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

Stressed The F** Out?? Yeah We Get It

18 Apr 2023 · 1 min

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Danielle Ralston breaks down stress: what it does to your body and the people around you, and why some people with ADHD, especially women, deliberately pile it on to perform. It wrecks your brain and body.

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So there are so many ways to deal with stress. There, there are emotional ways of dealing with stress and emotional ways that they disperse out to the world around you. Because if you're stressed out, believe me, it's not just you who's feeling that. Everybody in your world feels it and can see it. There is— everybody knows, just everybody knows. So there's the emotional component. There's the physical component. Speaking of stress, too much stress in ADHD people, ADHD women are especially, are awesome at increasing their own stress in order to force themselves to get things done. I hear the, well, I have to wait until the last second to get something done. Because I do best under pressure. I do best under pressure. No, do you? Well, yes, but when you do that physically, you are damaging your brain and every single cell in your body.