The trial period for ADHD medication is not for the weak… it has really taken me 3 months to get to the point of feeling like there actually working for me and it’s been a slow burn of realising what it’s actually been helping me to do. I’m now also SO curious to know what other people’s experiences of their first time trying ADHD meds has been like, it’s a wild journey!
#adhdinwomen #adhd #adhdmedication
I got really expensive cowboy boots for my birthday and here’s me romanticising spending the day at home breaking them in, so they don’t give me blisters and traumatise me so I never wear them again. 🕺
Designing prototypes for squares & things using the floor as the desk with my feet propped up on my beanbag, lava lamp bubbling away in the background - I do wonder how I ever managed in an office environment (I didn’t) 😬🕺🙂↕️
#creativeprocess #furnituredesigner
A current rabbit hole I’m down at the moment is the connection between house music and the neurodivergent mind, as an ex-raver during the absolute PEAK of house music - 2012-2014 - I know how powerful it can be when it’s used as a handy burst of dopamine when I need it most and why when I go clubbing (very rare these days) I actively seek out the dance floor even if it’s dead because I see it as chance to get some somatic dance therapy in. 😂🕺
house music can actually enhance our focus and act as a form of body doubling or stimulation, allowing our brains to focus on the task at hand without being distracted by ambient/background noises and the predictable repetitive beat basically helps us stay on track and reduce sensory overload, so interesting!!
So a couple of months ago, @ki.slash.ki set popped up on my feed and I ended up listening to the WHOLE 5 hour set on YouTube. It’s ended up becoming the soundtrack to my first pull-up, finally tackling a room of storage mess I’ve been putting off for a year and locking in whilst doing boring admin work on my laptop, so naturally I felt like it was a tip I needed to share. 🤗
Can you guess which outfit I chose 🙂↕️🕺🤸♀️
This is genuinely a helpful cheat code I use to stop unnecessary impulse spending and feeling like I have nothing in my wardrobe to wear - applicable to any time period of fashion and your favourite day of the week - mine just happens to be imagining it’s a Friday afternoon sometime in the 70s with a possibility I might end up in Studio 54 in the evening. Works like a charm. 😬
Derek (actual name Sweetie) paid me a visit as I was taking out the recycling so I thought I’d get a quick cuddle in. I think she might be the cutest cat in the neighbourhood and she definitely acts like it. 💅
#cattherapy #lowercortisol
Prescribing 5 cartwheels a day to keep the millennial scaries away 🤸♀️✨👩🔬
I will now be implementing cartwheel breaks into my day when I’m working from home, it feels like I’ve just put my body through the dry cleaners and I’ve just pressed a reset button when I feel sluggish or my motivation is flagging. To think there was such a long gap from the last cartwheel I did as a child to my first one as an adult! 🥹
Yes, I have made doing my first pull-up my entire personality for the rest of the year and yes I’ll stop using the vacuum head as a pull-up bar. 😬
The gym is my antidote to those days where I feel like my ADHD is the thing that sets me back or makes me feel like I can’t follow through. The goals I’ve set myself and reached in the past 10 years I’ve been strength training, have been the milestones I reference and use as evidence in ✨The Court of Self Doubt ✨ when I need to be reminded of what I can do when I set my mind to it.
Making my first pull-up even more of a surprise reward, I hadn’t necessarily been training for one, I just happened to be able to do it, because I had prepared my body to be strong enough to it when I felt like giving it a go!
#calisthenics #adhdlifehacks
I will be showing this video to my clinician for my next follow up session btw.
In all seriousness though, I feel like I’ve created a little hack for myself, two productivity hacks for the price of one?! I’m fortunate that I’ve had a positive experience on ADHD meds recently so that I can actually use that feeling and pretend to insert into my brain like a USB stick on the days where I won’t take them but still need to be productive. We’ll see how long that lasts. 😬🤸♀️
#Adhdmeds #adhdinwomen
