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Here are a few things I noticed when I started using ADHD medication. I was suddenly able to focus on a task in a way that I wasn't able before. It was such an

Here are a few things I noticed when I started using ADHD medication. I was suddenly able to focus on a task in a way that I wasn't able before. It was such an epiphany to experience what other people call focus. That made me also notice that I'm really good at context switching. It's what I naturally do. It also makes me good at breadth first approaches. Which makes me ask: Are you lamenting terrible context switching or the amount of context switching that you experience?

leadingthenet 6y ago
The latter. I’ve heard someone explain it this way before, and I think it neatly sums up my own experience: “your brain is like a TV, except there’s 30 channels on at once, and someone else has the remote” (paraphrasing). If I can just get into “The Zone” things do work out, and I’m finally able to direct my attention towards a single task. Taking Ritalin greatly increases the probability of this occurring, and so does, amazingly, cannabis. In general, I have trouble both starting, and then consistently doing a task for any reasonable amount of time. I’ll start watching a movie, then 30 minutes in go for a walk, then come home and cook dinner, then forget about it and go back to watching the movie, then remember the dinner and start eating, then... and on an on. I’ve been told it doesn’t look that bad from the outside, but it gives me great anxiety that I can’t consistently finish anything I start :(