Once I get home from the outside, I'm so wiped out that once I sit down, I'm done.
If I have stuff to do, it's not gonna happen if I'm on the sofa.
It's not like walking through treacle, I am in treacle and stuck solid. I can't move at all.
Early in my ADHD awareness journey, I saw an incredible consultant psychiatrist who put me on Phenelzine (a hard core medication that only a consultant can prescribe). This was after I 'failed' the ADHD test because of my masking (that's another story!)
Phenelzine was a game changer for my brain just not for my body. I stopped taking it after a few months because the physical side effects were not good. However I had an insight into what it is like for neurotypicals. It was incredible.
So...
I was working on one of my business ideas (number 325 - teaching adults how to read music) and I was working til about 1am.
When I stopped to go to bed, I realised I needed to do some stuff in the kitchen (let's say washing up, or food away or something else that it would be good to sort). Pre-phenelzine I'd be way too knackered to do anything other than collapse onto bed (I wouldn't sleep of course but that's another blog). On-phenelzine I got up, went to the kitchen and did the stuff.
Even though I was tired, I just got up and walked in to the kitchen and did the stuff. It was insane. And easy. I had never felt like that in my life. To be tired but still able to function was incredible.
So that's what it's like with a neurotypical brain.
I would never trade in my ADHD for that, but still. It was eye opening...
Do you have the treacle thing? What are examples of your stuckness?
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