r/ADHD • u/TeaComplex947 • 1d ago
Questions/Advice why can’t I do literally anything?
I can go to work and do what I have to do there (thank you meds) but that it’s quite literally the extent of it. I get home, can’t clean or cook or do uni, but I also can’t do anything that I actually enjoy? I love to read, crochet, play computer games, watch my favourite shows and youtubers, ect. It’s somehow worse on weekends - I wake up so excited that I have a whole day to do all of my favourite things and just relax, but 9/10 times i end up doing nothing but scroll on my phone and waste the entire day.
Most of the time i think it’s a guilt/shame thing because the house is so messy and i can’t do anything else out of guilt - but today we had to clean the whole house for visitors and after they left, I STILL spent hours doing absolutely nothing when I had planned to do some fun things/hobbies today.
Has anyone else been through this? why does this happen? any tips for breaking out of this cycle?
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u/spudmcloughlin ADHD-C (Combined type) 1d ago
you're literally me. sorry you're going through it too :( I wish I knew how to combat this bc I always end up wasting my weekends away which makes me feel incredibly worse.
i have online classes which I usually do after work, but the past couple weeks I haven't been able to kick myself to get them done. my plan was to catch up today, but here it is, almost 3pm, and all I've done is make a to-do list and scroll on reddit.
i saw that comment about getting an animal to talk to like it's a person so I'm gonna grab my cat and see if that helps