Happy New Year ADHDers!
As promised, here are the results of our scientifically rigorous poll about which things are the worst for taking over your dopamine system:
- Scrolling
- Someone is wrong on the Internet
- Phone notifications
- Video games
- Maladaptive daydreaming
- Unfinished projects that should be quick to finish
- Sleep-deprivation-induced mania
- Alcohol
- Reading internet to drown out own thoughts
- Expensive hobbies
For texting, I enable Do Not Disturb mode and whitelist immediate family and the elderly.
Yeah, in my personal life it’s not a problem but I gotta do it during work hours. The problem I have is getting a notification and then next thing I know it’s two hours later and I’m still off-task.