Maybe it's ADHD

 

So over the last 6 months I have started following a few diagnosed ADHD people on social media platforms like Tik Tok and Facebook, and have begun questioning my own mental health diagnosis as I have found that most often that ADHD seems to be undiagnosed or misdiagnosed. 

I've also recently learned about a thing that some people with ADHD do called "Body Doubling" where they need the presence of another person there in order for them to accomplish a task. I found that I unknowingly do this when I have to clean or do the dishes. I like to talk on the phone. If I am talking on the phone I can get things done, where if I am "by myself" I cant seem to do the task at hand.
So many times a girlfriend of mine will call me at night and I will begin wanting to do the dishes, or do laundry, or some other cleaning task that I have put off. And if the person on the phone wants to hang up, I find that is the time that whatever task I was doing at time is "finished". 

For example, my friend called me the other night, and I started doing dishes. I stopped when she had to hang up and haven't really been near my sink in 3 days. In one Tik Tok video, a guy was showing himself being "painfully bored" and his 'roommate' (played by himself) was like 'dude wtf is wrong with you' and the guy who was painfully bored described in metaphoric terms what he was experiencing. And it was like a light bulb turned on, because I go through those times where I "need" to do something but "cant". 

I do not own this video, but this is almost 100% of how I feel at any one given time.

Posted by Michael Scott Peterson on Thursday, March 3, 2022