thanks for the help, i had suspicions that i had some sort of neurological disorder and tailored my current attempts at treating my burnout accordingly
my main hypothesis is that i have both ADHD and autism since i have most of the symptoms
here are some of the interventions that i tried in case someone in a similar position might read this comment and find some thing useful:-
1_replacing my rooms led lights with incandescent light and using a warm light filter on all my devices
2_using earplug to have easier time sleeping and focus when studying
3_trying to avoid attending college classes when possible (i live far away from college and suffer from motion sickness and back pain and often have to walk half of the way back home and the other half in a crowded bus, you could probably guess how little i actually get from sitting in those lectures)
4_having some kind of daily to do list that records my progress on routines
5_having a list the mistakes i have made in my life and how to avoid them in the future
6_trying the pomodoro timer
7-having some short term goal to work towards, even a small seemingly pointless thing like learning to solve the rubiks cube or learning to write with your non dominant hand can do wonders to your motivation even if those things a practically useless
i have been doing this for about 2 years now and i can say for sure that 1,2,6,7 have helped with basically no drawbacks
3 is a mixed bag as it initially help with my mental and physical health but also screwed up my college performance which in turn worsen my mental heath
4 works when i am committed so it is good at keeping me from sliding into burnout but not very useful at getting me out of it
5 is a mixed bag, having a constant reminder of your past mistakes can be painful especially if you ever find yourself repeating the same mistake twice but not having it could run the risk of never learning from your mistakes
i should probably make a post about the strategies i tried and which of them work and which didn’t
also it is worth noting that this
Another trap is that when you find out, the typical response is… to read more books or websites about that. Which is just another way to procrastinate. It would be more useful to collect all the information, put it on one page, which would end with the list of exercises or interventions you should do.
pretty much happened to me, i read over a dozen self help books and i can say for sure that most of them were a waste of time on the first read, only becoming useful on the second read when i actually began writing down what i learned and applying it
thankfully i can read very quickly often finishing 2 to 3 books a month so i hardly lost any time on this mistake
Not sure if this might be helpful—I asked an AI how to tell the difference between “smart, autistic, and ADHD” and “smart, autistic, but no ADHD”, and it gave me the following:
There are similarities between the two, because both autism and ADHD involve some executive dysfunction; social avoidance/exhaustion looks similar to ADHD avoidance; autistic burnout looks similar to ADHD inattention; being tired from masking looks similar to ADHD lack of focus; and high intelligence can mask both through compensation.
The differences:
Suppose that you need to read a boring technical book to understand something that is very important for you. Could you read it? (Autism only: if it is perfectly clear why the books is important, and you have a lot of time, and a quiet room only for yourself: yes. ADHD: sorry, after 10 minutes you will drop the book and go research something else.)
Do you lose hours of time without noticing? (Autism only: only when engaged with something interested. ADHD: yes, all the time.)
If you have a clear task, proper environment, and interest; can you start doing the task? (Autism only: usually yes. ADHD: probably no.)
Do you make major decisions on impulse—such as buy something expensive, quit your job, start a new project, start driving too fast—and then wonder “why did I do this”? (Autism only: no. ADHD: often.)
...I found this interesting, because I was operating under assumption that I have both autism and ADHD, but now it seems more like autism only. (Then again, this is AI, they like to hallucinate.)
thanks for the help, i had suspicions that i had some sort of neurological disorder and tailored my current attempts at treating my burnout accordingly
my main hypothesis is that i have both ADHD and autism since i have most of the symptoms
here are some of the interventions that i tried in case someone in a similar position might read this comment and find some thing useful:-
1_replacing my rooms led lights with incandescent light and using a warm light filter on all my devices
2_using earplug to have easier time sleeping and focus when studying
3_trying to avoid attending college classes when possible (i live far away from college and suffer from motion sickness and back pain and often have to walk half of the way back home and the other half in a crowded bus, you could probably guess how little i actually get from sitting in those lectures)
4_having some kind of daily to do list that records my progress on routines
5_having a list the mistakes i have made in my life and how to avoid them in the future
6_trying the pomodoro timer
7-having some short term goal to work towards, even a small seemingly pointless thing like learning to solve the rubiks cube or learning to write with your non dominant hand can do wonders to your motivation even if those things a practically useless
i have been doing this for about 2 years now and i can say for sure that 1,2,6,7 have helped with basically no drawbacks
3 is a mixed bag as it initially help with my mental and physical health but also screwed up my college performance which in turn worsen my mental heath
4 works when i am committed so it is good at keeping me from sliding into burnout but not very useful at getting me out of it
5 is a mixed bag, having a constant reminder of your past mistakes can be painful especially if you ever find yourself repeating the same mistake twice but not having it could run the risk of never learning from your mistakes
i should probably make a post about the strategies i tried and which of them work and which didn’t
also it is worth noting that this
pretty much happened to me, i read over a dozen self help books and i can say for sure that most of them were a waste of time on the first read, only becoming useful on the second read when i actually began writing down what i learned and applying it
thankfully i can read very quickly often finishing 2 to 3 books a month so i hardly lost any time on this mistake
Not sure if this might be helpful—I asked an AI how to tell the difference between “smart, autistic, and ADHD” and “smart, autistic, but no ADHD”, and it gave me the following:
There are similarities between the two, because both autism and ADHD involve some executive dysfunction; social avoidance/exhaustion looks similar to ADHD avoidance; autistic burnout looks similar to ADHD inattention; being tired from masking looks similar to ADHD lack of focus; and high intelligence can mask both through compensation.
The differences:
Suppose that you need to read a boring technical book to understand something that is very important for you. Could you read it? (Autism only: if it is perfectly clear why the books is important, and you have a lot of time, and a quiet room only for yourself: yes. ADHD: sorry, after 10 minutes you will drop the book and go research something else.)
Do you lose hours of time without noticing? (Autism only: only when engaged with something interested. ADHD: yes, all the time.)
If you have a clear task, proper environment, and interest; can you start doing the task? (Autism only: usually yes. ADHD: probably no.)
Do you make major decisions on impulse—such as buy something expensive, quit your job, start a new project, start driving too fast—and then wonder “why did I do this”? (Autism only: no. ADHD: often.)
...I found this interesting, because I was operating under assumption that I have both autism and ADHD, but now it seems more like autism only. (Then again, this is AI, they like to hallucinate.)