u/Empty-Baby8006

I 25M just moved out of my parents house in Ireland to Canada w/ partner. Over the last number of months it's become apparent to me that it is extremely likely I have ADHD.

I'm not usually the biggest fan of self-diagnosis, but after thinking back over my life, the symptoms I've noticed I deal with are:

1. Really bad task avoidance, even some of the important ones with deadlines and $ incentives.

2. Chronic lateness.

3. Poor organisation generally across my life, with work, home.

4. Inability to stick to pretty much every "getting my life together" routine that I have tried.

5. I'm very easily distracted, and forget things, or lose them in plain sight on a regular basis.

6. Regularly forgetting weekly appointments.

7. A lot of fidgeting, and I constantly catch myself interrupting people during conversations.

\*\*\*8) Feeling incapable of starting things that I know I would enjoy, or that I know would be beneficial for me, or make me money (or sometimes all three, I have a music degree and have wanted to start doing live music in bars)

I find myself after work just procrastinating on my phone all the time, same on the weekends, and it very often messes with my mental health because I kind of find myself weighing what I'm doing up to what I expected I would be doing at 25 years old.

I slipped a disc in my lower back 3 years ago and haven't been able to recover since, so a lot of my physical outlets kind of gone out the window.

I have a job that just about pays me what I need to break even on a relatively strict budget where I live, but I don't trust myself to be able to stick to that either right now.

I am currently waiting for my healthcare to start so I can get a diagnosis but I don't think that I'll be able to get one until end of year/next year.

So in the mean time, does anyone here have any advice on how to stick to a routine, because I need to stick to budget, and go to the gym for my injury, and kind of maintain a life without burning out like before.

TYSM!