Does focusing leave you Beat? | ADHD Information

I have found, that if I have a busy day, with lots of mental things going on at work that i have to try very hard to focus on to get complete, by the time I get home I am intectually wiped. That's the best I can explain it, its like I don't have the mental energy to take on another mental task.

So many times I come home, and there are a pile of things I need to do, but I just can't drum up the energy. I feel horrible and Lazy, but I spend most nights trying to rest up for the next days work challenges. Which puts me behind in housework, bills and such everyday things.

As odd as that sounds.

But on Saturday and Sundays, when I don't work, I get all kinds of things accomplished, its easy, because Im not drained when I start.

Maybe I need vitamins LOL

If too many things require my focus, it's like my brain becomes exhausted and I just shut down. Medication helped with that but I'm not medicated right now.

Cheekydeeky

I had the same thoughts. I thought I was a very lazy person (which meant I had to admit my mother was "right" about me all of those years) or that I might have chronic fatigue syndrome. Or I thought it might be due to my heart (mitral valve prolapse) and that I was just going to have to live with it.

see thats funny, i guess i was having that total exhaustion feeling from spending energy listening to my very picky and verbose clients on the phone all day at work, but even on meds i crash like crazy just about three as well..i get off at five, and i drive home in an hour and half of traffic. i must tell you, as whiny as it sounds, i've feared driving home being that tired, i've thought about pulling over on the side of the road and sleeping in my car..or just staying at my office and taking a nap there!!

i guess the big deal for me mentally about all of this is that i did feel very alone in all of this. i felt like i was some horribly unhealthy and pathetic person that every day - to manage to get through it is like walking up a mountain and i was just so utterly wasted and spent. to know that you guys deal with the same amount of catastrophic crash and recuperate makes it a bit better. truly. i don't feel like such a freak. like" whats wrong with me? do i have fatigue disorder? am i just so unhealthy that i can't even stay up for an entire day? am i just extraordinarily lazy?"

sincerely,

sumi

i could weep with agreement! i have constantly felt like less a person b/c as i write this it is one hr away from my designated clock out..and i'm wiped out..i'm as good as a bug on a windshield..when i get home i'll be crashing onto my couch...and then maybe i can scrape up enough energy to get through with putting my son to bed. my husband makes me feel like a lazy selfish jerk, not b/c he implies that i am, but rather i see him doing so many things with my son and i just don't have the energy. just scrape my body off the floor pls.

i'm so glad that i'm in good company.

i am so needing a nap right now!

sumi

I'll have to try that. May be something to do with the endorphens released during excersize.

I'm the same way. I would rather do physical labor for 8 hours than to have to concentrate for 4. Love this job because (most days) it comes in spirts. I have to deal with something, then I can create down time (driving to another location, surfing for information, etc.) before doing another project.

Before meds I was absolutely the same way!!! I never understood why I was so wiped out after just 1 hour of trying to concentrate. And at work . . . totally wiped out by 3 (I work till 5).

At home I was trying to organize an image morgue for myself (reference images for my artwork). I had saved tons of pictures and wanted them in some sort of organized fashion. Whenever I tried organizing it, in one hour I was completely wiped out and could do no more of anything!

Thanks Gawd for meds! Better living through modern chemistry!

I know this seems like a contradictory suggestion, but it works.

Working out when you get home really helps with this. I always run a mile when I get home from work. Even though it seems like when you get home you won't have the energy to do this, once you start, it feels good. All you have to do is force yourself to start excercising (easier said than done, I know) and when you' re done you'll feel a lot better about yourself.

[QUOTE=Just Dave]

As odd as that sounds.

But on Saturday and Sundays, when I don't work, I get all kinds of things accomplished, its easy, because Im not drained when I start.

Maybe I need vitamins LOL

[/QUOTE] Before meds I could only do and hour of homework and would have to take a nap. Anything that took intense concentration drained everything I had and left me exhausted all the time. Just organizing myself enough to do housework took too much and I often let it go and felt lazy and stupid and horrable about myself. I can relate.