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Do you have any tips on dealing with these issues as an adult? I saw meditation mentioned at least.

sjg007 6y ago
Do you have the attention span to meditate? I mean maybe it could help ADHD if you are super interested in it so you hyper focus on it but otherwise it would be a chore.
- cyberbanjo 6y ago
  I identify with a lot of ADHD symptoms, and I think it's easier to find a "fun" meditation. For me that means walking-in-circle meditation, repetitious chants, and metta, and also a "some is better than none" mindset. Even 1 iteration of a chant is better than none, and takes less than a minute. I struggle with breath meditation as a "chore".
  - h0l0cube 6y ago
    Meditation can be a chore, I think. I only persevere with it because I find that when I lapse, my life is just worse in so many ways. The least worse path I can take at the moment is meditate 2 hours a day. Though I have lapsed for weeks at a time during 'low moods'. I only reached the discipline for a 2-hour daily habit after immersing myself in 2 vipassana courses. This is probably not suitable for many people, but I was at the end of my tether and I had no choice but to succeed.
    - canadianfella 6y ago
      2 hours per day seems crazy to me. Why is this much time required?
jjj123 6y ago
If you have trouble concentrating while reading, consider reading while exercising lightly. Pre-covid I would read while on the elliptical at the gym and I could go for 90 minutes or so totally engrossed in the book, which was pretty much unheard of for me before.
eyelidlessness 6y ago
Meditation is great if it suits you. Also know no one owns the source code, which is to say you’re entirely free to pause, calm yourself, get grounded however you prefer. No one is in charge but you. I find nominal meditation practices exhausting. I find meditative practices that don’t claim to be universal much more accessible. Navigating the actual difficulties: I’m benefitting from a diagnosis and medicine. Before that it was basically chance and very specific life tools/adaptations.

Do you have the attention span to meditate? I mean maybe it could help ADHD if you are super interested in it so you hyper focus on it but otherwise it would be a chore.

cyberbanjo 6y ago
I identify with a lot of ADHD symptoms, and I think it's easier to find a "fun" meditation. For me that means walking-in-circle meditation, repetitious chants, and metta, and also a "some is better than none" mindset. Even 1 iteration of a chant is better than none, and takes less than a minute. I struggle with breath meditation as a "chore".
- h0l0cube 6y ago
  Meditation can be a chore, I think. I only persevere with it because I find that when I lapse, my life is just worse in so many ways. The least worse path I can take at the moment is meditate 2 hours a day. Though I have lapsed for weeks at a time during 'low moods'. I only reached the discipline for a 2-hour daily habit after immersing myself in 2 vipassana courses. This is probably not suitable for many people, but I was at the end of my tether and I had no choice but to succeed.
  - canadianfella 6y ago
    2 hours per day seems crazy to me. Why is this much time required?

jjj123 6y ago

If you have trouble concentrating while reading, consider reading while exercising lightly. Pre-covid I would read while on the elliptical at the gym and I could go for 90 minutes or so totally engrossed in the book, which was pretty much unheard of for me before.

eyelidlessness 6y ago

Meditation is great if it suits you. Also know no one owns the source code, which is to say you’re entirely free to pause, calm yourself, get grounded however you prefer. No one is in charge but you. I find nominal meditation practices exhausting. I find meditative practices that don’t claim to be universal much more accessible. Navigating the actual difficulties: I’m benefitting from a diagnosis and medicine. Before that it was basically chance and very specific life tools/adaptations.