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Rachel, your courage in addressing rejection sensitivity head-on is truly commendable! Your insights and strategies are sure to inspire and empower many. 🌟👏

Rachel, your approach to navigating the ADHD workday is both inspiring and real! Love how you embrace the chaos with structure and flexibility. 🌟💪

This vídeo is sooo inspiring, thanks for share, greetings from Brazil

Oh thank god, someone British talking about ADHD. Your mannerisms, are right on par with me, your awesome, oh and your hot :)

Trying to get past this right now. Should start posting in a decade or two...

Got my diagnosis at age 24 yesterday. Walked out the door with a prescription for methylphenidate and what do you know, your videos show up on my home page! Thank you for documenting your journey❤ I hope to also see the world a bit differently after trying these little pills :)

You. Aree fearfully and wonderfully made in the image of God. Your value is not come ffrrom your accomplishments but from who tou qr in Christ.❤

im so thankful for this video it is really helping me be active today! thank you rachel! <3

Finally got diagnosed at 34 and started Concerta about a month ago. Your "one month in" video really resonated with me and it sounds like we have similar "flavors" of ADHD. Noticing the massive improvement from these meds has been a lot to process. My primary caregiver thought ADHD was "fake" and did not listen to my school teachers when they said to get me evaluated. I didn't have ADHD, I just wasn't disciplined enough! After years of being told I was lazy, undisciplined, spoiled, I really started to internalize those messages. Took me decades to realize I needed to seek diagnosis and treatment. With the meds, so many things are so much better. There is certainly no going back for me.

This resonates with me massively

Thanks for sharing. I really relate to your video. I just started Concerta and it makes me feel like I can do basic things without an intense sense of frustration. I am hopeful that it keeps helping me.

I want to sincerely thank you for your videos. I was recently diagnosed with ADHD and prescribed medication. While researching the info about this meds, I started watching your content... I've been watching and crying, watching and crying for four hours in the row now because every word and emotion resonates deeply with me 😭. Your videos give me hope that my life isn't as hopeless as it seems and that things can actually improve. For the first time, I feel like I'm not alone and there is someone who understands what i’m going through. Thank you ❤

Relatable. 😅

there is nothing wrong with us. the way society is setup just isn’t how we work best. it’s good to find outlets that let us thrive with what we’re good at sometimes. so we can feel good about what we do. i struggle with things a lot and been on a lot of meds. i never wanted to be a medication person but i realized. my brain literally has a deficit in dopamine. it’s not that something is wrong with me but my brain just needs a little bit of help. the science of it. like a medication tht gives it a little more dopamine. and it only needs the help to ease my struggles like anxiety or other things. but nothing is wrong with us to lean on medication. if it helps our brain function in this society then that’s good. i know there’s some medication that’s take as needed instead of every day, my brother felt like he changed from his meds but he took a rlly high dose

Madame I believe you're using your airpods microphone because this sounds like a phone call

I always thought that multitasking was the worst idea but one of my best friends who has adhd often seems to do 2+ things at once if he's trying to get hard/boring work done. Realising I have adhd I've tried to loosen up and not feel bad about multitasking and this video has helped so much. I was looking for someone to explain it and that's what you did!

One thing I would like to point out to people newly diagnosed and who are about to start the meds is that they don’t work for everyone. Sorry to be a Debbie downer. I’ve had 6 months of trying all the stimulants available also long acting and short acting and also a combination but they didn’t work for me and I obviously then questioned if I had ADHD. Well 💯 I do and I’m 46 so diagnosed late and picked up a lot of trauma and have an anxiety disorder too. All the stimulants did for me was make all my ADHD traits and my anxiety so much more worse. So back to the drawing board and I’m now 2 weeks into starting the non-stimulant medication and so far so good things just seem a bit calmer but it does take a while for these to really get into the system. This isn’t a criticism but you’re literally speaking so so fast that I’m struggling to concentrate on what you’re saying and I’ve not had chance to process what you’ve just said and then you’re on a completely different thing by the time I’ve caught up. When you look back to when you first started meds you literally take a breath and process what you’re going to say next. Now it’s just a million miles an hour and that might be that you’re happier inside but the way you’re presenting now is like you’re literally on speed and ecstasy and you seem a nervous wreck so maybe the medication just makes your head go that fast you don’t have the time to actually feel how you feel. Like I said this isn’t meant to be a criticism or being said to make you feel bad it’s purely observation and maybe something to think about if you do have to take a break ❤

Thanks for the video, this was exactly what I needed at the moment. <3

"Hey google, find my phone". (For the 8th time today) "Calling your Galaxy S21".

OMG! I ended up making another TLDR comment. As soon as I saw the calendar screenshot, my ADHD kicked in like the Leonardo DiCaprio Pointing at TV meme :D "A calendar isn’t just for planning" this is such a great tip. I've learned so much about myself since I started visually tracking my time! 1. ADHD undermines any productive time if I've had Hyper Focus episodes and I don’t feel the "emotional damage" of forcing myself to do it 2. Sometimes I don't even realize I’ve been down a rabbit hole of low-priority research for 4 hours straight. Then, 10 minutes later, I’m surprised that I have no mental capacity left for something much simpler and that I need to take a good break 3. Even when I invest a ton of effort into something important, my brain automatically tries to forget about it ASAP because it was an awful experience. A few hours later when I go on a guilt trip about how I’ve "wasted" the day or week, I have no evidence to fight off those cognitive distortions 4. It’s helping me understand what a realistic time budget is for different tasks. My internal clock's accuracy is about +/- 4 hours and I didn't realize how off it was before tracking 5. When I combine tracking with planning, it’s ridiculous how ADHD tries to convince me that "I can open the 4th dimension and squeeze a 2-hour task into 15 minutes". But when I move time blocks visually (especially when copying blocks from another day), I start giggling at how nonsensical the timeline in my head is P.S. When I tried doing this in Google Calendar, I always failed after the first week, despite trying to make it a habit many times. GCal is too slow and clunky for the number of changes I make during the day. Day Planner in Obsidian is far from perfect but being able to edit blocks both in text and graphical way is amazing. It helps a lot to use one-button timestamps when starting or finishing tasks early and copying blocks from another day or splitting them in two is so much faster without pop-up windows BTW: Emojis are a game changer as well. Sometimes I feel like I read emojis more than words in my task lists! Has anyone tried to make their calendar or notes look like a childish TikTok comment?

I cut my hair whilst watching your video... You know... So I could be productive when not being productive... 😅 Thankyou for continuing to share snippets of your life. Not just talking about it but being able to witness little moments and your process/way of thinking; I can relate and always come away feeling more 'normal' than before. ❤ Also strangely, more energised to do stuff... in my own way.

I relate so much! I haven’t put a video out in ages and I did a review of where my work-in-progress videos are at the moment. One is basically ready to upload but I’ve mentioned another video (that I haven’t done) in it. There’s no way to edit around it either. Argh! 🤦🏼‍♀️ Thanks for sharing your day. I really need to work on the ‘re prioritising because of fluctuating energy levels isn’t a failure’ thing!

Thanks for sharing ! I love how honest you are about your ADHD brain ! 🤩 I stuggle to get the point across about mine... Methylphenidate definitely helps but when the motivation isn't there, there's no helping it... Watching your videos really helps with the guilt of not being able to do things like everybody else does, I just really wished that others would try and understand it more... It seems so many think it's just an excuse... I can laugh about my ADHD (thankfully !), but it's still a slap in the face when I'm told to just pull myself together by people that refuse to understand 😫

My bounce back mechanisms are: meditation, cold showers, walks in nature, bicycle riding, swimming and hiking. The only issue is: when I actually need them, I rarely find the motivation to do them.

my ADHD diagnosis meant i was able to get some meds..gave me horrendous heart palpitation and had to stop them, really messed with my sleep too. wasn`t worthwhile in the end. Feels like back to zero. Thanks for this, i was really in need of tips to help me schedule. I mostly get stuck on following my task list (although i'm great at writing the list!!!)

One friend of mine calls the „To Done list“you did in your calendar „TaDaaah-list“. I love that 😊

Just had an assessment. It's not ADHD ..Just like my lupus diagnosis was NEVER Lupus until I had one doctor listen 😢

Hi can I have the name of your stim toy please ❤

As an extension of bounce-back-ability, think how you could embrace the rollercoaster! Low energy? Let yourself make the laziest pillow fort and bring whatever makes you feel cozy (food, plushies, food, pets, humans, or food) Bursting with energy and ideas? What's the third (!) thing that comes to your mind, that you were wanting (!) to get done? Can you do it in 1 minute/quarter/hour? How about while dancing, or on one leg, or singing the alphabet song backwards, or all of the above? Training this helps me understand the highs and lows better, like learning how to dress for a hike depending on the weather. I bounce back faster from the guilt-free(ish) lows, and enjoying the highs gives me more energy to do stuff and makes the lows less frequent and easier to manage.

but how can we fix this? 😂

I know nicotine is demonized for being tied closely to tobacco (with the fun fact that about the only thing healthy about eggplant is "it doesn't have enough nicotine to be addictive"), but I have been wondering how it might be useful for ADHD. This is something that *really* needs to be researched, but I don't know if anyone cares enough to do so....

Snap, I am not the only one

This is a really good video. Burnout is bad.

Thats amazing, like back to the future.

Really appreciate your way you can put this into words.

Thank you.

That had me in tears. You really are good at putting it in words.

Your so brave. Thank you.

This was incredible ! ! ! Thank you so very much for being so open to share your life's experiences.

I watched your 30 days video first, then was recommend this one. WHAT a difference a year makes! It seems like you've grown 2 decades worth of self awareness. ❤ Makes me excited for the possibilities after my psych eval in a few days.

I’ve been searching for this specific type of content to help with my direction. Thank you ladies... part 2 🤞😬🤞

Folks without ADHD don't understand what a HUGE moment that is, the first time you just...do a thing without having to fight yourself. So happy for you!