r/ADHDers

I, like many ADHD crew, struggle to stay on task and go down random rabbit holes. It’s up being double the efficiency for minimal result… if any result at all.

SO - I realized the biggest issue is picking up a room and let’s say there are dishes I need to return to the kitchen. I do, but when I get to the kitchen I start doing something else that leads to something else… you all know the struggle.

To remedy this, I went to our local dollar tree store and bought 5-6 plastic totes. Nothing huge. And of course one laundry hamper and a tall kitchen trash can.

When I decide it’s time to tackle a room, I take the items listen above and each bin represents a room the item should belong in if it is not the room being clean. Dishes in the bedroom? They go in the kitchen basket. Lotion or hodgepodge over the counter meds that belong in our bathroom medicine cabinet? Bathroom basket. And so on. The prevents me from needing to leave the room while I’m putting it back together. When I’m done, I take one basket at a time to its designated room and put all of the things in The basket where they belong. And repeat the same process with each container.

It’s really helped me stay on track (not perfection, but insanely better than anything else I’ve tried.

i dont know why my frontal lobe did not activate at all this past week but i tried to present the project i've been working on this past year in a poster format without so much as looking at the poster i made two months ago. I couldn't even get myself to open the damn file let alone verbally practice presenting. i also stayed up until like 4am dreading it and had to go support my friend's thesis defense at 9am (priorities lmao). so i ended up running on less than 4 hours of sleep, and i knew it was already going to be bad because im basically lobotomized without sleep these days (recovering insomniac here).

and yeah. i forgot what the axes on my own graphs were, and it was pixelated so i couldnt read it on the spot. it was so bad my pi messaged me to apologize for being too harsh on me after. hjfkgdfghjkd gosh never again dude im so mad at myself

I am considering starting Guanfacine but I am terrified if I am being honest. I don’t want to take it if it’s going to cause me sexual issues. I already suffer from PSSD from SSRIs and I am terrified of losing the sexual function I still have left. Officially the data says it’s an uncommon side effect that only happens in 3-7% of people but I’m really skeptical of this. I’ve read a lot of people on here that reported sexual dysfunction as a side effect and that leads me to believe it’s more common than the data claims.

Anyone who has taken Guanfacine please let me know if it caused or sexual dysfunction of if it did not and tell me anything else about your experience on it. Thank you!