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Struggles at work

Vickstick

Hi all. I'm late diagnosed Autism and ADHD (diagnosed at the age of 49) and I work as a full time Admin Team Lead. The struggle I'm having is that after a particularly busy work day, I find that I'm pretty much useless the day after. Like yesterday I had back to back meetings and staff supervisions, catch ups with various people and phonelines to cover. Super busy and hectic. Today I can barely function. I have some stuff that I need to get done, not a whole lot, but it's nearly 11am and I can't even get started. I'm medicated for ADHD but even that is not helping today. I can barely even talk today.

Does anyone else get like this? It's so bad, it's almost painful.

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  • most neurodivergent people run into burnout and more often than they might even realise as we often push ourselves to keep going.  Yes it is painful, exhausting but psychologically painful too as we feel we are failing. WE ARE NOT failing at all, of course. Glad you've got an understanding manager. another factor I always found until I managed to stop is it adding to my own exhaustion by piling in negative feedback onto myself, judging myself for not being better. Today I've had a pottering kind of day, lots of little minor jobs done to make it productive but nothing requiring too much concentration. it has been lovely and restful but not wasted. I also took a walk outside in the sunshine to make myself feel more connected with the natural world. That is also deeply restorative, just a small patch of greenery can do the trick for burnout. good luck but exploring your internal thought patterns against yourself is a massive help as is accepting your limitations and working constructively with them.

    hope this makes sense and helps

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  • most neurodivergent people run into burnout and more often than they might even realise as we often push ourselves to keep going.  Yes it is painful, exhausting but psychologically painful too as we feel we are failing. WE ARE NOT failing at all, of course. Glad you've got an understanding manager. another factor I always found until I managed to stop is it adding to my own exhaustion by piling in negative feedback onto myself, judging myself for not being better. Today I've had a pottering kind of day, lots of little minor jobs done to make it productive but nothing requiring too much concentration. it has been lovely and restful but not wasted. I also took a walk outside in the sunshine to make myself feel more connected with the natural world. That is also deeply restorative, just a small patch of greenery can do the trick for burnout. good luck but exploring your internal thought patterns against yourself is a massive help as is accepting your limitations and working constructively with them.

    hope this makes sense and helps

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