S2 E54 ADHD Women: Looking Back at Urgency, Survival Mode & Burnout
Angry On The Inside - ADHD Women Talking Late DiagnosisShow Notes
What happens when everything feels urgent, your body stays in survival mode, and rest doesn’t seem to help?
This week, Jess and Jeannine look back at three of their most-listened-to conversations about ADHD women, urgency, survival mode, and burnout—and hear some of them differently now.
From the ADHD urgency cycle to fight, flight, freeze, fawn and whether “fuck it” deserves its own category. They revisit the invisible effort of trying to keep everything going. Then they return to ADHD burnout, when your body may stop but your brain keeps tracking, remembering, anticipating, and worrying.
Sometimes you hear yourself say something and understand it completely different six months later.
Apparently, Jess and Jeannine are still learning from their own damn podcast.
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