Successfully managing ADHD means throwing the empty shampoo bottle towards the bathroom door so you’ll see it when you walk out and then write “Shampoo” on the chalkboard hung up next to your front door where you’ll see it before you go shopping so you can put it on the shopping list on your phone.
Seriously my adhd management system is basically “putting shit where I’ll trip over it” and then waiting to get sick of still deliberately stepping over/around the inconveniently placed item.
Until watching a different member of the household step over it ONE TIME, at which point it becomes the #1 priority.
it’s this, or recognizing that you don’t actually need shampoo and can just buy a life supply of soap bars all at once and use that for washing every part of your body.
i’ve come to recognize that a big part of why i find minimalism so nice is because it brings the amount of things i need to remember down to something vaguely manageable.
Bold of you to assume I’ll remember to check my shopping list.
You guys make lists? Is it like the notes im supposed to keep?
I thought this was standard forgetfulness
only if it happens occasionally! If it’s every single time and you don’t wash your hair for several days, repeatedly, then it’s probably ADHD and an issue that needs to be dealt with.
My trick to this is to leave the bottle on the tub/shower floor when I’m truly done with it. It increases the chances that I’ll get rid of the bottle once I’m out of the shower. It does not necessarily guarantee that I’ll remember to grab a new bar of soap or shower gel, but it interrupts my usual post-showdr flow of things enough to up the odds that I will
I open the shower door and immediately throw the empty bottle into the basin that way it will bother me at some point and take care of it
I used to do that too! For some reason it didn’t work as well for me, though. I’d remember to take the empty bottle with me, but I’d forget to replace it before leaving the washroom
I just bulk buy stuff when it’s discounted that way I mot only always have some in the cabinet but also only buy it discounted
Secret tech is to just buy like 4 bottles at a time, then you only have to deal with the problem 25% of the time
But you still have to remember to bring it into the shower before you get in.
Only 4? I buy them by the case.
It doesn’t even have to be hidden away, the thing you aren’t remembering or even do occasionally remember to do could be in the middle of your living room.
What is object permanence?
Baby
don’t hurtcan’t see meBaby
don’t hurtcan’t see meNo more
PSA: it’s not good for your hair to shampoo every day. Every other day should be fine.
Honestly every other day is still a LOT. Shampoo your hair when it gets greasy, no sooner. The grease glands on your head will calm the fuck down after a while.
Uh… Can I ask more about hair? I try to wash my hair once a week, but it currently gets greasy after about 5 days (day 6 and 7 I wear headbands). If I wash it on day 5, do you think I’ll eventually make it to 7 days easily, or do I need to power through?
5 days isn’t going to work. It has to be every other day or every 7 days, as I can’t keep track otherwise! Wash it when it’s greasy doesn’t work for me either 🤷 I’m not intuitive.
I mean you could probably wait it out, but it’ll be months before your hair starts getting less greasy I imagine, so I dunno how workable that is.
This was one several things I’ve seen throb this community that made me, eventually, do a test. Turns out I’ve got adhd, just went undiagnosed my whole life, was called hyper active, was told not eat certain foods with e numbers in the 80’s, not drink coke (caffeine), I’ve a follow up doctors appointment, but being nearly 50 and only figuring this out now, is been a real mind fuck, positive feeling though
Yeah, I’m in my 40s and just now being tested. Based on the one test I did, it seems I probably have it. If I do it will explain a lot of my struggles, but thinking about all that lost time being untreated is gonna tear me up a bit. I always heard ADHD was one of those made up illnesses and all boys are hyper, and I believed that for a long time.
I’m 41. Was diagnosed with ADHD when I was 31. It took like 10 minutes to get diagnosed and I bet anyone could get the designation as an adult.
That’s not adhd. That’s called beeing a human.
no
downvote me all you want. I’m right and in fact, this very comment is against the rules. lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/adhd/comments/4051762
I think you have ADHD, my dude. Welcome to the club.
It isn’t.
