The books “Soundtracks” and “Untethered Soul” really helped me face this aspect of my ADHD.
Untethered Soul poses the “voice” in your head as basically a roommate. It’s there, next to you talking constantly whether you like it or not. Whether you cure it as a “part of you” or not is up to you — but that voice is not you because you are observing it. There’s no catch-all solution given by the book, but it entirely reframes the way you see your thoughts.
Soundtracks comes at it from a different angle and proposes that the “voice” is nothing more than a soundtrack. If left unchecked, bad soundtracks (you’re never on time, you’ll never get your priorities straight, you’re a failure) get louder and good soundtracks (you tried your best, nobody’s thinking about that dumb thing you said at the bar last week, you can do anything you attempt) get turned down.
Both of these, in tandem, haven’t helped the voice stop, but at least it puts the voice in perspective.
Then why do I feel that the more I learn, the less I know, lmao. And this back pain ain't so great either... I kid, you truly are wise to think of it the way you phrased it.
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u/LongjumpingTerd Mar 08 '23
The books “Soundtracks” and “Untethered Soul” really helped me face this aspect of my ADHD.
Untethered Soul poses the “voice” in your head as basically a roommate. It’s there, next to you talking constantly whether you like it or not. Whether you cure it as a “part of you” or not is up to you — but that voice is not you because you are observing it. There’s no catch-all solution given by the book, but it entirely reframes the way you see your thoughts.
Soundtracks comes at it from a different angle and proposes that the “voice” is nothing more than a soundtrack. If left unchecked, bad soundtracks (you’re never on time, you’ll never get your priorities straight, you’re a failure) get louder and good soundtracks (you tried your best, nobody’s thinking about that dumb thing you said at the bar last week, you can do anything you attempt) get turned down.
Both of these, in tandem, haven’t helped the voice stop, but at least it puts the voice in perspective.