adhd

Key wellness/self-care & productivity strategies mentioned

• Get a professional assessment if you suspect ADHD

  • They emphasize: “I’m not a doctor—always get a professional diagnosis.”

• Learn about ADHD to understand your patterns

  • They researched through books and lectures to connect personal experiences to ADHD symptoms.

• Identify your specific ADHD “flavor”

  • ADHD has two main types mentioned:
    • Inattentive type
    • Hyperactive type
  • They state they were diagnosed as inattentive.

• Track and reflect on real-life symptom patterns

  • Examples they highlight as “signs” (which can help with self-understanding), such as:
    • Forgetting routines, e.g., forgetting to drink water for a whole day
    • Over-focusing mentally, e.g., having many “tabs open” / constant internal distraction
    • Rechecking actions due to uncertainty, e.g., locking the door, then re-locking
    • Looping behaviors, e.g., walking in circles for hours, talking to self
    • Difficulty sustaining reading/attention, e.g., re-reading paragraphs, struggling to finish books
    • Task switching/forgetting goals while moving between places, e.g., starting a trip, then getting distracted
    • Time/communication issues, e.g., contacting someone is hard and takes multiple messages
    • Procrastination right up to deadlines, e.g., “not doing things right up until the deadline”
    • Caffeine not helping (instead it makes heart rate go up)

• After diagnosis, consider next steps carefully (especially medication)

  • They mention medication “did not go well” and plan to discuss it in a future video.
  • The wellness angle here is being thoughtful and prepared before moving into medication decisions.

Note: The NordVPN portion is promotional and not ADHD/self-care advice.

Presenters / sources

• NordVPN (sponsor mentioned: nordvpn.com / NordVPN ad read)