stashiaj7 avatar
stashiaj7
3
1 year ago

Anyone Hyperfocus?

Randomly things will pop into my head and I then immediately have to research it until I’ve gotten enough data to understand or satisfy the random thoughts or theories that came up (usually in the middle of the night 😫😅).

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helpme1980
1y

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

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tessa❤️
1y

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

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lil_goodson
1y

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

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unmotivatednerd
1y

I do things at night btw

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miserella
1y

All the time!!!

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blu3eyedscorpi0
1y

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

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Aquaholic21
1y

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!”

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Carien
1y

Same here, I try to focus it to make a list and (try to) don’t allow myself to wander of before 9 am in the morning. It can only be a task which I really like and is really important. Once i am focused on this, i find that whatever i am doing the rest of the day, my mind wanders back to this item, so i make progress on something which is actually useful

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sosiness
1y

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

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KING_FOY
1y

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

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geldardmusic
1y

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

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laurelcassidy
1y

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

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adamg
1y

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

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alsagal
1y

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

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Unknown
1y

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!

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Unknown
1y

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

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kattalack55
1y

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

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squirrel-girl
1y

YES

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cemfs21
1y

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 !

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victorious623
1y

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

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floodrunner
1y

I just lost two days to garageband 😭

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Inspiredfae
1y

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

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NKOTBMOMA
1y

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

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martinipug
1y

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

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stashiaj7
1y

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

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Unknown
1y

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

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trikiniki
1y

Yup. I’m a self-proclaimed overthinker 🤷🏻‍♀️

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ohmu.
1y

All the time...

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ADHDJordan1296
1y

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

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Chelle
1y

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

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musegirl909
1y

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.

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KillerTofu
1y

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...

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