What does ADD feel like?

[frostbrood]

Ive Had ADD all my life and im 30 now the best way to describe it is the single most powerful motivator and driving force but one that is just as fragile and fickle as mother nature if you lose interest then you lose all drive and motivation however if you follow the path of your brains latest interest you are unstoppable. the other notable down side is that in normal circumstances a trick to get myself to do anything without any sort of driving force is to keep it busy with something else while i do the task at hand for instance keeping on a youtube video while i game even if its a sweaty tryhard game that requires intense focus in order to perform well ill still have either music or some youtube video that falls into my interests in the background that's just enough to help shape the direction of my focus. Keeping coherent thoughts for more than a minute is a chore sometimes since it feels like my brain is in a constant state of Tangents as it tries desperately to keep finding some thread of dopamine to follow i tend to keep a hand full of hobbies at a time since its better to pivot between several and get at least some level of progress in those in the long term rather then constantly trying to find a new hyper focus or dopamine hit to pursue like a blood hound.

[SorenVC]

Originally Posted by frostbrood [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ive Had ADD all my life and im 30 now the best way to describe it is the single most powerful motivator and driving force but one that is just as fragile and fickle as mother nature if you lose interest then you lose all drive and motivation however if you follow the path of your brains latest interest you are unstoppable. the other notable down side is that in normal circumstances a trick to get myself to do anything without any sort of driving force is to keep it busy with something else while i do the task at hand for instance keeping on a youtube video while i game even if its a sweaty tryhard game that requires intense focus in order to perform well ill still have either music or some youtube video that falls into my interests in the background that's just enough to help shape the direction of my focus. Keeping coherent thoughts for more than a minute is a chore sometimes since it feels like my brain is in a constant state of Tangents as it tries desperately to keep finding some thread of dopamine to follow i tend to keep a hand full of hobbies at a time since its better to pivot between several and get at least some level of progress in those in the long term rather then constantly trying to find a new hyper focus or dopamine hit to pursue like a blood hound.

nga learn to write paragraphs. Hit that enter button lol. Noone wants to read a wall of text. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Swish]

Originally Posted by SorenVC [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

nga learn to write paragraphs. Hit that enter button lol. Noone wants to read a wall of text. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Thats a 1 minute read at most.

[SorenVC]

Originally Posted by Swish [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Thats a 1 minute read at most.

LOOK AT THAT THING!!!!

Originally Posted by frostbrood [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ive Had ADD all my life and im 30 now the best way to describe it is the single most powerful motivator and driving force but one that is just as fragile and fickle as mother nature if you lose interest then you lose all drive and motivation however if you follow the path of your brains latest interest you are unstoppable. the other notable down side is that in normal circumstances a trick to get myself to do anything without any sort of driving force is to keep it busy with something else while i do the task at hand for instance keeping on a youtube video while i game even if its a sweaty tryhard game that requires intense focus in order to perform well ill still have either music or some youtube video that falls into my interests in the background that's just enough to help shape the direction of my focus. Keeping coherent thoughts for more than a minute is a chore sometimes since it feels like my brain is in a constant state of Tangents as it tries desperately to keep finding some thread of dopamine to follow i tend to keep a hand full of hobbies at a time since its better to pivot between several and get at least some level of progress in those in the long term rather then constantly trying to find a new hyper focus or dopamine hit to pursue like a blood hound.

[Mortdecai99]

Originally Posted by frostbrood [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ive Had ADD all my life and im 30 now the best way to describe it is the single most powerful motivator and driving force but one that is just as fragile and fickle as mother nature if you lose interest then you lose all drive and motivation however if you follow the path of your brains latest interest you are unstoppable. the other notable down side is that in normal circumstances a trick to get myself to do anything without any sort of driving force is to keep it busy with something else while i do the task at hand for instance keeping on a youtube video while i game even if its a sweaty tryhard game that requires intense focus in order to perform well ill still have either music or some youtube video that falls into my interests in the background that's just enough to help shape the direction of my focus. Keeping coherent thoughts for more than a minute is a chore sometimes since it feels like my brain is in a constant state of Tangents as it tries desperately to keep finding some thread of dopamine to follow i tend to keep a hand full of hobbies at a time since its better to pivot between several and get at least some level of progress in those in the long term rather then constantly trying to find a new hyper focus or dopamine hit to pursue like a blood hound.

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