Angela Mondor gets ADHD burnout roughly once a month, where she can't work and retreats to true-crime shows or crafts. A conversation with her 12-year-old about fire drills sparked the idea to use "stop, drop, and roll" as a three-step method to recognize and interrupt the cycle.
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have put together. And it literally became, came from my own experiences with burnout over and over and over again. With ADHD, it seems like it actually comes in more of a cycle. Like I get burned out almost every month for at least 1 to 2 days, but then, and my creativity falls off and I don't want to work on my business. I would just rather binge on true crime and work on a simple stitch that, you know, is either for a custom order, even though it's still working, but I still get enjoyment out of it. Or like, I completely, completely shut down. Like you said, like, I don't even get up off the couch. And I also deal with depression too. And so sometimes it's hard to discern, is this a depression burnout or is this a work burnout? And So looking through that and just kind of stepping back and kind of having like an out-of-body experience, just being like, okay, what are the symptoms of each? What are the triggers for each? How do I discern between the two? And at the same time, kids were starting to go back to school this year. And we had— they talked about, of course, in the US, we have lockdown drills, which is scary. And then we also have the standard fire drills. And my 12-year-old was talking and kind of laughing about how fun it was to practice the stop, drop, and roll. And I— it just kind of clicked in my head.
