Danielle RalstonFounder, How Capacity Works · Founder of ND Hive | Building the productivity hub where work actually gets done | Execution spaces, body doubling & community accountability

Overwhelm, Burnout and Frustration Oh My!

13 Apr 2023 · 1 min

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Adults with ADHD often experience overwhelm as sensory overload, where even small things like distant whispers or the thought of conversation feel painful. This intensifies after holidays when family chaos spikes, leading to burnout and frustration that the speaker sees repeatedly in clients.

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So overwhelm, burnout, and frustration when you're ADHD can look like, um, it can look like so many things. And one of the big things that I see with overwhelm is, you know, those days that your hair hurts, the air hurts, somebody talking, somebody whispering 10 rooms away, somebody just— the idea of even talking to somebody just sets you off. You're overstimulated and frustrated. When you're ADHD, that is a very, very, very normal place to be, especially just coming off the holidays with kids home from school and the chaos that all of that causes. I was seeing that in every one of my clients for the last few weeks. And the burnout and frustration come from the overwhelm. Um,