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When meditation feels impossible with ADHD

Every time I try to meditate my thoughts feel like a room full of people all talking at once and I give up after two minutes feeling worse than when I started.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The encounter with mental chaos in stillness triggers an aversion to the very practice that could develop capacity to be with difficulty.

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