Or maybe don’t go poking people with the very specific stick that they’ve spent their entire lives associating with disappointment, stress, anger, and sometimes punishment, aka “Just perform-action”, and expecting to never get snapped at.
Speaking from my own personal mental health journey: Those bits of advice that didn’t work 5 years ago may work now. I couldn’t use mindfulness while my ADHD/C-PTSD was at its peak, but after working on a few other things, suddenly it became a useful tool even if I couldn’t use it for years and years. The advice was still good, but refusing to return to a tool because it didn’t immediately work in the past and getting frustrated and letting that frustration turn to anger doesn’t get me what I am looking for.
I definitely agree that it could be helpful, but given one of the common co-morbidities with ADHD is Oppositional Defiance Disorder i don’t think its a helpful thing to bring up for many people with ADHD in a normal conversation; as the phrase goes, “Change comes from within”
Or maybe don’t go poking people with the very specific stick that they’ve spent their entire lives associating with disappointment, stress, anger, and sometimes punishment, aka “Just perform-action”, and expecting to never get snapped at.
Speaking from my own personal mental health journey: Those bits of advice that didn’t work 5 years ago may work now. I couldn’t use mindfulness while my ADHD/C-PTSD was at its peak, but after working on a few other things, suddenly it became a useful tool even if I couldn’t use it for years and years. The advice was still good, but refusing to return to a tool because it didn’t immediately work in the past and getting frustrated and letting that frustration turn to anger doesn’t get me what I am looking for.
I definitely agree that it could be helpful, but given one of the common co-morbidities with ADHD is Oppositional Defiance Disorder i don’t think its a helpful thing to bring up for many people with ADHD in a normal conversation; as the phrase goes, “Change comes from within”