09/03/2026
“Ooo a squirrel!” 🐿️ - deffo exciting however..
Reality is me on the sofa…
scrolling my phone - trying to drown out the running commentary in my head,
and apparently picking at my skin without even noticing.
(Literally I didn’t even realise I did it until I watched it back).
Is anyone else with the skin picking? 👀
ADHD chatter — as it’s become known as — is basically that constant stream of thoughts running in the background.
Ideas.
Things I forgot to do.
Things I need to remember but will deffo forget in 10 mins
Random memories.
Self judgement.
Planning content I’ll forget to make.
It’s like 10 tabs open in my brain at the same time and I have no idea which one is actually important enough to focus on.
For a long time I thought this was just my brain and I had to live with the noise.
Breathwork was the first thing that actually helped me turn the volume down. 🌬️
Not by “clearing my mind”…
but by calming my nervous system enough that the thoughts stop shouting over each other.
And for those 15 minutes (and a good while after), the chatter finally goes quiet. For a change, there’s peace. 😌
Turns out my brain didn’t need more stimulation.
It needed a moment of safety.
Anyone else which they could turn down the noise?