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This sounds a bit like it was written by someone who doesn’t have ADHD.
“Reduce external noise to give our brain a chance to relax” I can’t really imagine that working.
What stresses me is the long list of stuff I need to do.
Some people with ADHD do get overstimulated and wearing headphones/getting away from nose helps.
As someone with ADHD, I agree that each of these help, but are not solutions
i agree they shouldn’t be considered as ‘solutions’. what if we instead think of them as ‘calming ideas’?
Wow. Sleep - it isn’t as I try to get good sleep every day, but the moment I lie down my brain gets into overdrive.
Exercise - great. If I wasn’t bored to death while doing exercise it might work.
Music - great. I get headphones and start vibing to the music, forgetting what I wanted to do in the first place, but I apply creativity and make AMAZAING playlists…
Really, who ever wrote all that down has no ideas what ADHD is. These are calming ideas for normies.
Watching funny movies - yep, I do that for four or six hours at a time, but it doesn’t make me more productive.
Sun - hmm, all the vitamins I take haven’t cured me, neither did crusing in my old convertible getting sunburn on my neck and arms
Pets - You really want a pet to stay at my place, where I have to regularly take care about them? Poor pet. I might forget feeding for a few days. O. t. o. h. I have a lot of plants, every single one quite drought resistant by natural selection.
Stay positive - yeah, as long as my impulsivivity isn’t giving me intrusive ideas.
Ok, I have lived all my life with my own ADHD brain, and I really do have a number of strategies that help. But crap like this guide trivializes the struggle and it doesn’t make me calm, it just makes me angry.
STOP TRIVIALIZING.
If your exercise bores you, find a different way to exercise. Team sports, Martial arts, Mountainbiking, Road biking (in a group), Aerobics with music, dancing, rock climbing, trail running, are anything but boring.
I also feel like it helps getting a membership in a gym or club that offers many of those options, so one can mix it up and easily try something different every once in a while.
calming ideas
“do whatever makes us feel calm”Thanks, doc!