Reddit/ADHD:

Person 1: "Possibility paralysis hits hard during quarantine, there's so many different things I could be doing."

Person 2: "Indeed... so my brain chooses to do none of it!"

Person 3: "My brain insists that if I don't do everything, I'm a failure, which of course is not at all helpful for trying to prioritize, or plan, or...really anything. I'm working on it. >_<"

Person 4: "i'm trying to go over some content from my courses last semester since they ended online and i didn't learn anything past that point, but they're important foundational classes, and i spent yesterday FROZEN because i have 3 different textbooks to choose between for studying and i couldn't pick which one to get started on. i definitely ended up feeling like a total failure, even though i studied french for a good half hour. the frustration from not living up to your potential is soo real"

Person 3: "YEAH. GOD. And like, you KNOW that what you're doing isn't helpful, that it would be far better to make a damn decision and only do one of them than stay caught in the decision crisis and do none of them, and yet you're still paralyzed because choosing one means choosing against the others and HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO DECIDE THAT, and once again your brain is right back to "no you can't choose only one, you have to do EVERYTHING or you've FAILED""

Person 5: "I have this too. Is it an ADHD thing? I thought it was a trauma thing. "

Person 6: "I personally don’t get this feeling and I think its just a common feeling for overachiever type personalities. I’m not your therapist or anything, but I could totally see how trauma could cause that type of thinking."

Person 5: "I'm sure it's somehow related to my trauma. I just haven't figured out how. I think my parents were the same way"