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The roast potatoes were good. Worth not bothering with the walk.

Yes, quite a lot of the time actually, days blend into each other, there’s little motivation for anything and I look forward to bedtime. It feels a little like depression as you lose interest in your usual goto’s. There’s something missing and I cannot put my finger on it but it does pass as hellish as it feels at the time. 

I have this issue too. Sometimes books are my absolute saviour on a bad day. On others I can take in a single word.

That's good to hear, yeah music always helps me to relax 

Very helpful thank you.

Sometimes I read a book, but other times i can lose my ability to concentrate on a book. So, I just listened to music instead.

I ended up listening to music.

I just retreat into a book, I can nearly always rely on a book to get me through a fug.

Yeah, I sometimes have those kinds of days, but when I do, I really want to listen to music and nothing else 

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I did a lot of ironing yesterday. I'm taking today off ... except I have to make dinner. I was going to go for a walk, but decided I'll save my energy to make some nice roast potatoes instead.

I don't normally want to sleep during the day, but a very strong sense that doing nothing would be good for me is a regular occurrence. I put it down to ADHD: my brain needs a rest from trying (and failing) to do things. If I plan to do nothing, and then I do nothing, then I've successfully executed on my plan! Go me!

Some days I'm so tired and in pain that I don't always manage to eat meals that day nevermind do anything else.

Yep! That has been my weekend!

Perhaps I should listen to my mind too. As you do.

I do. Sometimes my mind is very fragmented and I can not read, or think, or even care about eating.

(When very focused I dont eat well either, but for other reasons.)

I take that fragmentation of mind as a request to stop, and may order food and rest all day.