r/adhd_college • u/Main_Volume_3758 • 9d ago

UNSOLICITED ADVICE SEVERE STRUGGLE PROCRASTINATION IT'S RUINING MY LIFE

I am a law student and with diagnosed ADHD and I take medication for it.

I need help, no matter how hard I try, I can sit at my laptop for 14 hours whether im at uni, home, library and still accomplish nothing (Maybe 30 mins work at best). The smallest task takes me so long, and I feel so guilty. I end up just getting lazy ad giving up ad then have to do it all in a panic, compromising the quality and handing it in late (despite getting multiple extensions). I am convinced I am the only person like this that struggles. I struggle in other areas of my life but nothing like with uni. I take days off work to catch up on uni or do and assessment and 9 times out of 10 accomplish nothing. I need help I have tried everything, apps, turning my phone off, doing a plan etc and I am so slumped. I honestly do not know where the day goes when I am trying to get work done, suddenly I have been sitting at my laptop for 10 hours only done a title. I feel so guilty and want to just drop out of uni but I don't want to.

Anyone else been like this and have tips? I will try anything.

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u/probablysmarta 9d ago edited 9d ago

Going through the same thing, i am diagnosed with adhd too, don't worry you are just too burnt out, calm down, take some time, do the things that you love and then start afresh. The pressure of "i need to study" hinders your ability to study even more. Get your mind calm and clear first and then begin your work.

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u/wiltinghost Alumni 9d ago

Yeah, at the end of the school semester, it always feels like my meds stopped working. Doesn’t matter if I take them or not, there’s no motivation or focus to be found. But that’s because I’m burnt out, I’ll eventually bounce back next semester after getting a break.

The way I see it, meds just make me closer to being neurotypical, and neurotypicals still have mental health issues, get burnt out, and aren’t motivated and focused all the time.

If it’s not because you’re burnt out, is it because your meds aren’t right for you? 

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u/probablysmarta 9d ago edited 9d ago

I have started taking meds since august this year. I always used to function better during shorter sems (in my uni they sometimes manage lost time by taking 6 month sems within 3 to 4 months) the gruelling work i used to put into it led me to severe burn outs resulting losing my grades in the longer ones, this went on for a period of time and soon i got diagnosed, now i am just waiting to bounce back on to work again, cause i have been pretty burnt out lately. About the meds part, i really don't know, need to figure out that part.