executive dysfunction

I'm so sorry to hear that your parents are treating you this way. You deserve to have caregivers who can connect to your emotional needs and help guide you. All of what you said definitely points to …

What I'm realizing: I relate closest to others with deep trauma and that is a troublesome recipe. — TW: addiction, suicide, physical and emotional abuse, CSA. I have CPTSD, routine struggles with depression and anxiety and the corresponding executive dysfunction. I grew up with an alcoholic parent…

Doctor didn't Believe that Psychedelics Cured my Depression. — In 2024 I had a trip that felt like turned my brain right-side up. It took away my self hatred, ruminating thoughts, and deep depression literally overnight. But I still struggle with executive dysfun…

23 year old college grad AuDHD son will not stop going on about how we "drugged him up and weaponised therapy to ruin his life" — He went to UW. Graduated with a degree in computer science. We're all so very proud of him. Yet he just won't stop bringing up the past and how we "ruined his life and threw away his mental health". Y…

I have a serious aversion to meditation and being present in general. And I don't know how to overcome it. — I have meditated consistently in the past and know how powerful it can be. Whenever I maintain a practice, I engage more with my life and am largely freed from the workaholism, binge eating, and other…

my (22F) boyfriend (21M) is genuinely addicted to his phone. what would ya’ll recommend i do? — so today me and my boyfriend decided to watch the first michael bay transformers movie because i absolutely love transformers, and he knows this. within the first 30 minutes of the film i had to ask h…

How do I get myself to do stuff? — This might sound really stupid but I have a bit more to say so I'm sorry. there are some things in my life that I find myself impossible to do, just tasks like starting a specific piece of schoolwork …

Strategies to overcome freeze response — I’m diagnosed with CPTSD, ADHD and narcolepsy. I’m medicated and currently on waitlists for psychotherapy. I struggle with chronic procrastination due to debilitating perfectionism, fear of failure an…

Does anyone else get triggered when someone tells you to go get a job??? — It's a bit silly, but I just had a meltdown/panic attack after one friend and another anonymous user (not-on-Reddit btw) told me to go get a job, when I complained about not having money. \*\*Like yea…

Text of original post by u/f1rstpancake: TW: addiction, suicide, physical and emotional abuse, CSA. I have CPTSD, routine struggles with depression and anxiety and the corresponding executive dysfun…

Hi! Fellow woman ADHD'er here. Executive dysfunction means I couldn't consistently brush my teeth for months and avoided the dentist for at least 2 years, a few years ago. Once I found a nice dentist…

I stand on the precipice of a major romantic life decision. I'd been dating this person for 3 months...we met through shared dance scenes. By the end of that 3 months, she had fallen for me totally, b…

> she has an untreated mental health disorder (refuses to consider medication for her own reasons), big executive dysfunction (we both have AuDHD), is struggling to find more work as a yoga teacher wh…

Literally, I was gonna say this is just executive dysfunction.

Thank you for writing this. I started Lexapro 8 weeks ago and it exacerbated the mindless wandering in hopes to latch onto _something_ mindfully, but not being able to. It's so maddening. I have ADHD …

Get screened for ADHD. Today. What you described... wanting to work but physically unable to start, freezing under pressure, lifelong pattern, shame cycles... this is textbook executive dysfunction, n…

That's a pretty common experience among a particular demographic of young people. Usually very intelligent (or at least, very academically successful as a younger child), and either a little bit neuro…

I went from thinking I was useless and not caring about myself to being genuinely proud of myself. I’m really proud that I survived what I did and I didn’t become a bad person to others in the process…

>Sorry, but no, attention deficit means "he has difficulty making plans and sticking to them" Actually, that is not correct and it's an oversimplification of ADHD. There are many types of ADHD and i…

ADHD could *absolutely* be an issue here. Especially unmedicated. Disengaging with an activity to do something else (like stopping what you’re doing to eat dinner), executive dysfunction, resistance…

Does he have ADHD? Sounds a lot like my partner 😄 If so, then the unfortunate truth is the mental load will always more on us, because executive dysfunction, time blindness etc. are real things. I am…

I had a narcissist boss who used my ADHD executive dysfunction, auditory processing disorder, poor memory and recall, to gaslight me so many times. It’s was the most toxic workplace I ever been in, an…

No...I just have other cognitive disabilities that make executive dysfunction difficult. I never freeze or fawn. My therapist and I will be sticking with flail. It's all made up anyway!

I have ADHD and sometimes I wonder if my executive dysfunction puts too much of the organisation and diarising of our life on my wife. It's also hard to see your own blind spots. What sort of behaviou…

This is how it's played out in my family too since my late diagnosis in 2023 at 34. Anytime I mention things I like about my traits or things I've learned to accommodate myself, the lifestyle I've bui…

Check to see if you have executive dysfunction. Was there anything you’d like to do as a child that you stopped doing for any reason? I find that that’s a good jumping off point. I started rollerskat…

I was really stunned by that. Technically she said 99% of the time it doesn't go away, but why not even consider that I'm in that 1% then when I'm telling you point blank that I've recovered? Unfortun…

wow you sound like a mirror of me. I suffered the same thing too, literally begged them to get me diagnosed when I was a teenager but nothing. Finally decided to take it upon myself to get diagnosed a…

Oh there's a name for it ... Executive dysfunction.... And yes it sucks. Mine hits where food is concerned..like I fucking forget what's food and if it's safe ... A

I'm pretty sure this is an aspect of executive dysfunction, I majorly struggle with this and have for as long as I can remember. Mood stabilizers and gentle parenting myself have helped me a bit, I ca…

It could be, it's hard to tell from just one issue because it needs to be a wider pattern. However, I know from experience that it can be really hard to identify the wider pattern when you're in it an…

Part of it is my ADHD. Morality was assigned to functioning in my family, and means I have emotions tied up in it on top of the executive dysfunction. Part of it is the lack of importance I place on…

Executive dysfunction is a helluva drug 😅 I say this as I procrastionating sleep at 4 am and being completely unwashed bc it's a day off 🤷

i think it’s likely freeze or executive dysfunction like others have been saying. lately i have been better at it, it seems to help when i go less time in between showers (for example) and consciousl…

samesies for every part of this!!!! sometimes remembering and/or reframing it like "i am struggling with executive dysfunction. i am *especially* struggling because of the pressures to be Good as a …

If telling myself I haven't tried hard enough works, it'd have worked about twenty years ago! I'm totally aware I'm not trying as hard as I could be. I do want to try, but sometimes it's a matter of n…

For me it's >Decision paralysis + perfectionism + executive dysfunction + learned helplessness + low self worth It's an awful combo I can't decide what to do, I feel so much pressure to do it perfec…

It's executive dysfunction but it also feels distinct, at least in cause and treatment, from dysfunctions in other disorders. I'm not necessarily disorganized or even too depressed or confused or thi…

I’ve had this for a long time and I’ve just accepted that I’m not capable of solving it at this point, nothing that I’ve tried, a therapist has recommended, or a psychiatrist has prescribed has helped…

I'm no expert, but I struggle with executive dysfunction as well and generally do not actually sit down and perform the traditional sort of meditation where you just sit there for a long period of tim…

I have trauma and executive dysfunction too and struggle a lot with consistency and I've decided to start very small and build the habit bit by bit. So I started with meditating just one minute a day.…

I've always struggled with executive dysfunction, but it's been totally soul-crushing these last ten months. I'm stuck in a loop of just lying in bed and doomscrolling.

If you were miserable in the relationship, you did the right thing. It isn't easy to live with ADHD, even simple things feel very overwhelming. She genuinely tries, but forgets or loses track of tasks…

Sounds like executive dysfunction. Happens with depression or burnout.

Yes it really is, speaking from personal experience. I experienced decades of emotional paralysis and deep executive dysfunction. I don't experience as much disassociation any longer, I'm more in to…

Are you me? Because I relate to this so much. It’s good that you’re aware of this bc I’m back in the same situation for treating my recovery like a project. I got help from every angle and thought as …

Partially. I was born at the start of the 90s, so my mother was from that generation, but cultural norms were changing. She performed a similar type of ritualistic violence, but it was more covert, vi…

There are different kinds of executive dysfunction and different causes. You mentioned keeping something "kinda big" to yourself. That takes a toll. Every day that subtracts some of your willpower or …

Dude idk. Executive dysfunction is the absolute fuckin worst. Every day is a struggle.