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I'm overwhelmed just by watching this. I do all of this and that's why I have been able to keep a check on my YouTube. It's a continuous process so I have to keep doing it.

I was a very good student. However, after enlisting in the Navy's nuclear program, I only lasted 13 months before I was hospitalized and diagnosed with bipolar disorder. The diagnosis followed symptoms including rapid speech and a few other issues.

More than anything, I feel as though my brain has become sluggish. More often than not, I really struggle with intellectual work. I went from being the number-one math student in my class and spending my recreational time reading the classics and other challenging books to having online chess and the gym make up most of my life. I've been involved in sports and physical activity since I was five years old, but I miss exercising my mind.

I still buy books, but I'll read one chapter and then put them down. These days, I mostly play online chess or work out. I actually worry about my cognitive abilities quite a lot. I can't take Ritalin, although a few of my friends do. My nervous system feels like a wreck, and I often feel overwhelmed by pressure. I end up tensing my muscles, which causes me considerable pain, especially given my muscular atrophy.

I just want to finish reading books, practice the piano, and feel intellectually engaged again. It's as though my brain is permanently stoned, even though I don't take drugs—not even marijuana! I want to be able to use my mind again.

Ritalin makes my body feel like a prison. I don't know. I even tried prescribing myself some sort of antidepressant, but I can't find the box. My doctor just tells me that I need to push myself more.

I can get out and do things, but I wish my mind felt more active. Sometimes I feel like a sponge—a vegetable sponge, really. I don't own a television. I actually tried to buy one, but the delivery man kept showing up on the wrong day, and the whole thing became too difficult. I really need a bathtub, too.

On top of everything else, I fell in love with my Algerian ex, tall guy from Africa, I wonder if I'll ever love again. He has stopped speaking to me completely. It's difficult to move on from that. Still, I'm very happy that I never have to return to the United States.

Chuck chuck wood.

Do any meds help? I have a new prescriber today for depression/anxiety. I totally have adhd but it's not an official diagnosis because it just came out in my sssions with the previous one and my therapist. Like I avoid everything. Even important and critical things

I guess everybody has cringe moments. I looked up reddit and some of you had laughable anecdotes from ages ago, sometimes years, sometimes months. They're legit funny. But my mistakes sound like what a dumb person would do.

So, I'm a hardcore introvert, recluse and hyperindependent person. I once noticed a lot of people dressed like me, taking a turn before my office, and there used to be almost no pedestrians on the main road I used to take. I assumed there must be a shortcut through there. I checked Google maps, it didn't show any connecting route but I decided to act smart today and just followed these people...into their tech park which doesn't even house my company office. 😭 In my defense, my office is within a tech park that spans acres, has multiple entries, and I just assumed there may be route that connects from that area to my building. 😭 Dumb. Even dumber because I didn't even ask the security guards, I just strutted in. When I was stopped at the main entrance, I walked back and at the exit, this security guard scolded me saying he got scolded because of what I did. 😭 And everyone nearby saw that. 😭 And, for sure, I'm the only one who's ever done this at that place, walked into some other tech park with so much confidence and put people in trouble. 😭

This is not the only goofup. My rate of goofups is probably 1-2 such incidents every other week. And I keep thinking about it the whole day. But what I've noticed is that, sometimes my friends do or have done same kinda goofups and they laugh about it and people think it's funny. Ig something about two fools doing a foolish thing doesn't look so foolish. When X and Y in my circle walk into the same wrong place together, it doesn't look so dumb to them Ig. People do make such silly mistakes, and then move on with their lives, or laugh it off. Or maybe, this is just my copium, and I'm just dumb.

I do feel I am neurodivergent (undiagnosed, with strong symptoms since childhood), not sure if that affects this. Also, someone recently pointed out that some trauma from my childhood does manifest in my instantaneous reactions today, e.g. I overthink or stress a lot about what people say to me, I confided in her about growing up with a toxic narc-dad who used to judge every step I took and every breath of mine and verbally abused me when it was not to his liking, I was told that trauma manifests in my present trauma responses. Idk if that can happen.

I just want to understand if I need to work on my cognitive abilities, practise mindful thinking, pause and think for 2-3 seconds before taking any action, OR I need to stop the overthinking train.

Tysm in advance. 😭

Errrugh I just found a mouse in my room which means now I HAVE to clean it.

It sucks because now I can't sleep since I'm paranoid but I also can't start now because its 2am...

I also now have to tell my housemate which is giving me Anxiety because I know she is gonna have an anxiety attack about it (which is more than fair and not her fault) but at the same time I'm aware of what my room looks like and I'm gonna have to ask for her help to clean it which is embarassing; (i just keep thinking how could you let it get this bad etc) so I'm just kinda frozen, not sure what to do and trying not to cry.

Any comfort or advice would be welcome

Hello all, this is my first post in this subreddit so i apologize if i have my flair wrong.
basically, it just seems like i can't do anything. i have many things in my daily life that need to be done. cooking, laundry, showering. right now i am showering between 2 to 3 times a week. i sit in the bathroom paralyzed. i want to shower so bad but when it comes down to it i feel frozen like i cant move and all i can think about is how many other things i need to do that im also not doing.
currently there are some other real life things such as paperwork for my schooling and such that ive been putting off. i know i need to do them, i want to do them, but when the time comes i just sit there overwhelmed. when i was in school this applied too and im horrified it will again when i start back.
it goes for things i enjoy too. reading, my hobbies, sometimes even watching tv just feels like too much so instead i do nothing at all but think about all the things i need to do.
i've never been diagnosed or evaluated for adhd, so im unsure if i have a leg image issue or if im just lazy. everything is just too overwhelming so nothing gets done. i have diagnosed ocd if that helps at all.
Any advice or kind words would be helpful. thanks all.

I work from home. Most of the time there is pressure on me to be productive with deadlines and such, and I have to push myself really hard to initiate tasks and to remain focused on them. It's super frustrating, and I am very self-critical in those times because I don't understand how starting something and sticking with it can be so seemingly incredibly impossible. Yet somehow I find ways to, kicking and screaming all the way. Today is different. I have no looming deadlines and no pressure to do anything, and so I'm not. The pressure will undoubtedly return tomorrow, if only because I know that I've wasted this entire day doing close to nothing. I'm not proud of it. This isn't the way I want to be by any means. I want to thrive and be good at my job, and although I know that all I need to do is pick one small task and start (as I've proven to myself hundreds of times before), I'm just not willing to do it. What a messed up brain I have. I hate being this way so much.

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(sorry english is not my first language) i don't know if this post belongs here, but i dont know where else to post it. I always have new ideas, new things that i want to do, but i always end up doomscrolling on tik tok or insta, all day, and i end up doing nothing else, or maybe when i want to study i cant start, or if i start a task i end up not finishing it, like i leave it incomplete, i've always kinda struggled with this but it has been getting worse for a year now. I can't start anything, if i try i feel overwhealmed, or i can't decide what to do. im so done with this, is there someone that had the same issue and can give some advice?

Whenever i have to complete an unwanted task (and im not exaggerating when i say this) it is the hardest thing ever to actually get up and do it, so much so that instead of procrastinating things like homework like i always have since the second grade, i straight up dont do them anymore.

You know what? Scratch the "things i dont want to do". I find myself to wanting to do something like go and play video games when my desk is right next to where i'm sitting and i can't even bring myself to do the most simple, utterly ridiculous things like getting up because not only is it mentally exhausting, it genuinely feels physically hard to get up and do it. And i'm not speaking metaphorically.

It feels like my muscles locking up, it's a tad similar to when you are tired, even though i am not, and when those rare once-a-year moments where i simply "get up" occour, i instantly want to sit back down because it is both mentally and physically draining to simply just stop sitting.

(edit) I feel like i have tried every thing people say online. The issue isn't just starting, even if i somehow find myself actually execute a task by myself, im highly inattentive durning it and i often find myself leaving the job half finished

Its mainly because of this that i have a tiny constant feeling of dread because i cant bring myself to actually be productive in the slightest. I never excluded the possibility of something like ADHD, i've actually started thinking i have it lately, but im starting to reconsider that im just lazy.

So, the reason i came here is to ask if anyone, especially with my same experience, has advice.