Female ADHD burnout explained 🤯 #adhd

1. APAlex Partridge0:00

   Oh, I would describe it as a very complex, severe, and serious condition. I would definitely use the word health condition. Maybe some doctors wouldn't agree with me. Think it's often mixed with tiredness, severe tiredness, but I think it's a lot more than that. As you describe, it comes with shame, it comes with guilt, it comes with the feeling of being inefficient or failing, or it comes with a lot of, uh, labels, and people end up with labels like lazy, irresponsible, irritable, confrontational. I mean, there is a long list of labels that people are given when they actually are failing to do what is expected and when they're trying to mask and still do it. So some people fail and don't do it, and some people succeed and do it, but then there is a burnout. So when all that is in the mix, people just completely shut down. I've seen people who need months and months to recover, and then it's not about just stopping and sleeping enough and having a break and going somewhere on holiday, and then when you come back, you will be fine. I think people often don't know where to start. So how do I recover? How do I deal with all this shame? Because they come back to the same world, so they still have to navigate, do I say yes to this? Do I say no? Do I have to stay in this situation and keep masking? So, uh, they actually face, um, the fear of going back to what we call normal, uh, that led to that burnout

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