Braver than you believe, stronger than you think.

ADHD symptoms are hard enough.. but how much of our difficulty might be caused by low self esteem? For myself, I feel its probably 10-20%.

ADHD can make it hard to do things.. cooking, sleeping, socializing, trying ANYTHING.. and that causes us to fail CONSTANTLY.

There is a concept called ‘Learned Helplessness’ where after facing REPEATED painful stimuli (in our case, failing or RSD), you kinda just accept it. You just accept that you’ve lost control and stop trying to change it.

You often see it in people suffering from mental health problems. After a few years, you just kinda give up and accept that you will be like this forever.

So what does that do? Well, on top of the problems from ADHD, you become less likely to try things because you feel like you will fail. So no, not only is your executive dysfunction holding you back, so if you self esteem.