• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    On the flip side, I sometimes get into hyperfocus mode, and can’t do anything else but what I’m currently doing. Sometimes it’s stuff that is relatively minor in the grand scheme.

    • Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      1 year ago

      Hyperfocus is simply fixating something and being unable to stop doing the task when needed and move to something else depending on the situation. I really wish we had a better mainstream term for this because “hyperfocus” makes it sound like it’s something good but in reality it’s not good at all. :c

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      1 year ago

      Can relate. They should call it Attention Control Deficit Disorder. (Or, really, Executive Function Disorder but anyway…)

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      1 year ago

      It’s especially bad if it’s “totally work related” but you have a really big thing you need to do but can’t bc ur too busy being obsessed about that “totally work related” thing