Anyone Hyperfocus?

Non stop. Right now it’s on Christmas trees lol.

Because of my rabbit hole I lost the 5 days of vacation I took to do my homework for my deadline and now I have to do it at night after a 10 hour of not a 12 hour work day

Always on some business I’m bout to start😂 then 45 mins in to researching I’m scrolling through tik tok 😂

I do things at night btw

All the time!!!

OMG this is my life!!!! lol … at the very least, especially because it’ll be a floodgate of thoughts, I’ll have to jot down things I “need to research” “eventually” lmao

Haha, yes! And usually it’s something completely random. Sometimes, related to adhd (why does coffee help me sleep, for instance), or other musings (why is there always traffic at 5:30 am on the freeway). And yep, it’s always right at night! Probably because it’s the one time I’m actually sitting “still.” So my mind is like, “yo, perfect time to unwind with those boatloads of daydreams you’ve thought up!”

Same here, I try to direct my hyperfocus by making a to do list. It contains one important task each day. and (try to) don’t allow myself to wander of before 9 am in the morning to other issues. It can only be a task which I really like and is really important. Once i am focused on this first task at 9.00 am, i find that whatever i am doing the rest of the day, my mind wanders back to this first hyper focus item, so i make progress on something which is actually useful. It seems that my mind wraps itself around this one task it wants to hyperfocus on, and stays working on it in the background. Maybe this is also a bit helpful for you? 😬 after all, hyperfocus can also be our superpower ❤️

All the time ! The rabbit hole is my second home lol

All the time and always when I’m trying to go to sleep or when I’m at work lol

I'm exactly the same. I'll be researching an actor or the movie on my phone when watching the movie at home on TV. Or a thought comes into my head that I simply have to do right now. And I can't rationalise my way out of it

I wish I would have found everybody here sooner maybe I could express myself easier to my loved ones.

It can be almost impossible to fight it. It's like a thunderstorm coming. It just comes and I have to wait it out.

Same. My co Pilot gets me and looks it up for me so I'm not researching and driving 😳

I’ve done this with so many things! The amount of money I’ve spent on each thing too, only to get so overwhelmed by everything that I can barely even start the new hobby or I overthink it and if I’m lucky to start I for sure never finish!

Yes! So me! I didn’t even realize it until I read this lol

I did this with the Kennedy assassination, I needed to know what the magic bullet was about.

YES

Totally hyper focus! This usually happens to me when I’m trying to do something work related. Then I go down this rabbit hole until I figure out the answer or feel like I know enough about the random thing I was just thinking about !

Does anyone find that exercise helps with getting overwhelmed as much? If only I could be consistent at it

I just lost two days to garageband 😭

All the time! I hyprtfocus on stuff my husband says isn't important, but it feels like the most important thing at the moment.

I sometimes hyperfocus on a new hobby. I'll buy a ton of stuff to do it but never actually do it! Anyone else?

Yep and when I hyperfixate on something I find it hard to talk about anything else, it drives my husband nuts

It’s really wild lol. It’s like what happened to the day!!!?

Every day all day. I get so sidetracked I completely lose a whole day like this sometimes.

Yup. I’m a self-proclaimed overthinker 🤷🏻‍♀️ Everyone knows if they need answers or data researched to get to the bottom of something, to ask me. However, I tend to provide more than what they were seeking including opinions, rationale and recommendations. It also make me a great sleuth and problem solver. The bad part is I get tunnel vision and waste a lot of time focused on the one thing rather than move on when I should. 😩

All the time... I like that I'm able to do this sometimes, but often it starts out as an idea, but ends up as compulsive behavior.

Yep I usually do that or I'll see something I like then research it and look at every review given or if there is an interesting subject I will look for hours at all info then randomly tell a friend about it next day

Yes! It's usually when I'm in bed trying to fall asleep and aowmthing comes to me so I will like you said research until I am satisfied with my comprehension and then try to go bed

Yep my BF can mention something and he will ask me to look it up, I'll give him the answer in 2minutes and like 4 hours later I'll tell him some other random fact about the subject but off topic.

Yes, same! I spent three and a half hours organizing my closet today because I kept stopping to look up on my phone every little thing that popped into my head. That task could have taken an hour or less... 🫠