Throw your fucking phone in the toilet if you spend 3 hours with it trying to “convince yourself” to do something.

I think that’s a misunderstanding of how ADHD, and in fact mental illness in general, works. Perhaps for some people removing the distraction will work, but more often in my experience another will just fit in its place. The phone is not the problem, it is a symptom.

Phones are a very powerful attention trap. I’d be curious to hear an argument of a more powerful and accessable one

The phone isn’t what causes this issue in people with adhd, I do it with or without a phone. You’re just misunderstanding how adhd works.

I’m aware how ADHD behaves, I have it. I’ve been medicated for years.

It is obvious to me and many others who have it that things of great dopamine satisfaction are ESPECIALLY distracting. Cellphone distraction is a known attention sink and such things are even more powerful for folks with attention/focus issues.

I guarantee any of us locked in a blank room and a sink full of dishes would be faster to complete the chore if we were without engrossing distraction.

Those with ADHD have an even higher responsibility to themselves to remove distractions and keep a “clean” lifestyle. It’s a cop out to not acknowledge massive distraction triggers or traps.

I’m not suggesting those struggling are lesser. Only that they may be not meeting their own self care needs, willfully or otherwise.

If you’re aware of how adhd works then you of all people should know that “throw your phone in the toilet” is shite advice that only someone who doesn’t know how adhd works would give if you have adhd then you should know better than that.