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How to Trick Your ADHD Brain into Cleaning (with Science!)
My sophomore year in college, my dorm room was invaded by an army of fruit flies. It was my own fault—I had misplaced several avocados a week earlier and they had started to rot. Unfortunately, finding and disposing of the decomposing avocados was not an easy task. The topography of my cluttered room had begun to resemble a J.R.R. Tolkien map: Were the rotting avocados hiding beneath Dirty Laundry Mountain or Damp Towels Butte? Perhaps they had gotten stuck behind the Twin Towers of Loose Papers and Books I'll Eventually Get Around to Reading. Had they sunk into the Swamp of Textbooks of Semesters Past? Maybe they had rolled into the Cave of Abandoned Hobbies—aka under my bed—where a broken skateboard, half-finished sewing projects, a wood burning kit, two manuals on sailor's knots, and a sundry assortment of my other short-term interests had all gone to quietly die.
By Sam Strauss5 years ago in Psyche
The Challenge of Being Positive Around Negative People
Quick Fact -It can be very difficult to be positive around negative people, especially if their negativity is strong. However, doing so often makes life easier to live for you, and sometimes, it even helps them!
By Gabriel Mohr5 years ago in Psyche
Why It's Important To Know How To Lie
Quick Fact -Knowing how to lie makes it easier to spot liars! It also makes it easier to catch yourself if you’re lying to yourself or others.
By Gabriel Mohr5 years ago in Psyche
What Judgment Is, and How To Handle It
Quick Facts -Judgment is the process of gathering information and coming to a conclusion or decision, and usually, the end result is based on commonly-accepted law and/or morality.
By Gabriel Mohr5 years ago in Psyche
ADHD Productivity and the Pomodoro Method
If you have ADHD as an adult, you know that focusing on the right thing at the right time can feel like winning the lottery. Many adults with ADHD find the act of focusing to be extremely taxing, unlesshey happen to be fixated on something at the time.
By Annie Kiely5 years ago in Psyche
There can not be Light without the Shadow
If I had only known this two decades ago. Maybe it would have changed my life entirely. Maybe I would have been going through the same experiences but with a different attitude towards it. Or maybe everything would have happened just the same.
By Natalia Vaduva5 years ago in Psyche
Shared Secrets
“A little book, that’s all it is”. I keep repeating it to myself. “It’s just a book! A little black book. Nothing more”.
By Anthony Mcaloon5 years ago in Psyche
Drudging through Depression
Whenever I see articles or self care tips of “just go outside,” “take a shower,” “clean anything,” or something else to that effect when in a depressive slump, it just makes me feel worse. Do you know how much energy those tasks take? How much I have to force myself to do these things, only to feel worse by the end of it? Even the thought is exhausting.
By J. Lee5 years ago in Psyche
How to Recognize the Mask of Smiling Depression
The news that Robin Williams, our beloved comedian and Academy Award-winning actor, had committed suicide shocked the world.
By Gary McBrine5 years ago in Psyche
The mythology of "flow" theory
It's fashionable, gauche, self-aggrandizing, and very, very common practice to make everything we do look easy, acting as though it was nothing, like we pooped it out after breakfast. Finishing lines disappear as dust in the wake of the high performers - another milestone, another award, another publication, another house, another million, however you measure it. The achiever barely notices the attention it brings, while they're caught in the act of endless celebration, posting their life as a constant party, barely even mentioning their greatest, latest achievement.
By Lia Ikkos5 years ago in Psyche
Are you highly sensitive? Take the quiz and find out
Editor's note: An earlier version of this article appeared on News Break. A devoted follower of my Facebook page emailed me recently and asked whether I ever had been told I am a “highly-sensitive person.”
By David Heitz5 years ago in Psyche
Dream Interpretation
One of the first signs that you are a witch or psychic is having very vivid dreams. The next sign is realizing that they are coming true or sending you messages for your waking life. Dream interpretation is a big part of witchcraft, especially in the beginning. Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud once said, “The dream is the (disguised) fulfillment of a (suppressed, repressed) wish.” It is our job to figure out what these wishes are and listen to our dreams as they show us how to get closer to what we want.
By Aivreyz5 years ago in Psyche