You know you need to respond. You've read the email five times. But starting feels impossible.
As I've gotten older, I've realized I probably have ADHD. Email became this insurmountable burden - not because I didn't know what to say, but because getting started was paralyzingly hard. So I built something that removes that hurdle entirely.
Try BadAtMailOpening the email, staring at the blank reply box, trying to form the first sentence. That activation energy is incredibly hard to find.
How formal should this be? What tone? Should I address all the points or just some? How long should it be? Each tiny decision becomes a barrier. So you close the email and promise you'll do it later.
Now it's been three days. Or a week. The longer you wait, the worse you feel, the harder it is to start. You need to apologize for the delay, which makes the email even more complicated to write.
Executive dysfunction isn't laziness. Your brain just struggles with task initiation, especially for things with ambiguous starting points. Email hits every ADHD weakness: it's unstructured, requires sustained attention, involves multiple decisions, and has no clear "right" approach.
BadAtMail reads the email and writes the reply. When you open it, there's already a draft. You're not starting from nothing - you're editing something that exists. That's infinitely easier.
The AI has already decided: the tone, the structure, what to address. You can change it if you want, but you don't have to figure it all out from scratch.
Most of the time, the draft is good enough. You read it, maybe tweak a word or two, and send. The task that felt impossible takes 30 seconds.
ADHD brains are great at reacting and refining, but terrible at initiating and creating from nothing. BadAtMail plays to your strengths - you're reviewing and approving, not generating and composing.
Because replying is now easy, you actually do it. You're not sitting on emails for weeks. The guilt disappears and your relationships with people don't suffer because you couldn't find the energy to type.