Meditation is great if it suits you. Also know no one owns the source code, which is to say you’re entirely free to pause, calm yourself, get grounded however you prefer. No one is in charge but you.

I find nominal meditation practices exhausting. I find meditative practices that don’t claim to be universal much more accessible.

Navigating the actual difficulties: I’m benefitting from a diagnosis and medicine. Before that it was basically chance and very specific life tools/adaptations.