when i was a child, i had a tendency to extremely hyper fixate on various topics for months, so now that i’m older it just feels like i’ve experienced everything even though I technically haven’t. the fixations are becoming much more quick in terms of cycles / how long they (don’t) last and i spend most of my time feeling bored and empty, just rotting away and feeling entertained by nothing. lately this has caused me to get really stuck in the past, so i spend a lot of time just laying in bed crate digging my own memories and feeling kind of depressed because i have nothing new to be excited by or interested in. it does not help that i don’t really have any long term goals or ambitions either, i just kind of exist.

does anyone else feel like this?

  • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 months ago

    It sounds like you’ve developed depression and it’s making your ADHD symptoms worse.

    See a therapist if you can afford it, or at least a regular doctor and get some antidepressants

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        5 months ago

        It’s the repeating steps of ADHD

        1. Not have the capacity to manage.
        2. Get depressed.
        3. Have worse capacity to manage.
        4. Go back to step one.