u/Beebee3i

I believe I speak for everyone when saying "just do it" isn't enough. Like, I want to do the chores, tasks, and hobbies, but I don't feel like it. My brain (​which you should totally nickname it with another name that isn't yours) only feels like listening to music and lie down, but those are not the only things I want to do, much less need to survive the day-to-day life. For what I've read here and other sources, that disconnect is one of the main problems of dealing with ADHD.

What I did during pretty much the entirety of last year was planning and time-blocking the tasks and moments I would do any hobby entire day using​ Google Calendar; each every day if possible. I even made a weekly and ​monthly​ topic to try and follow. Unfortunately, my brain​ got tired of it and stopped doing it since last November​ ​mainly because what I blocked almost never aligned with the time it actually takes, causing the day to "unsynchronize", and my brain began to stop caring about the event reminders​.

About the timers, "2 minute rule" and its variants, they might be useful to continue with a task and properly pace myself while doing it, but it doesn't really address the "intention vs action" issue.

I might retake the calendar thingy, but I want to read your methods first to have a greater variation of tools and ideas to work with... What do you guys use/do to actually get started with doing what you want or need to do? Anything other than "wait until the last moment", preferably. Can be something outside the box.

So, I've noticed since the last three years that I've been using too much my phone. Screentime was usually around 4 hours, which is not much compared to most other people I know, but enough for it to interfere with my engagement in all social situations and hobbies. I began taking measures since last summer, taking seriously mindfulness techniques like meditation, since I was not in a current position where an official diagnosis is possible (I'll try to see of I can get one this year)... and it kinda helped me.

This year I took a major decision; pause and delete my YouTube video history. This disables the YouTube homepage and screws with the recommendations, only leaving the subscriptions and playlists tabs working. This is something I should've done so long ago. I also managed to reduce my phone screentime to between 2 and a half hours and 3 hours... until this month with Reddit (I'll get to deal with that eventually).

Even with all the progress I've made, I still don't feel truly better mentally. I still have a scattered brain. I still find getting up from bed and starting stuff hard. I noticed I stopped planning my days with time-blocked calendars (something I did almost daily since the last two years). I don't feel motivated in continuing with my hobbies. Achieving goals doesn't feel rewarding. Every hour only feels like 20 minutes. Overall, all of the troublesome details of my mindstate are barely changed in some sort of "if white chocolate ran out, there is still dark chocolate over the counter" way. If it's not the phone, it's the TV now.

Yesterday pissed me off because, when I woke up, I lied on my bed for an hour and a half before getting up and turning on my phone and it felt the same as waking up and picking up the phone seconds after; the hour and a half of rumminating about ideas, past and future (never present) events, funny or sad thoughts, among other brain messages, didn't feel like an hour and a half of time. Nothing changed.

I feel like we can all agree that ADHD-related symptoms ​and music aren't generally discussed enough.

I've recently made a Reddit account after years of consideration and watching those cheap tts AskReddit compilations, so this is my first Reddit ​post ever (so exciting...). I come here to ask you guys: How do you deal with the music always playing on your brain?

Before writing this post, I made sure to search what had been posted before about music and the ADHD brain, and it confirmed my suspicions about the 24/7 radio station possibly being linked with the ADHD brain, but I still really didn't get an answer of how you guys "deal" with it.

Is it something that can be remedied, or a cross I must bear until the day I die? I have no problem with it being the latter; I just want some clarification from first-hand experience with this phenomenon.

Before leaving, here is an ​observation​ I did that I haven't seen anyone on the previous posts mention: to change the snippet/song playing in my brain, I usually think or even say out loud the name of the song/artist I want playing in my head. If I've heard that song more than 3 times in the span of around a week, it plays on that one good snippet I wished was extended for another minute! sometimes... Please let me know if it works for you.