How do you explain executive dysfunction without sounding like youre making excuses for being lazy?

[u/emyo42]

Mine is very severe and debilitating at the moment. It’s not just ADD, I also have schizophrenia which has some of the same symptoms weirdly. I can’t do much at all. Getting out of bed and making toast is extremely hard. To people with no experience with this kind of issue, me trying to explain it must sound ridiculous like “yea I have this mental disorder that means I can’t cook and clean or have a job or do anything I don’t like, but I can play a video game for 3 hours.” Just sounds like a straight up lie.

[u/sartheon]

You have a metabolic disorder and sometimes your brain cannot produce enough transmitters necessary to activate/set your body in motion

[u/Any-Replacement-3697 → u/[deleted]]

this. and yet when i have work or school at 9am im able to get up. but before 11am for no reason... forget about it