Audhd

But burnout is one of the body’s final defenses against unrelenting, unsustainable demand, and it is only by reevaluating those demands and abandoning a huge number of them that we can actually begin to heal — and heal as the people we are, not the hyper-reliable workhorses we long to be.

These are fair questions, and ones that I hear a lot, from survivors of Autistic burnout and “regular” clinical burnout alike. No matter how profoundly drained and depressed a burned-out person might be (and no matter how much mistreatment got them to that point) they are usually desperate to return to their old, pre-burnout baseline as swiftly as... See more

Being (somewhat) self aware is a funny thing—sometimes I’m just sitting there watching myself fail, getting frustrated that I’m not doing anything about it yet not having the will power to change anything

So she decided to practice task initiation. Like a skill you can learn.

She started working on her art in between hosting tables at a restaurant, and allowed interruptions to become part of the experience of creating her art.

And as soon as I heard this story, I thought: holy shit. We get to do that?

We get to practice initiation—and make it feel safe... See more

The way I see it: Nervous system regulation is often reactionary.

Capacity building is much more preparatory.