4 ms·
I had a similar situation. I didn't get to a breaking point like you did - I quit my job as I was approaching it. I took 6 months off, focused on myself and the
by ativzzz 4y ago
I had a similar situation. I didn't get to a breaking point like you did - I quit my job as I was approaching it. I took 6 months off, focused on myself and therapy. I went down the ADHD route because I had the symptoms and tried medication but it didn't help much on a day to day basis (I still have some leftover and I take it maybe once every other month when I really don't feel like working to kind of reset me - they are stimulants after all). I'm still not really sold that ADHD is a real disease as much as a conglomeration of various deficiencies that people have that we try to group together in order to provide treatment, but I encourage you to try treating it anyway as much as you can because there's no cure, everyone is different, and many people have positive outcomes. Either way, the medicine needs to be combined with therapy for it to be effective and from my experience, the psychiatrists who I've talked to that prescribe medicine have not been good therapists
What really got me out of the funk was a routine and a good therapist (I think he was a social worker) that didn't try to diagnose me but instead worked with me on tangible things like my mindset and my outlook on life and challenges I face. A morning routine gave me some much needed mental stability (highly recommend the book Atomic Habits), and working on breaking some habitual negative thought patterns got me away from procastinating / task avoidance (to some degree). I was also lucky to have a supporting wife