Executive functioning
The Neurodivergent Woman
How to Get Started on Tasks for ADHD
ADHD is can also have difficulty initiating or getting started on tasks because of, you know, motivation issue. Dopamine is our reward neurochemical and it gets produced when we get something we want or we're doing something that we want. It sort of drives us towards action for a neurotypical person. Our dopamine gets produced just in anticipation of a future reward. Whereas for ADHD is it really only gets produced when the good thing is happening. So that makes getting start on tasks really difficult,. particularly if what you need to be doing is kind of annoying or unpleasant.
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