Good Days and Bad Days | ADHD Information

Just a quick topic/topics for discussion. I have had ADHD my whole life but finally got correct treatment in my mid twenties.

So here are my question/questions:

Do you know early on in your day whether you are going to have a "good day" or a "bad day"? What are the signs of a good day or a bad day. How frequently do you experience good days and bad days? What do you do to turn your day around if you are having a bad day? What things can turn a good day into a bad day?

Here are my answers:

Yes, I usually know early on in my day whether it will be a good day or a bad day. I usually know how the day will go on the elevator up to my desk. If it is going to be a bad day I get an uneasy feeling (almost scared). When I get to my desk, if I go to the internet and sort of read news but don't read news it is going to be a bad day. If on the way up the elevator, I am thinking about what I need to do when I sit down and if I get to my desk and get right to work. It is going to be a good day. I usually experience a bad day twice a week (Monday and Thursday). If I am having a bad day I brainstorm on projects until I get excited. Things that turn my good day into a bad day are people that see I am focused and still want to engage in small talk. Small talk has to be the biggest thing that can make me lose focus for an entire day.

How about everyone else?

Yes I always get that.

I know if it's going to be a bad day, as I forget my keys, then trip up, then nearly crash my car, then forget something else blah blah blah.

Its a good day if I get up and get ready with no fuss and leave the house early. This hardly ever happens!

I definitely have more bad days than good. I say to people 'oh excuse me, I am having a 'bad' day' and they just dont get it!

For me, the mind set of having a bad day can lead to further frustrations on an adhd brain and set me up for that negative self talk of "man i am going to blow it again"!

I never thought of turning my button up shirt inside out - not sure it would work with my uniform shirt - the sew on badges would be on the wrong side? Sounds like a good trick to play on some of my coworkers though - after a couple weeks in the woods i could see if they would even notice!!!

If i am out in the woods longer than planned - i have used the inside out underwear trick!!!

underwear? Is that some kind of footwear?

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It is what keeps your delicate parts from chaffing while wearing kevlar/nomex work pants!!!!

WOAH! Is that written down somewhere or did you just think of it? I'm impressed, but I impress easily. This is indeed a startling revalation for me and I will forever be in your debt. That idea coupled with my own personal startling discovery that if I drool tooth paste or coffee on my shirt, I just turn it inside out! I've been known to get 3 days out of one shirt if I don't drool on the second day.... IT'S ...(calm down).. its exciting to imagine all the time and money those two ideas could save.

It's rare that I can see the bad day coming. That would at least give me some ability to do damage control. Usually I just stumble through the fog and make it the best way I can.

Now my new gf knows enough about my ADHD that if she's around and sees my lack of attention and focus she'll ask if I took my meds and if not she'll shove the bottle in my hands and insist! That helps so much! If my meds were taken and just aren't working as well she'll give me some slack and that helps too.

Thankfully my bad days number far less than good these days. Usually its when I didn't take a med holiday or I'm coming up to it.

I, Can make a grey sky blue,

I can make it rain, whenever I want it to

I can build a castle from a single grain of sand,

I can make a ship sail, huh, on dry land

Temptations

Heres something I wrote on 'bad days'

November 25th It Just Ain't My Day!

I used to waste whole days because I considered them to be bad days. Perhaps I'd get a late start.. (usually because I'm dragging my feet and running at half steam) .. and now I must hurry to make it somewhere on time. Under the stress of being late and the extra stress of hurrying while worrying, something as simple as buttoning my shirt and ending up with an extra button hole because I started by putting the second button in the fist button hole could throw my negativity generator into overdrive. So, as I un-do and re-do the buttons I would think to myself... "its going to be a bad day", thus setting the tone of my day to blame all my seeming misfortunes on the day. I lived much of my life under this delusion of 'good' days and 'bad' days. Then one day by chance, I actually woke up on time, and as I went to button my shirt I looked down to make sure I had the buttons and holes lined up properly. After all, I got time, I might as well do it right the first time... yeah, its gonna be a good day. You see, I remembered the trouble that I had on the 'bad' day was rushing to button my shirt. Maybe I should tape a check list to the mirror so I'll remember to line up the buttons on those 'bad' days when I'm running late... or maybe I should wake up on time so I won't be running late. From that moment forward I stoped having 'bad' days. Oh, I still get up late and struggle with my buttons on a too regular basis, but only when I forget the trouble my tardiness has caused me in the past. I'm learning and growing as my seeming misfortunes of yesterday become the true fortunes of today... provided I remember that my growth didn't start today on this 'good' day, it started yesterday on that 'bad' day, which I have come to view as a growing day.

Hey kidd the solution to buttoning shirts correctly is easy for me - i never unbutton them and just slip them over my head!!! I wash and dry them without unbuttoning them also!!

I cannot wear tight shirts cause they make my skin crawl - some kind of sensory thing i suppose?

I try to make my day run as smoothly as possible,that helps.

For instance when I'm in the kitchen I have a routine and I won't leave that room till everything is finished in that room. Like feeding cat,filling sugarbowl,setting up coffee machine ,running dishwasher etc. The more organised my life is the better things go.
Then I don't have that extra stress of forgetting things because forgetting the small things trip u over into bigger things going wrong. Not finding your car keys can lead to a loss of a job even !
This being organized lessens my irritability because I don't feel under pressure and like normal everyday life is one big EMERGENCY !
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Heh. I am always dropping food or dribbling drinks on myself.

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What about the ugly days?

1. Yes and No.

2. Feelings, circumstances.

3. About once a day.

4. Go to sleep and hope I wake up.

5. Rejection. My eX. A bill. Bad news.