ADHD and brain fog

Little_Owl

Hi all,

I am struggling really badly with brain fog. Concentrating is basically impossible. I feel completely disconnected and can't think properly. I'm mentally exhausted. I am waiting on some blood tests but this is something that I've struggled with since my teens, it's just worse than normal. The only thing I have found helpful in the past is intense exercise (HIIT) - I think the dopamine helps to clear my head - but I'm so tired that all I really want to do is sleep or stare into space! I also have chronic fatigue syndrome so basically this high intensity exercise is awful but for some reason it's like my body and brain need to be pushed through an invisible pain / fatigue barrier to then feel human for a few hours. Does anyone else struggle with similar issues? How do you deal with it? Are there any less extreme ways of getting enough dopamine without going through the pain of intense exercise with chronic fatigue?

MicMac

I bet the brain fog made it a challenge for you to write this. 😅

I struggle with it too, but I haven't found a good method to deal with it yet.

The most I can do for now is eat/drink something that gives me some kind of sugar or caffeine high, and then do as much as I can while I'm on that high. It lasts no time at all though, and doesn't even work that well.

Little_Owl

Just a bit! Takes a while to write something that makes sense. Thankfully it's easier if it something I'm already thinking about because it's kind of already in my brain somewhere!

Caffeine and sugar helps in the short term but it doesn't last long! Probably not great in the long term but I'm trying not to feel guilty about that at the moment.