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What is the one thing I want people to know about me? my name is Charlie I have ADHD and am struggling with my mental health after ankle surgery and having to try to be calm while I am not working

That’s very helpful thank you for sharing. I’ve struggled with mediation due to ADHD and my habit of staying in high alert, but I’ve been getting better

Hello all I just wanted to reach out and start a conversation about anything, i guess. I'm not sure what i am looking for in life right now. I've hit a spot where nothing feels exciting or the things that do feel exciting feel unattainable. So i'm just downloading any and every app visiting any and every website hoping life will bring the answers to me. I am 33 a single mom, recently diagnosed and medicated for ADHD. I can't stand my job. I'm tired of feeling stuck. I feel like I have this big ball of greatest inside me with no way out. I don't have very many friends and none that I actually hangout with. I'm not sure what to do or where to start. Being diagnosed with ADHD (and at the same time PTSD) was on one hand amazing because I thought i was just a broken person with no real reason as to why but on the other hand i'm really upset that growing up no one in my life took any time to try and help me figure out who i am and what i am the way that i am. Does anyone out there have a similar situation (or had) and can recommend what to do to figure myself out? To figure out what i want and how i can feel like its possible? Thank you for reading

My name is Willie and I’m 48 years old, and I’ve suffered from the same thing for over 35 years including addiction, and I’ve been researching and using different techniques on myself and noticed that we all have a spirit inside of us and when I tapped into that my depression and bipolar and ADHD has gotten so much better. This takes time to line out, but meditation and processing your feelings before you have a break and try to prevent it from taking control. It takes practice and the more you practice the principles of acceptance and being honest with yourself even when you go through a break, your mind will start to respond. The mind can heal itself and it will go to normal and stay functioning if you keep fighting for it to work for you. It may also take getting a Therapist and dealing with some deep hurt.

I think you need to dig into your past and figure out where it all started. ADHD has to have a point of reference, and you need to find it and understand how it all began.

Between the anxiety and self loathing I endure,I also have ADHD. But I keep fighting myself,I sometimes loose..I'm a lover of good people and am trying to learn to paramotor.but the cashflow doesn't help.

Thank you for your kind response, Tina! I feel a bit sheepish as I've totally let my meditation practice and routine go for a little while now - my body clock has turned inside out since taking a break from ADHD medication (and the lack of daylight in the UK at the moment doesn't help!) and so I haven't been able to work it into my morning routine. Back on the medication now though, hoping to start afresh! I'm not sure whether to start again at this point or proceed from Week 5? I feel I've been a bit lost for the last couple of weeks!

@Tine Thank you for your detailed response! I've extended week 3 for an additional week as I missed a couple of days along the way and didn't have time to do the readings for the next week either. I had one really 'good' yoga session writing my last comment, where I was determined to be present and accept whatever was there. It almost felt like the body scan and led me to feel more in contact with my body, and I felt a sense of relief afterwards. I had one really 'bad' yoga session that I had to cut short as I got so distracted that I started to think of upsetting things to the point I'd totally tuned out and started crying. And I had one that felt 'pointless' as I felt I was just putting my body in different positions but not paying attention to what I was doing at all. I also tried a different 'yoga for ptsd' practice on a day that was difficult for me and was astonished by how much physically weaker I am when feeling very depressed. I think the best day I had with the prescribed video on this course was when I was feeling very low indeed, and even slight movement was a challenge. It provided maybe just enough of a challenge on those days.. Maybe on days when I'm feeling stronger, it would be good to push myself a little more, in order to keep myself more engaged. I think while I'm following this course, I'll try to follow it to the letter as closely as possible, just to be able to notice how the same practice can feel different on different days. But once I've completed it, I'll select practices that I feel will be the most helpful to me on a given day. Just trying not to waste too much time in the mornings wondering which video would be 'optimal' rather than actually just doing something (a very real challenge with ADHD haha)

I've just finished week 1 and forgot to introduce myself! I've done an in-person 4-week course a few years ago as part of treatment for depression and have been using 'Finding Peace in a Frantic World' to try and meditate regularly by myself for several years. Mindfulness practice was possibly the best treatment out of all the many things I've tried, but I'm not good at keeping up with it alone! I've recently had a diagnosis of adult ADHD and started on medication - I joined this course hoping it would give me more structure and commitment to practice, and so far it has done that! I've not missed a day yet. My first day of the Body Scan was also my first day of medication, and I was amazed that I could actually sit for 30 mins and spend more time in quiet wonder than angry/anxious rumination. I noticed getting distracted sometimes but think I was able to come back to the body without stressing out about it. Now I'm getting used to medication, the familiar inner chaos is returning more strongly and I find myself drifting away from the narration and getting lost sometimes - but I guess it's not meant to be all easy and angels singing!