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Thanks for helping everybody feel less alone.

Hahaha the brownie quitter and the falling of the house wife! This is so good!!😂 🙌 great video!💗

I was diagnosed 3 days ago. I was hopeful when he gave me meds but they're not working at all so I'm feeling low like I've failed this too.😢

This was so good. Nailed it for me too.

We are not alone!! 😉💗

Jesus Christ is the meaning of life , believe in the gospel of Jesus Christ & you shall be saved!

You resemble a famous Pakistani actress, Hania Aamir

I am scared to take medication

As I was watching this while hanging the laundry, I kept thinking 'same!' and ohhhh, I relate so much! I'm also feeling guilt and shame for my plants, I love plants! And I keep buying new ones. But it's so difficult to keep them watered. And then I'm trying to revive them when they almost died... After 10+ years I've found some species that thrive on neglect and even give flowers after I let them almost die (bougainville), they loose all their leaves, but come back to life. I love them! Now, back to the video and to hanging my laundry 😊

My first day on methylphenidate I cried. I was diagnosed in my 50s. It was the first time in my life focus on something that wasn't interesting or urgent was not a struggle. I feel like I went through life running through thigh high mud while the others ran on grass saying "it's easy, just focus!, try harder!". It's life changing

Im starting methylphenidate at 36mg tomorrow :D

OH wow how do I avoid going into sensory overload and brain stimulation after just seeing the title to this?? I mean this 💯 positive… Oh yeah!! 😂 It’s the 59 year old old fart 💨 👴 💨 here again 😂😂😂… listening to you Rachel, my mind is generating so many thoughts and ideas that I hardly take in your content. … you are an absolutely amazing and inspirational young woman …. I wish I’d know about ADHD when I was a kid and a teenager … sense I am going off track here… I just want to binge watch all of your videos this is the second one I have watched after I found the Lego one you did last year… So completely identify with the anxiety of the brain and sensory overwhelm …. In 2007 I was presenting with symptoms of GAD although my GP didn’t diagnose me with it but he gave me pregablin and by goodness what a difference that made… but … was going g to scrub all the above comments but I’ll leave them so any new people with ADHD might identify…the. They can see all the crap thinking my head and fingers are doing when all I’m trying to do is write about what my ADHD diagnosis means to me…. So I was diagnosed in 2017 with ADHD after I asked my GP about getting a private diagnosis for depression as despite the Pregablin got into depression again after leaving the military after 29 years… but the shrink thought he would try out giving me an assessment for ADHD … when it came back essentially I have combined ADHD … I didn’t know what it meant but when I came home and started looking online about symptoms and behaviour, honestly it was the BIGGEST revelation of my life. I was aged 52 and all of a sudden a huge light bulb lit up in my head because I thought about the times as an 9 year old why I was such a naughty boy at school, why I used to climb on the school roof for a dare, why I keep interrupting conversations, why I talk over people and why I start so many things but never seem to finish them. So for me it has given me identity and NO ONE is taking that from me. Seriously I think if someone proved that ADHD was nonsense then I think I would not be able to cope with that, it would steal my identity For once I feel I can connect with other ADHD people and I want to be around them. But actually understanding and self education is SO IMPORTANT. I’d totally agree Rachel that it’s essential,to learn as much as you can and develop strategy’s … sadly my diagnosis came a bit late in life and since I left the RAF after22 years and the MOD 7 years … I felt really alone because I had a framework around me. I had a chain of command, orders cascade down which became my daily job, my job was maintaining electronic systems for communications and flight safety and everything was prescribed and we did things by the book (well most of the time 😂). But associated with ADHD in my case, I have had symptoms like the GAD initially but I think it is clinical depression and I really struggle with this on a day to day basis and have done so for so long…. But yeah my diagnosis was late and I ended up over the last 12 years going through 7 major career changes where I quite my job through getting into trouble, people not understanding me, getting sacked and recently quite when some horrible senior manager made 2 grossly offensive false accusations against me when it should have been my line manger as it was he that committed the offences.. I quit because I could no longer work for him and I think he did it on purpose as he didn’t like me.. Anyway I. Have lost my train of thought and I feel de Rested now… really sorry …. It thank you again for your videos Rachel… I just wish I could be more concise… I would love to join your community and support you (just need to find myself a job) and I will take good care, Chris ❤

Hi Rachel, just found your channel after having a brainstorm for a TH-cam search after suffering near total burnout after being unemployed for 4 months and just watching TH-cam … well I am doing other stuff but you get what I mean… well I hope you do… 😂 …anyway love the idea of using Lego bricks to plot your progress and it really made me laugh at the funny little towers and little bits and pieces that you add…. But apart from that I really enjoyed your ADHD moments … it’s actually (I mean this kindly of course ❤) nice to see others ADHD moments… I love all your tangents because I do the exact same things myself. My missis was listening in and she said, she talks just like you 😂😂😂 But this is what I love about ADHD I love the way that we can identify with each other … lol I wonder if Narcissistic people have hang out chats lol… where they all out do each other and play mind games ….😂😂😂 So deffo subscribed to your channel I’m an old Generation X chap of 59 so hope you don’t mind having an old fart 💨 👴 fart 💨 (lol there is even an emoticon for a fart 💨…😂😂😂😂) hanging around on your channel ..

thank you

I've just started atomoxetine as I can't find other meds where I live. I hope it works

I have zero appetite suppression on it. 😂. I wish I had some.

Your symptoms are very much what I have had through my life too - just not wanting to do things, even after being enthusiastic in the interest phase of an idea, just not wanting to follow through at all - not just forgetting to follow through but actively feeling dredd of following through on a plan. And the same with those thoughts of "i don't want to go, don't want to go", the same thing - a social plan sounds good in the initial idea stage but just never want to do it when it comes up (and often don't). I have my ADHD assessment coming up this month so i hope, at nearly 50 thinga will change and I'll actually do some stuff in my life i want to.. it's only taken 15 years to get around to sorting out the assessment!

Its actually not a coincidence that adhd in adults isnt recognised and the meds are getting banned or hard to get, whereas deprssion and anxiety is giving more emphasis as they make your symptoms worse

I was diagnosed last year at 50 years old, so I launched a podcast and website all about being a late-diagnosed adult with ADHD because... I have ADHD, and now I'm hyperfocused on helping others with our show. Go figure. :)

I need to do a mind map thing like you did there. I got such a sense of overwhelm last week when I was halfway through putting up some shelves. I'm way behind on videos myself right now, but really I shouldn't blame myself. I'm suffering from tennis elbow, which is weird as I've not played tennis in years!

I can really relate. Honestly I felt like I was listening to my own train of thought thoughout most of this. Hope you're well!

Also great tip on prioritisation. I think we struggle with too many options and it gets all EURGHHHBLEGHHH. Makes much more sense to REMOVE the junk first and THEN pick off whats left. I shall steal that, rather good.

Great contentz! Bullet pointing information etc is a great way of offloading executive function (particularly planning) to a piece of paper or notepad app. I'll definitely try to just roll with WHAT that external thing is though as I do notice that I always think I've found THE way to do ze thing but accepting that it's cool to roll with it and be flexible is more realistic. I've kind of applied that to other things actually. I'd get mega irritated if I overly planned because of I slightly slipped I'd get overwhelmed at stuff piling up. I now just state what good enough looks like and set that bar low/reasonable but allow myself to be flexible and it's much better for sticking to goals and my mood. Ie instead of YOU MUST GO THE GYM AND STUDY ON DAYS X Y Z..... It's now something like "I'll do the gym roughly 2 days on, 1 off but who cares if I skip 1 extra day and break the pattern? I'll do SOME amount of studying daily but if I skip a day, whatevs!!"

I relate 😂 I was gonna make a joke about having a long lost sister, but serious question open to all, do other fellow ADHDers get that feeling when they meet each other? Like "oh I wonder if we are cousins". When I'm around some people with ADHD it's like looking in a mirror. I mean everyone projects (psychologically speaking), thats how we are shocked and disappointed when we realise that people aren't who we thought they were etc. etc. but it's a hell of an experience when someone else is mirroring experiences and mannerisms which for the majority of the time you don't see or hear about when engaged with neurotyipicals (no offence intended in that word)...... There that's my bit of hyper creative nebulous overwhelm on display. My turn to sit quietly with a sandwich 😂

Say I have my to-do list sat there judging me 😂, on one hand it can help, on the other hand it quickly becomes a tyrant that takes up mental bandwidth when I'm trying to relax or rest. How quickly these adaptive strategies become maladaptive quicksand!! The skill to practice is spotting when the scales tip so that you can jump off and let go of the idea that all of your tasks need to be done immediately or even at all 😯 What? Yep, sometimes you learn enough from just starting a project and that's valuable enough. If you have 10 tasks and you do (or start) one today that's fine because.... well.... life basically 😂 ADHD life. It seems counter productive to let go of unfinished business at first but the mental space that letting go provides, ironically, lifts the fog of time blindness and suddenly you realise "oh wow I've just finished this and I actually have a lot of time left for other stuff this week". Doesn't always work because of the way our brains work, but letting go is definitely a skill worth practicing, especially when overwhelmed.

Your reflection was helpful to hear. Thank you for sharing it.

Honestly, I recently rediscovered the Eisenhower matrix thanks to the anti planner, and for the first time it helps me structuring all the things in my head. I loathed that thing in the past! Because a lot of the creative projects are important, but not urgent. But we need to plan it in in order to not forget about them (or think about it the entire time ). And yes, we need to allow ourselves to jump into our creative outbursts at the same time. A great suggestion by Ruri Ohama: always plan in a highlight into our day, and it does not have to be important, but something that lights us up. And it’s not optional, it has to be done!

I started methylphenidate 3 and a half weeks ago increasing slowly every week. Same life changing experience, glad I watched this and I'm now aware of the possible burn out so I can try to avoid it. Definitely aware that now I feel capable I have to teach myself new skills in managing myself. I've never had the luxury of feeling able before, like anything was possible 💕

Great, now I spend half an hour researching everything about the The Office lego set 😂

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Disagree. Atomic Habits has been the best instruction manual for me living isn’t ADHD beyond every other behaviour modification book I’ve ever read (and I’ve read about 35 years worth).

Double Rach video day 🎉🥳

chaotic interlude is story of my life. i have no idea why i went from getting help as a kid with adhd and my mom taking me off the medication and now it resurfacing as a 35 year old. it's so story of my life. i'm so grateful to see the validation from you.

yeah the flooding wasn't always so clear for me. it was more emotional prior to the adhd diagnosis. i live for these videos. thank you so much rachel!

I turn 40 this year and just got my diagnosis comfirmed. Currently on day 2 of Ritalin 10mg, excited for whats to come

It’s a uni assignment 😂

GUUUURL I understand totally what you went through. I am 59 and I have narcolepsy is why I take it but I have been having this since I was young and I did not realize that what it was until I had my number 2 son he has it and I studied it to u derstand him when he was diagnosed. That is when I understood Me. I just ki da controlled it with different techniques I used throughout my life. But this is my first day taking it. The other 2 med did not help for the narcolepsy so this was the last result. So from your vid I am looking forward to organizing my brain. I have so much up there I needing organized so than instead functioning in the now (like my 8-5 job) my brain can continue to work through other things. When I say the (now) is my job the meaning behind that is that is the only thing that I have time for. Other things go lacking, and I struggle to do it. So thank you for your story. I might have one myself

Thank you for doing this. Just diagnosed at 50 and considering medication and this has made me feel positive about trying them x

I know this is an old video at this stage - but do you have any resources for those 5min tasks you randomly pulled during your breaks? Have you a video with the tasks you included or do you recommend anywhere to go to find inspiration???

Ok, so where's advice? Feels like 5 minutes of only teasing.

Trapped in a world that's always ON! That's how I feel so desperately and deeply. Ever so consuming. Too often I feel like I'm not made for this world, or I don't belong. Feel like a freak or something. It's too fake, too corrupt, too oppressive, too superficial, too cruel, too fast, too alienating, too loud, too unloving, too too too too....

Omgod! Waiting mode!! I can't tell you how validating it is to have this horrible feeling named and to know that other who have ADHD have this same feeling and understand this. And then when you were saying that when you were in that debilitating waiting mode you started 12 things but then just couldn't grasp any of them and then it felt like in your head it was like" eh, meh, ieeaarrkligolkuoplouurreessjjiil". You have no idea how that both cracked me up and made me tear up at the same time, all because I could relate 1000%.

Great video. I'm envious of people who got diagnosed in much younger ages. Myself: Being at the ripe middle ages, feel so angry and sad, because I feel I could have had a much better quality of life in all areas and had significantly less mental and psychological hardship, stress, suffering, struggle and depression, if I'd been able to get recognition, diagnosis and help. 💔 Thank you so much for sharing so openly. This was a great video. I appreciate you and others like yourself, out there smashing the stigma about ADHD and neurodivergent brains and existence. Thank you. 💕

Thanks for taking the time to make these videos! You inspired me to go get diagnosed for my ADHD today.. At the ripe old age of 36.😊 I start on 10m adderall XR tomorrow for 14 days to see how I react. I’m a little worried about the possibility of abuse and becoming dependent on it for obvious reasons, but if that’s what I need to start forming a structure to my life then I believe it’ll be worth the risk. Thank you again for sharing your experience and I wish you the best in your future endeavors!! ❤🎉

I just found your channel a few days ago. Thank you for producing this content! Listening to you brings me peace because so much of what you say and how you present it takes the additional work of converting general psychology into something that relates to me as a recently diagnosed person. Plus your charming accent makes me smile.

I love to organize inventories in video games, and that's about it. Or like...logistics of troops and equipment and food in war games. Real life organization feels incredibly uncomfortable.

Wow, so raw and honest and totally relatable. Thank you for sharing and showing your vulnerability. Lots of aha moments. I’m so sharing this with my therapist. I can’t thank you enough, this helps me so much!!! ❤