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Sitting down and not actively thinking is actually very beneficial and healthy. It will give your brain time to re-order and reset, sometimes even makes you come up with great ideas. Just letting your brain to its thing for a couple minutes is also part of meditation practice for this reason. So I try to use these moments to just check in with myself and let any feelings come to life without trying to judge or think about anything particular.

I am very compelled to start any new task which “feels productive” even in the shortest amount of breaks (also during calls when other people talk etc), it is really tiring. If you also have this strong urge to do so maybe you should check if you have ADHD.

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Always this ADHD excuse. Here's the thing, it's normal and human to have difficulties to concentrate for a long time. No need to go and look for a diagnose.

Implying ADHD is an excuse is a deeply concerning statement. It’s a serious illness and a lot of people really suffer from it.

Also I don’t understand your point, it totally depends on how strong the difficulties are whether you might have ADHD or not. „Difficulty in concentrating“ is not a binary metric.

The thing is that everywhere on Hackernews and society in general ADHD is brought up as the cause to a lot of peoples issues while the issues usually are just normal human behavior such as problems concentrating and sitting still for more than 15 minutes.

"Implying ADHD is an excuse is a deeply concerning statement." This is exactly what I mean. OP says that we should check if we have ADHDH because we have difficulties starring at a progress bar for a minute and instead want to read the news or other activity. That is not ADHD.

Further reading on this idea: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iatrogenesis

I was diagnosed with ADD as a kid, it make my life considerbly harder and was not to my benefit. Once I left school the "disease" evaporated.

Can I ask, was school too easy or hard, boring or interesting?

Interesting that it disappeared :-)

I wonder how many kids would not be considered having ADD if they got more say in how their school day looked. Maybe sports before sitting still and reading?

Context switching destroys me if it's in that annoying valley of >1m || <60m. Less than a minute or more than an hour I can just vibe, or change task ahead of time but otherwise... RIP that hour.

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