I just bought the new Spiderman Multiverse movie to watch with the family. The wife is sleeping through it and the kiddo loves it. But I’m to ADHD to sit through it. Ugh frustrating.
I can barely handle a 8 minute online video
But I can listen to a podcast. But I’m usually doing something else at the time.
Yea I love movies but yea sometimes it can be tough.
Tbh getting high helps lol
But then you’re on a whole other level. But true sometimes it slows the brain down a little. CBD is great too.
Constant scrolling social media on your phone gifting you with small doses of dopamine causes this. I used to read a book every two weeks few years ago and I have reached a point recently where books were boring, movies were too long so I watched series only. Realization is the first step. Now you have to make steps to change this. I have swapped bedtime phone scrollig to reading and books again and lowered my daytime phone usage. I have also watch some educational youtibe videos instead of scrolling some social media. It has helped a lot and now I’m back into reading and much more patient.
My wife spends an incredible time scrolling through TikTok and instagram reels but she is perfectly capable on sitting through 10 hours a day to watch a dorama, still I have a hard time finishing a movie when I barely use social media
Edit: I’m diagnosed with ADHD and she’s not
Watch? We watch movies now?
Start movie. Title sequence rolls, immediately tab out because loading screen. Fine, stuff is happening. Ugh, setup/framing scenes. Need coffee. Pause. Kettle on. May as well wait until I’ve made the coffee so I don’t have to break the flow again. I’ll just quickly mine some dopamine on the net while i’m waiting. Oh fuck the kettle’s boiling. Oh fuck? Oh, right. Procrastinating a thing makes it stressful, it’s turned into an obligation and therefore a threat. Okay, fine, I’ll get to it, I’ll just oh it’s 2am.
My god. This is me. I mostly only sit down to watch tv/movies in the evenings… and that’s probably when my adhd meds wear off… but I press pause and get up and down so often. I even annoy myself. Forget watching with my kids. They groan and give me the side eye whenever I say I need to go grab something etc…
I’ve also noticed, the more anxiety producing the show/movie is… the more I have to press pause and leave the room. Suspenseful? Horror? Car chase? Heist? Yup… mom’s gotta get up 20 times… 😑