 more new hobbies, OK?

But what could you do in just a little bit?

And I know that impulse control is also a weakness.

So this is really, really hard to do.

And if you can't figure out how to take these like kind of slow roll rehab approach, you're going to be stuck in a really shitty cycle of ADHD burnout because you're going to go, oh my God, I'm overwhelmed.

Okay.

Thank God I took a break.

Wait, I'm going to go.

No, now I'm overwhelmed.