Dealing With ADHD Meltdowns? Try These 6 Expert-Backed Tips

ADHD Meltdowns: Try These 6 Expert-Backed Tips

How do you prevent potential ADHD meltdowns? ADHD meltdowns can be frequent, intense and out of the blue. It can also have a very trivial or petty cause. If it happens to you often, you can take up certain strategies and measures to stop it by yourself. These following measures can also be recommedned to other people with ADHD. However, its best and most effective if you apply it onto your own life.

Breathe

Periodically take a few seconds to close your eyes and focus on your breath. Deep breathing is knwon to help any types of mental health disorders including stress and anxiety. It lets your distract yourself from your thoughts and refocus it onto your breathing.

Check Your Vitals

Keep an eye on blood sugar levels, hydration, hunger and sleep quality. ADHD patients may face these above issues and it may trigger their mental health leading to mental breakdowns. This is why it is important to take note of whether they are leading a healthy lifestyle or not.

 

Exit Plan

Have an exit plan to step away and regulate. If you or any other person is having a meltdown, you should have a strategy to regulate them or yourself.

Calming Scent

Keep a calming scent nearby. Calming scents can be essential oils, hand lotion, sanitizer, partner’s clothes or any scent that has positive memories attached to it.

Regulate Emotions

Pause and regulate emotions at first sign of frustration. This is applicable to people who are aware that they have ADHD or who have been diagnosed. You can detect your symptoms or the possibility of a meltdown and stop it by yourself by tracing the pattern.

Limit Stimulants

Limit all kinds of stimulation. Turn down monitor brightness, volume of TV or phone, reduce and dampen external noise, stop being overactive and multitasking.

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