Hacking Your ADHD How to Keep Going When Life Feels Impossible (rebroadcast)
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Mar 20, 2026 A raw conversation about carrying on when everyday life feels impossible. It covers grief colliding with chores and the odd surrealness of routine after loss. The show digs into numbing versus true rest and warns against flashy overhaul plans. It highlights simple checks for emotional signals, using community as a refill, and choosing small sustainable moves over grand fixes.
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Keeping Functioning After Sudden Loss
- William Curb describes the surreal immediacy of life after his mother's sudden death while chores, school runs, and funeral logistics continued.
- He explains how everyday demands (laundry, dishes, parent-teacher conferences) forced him to keep functioning amid grief, shaping his perspective on coping.
Numbing Is Avoidance Not Rest
- Numbing is distinct from rest: it's avoidance of emotions through TV, social media, work, or exercise used to dodge feelings.
- Numbing feels temporarily soothing but hides emotions under the surface, leaving them unresolved and often worse later.
Choose Tiny Sustainable Changes
- Avoid the go big or go home trap; make small, realistic changes instead of grand unrealistic plans that you won't sustain.
- William notes his own failed 'go big' attempts and recommends tiny sustainable steps over fantasies of never needing rest.