Do you guys notice when youre keeping your brain active and busy its fine (hyperfocusing on multiple projects, manic business etc) . But if you want to wind down you feel the need to drink so it slows your brain down? If I dont, my brain never stops and its hard to enjoy doing something that isn’t one of my 3000 projects.
I especially find this with gaming. Its very hard to stay engaged in any game without drinking because its a “waste of my time”
Oh man. “Inner restlessness” is probably my least favorite ADHD symptom. I’m not outwardly hyperactive but my defective little brain sure is.
I used to treat it daily with Jim Beam but that’s not a good way to live either.
Now I take my bed time meds (including melatonin) about 3 hours before bedtime and put on my blue light glasses. It’s not perfect but it’s better than it used to be.
Alcohol was great for that in my teens until mid 20s. It would calm me down and stop me stressing.
Now I’m late 20s and alcohol makes me tired and unproductive. I’m already pretty exhausted from the constant grind of being alive so now alcohol has shifted to being more of a problem.
Learn to feel emotions in your body and allow them to pass through you.
Uh, wrong, you bundle them up and push them deep inside
Tips or tricks?
Yup, can’t wind down for shit, but I just rawdog it until something gives
Absolutely. I write code all day and my brain is spinning at 32,000RPM at 5PM and come bedtime it’s only halfway to idle.
I would need to exercise, binge on sugar, or drink something at cask-strength. Sometimes all 3.
THC really helps.
Cant or im fired, also panic attacks run in my family
Do you have access to legal cbd though? CBD is the compoung that makes you calm
I second this. I take cbd before bed because it calms my brain down enough to let me sleep. It helps a lot.
OP, if you have a store near you that sells CBD, I recommend talking with them. Many of them offer free samples as well, so you can see if it helps you.
I second this.
On gaming specifically, at least I suffer from the opposite, if I don’t police myself, I risk getting dehydrated, as I either play games that engage me, or try to find the fun in them, and then I get so focused by the game I forget water.
Im always drinking liquids (gallons of water a day usually) . Its the harmful liquids im talking about hahha
Definitely feel that sometimes. It’s hard to avoid the “I have stuff I need to be doing” feeling sober
Holy fuck do I feel this. From I was 16-17 or so I started to drink 4-5 beers in the afternoon to wind down (this is normal in my family, so I didn’t think any of it) but as things goes it started to escalate too the point where I got drunk most evenings. ~ 5 years ago I met my now wife and didn’t want to be drunk around her, so I kept it to the weekends and tried to suppress the adhd in the weekdays. I didn’t know at the time that it was adhd just that alcohol made my brain manageable. But as you know, you can’t suppress your brain forever and it didn’t take long for my wife to realise that something was off, so we talked it through and I soon started therapy where I’m still going. I’m not yet on meds as that takes I long fucking time in Denmark but hopefully soon.
