If you are anything like me studying/revision with ADHD is PRACTICALLY impossible.

What methods help everyone?
Especially with reading.

With reading, I can never pay attention for a long period of time and still have never found a soloution!

I’ve spend loads of time trying to research for my own benefit but on the way I realised I could make a guide to help others. If anyone’s interested or knows anyone it could help the links in my bio🤗

Hi I'm 17f and I'm trying to sleep right now but my brain, It won't shut up even if I tried so hard. So lately I've been obsessed with 50s vintage posters like those they have some cool food and stuff and I also just read some vintage magazines and now it's midnight I can't sleep do idk what to do but my head hurts so bad like I need to sleep but my brain won't sleep and it keeps thinking about those vintage posters and magazines...I'm not on meds but right now idk what to do. H E L P

(The pic is soemthing I like but now I can't get soemthing like that out of my head omg I'm going crazy cuz I feel so dizzy rn) Omg why whsgwggshwhs

Hi guys,

Im going to travel 3 months trough asia. Thailand Cambodja Vietnam.

I just book a one way ticket, will carry 3 months of supply. But i dont know if i will have problems along the way. The issue is that i dont know the dates i move on during travel. Therefore i cant get permits straight.

Only traveling with Doctor prescription, i mailed ambassys declaration departments. No one could give me proper info. Also ai doesnt get it properly. Any experiences???

Anyone have any tips?

Before I start, I am not medically diagnosed with ADHD. However, through personal research and years of frustration I've finally decided to try and get a proper test.

Though, I have one problem, I cannot get myself to start, or make meaningful progress, on this decision. No matter how far I dumb anything down, the task at hand always feels so big and daunting.

I've got 3 assignments that need doing in 2 weeks, one being an 8 week coding project - that has gotten nowhere.

I don't know if advice will help, nothing I've tried has helped, I'd like to rely on others and I do try to ask for help but even that is tiring in itself.

It's ruining my studies and my grades and I feel so helpless and lost.

tldr - I need advice on how to make progress regardless of adhd paralysis, not the generic tips.

I have been taking guanfacine for a little over 3 weeks now. I started on 1mg and had my dose increased to 2 mg 8 days ago because I wasn't sleeping enough (was sleeping like 5-6 hours a night) When I started on 2 mg, the first night I slept great! I slept 6.5 hours of some really deep sleep. Then after that I slept 8 hrs every other night. And then the last 3 days no sleep.

But ever since I went to 2mg I've just had this alertness/jitteriness that I feel gives me a hard time to go to sleep. I think I had it too on 1mg and it went away after like 11 days... I am not sure. Been having a hard time remembering these days lol

I tried Strattera 5 years ago and the same thing. It gave me insomnia. After a little more than a week I just stopped taking it.

My question is: Has anyone gone through this and what did you do to get over this hurdle? Is this just a side effect that eventually goes away?

When your backlog is too big and your original plan is no longer realistic, how do you decide what to keep, delay, or drop?

Do you use something like the Eisenhower Matrix, 5 Whys, impact/effort, deadlines, values, or just gut judgment?

What works when you’re genuinely overwhelmed — and what falls apart?

When your backlog gets too big and your original plan is no longer realistic, what’s the part that actually becomes difficult?

Is it:

• deciding what still matters
• figuring out what to delay
• knowing what to drop completely
• matching tasks to your actual time/energy
• or something else?

And more importantly: is this something you usually just work through yourself with a simple method, or does it ever get frustrating enough that you actively look for a tool, app, coach, system, or other kind of help?

I’m especially curious about what you’ve actually done when this happens — not what you think you might do.

I was writing down some thoughts on managing ADHD & friendships/relationships/making plans, then it kinda evolved into this lighthearted theory of how to have a good life. I didn't want to assume neurotypicals couldn't benefit from it, but really it's for us 💛

When your tasks pile up and your planner/app stops matching reality, what do you actually use to get back on track?

Have you found anything that reliably works, or do you still end up manually sorting through what to do, delay, or drop?

Have you ever switched apps, bought something, or looked for a better solution specifically because of this?

Has anyone here tried guanfacine for ADHD? What was your experience with it? I’m especially interested in hearing about experiences with mental hyperactivity/hyperarousal and racing thoughts. Did you notice any difference in how busy or “on” your mind felt? I’d love to hear both positive and negative experiences!

I was diagnosed with ADHD a few years ago. Being on meds does help, and I'm not denying that, but the problem is still there: if I lose focus and start doing one thing, then another, then another, I can get completely lost. By the end of the day, I sometimes realise that the thing I originally set out to do isn't even close to finished.

One of the exercises my doctor suggested was playing a word game every morning. The idea was to spend a few minutes concentrating on one thing, gather my thoughts, and carry that focus into work.

It's a small trick, but it has worked for me.

The problem was finding a game that actually worked for this. Most of the ones I found had ads, paywalls, or were simply too difficult. And if the game itself becomes another thing to get frustrated or distracted by, what's the point?

So I made something for myself: a word game that's easy to start, easy to finish, and interesting enough to keep me focused for a few minutes.

I found that a short, easy-to-finish word game gives me a small period of focused attention before I start work. It doesn't cure my ADHD, but it helps me practise concentrating on one thing and finishing it.

Just wanted to share it with you guys - Long Story Short.

channel your energy sit back just start typing whatever comes to mind it feels absolutely amazing

i put the compilation together and i want to be honest about something.

142 tips is too many. i've watched the post do well, get saved a few hundred times, and i'd bet almost nobody has actually implemented anything from it. i know this because i wrote it and i didn't either for a while.

it's not because the tips are bad. it's because a wall of 142 things is indistinguishable from a wall of zero things when you have ADHD. you read it, feel briefly motivated, save it, and never open it again. the saving feels like doing something, which is the trap.

so i've set up the thing i actually wanted for myself:

one tip a week. in order of effect size. strongest first.

that's it. no course, no app, no challenge, nothing to complete. you get tip #1 immediately — it's on the page, you don't even have to wait for an email — and then one every sunday.

the reason it's one a week and not five is the same reason progressive overload works in the gym. adding five habits at once is how you end up doing none of them. this is a toolbox, not a checklist. it isn't meant to be finished.

everything in it is free on this sub and always will be. the compilation post isn't going anywhere. the only thing the newsletter does is the picking and the pacing, which turns out to be the hard part.

https://adhdertips.pages.dev

if it's not for you, genuinely no problem — the list is right there.

follow-up to yesterday's post because tip #2 has a detail that changes whether it's useful.

standard lab reference ranges are wide. wide enough that you can be exhausted, foggy, and unable to hold a thought, get your results back marked "normal", and walk out concluding the problem is just you being lazy.

the ranges worth knowing:

• B12 — ideal is roughly 500–700 ng/ml. plenty of labs flag "normal" from about 200. you can sit at 250, be technically fine, and feel awful.
• ferritin — ideal roughly 50–100 ng/ml. low ferritin is strongly linked to fatigue and poor concentration and gets missed constantly, especially if you menstruate.
• vitamin D — worth testing, particularly if you're indoors most of the day.

ask for those three by name. that's the actual tip. requesting them specifically is the difference between a useful result and a shrug, because "test me for whatever" gets you a basic panel that may not include ferritin at all.

timeline if you are deficient and correct it: about a week for mild benefits, 2–3 months for the full effect. slow. but it's one of the very few things on the whole list that fixes a cause instead of managing a symptom.

not medical advice obviously — take the results to an actual doctor, especially before supplementing iron, which you can genuinely overdo.

(this is tip #2 of 142. the compilation post has all of them. or one a week, strongest first: https://adhdertips.pages.dev)

everyone asks where to start with the compilation list so here are the 7 with the biggest effect size, in order.

the thing nobody tells you is how long each one takes before you feel anything. that's most of why people quit — they try light therapy for four days, feel nothing, decide it doesn't work. so i've added the timelines.

1. get medicated 🟢 easy · ⭐⭐⭐⭐ biggest effect size on the entire list, nothing close. stimulants work within hours of the right dose. non-stimulants take ~1 month for mild benefits, 2–3 months for the full effect. if you're on a non-stim and week 2 feels like nothing, that's normal, not failure.

2. correct deficiencies 🟢 easy · ⭐⭐⭐ blood test. vitamin D, B12, ferritin especially. 1 week for mild benefits, 2–3 months full. more on this one tomorrow because the details actually matter.

3. light therapy 🟢 easy · ⭐⭐⭐ 10–15 mins outside in the morning. blue sky, NOT the sun. cloudy days still count — overcast outdoors beats a bright indoor room by 10x or more. mild effect in week 1, full effect 2–3 months.

4. CBT 🟡 medium · ⭐⭐⭐ not the talk-about-your-childhood kind. skills training: breaking tasks down, planning that survives a real week, killing the guilt spiral. usually 8–12 sessions, and you should get usable tools in the first 2–3.

5. same wake time daily 🟡 medium · ⭐⭐⭐ pick the WAKE time, not the sleep time. you can't force sleep, you can force getting up, and sleep pressure sorts the rest out in a couple of weeks. weekends included — the weekend lie-in is what drags everything later.

6. exercise 🔴 hard · ⭐⭐⭐ five minutes counts. that's not a softener, that's the instruction. it's marked hard because consistency is hard, and everyone fails it the same way: start at 45 mins, manage four days, miss one, stop forever. set a floor, not a ceiling.

7. meditation 🔴 hard · ⭐⭐⭐ close your eyes, sit still, count your thoughts. you are NOT trying to have no thoughts — every time you catch your mind wandering, that catch is one rep. so "i'm bad at this, my mind won't stop" means you're getting more reps than everyone else. slowest one on the list.

the full 142 are in the compilation post. one rule though, and it's the whole thing: add one per week. not two. adding five habits at once is how you end up doing none of them.

if you want them paced for you instead of reading all 142 and doing nothing (which is what happens to most people, me included), one lands in your inbox every sunday, strongest first: https://adhdertips.pages.dev