u/Kaeddar

I have ADHD diagnosis. I currently work in this corporate job and I want to keep it for a while. It's not my main career but I need this job for now.

Anyway, my project hasn't officially started yet and for the most of the day I have literally nothing to do. I can work 50% from home, which helps, because I can do other stuff at home, but sitting in the office slowly becomes hell. I tried doing some courses, going to the kitchen to write or doing research for hobbies whenever I have hyperfocus. Unfortunately, finding myself engaging things to do is exhausting, and there are days where I just scroll reddit or watch youtube shorts for 8 hours straight.

I talked to my manager that I could do other things in the meantime or help some other team, but she told me that I need to wait for the project to start and to enjoy this free time, which is nice of her, but it's hell for my brain.

So, I'm asking you, beautiful people of reddit: do you have any survival tips?

Have a lovely day! ❤️

I live with my partner and a flatmate. The flatmate had been our friend for a couple of years before we decided to move in together. Both us and her were looking for a new place and were in a tight financial spot so renting a place together seemed like a good idea at that timne/

A couple of months after moving in together, I lost my job and had to change careers and ended up with a huge depressive episode. At the same time, the flatmate turned out to be unreliable, dirty and disrespectful. It took us a year to figure out a system for chores that works for everyone, we tried talking with her multiple times and it's generally better, but there's some things she just doesn't understand about living together. I don't want to get into details, it's not important.

It's been almost 2 years now and it's been exhausting for me. Dealing with my own depression, looking for a new job every couple of months and every day having a "surprise" at home with either unnanounced guests or a pile of dirty dishes.

Fortunately, me and my partner will be moving out soon, in a month or so. I now have a stable job and my mental health is slowly improving. My nerves are frayed and I'm simply tired, yesterday I broke in tears when I came back home after a long and stressful day and couldn't even make myself tea because the kitchen was unusable. I told about this in chatgroup but she did what she always does in these situations, being like "but you sometimes don't clean too". My partner has much more patience than me and is dealing much better with all this and tries to understand me, but sometimes I feel very lonely with these emotions.

So I have a perspective of a ~month of this bs in front of me and I don't really know what to do. The friendship is over, I don't want to work on it, and I don't want to fight and try proving my point every time, because it's even more exhausting. I just want to survive. Maybe I'll go for a short workation? Visit my mom for a couple of days? I dunno.

Any survival tips will be greatly appreciated, have a lovely day good people ❤️