3 Ways To Do That Thing You Really Don’t Want to Do
We’ve got deniers, and people who pretend to have it, but people with ADHD have no greater enemy than Executive Dysfunction.
For the uninitiated Executive Dysfunction is a mental situation, probably born from the bowels of Hell, that plagues ADHD brains regularly. Due to an abject lack of interest, the sufferer will find themselves almost paralyzed by an inability to do something that needs to be done. This does not have to be anything big either; it can be folding laundry, cooking dinner, or throwing away a piece of trash on the floor. If the brain doesn’t want to do it, it will not allow the body to do it. That, or it will require hours of struggle to do it.
Either way, it’s demoralizing and incredibly tough. You can tell bullies to leave you alone, but when the bully is your own brain? That’s a battle for the ages.
As an ADHD productivity coach and a person with ADHD herself, I usually suggest three things to try to fight past this, and they are thus:
Gamify it
I heard the hissing and cringing from here. ADHDers hear the term “gamify” all the time, and it can sound like a broken record.
BUT. There is something to the science of it.
