Navigating Life with Depression and ADHD: My Personal Journey
Join me as I share my experiences living with depression and adult ADHD. This blog offers insights into my daily struggles, coping mechanisms, and the lessons learned along the way. Together, we can find understanding and support in this challenging journey of mental health.
5/8/20242 min read
life can seem challenging
Some days it feels just too hard to get out of bed, the feeling starts in the pit of my stomach and slowly climbs to the top of my head. The subtle but definite sensation of sickness, not the sort you feel when you're ill but the sort that is a bone deep sense of dread, a heaviness that is dragging you down, the sort that makes you feel like you've just survived a day from hell and yet you haven't yet put your toes from under the cover. But when you have animals in my case 13 dogs and 2 cats staying curled up in bed is not an option, they say in this situation I would have no choice but I do, I could stay in bed and focus on ignoring the barking from the dogs wanting to go out, the whinging from them needing attention and care or I can get up and deal with the day, that is my choice.
Dragging ones self out of bed and not giving into that need for cocooning myself away is in general a good thing, I have more than just me to care about and so my day begins. I get up feed my cats, let the dogs out, let them into the paddock to shake off some of that overnight energy they have accrued and then look to making me my first cup of tea for the day (there is no day without tea, even if I do only threaten the cup with the teabag), then it's switch the power on for the internet and TV (power goes off at the socket on a night), let that boot up so while the dogs are letting off steam I can indulge myself with my cup of tea and a quick listen to what ever audio book I am listening to, I am not one for the tv so it just flickers in the background waiting for my husband to get out of his bed and take up residency in his chair, his physical disability does not allow him to do much else. That would be a perfect start to the day, giving me time to deal with the inner turmoil but as we know reality is often so different.
