WHY can't I motivate myself?

Hey!

I finally had some time to finish the next part of the ADHD toolbox: Inertia.
I know I know this is still going into explaining things rather than giving you coping strategies, but I felt like I needed to explain this before getting into the tools.
I was especially hoping that this would give you something to communicate with others why you sometimes just can't seem to *get* going, and that there is a very real, neurological reasoning behind it.

The next page (3) will finally start explaining the basics around how you can start making your own coping strategies, and the last page (4) will just be a bunch of coping strategies listed out for you.

I hope this series will help! It's a looooot more work and research than I used to put into my comics, that were more or less just lists of things, instead of full on explanations. It's definitely not the wisest of choices to create this stuff specifically for social media. Usually, simple, small memes would do much better. But I guess I just really want this information to be out there for free, easily understood, and easily accessed.

I just hope the effort pays off and someone has a benefit from this.


Thank you all for staying with me for this long!

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In case anyone is wondering where I went and why I dropped page 1 and just disappeared:

First off, I suck at communicating and tend to isolate whenever I hit a problem. I'm sorry for that. I need to figure out a way to communicate better instead of disappearing.

What happened was I only had a certain amount of time to make comics inbetween ADHD Alien book deadlines. Then, my mom's (still young) dog suddenly died. I was there when she collected the dog, I had her box on my lap in the car, I lived with that dog many months when I lived at my mother's place. I felt gutted, but more than anything, my mother was absolutely inconsolable. So while this was going on, I missed my time window to finish the other pages and had to go back to working on a book deadline. 

Summary: Mom's dog died so I missed my time window to make comics inbetween book deadlines.

It's not very "mental health ADHD advocate" of me to feel like this, but I just felt really guilty and ashamed for making big announcements and then failing to deliver. I often don't feel like I even deserve to take time off from one work (online comics) to focus on another work (book). Or take time off in general. I'll just try to work on it whenever I have time close to midnight or on the weekend. That's why it feels weird to me to announce when I can't do something online. My head will start saying things like "why would you whine in public? Just to get attention? Why bother anyone with you being a loser?"

There's definitely more going on than ADHD with me and I'm on a waiting list to see a therapist. But yeah, lately I just couldn't "public advocate" very well. But that's how life is, right? I have ADHD, I struggle and can't do things perfectly. But maybe it helps people to know that about me, too.