Mastodawn

Basically we either use PINCH and run HEALTHILY on dopamine and noradrenaline by making every boring task interesting

we wait for adrenaline and cortisol, run on anxiety and experience the usual cycles highs and lows.

That's what I'm getting from all I'm reading from actual psychiatrist with ADHD.

You reap what you saw
PINCH: joy, calm, happiness.
STRESS: chronic fatigue syndrome and burn out.

Sometimes things are indeed a binary choice. And it won't matter whether you're medicated or not, you still have to choose the last mile. Meds only get you so far.

@actuallyadhd

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Petra Mar 10

@maikel

I am currently trying to work out how to integrate PINCH into my day to day in order to get things done.

It is proving most difficult with external things that I am not really bothered about but have to get done, which is where I need to use it most.

As I am currently deliberately unmedicated for the ADHD it is vital that I get this sorted. I am trying to bear in mind that often things that work, only work for a short time and then new coping strategies are needed before I fall off into the stress responses again.

Anyway, good luck with it! Here'shoping we both find our paths through this!

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yelling jackal Mar 10

@maikel oooh I'll have to bookmark this and come back to it again, I have been working according to this, slowly, but I think I need to go back to the start and look at it all with a new perspective again since I have clearer goals now.

Have noticed that it's necessary to do per process, and sometimes need multiple processes per thing according to what energy levels and things are accessible when it's necessary to do the thing.

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Maikel 🇪🇺 🇪🇸Mar 10

@len of you can go to Google and type ADHD pinch and you'll the the same image or additional ones explain it better.

I printed the one that was the clearest for me, then "made" one unifying pinch and anti-pinch in Spanish.

My flatmate has a much more severe and disabling ADHD than me so he got the Spanish one I made.

@len also consider these are all statistical AVERAGES, don't enclose yourself in the box of PINCH for motivation.

Like, I know for a fact the biggest positive motivator I can have is the need for FREEDOM, which can also be a negative.

Hence why I only do stuff that is flexible.
- flexible work (I'm my boss)
- flexible shifts.
- flexible university (Open University in the UK, soon the Spanish UNED for another degree) with distance learning.
- flexible coding languages (know more than 5).
- flexible boyfriend that can withstand me at my worst (I do inform them though, Miguel knows as much of ADHD as me).

@actuallyadhd

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Maikel 🇪🇺 🇪🇸Mar 10

@len gosh even flexible desk that I can sit or stand, flexible housing without a contract that I can leave if I don't like, I'm a minimalist to counteract the inner complexity of my mind and be able to move easily from place A to B. Even my clothes need to be flexible (in what I wear).

Nothing push me more than freedom, not even PINCH.

@actuallyadhd

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Дими́трий Mar 10

@maikel @len @actuallyadhd

prefiero 'PINDU' a 'PINCH'

gracias