Does anyone know what to do about ADHD paralysis?

thank you everyone for your help and love. i was actually able to get out of the paralysis and get my work due done🥲🫶 thanks again love you🩷

What are you stuck with? Which task in particular? I heard something very help from from Chalene Johnson - break big tasks that create paralysis into very tiny doable pieces her rule of thumb was it can be done in 15 minutes! - don’t say clean bedroom or write essay - say - pick up all the garbage from my room - pick up all dishes/cups from my room and put them in the hallway or in a tub to bring to kitchen - pick up all dirty laundry

You know - you DID do something 🥰 You found whatever device you use, picked it up, opened this app, clicked through to post, muscled up courage to post, and then you posted. That’s at least 6 things, and that’s something. It’s sometimes helpful for me to know what I’ve done to remind me of what I can do. And sometimes it’s totally okay to sit with your paralysis, pour it a glass of wine and hang out. Ask it why it has stopped by, and then do one teeny tiny thing.

I used to call it “fruck” - frozen + stuck. After poking around a little bit, I found “The Wall of Awful”. Reading about it sooo helped me wrap my brain around what this fruckness really was. Here is a link to Brendan Mahan who coined the term: https://www.adhdessentials.com/essentials/the-wall-of-awful/ Sometimes it helps to break everything down to its smallest, teeny tiniest bit that does not make your stomach hurt and just do that. Hope this helps. 🥰