![]() ![]() Indeed, we too often engage in unhealthy hyperfocus – going down “research” rabbit holes, burning hours upon hours on video games, TV or social media, or just doing low-value work that’s not really moving us forward at all. It is in fact a symptom of this disorder.” – Dr. There were other, more important goals to have been accomplished. You should have stopped what you were doing, and you didn’t. You are unable to interrupt what you’re doing when you should have shifted to something else. “Hyperfocusing is actually perseveration. Russell Barkley, a top authority on the ADHD brain, holds a similar view, and has gone so far as to describe the ADHD hyperfocus ‘superpower’ as, “a myth.” Or even when we’re doing actual work, but it’s low-value stuff I call pseudoproductivity.ĭr. It was only when firemen came through the house, searching for anyone left inside, that she looked up and realized what was going on!”Īdditionally, in my view, ADHD hyperfocus is much too often an escape into BS activities disguised as focused work: We’ll focus on something that’s not the thing we should be focusing on, but because we’re “focused”, we just go with it, thinking, “Hey, I’m focused! That’s a good thing!”īut it’s not, when we’re focused down a rabbit hole on YouTube or scrolling Instagram or TikTok for long stretches of time. Kathleen Nadeau, described a client who “was so focused on a project that she failed to notice that her house had caught fire. Hyperfocus is a superpower when used for good, not evil!īecause when we “lose track of everything around us,” it’s not just time we lose track of (missing appointments and deadlines): we lose track of priorities, goals, and potentially our own safety…Ī respected ADHD authority, Dr. ![]()
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