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mistressofmuses) wrote2023-09-26 11:08 pm
mistressofmuses) wrote2023-09-26 11:08 pm
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See, the problem with "taking a little break" from any given thing, for me, is that it makes it SO DAUNTINGLY HARD to get back to it.
(I say about... posting on DW, commenting on DW, writing fic, reading, habit tracking, flossing...)
I've read that it's a common ADHD problem, where you can keep something as a daily habit for weeks or months (even years!) and one thing derailing it, even for only a day or two, can utterly wipe the habit itself out, like you'd never built it up in the first place.
Granted, I don't have that many habits that are so well-established. (And have even sometimes broken them on purpose, like DW posting, to prove to myself that breaking it once isn't a forever obstacle.)
Still, the struggle of going back to something after skipping it, even if I only skip it once, is certainly a problem for me, and while I'm trying to be better about recognizing that, and making the conscious effort to then re-establish those things, it still hits me pretty frequently.
(I say about... posting on DW, commenting on DW, writing fic, reading, habit tracking, flossing...)
I've read that it's a common ADHD problem, where you can keep something as a daily habit for weeks or months (even years!) and one thing derailing it, even for only a day or two, can utterly wipe the habit itself out, like you'd never built it up in the first place.
Granted, I don't have that many habits that are so well-established. (And have even sometimes broken them on purpose, like DW posting, to prove to myself that breaking it once isn't a forever obstacle.)
Still, the struggle of going back to something after skipping it, even if I only skip it once, is certainly a problem for me, and while I'm trying to be better about recognizing that, and making the conscious effort to then re-establish those things, it still hits me pretty frequently.
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The "Brains. Why." icon is SO appropriate, haha.
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Good luck getting back on that horse! (Whichever horse you need to get back on. *g*)
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But thank you! I'm trying to clamber back onto several horses, which I'm meeting with mild success!
Oooo I feel this!
Man oh man am I glad you shared that! It aggravates me how I cannot seem to set and keep a routine, no matter how simple.
And the Discarded Project - the bane of anyone's mental health because it's a personal failure that we beat ourselves up over.
Re: Oooo I feel this!
I'm glad that resonates and that I'm not alone, but ugh, sorry you also have that happen to you! Because ugh, it's SO frustrating being unable to keep to a steady routine for things that SHOULD be simple.
And oh god. The Discarded Project. Absolutely the bane of my existence, because I don't WANT to discard any of them, typically, but there's some reason I just can't or won't get back to them, and they just keep silently judging me from their state of incompletion...
Maybe it's a form of immortality.
Or hell?
Re: Maybe it's a form of immortality.