Why Grief Keeps Finding You at 2 AM
About this episode
This episode discusses how ADHD affects the grieving process and offers practical advice for coping with grief.
If you have ADHD and grief shows up, do you stay busy? Keep moving? Find something else to do? Stay ahead of the quiet? And then through it all does it find you anyway? Waking up at 2 AM, out of nowhere, when you thought you were past it? That's not you doing grief wrong. That's just how ADHD brains grieve. And this episode is about what to actually do when it catches up. Last time, David and Isabelle unpacked why ADHD brains seem to grieve in the wrong order. Why you can stand dry-eyed at a funeral and then fall apart completely at a graduation. And why neither of those things means something is wrong with you. Then they get into the part nobody usually makes time for: what to actually do when it shows up. In this episode: Why ADHD brains get practical when grief shows up, and what it costs when everyone goes home The empirical case David makes from his own life for why how much you cry has nothing to do with how much you loved What it actually means to grieve something that isn't a person. A city. A chapter. A version of yourself that no longer fits. Isabelle's therapist's tool for making a date with your grief so it stops ambushing you at 2 AM ------- Wait, What's That? Here…
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