Tips for Overcoming and Wait Mode when You Have ADHD
Although not a recognized clinical term, there is a phenomenon in the ADHD community known as "wait mode." Wait mode refers to when you have time right now, but there is a scheduled event, task, or appointment sometime in the future, and you feel unable to start anything new because you are waiting for the scheduled event
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Tips for Overcoming and Wait Mode when You Have ADHD

Although not a recognized clinical term, there is a phenomenon in the ADHD community known as “wait mode.” Wait mode refers to when you have time right now, but there is a scheduled eve…

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@dramypsyd Any progress is progress, but something often overlooked in advice is just how dysphoric it is to break flow. It’s not a fear of leaving something unfinished for me (I do that all the time, at least in my personal life) but the horror of the sensation of hitting stride on something productive *and then having to stop suddenly* because I’m out of time. It makes returning to the task that much harder, too, akin to resuming cleaning machinery after receiving a nasty cut.
@cwicseolfor @dramypsyd YES! This is how I experience it - it’s preemptive avoidance of the misery of being yanked out of hyperfocus.

@writerethink @dramypsyd And thus to avoid the crushing pain of losing flow we basically never allow it to happen in the first place.

For me this got to the point of basically eliminating all of my hobbies, one by one, in order to remain employed. Because shift is *always coming up.* Revenge bedtime procrastination plus waiting mode is a recipe for a doomscroll if I’ve ever heard one.