Hello fellow ADHD people!

I had a weird idea today. I’ve noticed that sometimes I have a single specific task that I avoid incredibly painfully, to the point where, even on my best days, I basically do everything else. And it makes other things easier because the more I think about the task that I’m avoiding, the more my brain is running away to do other things.

It made me wonder, maybe I can make a dummy task that isn’t really critical, but make myself think that it is, and avoid it, therefore increasing my motivation to do other tasks as a form of avoidance.

Any opinions or experiences about this?

  • burt@programming.devEnglish
    12·
    13 days ago

    it has been my experience that avoiding these type of tasks leads to me completing my personal “backlog” of projects. so if you are struggling with how you feel after avoiding said task, try to look at what you did get done and take those minor victories.

  • Aganim@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    13 days ago

    Doesn’t work for me, just as ineffective as self-imposed deadlines unfortunately.

  • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    13 days ago

    It made me wonder, maybe I can make a dummy task that isn’t really critical, but make myself think that it is, and avoid it, therefore increasing my motivation to do other tasks as a form of avoidance.

    I suppose it would have to be something truly more challenging than anything else you could be doing. Maybe ‘save the world’? But it has to be something specific and actionable.