We’re seeing more messaging around productivity and more people measuring their worth based on achievement during the time of nothingness.
People with ADHD are easily flooded, tend to be highly emotional, and have a low frustration tolerance. In this period of heightened emotions, it’s no wonder that the emotional facet of our brains makes coping feel uncomfortable and overwhelming.Brain scans show that ADHD minds can sometimes be “hyper-aroused” or “hypo-aroused.” It explains why people with ADHD fall asleep when they’re under-stimulated — it’s not about fatigue at all — or freeze up when over-stimulated.
When we spend more time in this heightened state and can’t seem to escape our stressors, as is happening now, we go into overwhelm — this is when we enter the zone of, or the “dorsal vagal freeze state.” We can look at this zone as a protective path of last resort. We become numb, we feel disassociated, and are unable to act. We effectively shut down.
But faced with this collective, continuing trauma — the pandemic news cycle, lost jobs, sick loved ones, mourning the ones we’ve lost, remote schooling, work, and more — we’ve lived in a hyperarousal state for so long that we’ve passed it and merged almost semi-permanently into the hypoarousal. All we can do in this state is sit down on the couch, stare into space, and think, “I can’t.
The ADHD brain, as we know, does not automatically do well at putting on the brakes. But when we practice pausing, we are able to create the space to regulate and reason against stressors.We feel safest in our windows of tolerance, so creating a sense of safety even when weathering the storm can help our minds regain some sense of control.
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