cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/46465519

I LOVE NOT THINKING

Yeah I'm the same. In fact without my fidget cube I can't even focus on what people are saying to me. It's like my brain is a bunch of twitchy squirrels constantly looking for something new. It often feels like the world isn't running at the right speed for me. But I've got used to it now and actually in a crisis it comes in really handy I've found.

Lain! Been forever since I've watched that anime.

How do you try to keep yourself on "good distractions" and away from "bad ones"?

That's the fun part - you don't

The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn. - T.H. White, The Once and Future King

That's also kinda depressionmemes (if that exists).

Yeah, there's actually a surprising amount of symptom overlap between clinical depression and ADHD heh