it took me so much time and effort to be able to say to my husband and kids im feeling really overwhelmed right now im going to finish this task and then go upstairs for a bit until my head feels better usually its after dinner when ive worked all day parented made dinner and the kids are going on monologues about minecraft my oldest is also adhd so his thought process jumps around in ways that make sense to him but i cant quite follow usually when im done working if im at home ill take the dog for a walk and listen to music to sort myself out but my husband will want to come and talk about his work day and ive learned to say i just need to get some time alone