I used to panic sometimes when I felt like I was losing interest in something I’d been loving or I hadn’t got time to engage with it. Now, through pragmatism, I realise that those fears are unfounded and I’m able to relax more about use of my time and energy investment.

Starting to own this ADHD thing, finding a rhythm within it and capitalising on the energy in my more hyper moments. I still struggle to focus at times but little by little I’m getting a handle on it. I definitely feel more positive about living with ADHD now. Feel free to discuss in the comments.

I recently came to realise that I’ve spent my whole life trying to shoehorn myself into patterns of behaviour that aren’t natural to me. “Get to bed by 11pm, wake up at 7am every day, blah, blah.”
That’s not how I work, I’m random, chaotic and that’s fine. Don’t live by other people’s dictates.

Contemplate the incredible vastness of space with this visualization of the size of our Milky Way galaxy.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

After my ADHD diagnosis I saw tons of posts by people who’d been through that and had found ways to manage their lives and I thought to myself, “I’m never going to get to that point.”

I was wrong. I’m not there yet but solutions are starting to develop. Pragmatism and prioritising are key for me.

Learning new things to help cope with #ADHD. When performing tasks with deadlines I’ve stopped focusing on the outcome and instead now put all my energy into every given moment. This way I eliminate the overwhelming nature of schedules and workloads and I’m able to get on with things more easily.

Reparenting. It’s something I’ve been doing to help myself make sense of things. A popular misconception about it is that we use it to heal our inner child but a few days ago I used it on myself, as I am now. It was a massive step towards making peace with myself.

Since diagnosis I’ve seen ADHD as some kind of separate entity living in my mind. But it isn’t, it’s me and it’s who I’ve always been. This is such an important realisation because the pain of diagnosis has been a troubling emotional wound but grief is the scab that allows it to heal.

Hi, Civizen charts my continuing journey through the musicverse while learning to cope with a very recent ADHD diagnosis. I’d like to use this as a platform to share my experiences although I’m aware that due to the unpredictable nature of my ADHD, post frequency may be erratic.