Why ADHD Strategies Stop Working (and Why That’s Not Your Fault)

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We’re often told that if you just find the right ADHD strategy, everything will finally click. Pomodoro. Bullet journals. “Don’t put it down, put it away.” But what happens when those strategies stop working—or only work sometimes?

In this video, I unpack the uncomfortable reality of ADHD and executive functioning: there is no one strategy to rule them all. Strategies take real mental energy, they don’t always generalize, and many stop working as your brain changes with stress, burnout, aging, hormones, or life circumstances. I talk through time blindness, novelty-seeking brains, why alarms get ignored, how “helpful” tips can backfire, and what it’s actually like to constantly retool systems just to stay afloat.

This is less a list of tips and more an honest conversation about the hidden labor of executive skills, the shame spiral that comes with strategy failure, and why understanding and flexibility matter more than perfect productivity. If you’re neurodivergent, burned out, tired of ADHD listicles, or wondering why you still struggle even though you “know all the strategies,” this one’s for you.

Chapters:
00:00 Why “One ADHD Strategy” Isn’t Enough
06:30 Put It "Obvious," Not “Put It Away"
14:00 When Strategies Stop Working, Novelty Rules
22:00 Hormones, Burnout, and Mental Load
30:00 Strategies Aren’t A Cure, We Need Understanding
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👉😎 👉DEFINITION OF TRAUMA PER THE TIP 57 (SAMHSA, 2014):
"...the term 'trauma' refers to experiences that cause intense physical and psychological stress reactions. It can refer to 'a single event, multiple events, or a set of circumstances that is experienced by an individual as physically and emotionally harmful or threatening and that has lasting adverse effects on the individual’s physical, social, emotional, or spiritual well being' (SAMHSA, 2012, p. 2).”