Navigating Life's Challenges: My Journey with Depression and ADHD
Join me as I share my personal experiences living with depression and adult ADHD. Through candid reflections, I aim to provide insights into my daily struggles, coping mechanisms, and the lessons learned along the way. Together, we can find understanding and support in this journey of mental health.
5/8/20242 min read
Thursday September 5th 2024
Today started fairly well, we all handle and cope with mental health issues differently, in my case it is depression and ADHD but as I said today started as a good day. Got out of bed with ease no super tiredness, no wanting to stay there and nothing rattling around my head ready to drag me down is always a bonus.
Infact I was ready to tackle the day head on.
Fed my cats
Let the dogs out of the house
switched on the internet
headed for the kitchen to put kettle on (life does not start until I've had my first mug of tea for the day)
Let the dogs into the paddock to play
Made and consumed my mug of tea
Washed the pots that were left from last night
so the day started well, my head was clear and within myself I felt a-ok. Thought I would take some time to sit and write some thoughts down as I'm finding it quite cathartic but the dogs had a completely different agenda, 13 dogs (10 rescues of my own and 3 which I am looking after for a friend) seemed hell bent on screwing up any plans I had, several decided to make a break for it and dug a hole under the fence like a scene from the great escape, they then took great delight running around the village without a care in the world while those that remained were making plans of their own to destroy my peace of mind.
From here on my day had gone to pot. Once I had rounded up the escapees and tried to secure the fence with a mish-mash of bits (at least I stopped the bigger dogs, for now) I was completely out of sorts, my inner calm had got up and gone which left me feeling all jittery and on edge for the remainder of the day, which made actually achieving a complete job impossible, so I do what I normally do spend most of the day lying on my bed scrolling through you-tube, playing mindless games or sleeping which seems to be my default setting. I am so lucky that my husband understands me enough to deal with it.