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Have you considered that maybe you simply aren't as interested in the things you want to accomplish as you think you are? I ask because I struggle with the same
by stsmith816 8y ago
Have you considered that maybe you simply aren't as interested in the things you want to accomplish as you think you are? I ask because I struggle with the same thing and that question is really what I'm asking myself now too. I'm a mechanical engineer and I generally like building and designing things...to a point. I enjoy it at work but by the end of the day, I just don't have the motivation to keep trying to build things even if I'm superficially interested in it at a high level. I'm probably just not as into as I thought I was. At least not enough to do it at work and then at home.
- jimmy1 8y agoI thought that, but those thoughts are invalidated by the few memories I do have of being extremely productive, completing that project or task and feeling wonderful as a result. No, for me, I spent about a year reading books about adult ADHD. After getting a couple of opinions, it appears that I am. However, I didn't fully believe it until I got to talking to other ADHD adults, and I recognized some of the quirky, fidgety, talking over others things that I always tend to do and I was like "yup." However I don't like how the stimulants make me feel and I already am a heavy coffee drinker, so I am experimenting other ways I can cope: earplugs and headphones with white noise, blocking visual distractions, letting my manager know of my condition (big positive, at least for me), and I am now experimenting cutting sugar completely out of my diet.