Katie McManus talks about why people with ADHD lose their routines after breaks like vacations and can't easily restart them. She calls it "losing the juice" and describes the frustration of returning from time off only to rebuild structure from nothing.
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Your routine gets broken and you have adhd, it's not like you can jump right back into it for whatever reason. When we lose the juice in a routine, it's kind of like getting lost in the woods without any way to navigate yourself out. The most frustrating instance of this is when you go on vacation and you come back and you seem to have forgotten how you do your work. This happens to every single one of my clients. It happens to me. It's so frustrating because you've just gone on this, like, amazing, relaxing, recharging break, and you come back, and all of a sudden, like, it's like you have to start from scratch all over again. Anyone who has ADHD has this experience of trying to create structure in their life and having that structure not work for them, or not following through on what you say you're going to do. The most important thing is.