I have trouble telling what the pain in my stomach is telling me, so I pretty much only just realized how bad my body hates certain sensory and social stuff. It’s as though my insides were on fire and the only way to slightly affect it is to cry (and obvi get away from the noise). I thought it was just anxiety or under stimulation before, but no, those are separate things. I have spent hours today doing various self care type stuff (meditation, being in nature, exercising, mindfully eating, yoga nitra, massage, taking a bath, fun things on the internet, positive stimulus of other sorts, zoning out), and the feeling’s still there. I don’t even mask. How do you deal with having to be in a sensory hell for hours of the day? How do you calm down? Please don’t say drugs.
Context: ADHD often makes people struggle with interoception and being able to relax.
I used to always listen to podcasts. Then I got bored of them. I need something more stimulating, but in a good way and it doesn’t really work if I still have the bad stimuli. I do the dive thing a lot, idk how helpful it is. That’s a lot of drugs and it doesn’t exactly intrigue me. Maybe I could benefit from a cocktail of drugs but it scares me.
Audiobooks maybe? My big problem with audiobooks is I need to pay too much attention to them or I get lost
Audiobooks have more information but they’re less entertaining. They only work for my adhd when I’m listening at three times speed and doing exactly one thing simultaneously.
Yeah same. And the one thing has to require very little brain power, like driving or just walking.