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Not Coping

Birdofparadise8Senior Contributor

Not Coping

Hey everyone how are you all?

@RiverSeal @Shaz51 @NatureLover @tyme @Former-Member @Eve7 @Former-Member @amber22 @Jynx @FloatingFeather

I'm not doing great at all today. I'm feeling down. I also keep beating myself up for everything and feel like I'm just failing. I need a break from everything. It's getting so hard that I don't know how to keep going anymore especially since I can't talk to anyone around me as they are leaving me or don't understand.

Hope you don’t mind me reaching out I just really need a chat and though I could come on here and vent and talk for a bit.

Thank you

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JynxModerator

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@Birdofparadise8 umm... I mean I don't know the science of it, but it's to do with deficits in working memory, one of the facets of our executive functions - which are moderately to severely impaired for ADHDers.

In other words, I struggle to hold information in my mind, which makes it much harder to remember things, and much harder to convert things to long-term memory. For example, I might be midway through a task, go into another room for some reason, and forget that I was working on said task. Or I will lose track of items, even if I was just holding it a minute ago. If someone tells me a piece on info like an address or a date for an event, if I don't write it down immediately I will forget within like 20 seconds.

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Birdofparadise8Senior Contributor

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Did that make studying hard for you @Jynx

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creative_writerSenior Contributor

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@Birdofparadise8 I’m doing my final assignments rn. Considering that my attention span is naturally pea sized, you can imagine how stressful it is. Living off matcha to get through it 😅

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Birdofparadise8Senior Contributor

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Oh no. I'm sure you will get them done. Are they essays or something? @creative_writer

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JynxModerator

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Yeah absolutely @Birdofparadise8 it's harder to focus, harder to commit facts to memory, all of it. It's why I am so glad that my uni degree didn't have exams, only essays and prac. I was always really bad at history at school too, could never remember dates or names 😅

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Birdofparadise8Senior Contributor

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Lucky, you didn't have exams. I have three coming up. It might also depend on the course as well @Jynx

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JynxModerator

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Oh for sure @Birdofparadise8. And good luck on your exams!!

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Birdofparadise8Senior Contributor

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Thank you. I have them on the 31st of May, 7th and 14th of June. I get a week to study for each.

What are you doing tomorrow? @Jynx

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creative_writerSenior Contributor

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@Birdofparadise8one essay and one scoping review left, already did one essay

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Birdofparadise8Senior Contributor

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What is a scoping review @creative_writer

Is it similar to a systematic review, randomised control trial, or qualitative or quantitative studies?

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