Multitasking with ADHD and its Effect on Relational Burnout.
Highlights:
Adults with ADHD who multitask showed no impaired performance according to 2011 Article.
Adults with ADHD who focused on single tasks had better moods and motivation.
Multitasking is everywhere, hello “Lunch and Learns”.
Are your days filled with multi-tasking?
Hello, hello and welcome back to What's Coming Up For You. I'm Reketta, a licensed professional counselor and chief happiness officer. Today, we are going to dive a bit deeper into relational burnout.
If you have not already listened to the last couple of minipods, I talk about relational burnout being the fatigue that we could be experiencing when we are trying to connect with others in our community, family, our immediate environment, like our intimate partners, and also like our colleagues.
So, today, I want to talk about an article that I pulled up in terms of multitasking in adults with ADHD thought that was an interesting comparative study that was done back in 2011. So according to this article, multitasking in adults with ADHD results show no impaired multitasking performance.
However, individuals with ADHD demonstrated better mood and motivation when they were able to have more single task oriented or blocked time. So instead of doing multiple things at once, if they had a blocked time to do one task or if they just focus on a single topic or task at hand moods were better and motivation was there. Why am I bringing this up?
I think it's very important because we live our day to day and a hurry up and hustle type of capsule. If I had to bring it all together, our lives, you know, the rat race we've heard of that before, but our lives are pretty much hurry up and go. Hurry up and go.
And in doing that, we often have to eat lunch while working. We have our famous luncheon Learns where we're eating lunch and learning a new topic and it may be convenient and it kind of helps shed some. Maybe we have free time if we were able to double up, triple up on things, but the in the interim, we often are on autopilot.
So I'm going to pause right there for a second and I want to know what's coming up for you when you think about being on autopilot and either eating lunch at your desk while you're still working or maybe participating in a luncheon learn. Does that feel like you are multitasking or has that just become our day-to day, our new norm? wanna know your thoughts.
In doing so, I want to name that being on alert or being on without having that rest, it does something, you know? We fatigue easier. You know?
And also, we have less patience for our loved ones, our community, because we're burned out. And that is why I brought up multitasking, especially in adults with ADHD. All right, well, I want to end this here if you are interested in learning more about how you can relate better to your loved ones, your community employees, and staff.
I am available. You can visit my website arisecounselingLLC.com or email me at admin@arisecounselingllc.com. I'd be happy to talk with you more and see what we can do. All right, you guys, this was our Wellness Wednesday and you have a wonderful day.