Strategies for maintaining friendships via texting? Does…
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Strategies for maintaining friendships via texting?
Does anyone have advice or strategies for how to maintain responding to texts and by extension maintaining friendships?
My flavor of combined ADHD and (seasonal) depression makes it so that most of the year I am too overwhelmed to respond to most texts I receive, especially more timely than 3-7 days, if at all. My unread # is massive and I go through times where (outside of maybe 2-3 core people) every text written feels like pulling teeth or every text received just gets forgotten in the deluge of everyday life.
The hardest part is consistency long-term. I’ve tried things like setting a 15 min timer everyday for focusing just on replying to texts or trying to reply in the moment if I can or sending voice messages instead of written texts. But even these strategies don’t stick once I begin to feel general overwhelm and/or have my instinctive internal response to texts become “I’ll deal with this later.”
One thing I want to try is trying to set up more recurring hangouts with friends if I can, so that there is less executive functioning and planning involved. But please any advice, success stories, strategies welcome!
#relationships
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Does anyone have advice or strategies for how to maintain responding to texts and by extension maintaining friendships?
My flavor of combined ADHD and (seasonal) depression makes it so that most of the year I am too overwhelmed to respond to most texts I receive, especially more timely than 3-7 days, if at all. My unread # is massive and I go through times where (outside of maybe 2-3 core people) every text written feels like pulling teeth or every text received just gets forgotten in the deluge of everyday life.
The hardest part is consistency long-term. I’ve tried things like setting a 15 min timer everyday for focusing just on replying to texts or trying to reply in the moment if I can or sending voice messages instead of written texts. But even these strategies don’t stick once I begin to feel general overwhelm and/or have my instinctive internal response to texts become “I’ll deal with this later.”
One thing I want to try is trying to set up more recurring hangouts with friends if I can, so that there is less executive functioning and planning involved. But please any advice, success stories, strategies welcome!
#relationships
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