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I use a to-do list to remember important tasks. But if I am anxious about a task, just looking at the list triggers my anxiety. (midwest.social)

submitted 10 months ago by Nemo@midwest.social to c/adhd@lemmy.world

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Often I end up closing the list and immediately turning to self-soothing. And because there's no way to know in advance if a task on the list will give me anxiety, this often results in my list being not just unusable but unreadable, preventing me from doing or even remembering the non-anxiety tasks on the same list.

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[-] ParetoOptimalDev@lemmy.today 8 points 10 months ago

Don't look at the list when anxious ;)

What I mean is I set up text to speech to read items scheduled on my todo list.

So if stuck on couch, I hear the todo read out loud.

This is 95% effective medicated, 10-60% unmedicated.

The other thing I found is the overwhelm comes from so many things.

Experiment with only letting 1, 3, 5 etc items be visible at a time. I sometimes go as far as saying top 3 are must do, 12 or however many remaining are optional.

Also also play your favorite video game sound like Mario coin when a todo is completed.

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