Oct 26, 2020
hi, so i think i might have adhd and recently i’ve been super obsessed with jatp, like can’t think of literally anything else for a whole week, and a couple nights ago i got so overwhelmed with emotions for this show i felt physical pain and then gave myself a panic attack, could this be an ADHD thing?
It’s that motherfucking hyperfocus (perseveration).
ADHD is not about a deficiency of attention, but rather about difficulty modulating attention.
We can struggle ‘starting’ our focus but we can also stop ‘stopping’ it.
That obsessive, inability to stop is what we ADHDers call hyperfocus.
Some ADHDers like it, but I really don’t. Exactly for the reasons you mentioned. It’s too out of control.