Controlling What You Can When Everything Feels Out of Control
Hacking Your ADHD
William Curb
4.8 • 702 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
I hope everyone is staying home and staying safe. I know that everyone is going through a hard time right now and ADHD isn't making it any easier. So today we're going to be talking about what we can do to try and regain some of that control you may feel you have lost in your life. We'll be talking about staying in contact with friends, setting up routines and using accountability. We'll also be talking about ways to get in a little more self-care.
For show notes go to HackingYourADHD.com/ControllingWhatYouCan
Today's Top Tips
- Make sure you're scheduling time to be social - figure out ways to stay in contact while you are apart.
- Create a routine to follow and use accountability to help you follow through with your intentions.
- Prioritize self-care somewhere in your routine.
- Give yourself some slack.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, part of the ADHD Rewired Podcast Network. |
| 0:09.2 | I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD. |
| 0:13.4 | On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your |
| 0:19.1 | ADHD brain. I'm not going to lie. I've been struggling |
| 0:22.9 | to write this episode. My executive functions are drained and it feels like whatever I write, |
| 0:28.3 | it's just the wrong thing to say. It's been all too easy for me to feel like I've been wasting |
| 0:32.9 | my time on, well, pretty much everything right now. Things feel out of control, and I just don't know what the next right move is. |
| 0:40.5 | I hope everyone listening is staying home and staying safe. I know that everyone is going through a hard time right now, |
| 0:46.8 | and ADHD isn't making it any easier. So today, we're going to be talking about what we can do to try and regain |
| 0:53.9 | some of that control you may feel that you have lost in your life. going to be talking about what we can do to try and regain some of that |
| 0:54.4 | control you may feel that you have lost in your life. |
| 0:57.4 | We'll be talking about staying in contact with friends, setting up routines and using |
| 1:01.9 | accountability. |
| 1:03.2 | We'll also be talking about ways to get in a little bit more self-care. |
| 1:07.5 | If you'd like to follow along on the show notes page, you can find that at hackingyour ADHD.com |
| 1:13.3 | slash controlling what you can. |
| 1:16.0 | All right, keep on listening to find out what you can control when things are feeling out of control. |
| 1:31.4 | ADHD comes with a lot of ups and downs. |
| 1:33.1 | We hear about the downs a lot more. |
| 1:37.4 | But one of the upsides to ADHD is that we tend to perform well in a crisis. |
| 1:42.9 | When things go wrong, our brains can jump from one problem to the next instead of just being overwhelmed. |
| 1:44.1 | Perhaps it comes from |
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