Frazzled and My ADHD — ADD Tip O the Day 701

Frazzled

Homey just wrote about overwhelmed, but yesterday, I was frazzled. It’s not the same. My appointment was canceled and rescheduled, I was behind on my blog posts and everything else, Marge broke her arm and I needed to walk her dog for her, I was on the phone trying to get something straight with a lady,  and my wife came in and started writing me a note.   I threw my hand up in the air and waggled it at her but she kept writing.

All my structure was falling apart, too many things were happening at once.  I wanted to throw both hands up in the air and waggle them and scream. But I didn’t.   I finished the phone call and looked at the note. Funny, the urgent note was my wife telling me that the lady I was just talking to wanted me to call her.   That was fine, but I wasn’t any less frazzled.

Unsettled, agitated, spinning, jittery, disorganized, disconbobulated – frazzled.

John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, once said, and I paraphrase, “I’m really busy today. I’ll have to take an extra hour of prayer.”

So there was all this stuff I need to get done, and I was frazzled. I stopped and had my quiet time. It worked. I wasn’t frazzled anymore. I’m not saying I was great, just that I wasn’t frazzled.

Strategies:

1. Recognize that you’re frazzled.
2.  Stop.
3.  In this example, I stopped and did my quiet time. I think taking a walk outdoors probably would’ve worked too.

doug

Bonus Links O the Day:

Frazzled 1

Frazzled 2

Overwhelmed

With ADHD, sometimes things just get out of hand.

 

 

 

 

 

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