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🌪️ The Burnout Vortex: When Workplace Absurdity Collides with Your ADHD Brain Why a Micromanaging Manager Can Trigger Full-Scale Executive Dysfunction Meltdown

My ADHD brain is in a full-scale Burnout Vortex. 🤯 Toxic boss tracked my address, pressured me over childcare, and retaliated after I exercised my right to strike.

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Late-diagnosis life means finally understanding why workplace conflict feels physically painful. It’s not drama; it’s executive function collapse.

My ADHD brain is in a full-scale meltdown thanks to my boss. When micromanagement meets Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD), the office becomes a war zone. 🫠

I grew up believing safety meant obedience and perfection.
Turns out that rewires your brain in ways productivity tips can’t fix.

I’m not starting over to become someone better.
I’m starting over to stop abandoning myself.
#ADHD #neurodivergent

Boundaries aren’t loud for everyone.
Sometimes they look like quietly stopping.

Motherhood has a way of activating every wound you thought you’d healed.

Living With Undiagnosed ADHD, Burnout, and Motherhood What starting over for the thousandth time taught me about boundaries, trauma, and self-compassion

Some stories don’t want to be launched, just placed somewhere safe. #ADHD

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Trauma + ADHD + motherhood =
executive dysfunction on expert mode.

ADHD isn’t just “trouble focusing.”
Sometimes it’s a nervous system that learned freezing was safer than trying. #ADHD

I’m starting over again.
Not dramatically.
Not optimistically.
Just honestly.
Because I don’t have the energy left to keep reinventing myself to survive.

#ADHD #Neurodivergent

It's not that I can't start the task. It's that my brain is currently arguing whether the order of the task matters more than the existence of the task. #ExecutiveDysfunction #Neurodivergent

My inner monologue runs faster than a Formula 1 race. No pit stops. Just constant, glorious, exhausting noise. 🏎️💨 #ADHD

The moment when the executive function firewall collapses and the internal tabs just become screaming static. It is genuinely painful. That retreat isn't avoidance; it's a critical system restart to reduce the ADHD load. We need that safe space to survive the chaos. 🛡️

My brain is currently reviewing the weekend's high-interest dopamine debt. Monday is always the collector.

The grocery store is a sensory attack, but I can hyper-focus on dust motes for an hour. Balance? Maybe. #ADHD #Neurodivergent

When the world is quiet at 4AM, my brain is loud enough for everyone.

#adhd #neurodivergent

Some days I wake up overwhelmed. Some days I braid my hair. Both count. #ADHD #Neurodivergent