Public Displays of Affection?
Personal Digital Assistant?
The lighter side of ADHD
Public Displays of Affection?
Personal Digital Assistant?
I scrolled through this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDA and I think pathological demand avoidance means geht be it?
Yep, I had to look it up too.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathological_Demand_Avoidance
for anyone not clicking through, persistent drive for autonomy is an alternative name with less baggage
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Yes, every day.
The only hopes are:
One thing Iβve found that helps βmotivateβ me to do an undesired task is to find another, more undesirable, task that needs to be done and convincing myself it needs to be done immediately. Then I avoid the new task, and do the original task instead.
60% of the time it works 100% of the time.
Yeah, task switching in general kinda works for me sometimes, it makes no difference to me how (un)desired the task is. Even tasks I enjoy are hard for me.
Even tasks I enjoy are hard for me.
Loud and clear.
My phone has literally died many times because I wouldn't plug it in, with the charger cable *being within reach! *
ultra rare PDA mention just dropped
It's still public displays of affection. They need to pick an unused acronym. There are over 17,000 combinations of three letters.
Stimulants help a lot. Sometimes, I'll catch myself getting motivated for the wrong task, though. I also have to force myself to eat sometimes. Lastly, I'd have a heart attack if I ever drank coffee.
I'm prescribed methylphenidate lr. It's a lot less intense than amphetamines.
I went though just about every stimulant on the market about 20 years ago. Most did nothing, but a couple had me going through panic attacks for routine work issues. After two years on the pharma-go-round I'd had enough. I got this far in life rawdogging reality. How bad can it get?
Narrator: Yes.
Did you try again? Bodies change, I was in a group therapy where one guy said that meds didn't help him when he was a kid, but now 15 years later he tried again and they work. Can be a big help.