I’m not teacher, but my interpretation of Buddhism isn’t to not say “damn!” When you stub your toe. But rather to question why you said “damn!” When you stubbed your toe.
I feel like there has to be other under explored methods of treating ADHD aside from medication. I’ve yet to find any for myself, but am also incredibly hesitant to medicate my symptoms away. I’ve tried stimulants in the past and was left feeling like I traded one issue (lack of concentration and executive function) for another (racing thought and elevated heart rate).
I do see CBT mentioned, but only as an adjunct to medication. Another commenter here mentioned NLP which I have never heard of prior. Will take a look into this as well.
Not to invalidate the conversation here, but it just occurred to me that reading through a conversation about doom scrolling is in a sense itself doom scrolling.
Sea of Thieves is fun. It required a pretty big time commitment, so I only play a few days a week (mostly weekends).
The developers do a decent job masking the MVP-ness of the game with mystique and lore. There are certainly improvements that could be made, but overall it’s been a fun experience.
A bonus for me is that it’s relatively kid friendly (excluding some experiences with voice chat, which can be disabled) meaning I can play this game with my kids.
You’re in for an uphill battle my friend. The biggest obstacle will be converting her word/excel workflows to a OpenOffice write/calc (or other open source alternative). Unless of course she is using the web version of M$ Office.
I have a work laptop, a personal project laptop (more work), and a gaming pc. I’ve intentionally resisted from installing any work/productivity/etc software on my gaming pc and found myself spending a couple hours navigating through OpenOffice Calc to perform a task that would have taken me 20 minutes in excel. It was possible, but without the familiar UI I was completely lost.
But.. If you can convert her to using web version of these tools, and find an intuitive enough desktop environment, you/she may have a better time with this transition.
Edit: On second thought, I would take a moment to consider what is causing you push her towards this transition. If learning how to operate in a completely different environment than what she is used to is not her fancy, neither of you are going to have a good time.