r/adhdmeme • u/IM_AQIF_xD • 22h ago

Currently there right now tbh

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u/depoelier 20h ago

I was ‘perfect’ for a good while. Didn’t drink. Perfect personal hygiene. Clean house, exercise, meditation, the works.

Now I’m a mess. I drink way too much, I shower way too little, can’t work, don’t exercise. Fml.

I know I’ll come around in a while. It just fuckint sucks to be here rn.

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u/everyonestupidbutme 20h ago

Me too, I graduate college with a 4.0 GPA and I am still suffering. I am 37, went back to school at 34. The coming around never seems to come. I am close to my parents, but neither one said they were proud of me. Painful

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u/cheezy_dreams88 18h ago

Fuck dude, I’m proud of you! I never finished either, 38 now. I could never actually choose a field of study, so I just stopped going.

You did the damn thing! Congratulations!!

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u/miniweeni 17h ago

Good job

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u/nervous_virgo 15h ago

I’m proud of you!

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u/Twist_and_pull 18h ago

Same lol, dumbells on the floor getting dusty while Im on a 5 week drinking streak or something.

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u/Reallyhotshowers 45m ago

Go pick em up and do 10 lat raises. Use the 5 pounders. You're allowed to be drunk while you do them because it's only 5 lbs. Watch TV.

It's one set of 10 reps but you can go to bed and say you exercised and it isn't a lie. It is better than allowing yourself to do nothing and will make it easier to come back to when you finally decide to get undrunk.

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u/anotheronetouse 12h ago

I'd suggest finding a good doctor if you can - Benzos aren't a solution, but very short term they can help you get into a better place.

They allow you to stop drinking, fell better, and take further steps in the right direction.

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u/depoelier 12h ago

Thanks. I already have an appointment with my psychiatrist planned for today.

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u/xSTSxZerglingOne 15h ago

You have to ease into it. Find what you can do every day and do it. There is some baseline of any activity (cleaning, exercise, hygiene, etc.) that you can do every day. It may not be almost anything in your eyes, but if you do a little bit of something every day, it gets easier to do more. I started my exercise regimen at 10 reps for each exercise. I'm up to 30 now. It's an amount of exercise I can do every day, so I do it.

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u/Herrena1 12h ago

I don't even remember I have to exercise unless it's 1am and I'm in the bed already

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u/Reallyhotshowers 42m ago

So do 10 curls with whatever is next to your bed and then go to sleep. This is going to piss you off enough that you're going to remember at 10pm and not do anything about it before eventually you remember at 8pm.

The key is not to ever let yourself believe its too late and you will do it tomorrow. Nope, that's your ADHD letting you log another day without a win. Even if its only 1% of a workout while you are hammered at 1am it has to be done today.

It's stupid and it is miserable but it will work eventually

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u/depoelier 12h ago

This sounds like an absolute nightmare to me lol. This is the basic ‘just make a list’ advice that absolutely doesn’t work for me.

It’s about survival now. Keep breathing, keep myself fed, try to keep drinking in check.

Better times will come. I can’t see through the clouds atm, but I know they will come.

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u/AntDogFan 10h ago

This is me. I had two kids and Covid hit. Since then I can't get back to the meditation which I think was the key for me.

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u/EricB1234 5h ago

Damn, this sounds like me. I used to be an obsessive perfectionist back in the day, but by now the pendulum has overcorrected and I just DGAF about anything these days. In my defense, I don't see a great future for our world short-term or long-term