The ADHD Swamp of Sadness - a podcast by Sam Led

A brilliant neurodiverse ADHD mind is always working overtime. It's a high performance yet innocently overworked machine. The ADHD mind problem solves with the quickness. The ADHD mind can complete multiple high stimulus tasks at the same time. Ask any emergency room doctor or nurse (who has ADHD) how much they love their jobs. As fast and high performing the brilliant neurodiverse ADHD is, it runs out of gas as quickly. This manifests as feeling overstimulated, anxious and temporarily stuck in a depressed state that I call the swamp of sadness. Especially first thing in the morning. We feel the weight of the world on our shoulders. We also sometimes forget what tasks we have to complete for the day (even when we know we have work or school) when we wake up first thing in the morning. It takes a little while to boot up the supercomputer between our ears. 

 

The content of our thinking doesn't matter when we are caught up in the machinery of our chaotic, anxious, overstimulated ADHD thinking. When we see below the noise of our mind's temporary swamp of sadness do we truly see the illusion of thought.