Contents:
- Medical Video: How To Know If You Have ADHD
- Get to know ADHD
- What is the connection between procrastination and ADHD?
- 1. "Where to start?"
- 2. Can not focus
- 3. The more tight the better
- 4. nervous and depressed
- 5. Can not measure time and ability
- Other symptoms of ADHD
Medical Video: How To Know If You Have ADHD
Everyone must have put off a job or business. Delaying something is natural, especially if you don't like the job. However, if you are very procrastinating until all the work is hampered, you need to be vigilant. You may have ADHD (attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder) in adults.
Get to know ADHD
ADHD is a behavioral disorder that can occur in children, adolescents, and even adults. This behavior disorder makes the sufferer become impulsive or difficult to hold back, hyperactive, and easily lose focus. Keep in mind, ADHD is not a character defect, but a genetic disorder that occurs in a person's brain circuit.
What is the connection between procrastination and ADHD?
One of the most prominent features of ADHD in adults is procrastination. Many adults with ADHD show very severe and unnatural procrastination habits. The work you want to do is never finished. There are several reasons why the habit of delaying may signal ADHD symptoms. Here's the full explanation.
1. "Where to start?"
ADHD behavior disorders can make it difficult for someone to plan and implement it. Adults who have ADHD feel very confused about where to start, how to determine priorities, and what to do. This is because ADHD makes your mind jumble. As a result, you might prefer to delay the job.
2. Can not focus
When you have successfully started a job, there are still challenges that must be faced. You must maintain concentration and inner encouragement so you can do the task without interruption. However, people with ADHD have a hard time maintaining focus. Then important work is often neglected while you are busy doing things that are trivial.
3. The more tight the better
People with ADHD procrastinate because they think that the deadline is getting shorter, your motivation will be even stronger. Even though it's not like people in general, you can't just finish a job. The reason is that working on assignments that are already deadline actually makes people with ADHD stressful, anxious, and unable to calm down. This anxiety further aggravates ADHD symptoms such as difficulty focusing and setting priorities.
4. nervous and depressed
Not that ADHD sufferers underestimate all their work. You know very well that you have to solve it, but you actually feel frantic because you are afraid of being wrong, afraid to disappoint yourself and others, and are depressed by the responsibilities given. Unlike most people, people with ADHD have difficulty controlling these emotional turmoil. Finally these tasks were not completed.
5. Can not measure time and ability
You might plan to do something two hours from now. However, your understanding of the time is not so sharp that when it's past two hours, you feel you don't accept it because time is so fleeting. Or you feel sure you can clean up the house in one hour. In fact, you need more time than that so you have to stop cleaning up the house before it is finished because you have to do other things.
Other symptoms of ADHD
In addition to procrastination, there are various other symptoms that you should be aware of if you suspect you have ADHD in adults. The reason is, even though most cases of ADHD are seen from childhood, it is not impossible if someone is newly diagnosed with ADHD in adulthood. Symptoms of ADHD in adults include:
- Have academic problems when attending school or college
- Easy to break concentration even though your environment is quite conducive
- Easy to forget and lose personal items
- Like dumbfounded
- Restless and unable to be quiet, for example by tapping the table, shaking his legs, or walking back and forth
- Often late
- The mood is volatile
- It's hard to control anger and emotions
- Impulsive, which is doing risky things without thinking
- Addiction (cigarettes, alcohol, or drugs)
