Coaching practices for How Do I Deal with Adhd Burnout

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• Carrying everyone else’s anxiety and conflict has hollowed me out
• I’m sick of logging everything
• When I finish a hard stretch of work I "take a break" by scrolling or clearing email, and then I sit down for the next thing already fried
• By mid-afternoon my brain feels completely fried even though I haven’t produced much
• I keep circling the same painful thing for hours and every loop makes it worse

Practices that may help

1. Build sanctuaries for renewal outside the system
   Maintain relationships and practices outside the organizational system that restore perspective and capacity.
   Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical
2. Take a planned monitoring break to prevent tracking fatigue
   Sustained self-monitoring burns out — a deliberate short break with clear resumption rules prevents abandonment.
   Self-Monitoring, Made Practical
3. Protect genuine recovery time between focus windows
   Treat recovery — undemanding activity after focused work — as part of the attention-management protocol, not as laziness.
   Attention Management, Made Practical
4. Focus mental energy
   Protect deep focus and avoid the drain of constant task-switching.
   The Power of Full Engagement, Made Practical
5. ACCEPTS — structured distraction from crisis
   Use Activities, Contributing, Comparisons, Emotions, Pushing away, Thoughts, and Sensations to redirect attention during a crisis.
   Distress Tolerance Skills, Made Practical
6. Use guilt-free play to recover rather than double down
   When avoidance happens, recover with genuine rest — not punitive extra work.
   The Now Habit, Made Practical
7. Build rhythmic oscillation between stress and recovery
   High performance is not sustained effort — it is deliberate alternation between full engagement and full recovery.
   The Energy Audit
8. Outsource or delegate to keep a burner lit without your direct fuel
   Find ways to maintain a domain’s floor through systems, others, or automation rather than your direct effort.
   Four Burners Theory: Making Peace With Trade-Offs
9. Reintroduce slow, effortful rewards
   Deliberately add back activities whose payoff is real but delayed.
   Dopamine Detox, Honestly Explained
10. Name which burners are actually on
    Honestly assess how much fuel each of the four domains is receiving right now.
    Four Burners Theory: Making Peace With Trade-Offs

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