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4 Phrases That Work Magic On My ADHD Brain
Truth that lights the way out of the depths of my neurodivergent despair
My brain is a beautiful and wonderful place. It’s also my biggest source of torment and trouble. But I am learning to dance with it, twisting and turning as needed to keep up with the music.
What has helped me more than anything else is a liturgy of several phrases that I can use when attention paralysis and anxiety strike.
Here are a few of my favorites:
“Keep trying.”
Recently, I was panicking over this weekend. Everyone was leaving Auburn for Spring Break, and I thought that the weekend was ruined and that I was destining myself for failure.
For one, the projecting of a future horrible weekend doesn’t do any good for what my weekend will actually look like. What you see is what you get, as they say.
And for two, that’s not exactly what they’d call a growth mindset.
I had given up on any notion of hope or self-efficacy in creating the weekend I wanted to have.
I started thinking, what can I do?
It was then that the beautiful ideas started to flow. What about all those coffee shops I haven’t…
