I 39F got diagnosed with adhd last year after being the subject of lots of diagnoses and lots of different therapies (I was often a guinea pig for psychiatrist or doctors to test therapies on). All my therapeutic methods I've learned I probably know good enough to teach them now. So cognitive therapy, meta cognitive therapy, ABCD method and a few others I don't even remember the name of. But they never really worked and of course are not working now.
I can't say 100 percent for sure that this is burnout, but reading about it feels pretty close. I just feel empty and nothing really. I usually contact a friend of mine to do stuff so he doesn't forget me. But this last week I haven't even been able to send him anything or, feel like this is the worst one, I haven't even had the energy to scroll tiktok. The only things I've really done is things I need to, like walking the dog, feed dog and cat, do the tasks I have to do at my office job (but that is mainly home office so I just do the bare minimum at weird hours), went to my other job which I probably could do while sleeping as I just zone out and and use my customer service personality which takes a lot of energy, and that's that. I sleep, but I haven't really ate anything substantial for the last 2 weeks. I've had some tries to taking a shower but not really, most of the hygienic stuff is just nope, non-existent. I have done my Duolingo because the owl is scary.
I've tried to do stuff that usually makes me a better mood. I've bought something for myself, watched Netflix, tried sitting outside enjoying nature on my patio I fixed up how I liked it, I even tried making a list to do. But this time it's still empty it's like neither positive or negative and I've had something that reminds me of this before I was diagnosed, but that usually passed when I did something to distract myself and it's not working this time.
I told myself to not write to much but speech to text, sorry. So I am familiar with that this just won't disappear because I do something magical, it's something I need to get through, but everything I Google and find about it is more about like how to push through work, but work is one of the few things I can do no matter how bad it is. I just do the bare minimum so they don't complain. But it's more of a outside of work that I need help with.
So back to the title, what helps you to manage burn out. Like what do you do while you have it that makes it easier to endure it? Because I am aware that it will end, I just need tips and tricks from others with ADHD, because all the tricks I know are for depressed people and they are not working 😅