After Obedience: When Freedom Doesn’t Feel Like Freedom

After Obedience: When Freedom Doesn’t Feel Like Freedom

How December Breaks ADHD Brains

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Brittney Walker, ExMo ADHD
Dec 10, 2025
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Part 2 of my series on Christmas, ADHD, and burnout after religion.

By December, so many of us feel like hollow, frayed versions of ourselves.

Shorter patience.
Lower tolerance.
More snapping.
More zoning out.
More lying in bed staring at the ceiling while making mental lists we immediately forget.

We start asking, quietly or out loud,
What is wrong with me.

But…

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