That’s dissociation - is dissociation part of ADHD?
Yeah it happens to me sometimes. But what’s real scary is it happening while driving. I left work one afternoon and felt like I had teleported 30 minutes into the future and ended up at my house. Didn’t remember anything in between. Luckily it’s only happened to me once.
No, it’s daydreaming. Simply getting stuck in your thoughts and doing stuff without thinking about what you’re doing until you break out from daydreaming.
Edit: I experienced dissociation quite a few times in the past but not even close to the amount of daydreams I had.
I just looked it up and there seems to be a link between ADHD and dissociation. I don’t know how strong this link is though: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/adhd-dissociation#what-is-dissociation
Dissociation and distraction by you inner conversation can look the same from the outside. I always thought that I was dissociating, because the descriptions fiit very nicely. Dissociated state is however a trauma response and the onset somewhat predictable, I lack the trauma part. (unless you subscribe to the theory of complex ptsd and adhd, but the same distinction applies nevertheless. The distracted state remains unpredictable)
Hmm. The one that is irritating AF is getting lost in a thought train or narrative, getting really into in, thinking about something else briefly and then completely forgetting what your train of thought was. And if you do regain it, it’s no longer interesting.
Whoa, yes. I also hate when I have a sequence of 5-10 thoughts in a few seconds and try to remember the third or fourth thought again because it was something I needed to do…
It’s called “The Doorway Effect” and it’s something that can effect anyone. The action of passing through a door can affect short term memory causing you to forget what you were doing a moment before. It’s possible that it’s attributed to self preservation in causing you to assess your surroundings on entering a new room.
Not to say it’s not a problem for ADHD, but it’s a more common issue than you’d think.
Most ADHD symptoms are things everyone can relate to, this one included . The difference is most people do some of those things occasionally, while ADHD people tend to do many of those things multiple times a day. For example in my case I have this so-called doorway effect multiple times a day, but I also lose track of what I’m talking about or forget words really often, lose my things all over the place, need to work with alarms and reminders to be remotely close to functional due to severe time blindness, etc.
Also a gentle reminder not to party poop - although you were pretty respectful and didn’t downright downplay the symptoms, some people suffering from ADHD tend to get rightfully tired of these comments altogether.
More like I get to reverse engineer who I am and what my motivations could be, based on what I wake up finding myself doing
But what is the second image?
