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LunaBBerlin
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PathStep 13 Compassion hearts32 Forum posts4 Forum upvotes6 Current upvotes6 Age GroupAdult Last activeAugust, 2023 Member sinceAugust 15, 2023
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Glitch in My Path
Site Updates / by LunaBBerlin
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 August 18th, 2023
...See more I keep getting the “Find a Listener” exercise and am unable to move past it. How do you complete this one? I’ve just been asking for another exercise each time but that’s getting old fast. Thanks in advance!
Self-employed with executive dysfunction
Work & Career / by LunaBBerlin
Last post
 August 17th, 2023
...See more Hi! I just joined today. As the title indicates, I’m self-employed. I write and illustrate my own webcomic, and I love doing it. It’s my dream job. However, I struggle a lot with executive functioning, as well as all sorts of other mental health barriers. I’m autistic, I have ADHD, and I get easily overwhelmed which causes me to freeze up at the drop of a hat. My biggest struggles are changing tasks and low energy. Getting myself to the home office and getting started is a huge hurdle, and while I’d like to work five days a week, most weeks I can only manage to get there maybe two days. Some days it’s because I’m too weighed down by all the demands and clutter. I keep the house relatively organized, but if the pillows are out of place and there’s any dishes on the table, it saps my energy. My husband and I just moved, so there’s still a decent amount of organizing to do. We both have ADHD, so keeping dishes and laundry going is a Herculean task. He’s medicated for depression and ADHD and I’m medicated for anxiety. I can’t start medication for ADHD yet because I’m nursing our 6-mo-old. Husband is recently unemployed and looking for at-home work. I suppose my question is, what tips do y’all have for working at home successfully with these struggles? How do you manage the overwhelm of visual clutter? How do you get yourself to Do The Thing? And how do you not feel like crap all the time because it’s too overwhelming to eat three meals a day, pump milk each time, keep laundry clean, keep dishes clean, shower regularly, keep the pillows on the couch, make the bed and go to work each day? (Bless my husband for doing all the cooking)
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