Activities Of Daily Living Puns

I know PhD students work really long hours. Some say they work 80 to 100 hrs a week. I was wondering how do they manage to do the daily activities of living.

PhD students who work long hours, how much time do you spend on activities other than work every day and every week. What does you routine look like? Please include at least the following items with the amount of time spent in each and the time from when to when:

• Sleep: How many hours and from when to when

• Grooming: Showering, brushing teeth, face care, shaving etc.

• Food preparation and cooking

• Laundry, cleaning and maintaining home

• Recreation: social media usage, hangouts/parties/social gatherings, hobbies

• Chores that can only be done during workday: post office, banking when you need to be physically present, doctors appointments, getting a plumber to fix the house and so on.

• Exercise

• Time for significant other, family, dating etc.

Bonus questions: Why is your work hour so long anyway? What do you do that needs so much time? How is the pace and volume of your work, how much multitasking and overwhelming is it?

Hello Fellow Painiacs,

I have been in chronic pain for over 7 years as a result of being crushed under a truck at work (no back up beep sound). I’m afflicted by CRPS/RSD, POTS, depression & anxiety, PTSD and insomnia/OSA. After many surgeries and injections and ablation and medications and allllll the things that we do to feel better, I am finally having a small measure of relief from ketamine infusions. I’m finding myself with a little more focus, a tiny bit more energy and a strong desire to improve what I can about my environment and my daily life.

I’d love to know what you do to keep track of your activities of daily living and household chores. I’m also trying to get better at managing mail/email, organizing my schedule, and staying on top of paperwork, phone calls and finances.

Here are some general questions:

• Do you have morning or evening routines you’d like to share?

• Do you have a daily or weekly schedule you follow?

• How do you increase what you’re doing without burning out?

• How many goals do you set at a time and how do you keep track/stay accountable?

• Is this stuff all in your head, on paper, in apps? Do you give yourself rewards or punishments based on completion?

• Do you have any good hacks for making these draining-yet-necessary daily tasks easier (ex. meal prepping, breaking down chores into little bite size pieces)?

I don’t want to hear the standard pick yourself up by your bootstraps type of advice, because pain still limits my every move. I know you understand this and that there is some amazing knowledge and cool ideas in this group. Thank you!

We are located in Multnomah County in the state of Oregon for reference.

My partner and I have lived in the same apartment (managed by a large property management company) for 5 years now, and in that time have had 4 different downstairs neighbors. We have had no issues or complaints from any of them that we are aware of, and we are good tenants- we've never been late on rent and have never been involved in any other incidences.

Our current downstairs neighbor moved in during the fall of 2017 and quickly started making daily noise complaints against us. These complaints covered everything from walking too loudly, vacuuming for too long, using a blender, putting away dishes, having lamps too close to the window, and even flushing the toilet in the middle of the night. He also made complaints against us at times of day when nobody was home. His apartment is directly above a fitness center and he tried to attribute the noise coming from below him to us as well. When making these complaints, he always said it was because his dog is nervous and we were scaring it. My favorite was when he tried to say that we were spying on him, and stealing his banking and social security information, using microphones we installed in our floor/his ceiling- he knew it was happening because the same thing happened to him at his last apartment. Obviously, something is off with this guy despite his normal appearance/demeanor. At first, management was knocking on our door to "investigate" his complaints on a regular basis. However, when it became apparent that he was only complaining about activities of daily living (and we had taken steps to mitigate the issues he was complaining about such as removing our shoes in the house and closing the curtains in the evening) and that he had no intention of stopping said complaints, they agreed to quit bothering us about it and just make a note in their log book- I think his more colorful accusations also helped lessen his credibility. I also found out recently that he makes regular complaints against his other neighbors who nobody else seems to have a problem with. They offered to move him into a different unit, but he has patio access and doesn't want to give it up. Basically, all evidence points to him being his own problem, not us.

The building has management on site M-F from 9:00am-5:00pm, and a night door person from 5:00pm-3:00am, 7 days a week. This means that the building is unattended on major holidays and on the weekends

28F, in psychiatric care of some type for the last 16 years and my executive dysfunction and orthostatic intolerance greatly affect my ability to function on a daily basis.

Of course it’s medical and psychiatric institutions that caused some of my trauma, but I feel like I am reliving trauma everyday due to my health issues and disability. For years, I have felt like I’ve been drowning despite heavily engaging in mental healthcare, healthcare, and trying to make changes, empower myself, and find my own answers.

I couldn’t access the proper resources for an in-home aide with the help of a casemangager for various reasons and having homehealth come to my house and treating me like a geriatric cardiac patient and disregarding the actual reason for my referral triggered me into an episode.

This isn’t something that would be adequately helped with even 5 therapy sessions per week. I need help taking care of myself. I know long term psychiatric hospitalization was defunded, and I don’t know what to do. I’m also terrified that checking into a psychiatric hospital for a month would bankrupt my husband. If I divorce my husband, he would be sent back to his home country for volatilizing the terms of his conditional green card. He is my biggest supporter and he’d be forced to leave the country.

I don’t know how to continue like this. Despite taking it day by day, I am getting worse. I see the difference in my old calendar and photos.

Yesterday, we tried to do something nice by swimming in the quiet lake but I felt disturbed that my husband, my partner of 4 years, his face felt unfamiliar and I wondered if I am indeed slipping into dementia.

Trying to predict the next Marvel's Spider-man movie titles.

Forced to "add a filter" to post it.

Hi. I am not "officially" diagnosed with StPD yet. But my therapist suggested that I might have StPD, read the symptoms to me, and almost every single one of them was dead on. So I think I do have it.

My problems related to this are myriad (extreme loneliness, social isolation, messiness, ideas of reference, magical thinking - particularly when I was younger - and so on), but the biggest problem I seem to have is not being able to form "good habits" as easily as most people seem to, nor to break "bad habits".

Even to me, it is obvious by now that nobody is going to come in riding on a white horse and solve all of my problems. It will take work to build good habits or break bad ones, I am well aware of that fact. But since, according to the Wikipedia article at least, "strange behavior or appearance" is one of the symptoms of StPD, I feel like I can't be alone here in these difficulties, nor in the desire to overcome them.

So, I want to ask: is anyone else here struggling with Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), and if so, can we provide some form of encouragement to each other to help make a change, which - if you're anything like me - is desperately wanted but all too elusive? Thank you for reading.

EDIT: I am sorry to have to do this, but I feel like I shared quite a bit too much personal info here, and paranoia about it is killing me (and making it harder to actually cope with the symptoms of StPD). So I removed a lot of it. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Are those your teeth? Yes, I paid a lot for them. They're mine.

Ok so this is embarrassing, but what the hell. I am 38 body age (host age too, nearly 39). Lots of chatter, though, so I'll reiterate: I smoke cigarettes but that's it. I do sometimes drink. I don't use pot or any other illicit drugs associated with dental issues. My prosthodontist said my dental problems likely stemmed from malnutrition coupled with orthodontics along with former bulimia (as well as prolonged vomiting from gallbladder disease).

Sorry, I just had years of people judging me, thinking I was on meth or something when my teeth were destroyed from actual medical problems.

In any case, the current problem. I had my teeth pulled and got dentures several years ago. Every morning I have to brush my dentures and put them back in. But regardless of whether I sleep with them in or take them out, I'm met with the same problem where 9 times out of 10 putting them in causes flashbacks to other things being put in my mouth and I start gagging and vomiting.

It's caused me to be late for work, so serious issue. I've tried doing it first thing as well as after being up for a while and having coffee. I know the trick about grinning as well as the pressure point by my thumb.

I need my mornings to not be a surefire trigger. I can't keep going into the office like this.

Also I know some alter(s?) can do it without gagging and vomiting, just like some can swallow pills (I can't). But I don't know how to make them do it instead of me so that we can save the 20 minutes this usually takes. I tried asking, but no one answered.

Ideas?

Just for background, I have symptoms of panic disorder, manic depression, chronic fatigue, OCD, and something like temporal lobe epilepsy with these "seizure"-like attacks that consuming sugar, being around fluorescent lights particularly at night, and stress can trigger where I lose the ability to speak and movement becomes very difficult and inhibited. I have good days and weeks, but even on good days I have these episodes where lights are unbearably bright, sounds are unbearably loud, I can't concentrate on anything, and the only thing I can do is go in a room with blackout curtains and a fan for white noise to help block out sensations and then sleep it off. On a good day, a sleep for an hour and I wake up feeling good again. On a bad day, I sleep for 2-3 hours or more and then I only get about an hour of feeling decent and being able to focus before it kicks in again and I have to sleep another 2-3 hours. No matter how functional I may be at times, I cannot work according to any kind of schedule because of the totally unpredictable way this stuff comes and goes.

After weeks of not being exposed to any major stressors, I can start feeling relatively good and behaving relatively normal. Then, while I'm facing the stress, I can handle it, and I may even enjoy it, but afterwards all my symptoms become 1000x worse. I just worked at a simple restaurant for almost 2 months, because I was doing well and I wanted to, but before I could even reach the 2 month mark I started having absence seizures in the middle of my shift that people had to cover me for and panic attacks that had me laying down in the super-cold freezer in the back because it felt like I was going to overheat for no reason instead of clocking in to my shift. Since then I've been having the "lights too bright, sounds too loud" issue twice a day basically every single day (it's been weeks since I quit) and what I call absence seizures because I don't know what they are are being triggered by even things like just 10 minutes in WalMart at times. I've spent most of most days unable to do anything but mindlessly scroll headlines on my phone with intent to read them later, and then occasionally getting an unpredictable burst of energy for 1-2 hours and using those to actually read. Basically, on a "good day" for the past weeks I get 1-2 hours once or, on a really good day if I'm really lucky, twice where I have energy and ability to focus on something. Then I try to decide what the most urgent

A coworker asked this today and it had me thinking.

Edit: What are the situations and/or daily activities that made you think that!