The biggest thing that helped me was to just accept that my brain is like this and not beat myself up about it. When I learned that executive disfunction was a thing with a name that lots of ppl have, and not just me being a lazy and useless moral failure, like it helped me immediately bc stress and anxiety and self loathing turned into a feedback loop that made my executive dysfunction worse. Being mean to myself never made me functional, it just made me miserable. Now I’m like, “well, I just can’t do that right now and that’s okay. Maybe I’ll even ask someone for help doing this task. Maybe I’ll just find zen in laying here.”
The biggest thing that helped me was to just accept that my brain is like this and not beat myself up about it. When I learned that executive disfunction was a thing with a name that lots of ppl have, and not just me being a lazy and useless moral failure, like it helped me immediately bc stress and anxiety and self loathing turned into a feedback loop that made my executive dysfunction worse. Being mean to myself never made me functional, it just made me miserable. Now I’m like, “well, I just can’t do that right now and that’s okay. Maybe I’ll even ask someone for help doing this task. Maybe I’ll just find zen in laying here.”