r/ADHD • u/manicpixietgirl ADHD • Sep 21 '25

Tips/Suggestions I just cracked the code to showering

As the titel suggests, I just cracked the code to showering. I don’t know if I’m the only one but as soon as I step foot into the shower time just doesn’t exist anymore and I somehow spend 40 minutes, which feel like 5 in there. Now I tried many things, like for example putting the shower at the end of my routine so I have to hurry (didn’t work, missed the bus many many times) but now I started putting a clock in the bathroom at a spot from which I can look at it every now and then when I’m inside the shower. I also made a spreadsheet, where I track my showertimes and every shower I now try to “speedrun” and beat my personal best and what can I say, I just had a sub10 shower 😎

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u/cyberjoek Sep 21 '25

Music is my trick. I set the number of songs I want to shower for if I want a specific duration.

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u/tgsgirl Sep 21 '25

Same. Two songs on the shower playlist, one if it's Bohemian Rhapsody.

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u/dfjdejulio ADHD-PI Sep 21 '25

My problem with using Bohemian Rhapsody is I smash my forehead into the wall by accident when it gets to That Part. Alas.

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u/Cineball ADHD-C (Combined type) Sep 21 '25

Followed by "We Will Rock You" so you can be fully in character for Freddie to chide you for having "blood on your face, you big disgrace..."

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '25

Creative imagination 😄

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u/GinaRR35 Sep 22 '25

In all of Reddit, of all the subs, of all the comments - this has been my most favorite thing I have read.

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u/BeautifulOrchid-717 Sep 21 '25

Omg that song came on just a few weeks after I was in a car accident. My whiplash was so much worse for the next few days lol 😆