How do you avoid self-hatred when words feel like lies? Today I had a list of things I wanted to accomplish, but my fatigue and paralysis wouldn't let me. I'm an adult and I want to be responsible. But being stuck like this doesn't draw me to like myself anymore.
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I'm sorry it's tough I definitely know the feeling, try to have grace and understanding with yourself, easier said than done but one thing that helps me is approach the conversation I have with myself as if I were talking to a friend going through the same thing and it really changes my tone
Also setting timers has helped me. Give yourself timers to do tasks that bring you joy like watching a video or playing a video game, then give yourself that same amount of time towards a task you don’t want to get done. Going back and fourth helps me stay motivated and still get stuff done
It’s very difficult!! I know it is easier and more relaxing to be organized and I try to be but I can never seem to get there. My partner and I live in separate places but if we are spending time together it is always at his place because I am ADD and he is OCD. Neither of us can relax at my place. 😔
I never knew why I was such a jerk for many many years. I put my wife through a lot of junk. I never knew why I wandered every isle at the grocery store and didn’t get the one thing she asked me to pick on my way home! AND I took so long at the store I was way late getting home! It’s not easy. It’s different for each of us too. No magic pill to fix it. Just keep on working it, one day at a time…