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Just do something, even if it’s a terrible idea.
Example: I need to put up this shelf. I’ll get my tools. But first I need to find the right position, measure, make sure it’s level, line up the guide holes…well, before I pick the position, I should check for studs. Where’s the stud finder? Oh, I need a pencil too. And those magic sponges. Do I need to buy more of those? HOLY SHIT, IT’S BEEN TWO HOURS AND I’VE DONE NOTHING?
Drills hole in wall.
Ok. Now there’s a big hole in the wall. I need to resolve that before my wife comes home in an hour. That’s motivating. Let’s see if i can cover that with a shelf.
Meditate and realize that you don’t know what you want to do.
Getting arrested.
I wasn’t arrested, but held for questioning because my car was near the scene of the incident. So I had to wait there for 30 minutes and give a statement.
Those 30 minutes, I was having a ball thinking creatively.
Least unhinged thing I do: request that people I know harass the fuck outta me to do chores. I’ll regularly have a friend remind me to go a chore after a half hour of gaming and I’ll begrudgingly go do the chore so I can go back to gaming.
Most unhinged: turn on angry music and think of people I hate to get energized and wound up by rage. Sometimes I’ll scream too. I have a playlist called Grrr that’s just all of my angry music but I’ll often fixate on one song.
I had a period of extremely productive work a while back when putting on late '90s early 2000s teen comedies in the background. I got so much done while 10 Things I Hate About You and Can’t Hardly Wait were playing in the background.
Have a child. They’ll remind you when you’re getting distracted again.
Jokes on you (well, actually me), I don’t have one! I’m just stuck and the only thing that helps that is another person making me do it.
This is me and my therapist literally built in time to our sessions just so she could browbeat me into calling the bank about a chargeback or whatever
Turns out there’s a fine line between therapist and dominator/trix?
ketamine. Doesn’t work anymore, don’t try it
but there has been at least three times I took some k and for some reason I got this primal, savage and wild urge to clean my house
why? idk
Disclaimer: this is not an endorsement for using street drugs. I am not a doctor.
Dopamine is why. All prescription ADHD meds increase ambient dopamine levels so that executive control is easier. Recreational drugs tend to feel good, and elevated dopamine levels are usually in the mix when it comes to sensations like that.
Don’t do anything, just doomscroll on your phone for hours until the absolute last minute and then panic and finish whatever it was you were actually supposed to be doing. Repeat until everything is done.
Induce panic. Just spiral out of control about that shit until you get the adrenaline, then start doing coping mechanisms to get the anxiety to a level you can function but you can only function on the thing you’re specifically freaked the fuck out about.
It ain’t good for you, but it works in a pinch
Stopping to sleep for a few day to get my brain out of loops or hyperfocus.
Blasting my brain out with really loud music usually helps.
Besides that, my brain is a lot either/or.
I am not great a eating balanced, getting a balanced amount of exercise, or doing anything else balanced.
When I went to university, I either studied 10h/day every day, or I did not study at all.
As soon as I start slacking on my own extreme goals for specific task, I lose almost all ability to get that thing done.
It’s extreme or nothing, it is now or not now.
Blasting my brain out
Oh no.
with really loud music
Phew.
Currently blasting the new single by Muse, Unravelling, in my office, trying to force myself to do a mundane task at work…
New Muse track, you say? :D
The latest was released today! It is awesome, but Unravelling is my favorite so far, but Hexagons, which was released today is also really good.
Muse has some great songs and good albums as well; however since Something Human I’ve been nothing but disappointed, personally.
I agree, so I was quite surprised when I listened to their latest singles this morning. The latest single, Hexagons, was released today.
Their new singles is called Hexagons, Cryogen, Be With You and Unravelling, and I actually like all of them.
I think I listened to Cryogen and wasnt a huge fan but I’ll definitely see about the others.
Also it seems ones.enjoyment of a song tends to grow parabolically with time so if I really wanted I could just listen to it a lot and eventually id like it. Im experiencing this with Tool now. Never used to like them really but I have been enjoying the Aenima album
Cryogen is a bit meh, but give Unravelling a go, it is IMO the best of the new songs, while Hexagons also have potential, but I haven’t listened to it enough yet.
But it also really depends on ones taste in Muse’s songs. They really differ a lot. One of my favourites is Exo-Politics.
Stare at a wall for 15min. At some point I actually tart tripping
According to legend the monk Bodhidarma achieved enlightenment just by staring at a cave wall, it’s a time-honored tradition
My wife and I are completely opposite with this one here. If I stare at a wall for 15 min, we are not sure I will get back to the surface again, so peaceful… while my wife would suddenly rather fix our lawn mower. She’s like the squirrel from Over The Hedge… She’s diagnosed with ADHD and I am with ADD, it’s quite obvious when looking at us, haha.
LSD applied directly to genitals you’ll end up doing something at least and if you just stare at the wall it will look cool
Mentioned it before but: Watch a show with crazy but functional characters until mirror-neurons/code-switching/whatever-the-hell-it-is kicks in and you start being able to act and think like them. Then do the task as that character. The more unhinged the character the better because then it’s just fun to kinda larp them in your head as you do your task, and it takes your mind off of the task itself but still gets you to do the task.
Also very helpful for writing essays btw. Like if normally you write essays “like a robot” just pick someone who speaks with charisma and write the essay in the way you think they would. I’m not joking, it really helps
This reminds me of a piece of advice I once got when taking foreign language exams. Try to think how your teacher talks and writes and act like them. Embody them.
Then I accidentally pick Cheryl/carol from archer and burn the whole place down.
Idk, you’re just as likely to release a banger of a country album
Outlaw country!
Just make sure you stay away from glue.
YOU’RE NOT MY SUPERVISOR!!
Oh look another thing I do but never realized was due to my ADHD.
I do this, but I’ve never thought to turn it back on itself and use it to my advantage, pure genius!
I would do that to an unhealthy degree if I liked more characters from my native language (dubs are usually lame) … hard to larp a character in a foreign language.
So… How unhinged is your behavior? Where you from Dread Pirate Roberts to the first Freddy Kruger movie
