Worms: how ADHD lets Negative Emotions, Control your Actions

As humans, we’ve got this weird relationship with emotions. They control and influence almost everything we do. Doesn’t matter if you’re rich, broke, or even a serial killer, at the end of the day, we’re all slaves to the same emotions. Its like we’re universally connected through feelings, but what separates us is our environment and the hardships we go through.

And for those of us with ADHD, emotions hit even harder. With ADHD it makes it harder to regulate and control the influence emotions have on our actions. but negative emotions aren’t really or good. They help us with our survival and prevent you from dying by activating your fight or flight modes.

Its hard to understand and pinpoint all the bad things making our lives hard So since we are all living as the main characters in our own story we all need a common enemy or bad guy to make sense of the world. I like to think of the antagonist in our story Worms

Worms are the sum of negative emotions from our experiences and hardships we face everyday. theses worms strengthen the negative emotions of grief, anger, sorrow, shame, and everything in between. worms dig into the mind like parasites, consuming energy and latching onto other negativity to grow. Over time they go throrugh a metamorphosis and evolve into bad habits and destructive behaviors and eventually morphing you into a demon of desire and hunger.

With ADHD, it can feel like your mind has been transformed into a hive crawling with worms, pulling the strings and making you a puppet of impulse. Like a hornet’s nest, their only goal is to grow, expand, and spread their colony to others through your actions.

ADHD gives worms the perfect environment to thrive. Struggles with impulse control, procrastination, and focus are like food for them. That “can’t focus” moment or endless scrolling session? caused by a emotional reponse from worm. Ironically though no matter what you do you cant really control or stop how you feel because its a reponse to your enviroment or situation.

You cant really control or stop how you feel because its a response from your enviroment or situation, but you can control how your actions and how you respond.

• Breathing strategies: use breathing techniques as a way to trap and anaylyze negative emotions before they influence your action and decisions

• Escape your mindset. escape from your distractions and focus on what needs to be done

• Base decisions on rational thought, not instant gratification. Train to make decisions on whats best for your well-being and quality of life.

• Use your hyperfocus as a tool : prevent negative thoughts and imposter syndrome by changing your focus and using your senses like music or fidget toys to escape the negative talk of your mind in order to stay focus on task.

• Remember: you’re not going to die.

• Being honest with yourself. We all lie about our feelings. We pretend we’re not jealous, not angry, not insecure, but worms thrive on denial. If you trap the emotion before it takes action, you can stop the worm from controling you .

Emotions are survival tools. ADHD just makes them louder and harder to ignore. But once you start noticing your worms, youll be able to trap and hunt them down before they control your actions.

With my ADHD and problems ive read so many self help books but all they talk about is there peresepctive on how they survived but they never give you the soulutions tools or concepts on how to find a solution to problems. If this article helped a little check out my Erthworm picture book strategy guide. It gives you strategies, space, and tools to help make your life easier.