How can I recover from everyday life?
Hello fellow ladies
I'm writing this on the way to submit to society yet again.
I have a big problem. I'm not diagnosed with autism (yet? who knows when I will decide to go through an assessment) but I'm having a big problem with being completely wasted after everyday life. After coming home I really can't do shit anymore, since I'm so dried out. It really bothers me, because I don't have any dopamine left in my system that gets me to do my chores. It makes me feel like shit because I like my home to be clean.
I always thought it was just my ADHD, however when I started my new meds (Elvanse) I could actually defeat the enemies (chores) with ease. It was actually really fun, because suddenly I loved cleaning. Welp, then the holidays were over and I got ran over by everyday shit again.
Now my question is: How do you manage it? I don't really have an exact system, which really bothers me, but I've also never learned one. I also suspect my mother is AuDHD, which would explain a lot for things, but I digress.
I find it really, really hard and painful to find energy to take care of myself after coming home. I've noticed that smells calm me down (lavender incense sticks, yum) and that bathing is really nice (but I don't have a bath tub). I also seem to get lil dopamine spikes when I do things such as going grocery shopping, but that's not entirely reliable to build something on it. Sometimes it's draining my energy even more.
I know this isn't a lot of information and it irks me a little that I can't give out detailed information right now as I don't really have the time for that at the moment.
If you suffered from this and have gotten better: What kind of system did you find for yourself? What helped you? What was difficult for you?
Any kind of display of a system might help me in a way to visualize how I could do it potentially in the future. If you have time to go into detail, I would really appreciate it. I'm really at a loss and it's making me a feel like a failure of society