Driven to Distraction (Revised): Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder
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Driven to Distraction (Revised): Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder
Dr. Russell Barkley, a prominent psychologist and an expert in the ADHD field, in fact calls ADHD “the disorder of self-regulation.”
Most people experience this state of complete absorption in a task at some point. When a state of hyperfocus is referenced outside the context of ADHD—or schizophrenia and autism—it is typically called flow—a term coined by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi of the University of Chicago (2008, 1–4).