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“Replace your mindless eating. Instead of focusing on not eating, focus on changing what/how much you eat. If you feel particularly strong cravings, instead of just depriving yourself, reduce the portion or look up alternatives with a similar flavor profile.”
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
“Don’t let yesterday’s grief make you miss today’s opportunity. Mourning the loss of time can be appropriate, but it often gets in the way of celebrating the opportunity of facing the world in a new way. It is entirely possible that in the time before adequately managing your ADHD, you were building coping skills that now you can utilize fully. It was not lost time; it was just a different time.”
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
“Vitamin C. Vitamin C can help synthesize neurotransmitters, but you should proceed with caution if you are on certain ADHD medications, as too much vitamin C can interfere with the absorption of those medications.”
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
“We have difficulty understanding the concept of past, present, and future, and as a result, it is hard to learn from the mistakes of the past or plan for the consequences of the future.”
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
“Many adults who have ADHD don’t know they have it. They have been simply surviving, thinking that what they are experiencing is normal or not problematic enough to address. They may have been silently struggling with school, work, and relationships for a majority of their lives.”
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
“Iron. Data shows that low iron levels can exacerbate ADHD symptoms. It is important to note that taking too much iron can be detrimental (and constipating). If you want to boost iron naturally, great iron-rich foods are dark chocolate, leafy greens, and red meat.”
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
“This is how my brain is wired. It is neither good nor bad; it just is what it is. I don’t need it to function perfectly all the time, and I am grateful that I am able to do what I am doing today.”
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
“Recognizing your truth: that you are doing your best and deserve to be taken care of and nurtured. Learning to forgive yourself will most likely be the thing that helps you accomplish your goals despite those setbacks.”
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
“When everything is optimized and working together, you have better control of your symptoms and lead a happier, healthier, less chaotic life.”
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
“don’t stress about skipping days. The emphasis should be on how good you feel when you dedicate that time to yourself instead of penalizing yourself for breaking routine.”
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
“Being among nature and out of your same, tired environment allows you to decompress and refocus. It gives you an almost transcendental time to process the overwhelming inputs in a more organized and less emotionally charged manner.”
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
“Magnesium. This supplement helps with sleep, relaxation, anxiety, and digestion. It aids the neurotransmitters to better address attentional issues. You can find magnesium in nuts, seeds, beans, and dark, leafy greens.”
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
“Tasks and actions that come effortlessly to some people may be difficult for a person with ADHD to achieve. As a result, people with ADHD must learn how to take care of themselves in ways that reward and nourish their brains instead of making them feel like they are being forced to conform through a neurotypical lens.”
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
“Medication is not going to “solve” your ADHD. Medication can be a potent tool in your arsenal, but you get maximum efficacy when you pair that with appropriate behavioral modification and self-care.”
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
“sometimes people have anxiety due to their ADHD. I know for me, it presents as near panic when I get overwhelmed by things to do or overstimulated by chaotic places, or when I’m running behind.”
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
“Caffeine is also a vasoconstrictor (something that makes blood vessels constrict and reduces blood flow). One theory is that this vasoconstrictive property may help ADHD symptoms by reducing blood flow to hyperactive regions of the brain, allowing them to operate more effectively and cooperate with the rest of the brain.”
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
“By the way, if you look at a blank journal and freeze because it is almost too much commitment to put words into such a pristine, blank vessel, then find another way that works. It doesn’t have to be pen and paper. Hammer away on your laptop. Do digital voice recordings. Record a personal vlog or create a social media channel (not a public channel; do this just for you!). There are tons of ways to get benefit from this exercise. Don’t get tied up by the word “journaling”…it doesn’t actually have to be in a journal.”
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
“Vitamin B. This vitamin promotes alertness while decreasing anxiety. Signs of deficiency include fatigue and irritability. Look for vitamin B in bananas, spinach, and salmon.”
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
“I am messy. There, I said it. My brain doesn’t even register the mess, and I can walk right past it because my whole life is crumpled piles, overflowing baskets, and chaotic drawers filled with tangled cords. WHY ARE WE LIKE THIS?”
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
“Some days my brain is utterly amazing, but some days it is total garbage. Instead of telling myself that every day should be remarkable because I have this “superpower,” I look at the situation with an emotion-neutral observation: “This is how my brain is wired. It is neither good nor bad; it just is what it is. I don’t need it to function perfectly all the time, and I am grateful that I am able to do what I am doing today.”
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
“People with ADHD have an unbridled sense of urgency about everything, because if it isn't tackled immediately, it is likely to be forgotten or lost. Instead of being able to prioritize based on importance, we start tasks from what is easiest or most immediately engaging, thus making the rest of the process complicated and occasionally redundant. This is why it can be difficult to commence, continue, and conclude tasks without getting totally overwhelmed.”
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
“When you look at the benefits of walking specifically for ADHD, you see that it boosts mood and general functioning by increasing blood flow and circulation to the brain and body. It feeds oxygen and nutrients more efficiently into the central nervous system and soothes your hyperactive stress response.”
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
“Zinc. This helps regulate dopamine in the brain, and data show that it can reduce hyperactivity and impulsivity. Zinc is found in beef, shrimp, pumpkin seeds, and spinach.”
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
“It takes about thirty to sixty minutes for caffeine to reach peak effect and about five hours to fully get out of your system”
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
“The ADHD brain views structure as a paradox: You hate feeling limited and confined, but you need some structure to succeed.”
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
“I realized that ADHD is not something to be fixed but rather is something to be managed.”
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
“Exercise is beneficial for a plethora of reasons, but for people with ADHD, working out can simultaneously reduce hyperactivity, enhance attention and memory, and promote relaxation. It is perhaps the most positive way to modify your neural wiring to achieve a more consistent state of stability.”
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
“At any given point, your journey through ADHD may be invalidated by people who deny that ADHD is legitimate, or feel like it is overdiagnosed, or feel like medications give an unfair advantage. My wish for them is that they one day realize what a massive accomplishment it is to manage such an impressively busy brain. My wish for you is that you learn to celebrate your small wins. See how far you have come. Soak and revel in achieving what other people had deemed impossible for you.”
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
“As people with ADHD are more vulnerable to emotional abuse and gaslighting, it is of the utmost importance that you identify toxic people and then take the steps to disengage. It may be readily apparent who is unhealthy for you if they openly and outwardly treat you badly, but there are other people who are toxic in a much more subversive manner. They can cause your self-esteem to plummet and drive you into unhealthy coping mechanisms. They can be quietly manipulative and coerce you into making decisions that you are uncomfortable with. They can stir up chaos in your life surreptitiously and convince you it is a consequence of your ADHD.”
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
“Staying active can improve cognitive function, memory, attention, and processing speed. Older people who stay active can reduce their risk of cognitive decline and dementia.”
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
― Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
