Focus, distraction, and motivation are all important, but living with ADHD is absolutely exhausting, from the moment you wake up.
It’s not always the initial effort that’s difficult, but the return to normality after overstimulation, burnout, or a mentally taxing day.
Even after small bursts of effort, our brains need a complete reboot. We lie down, scroll aimlessly, or go silent for hours.
We’re not lazy; we’ve spent everything on what seems simple to others.
We praise consistency and discipline, but we rarely consider the invisible cost of resetting our brains daily.
ADHD isn’t just Attention Deficit; it’s Energy Deficit, and that’s what makes recovery so challenging, because every day requires so much effort just to ‘get by’, let alone ‘live life’.