Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD/ADD.) In today’s hyper-connected internet and Social age, many of us are showing increasing symptoms of “Virtual ADD:” easily distracted, expected to multi-task more than ever before, and experiencing greater difficulty to focus long-term and prioritize. Without having the important social cues we have to work with from being in person with each other, oftentimes our online networking and relationships create big mis-communications, social fax paus, and unintentional impressions of being inconsiderate to other people’s feelings.
Compounding on the problem, both academics and behavioral psychologists that specialize in emotional intelligence, along with ADD psychologists and coaches, lack the serious expertise and personal experience needed to cover the effects of social media on people dealing from ADD: both “virtual” and genetic.
ADD is not a deficiency in a person. Honed right, it can be an incredibly special gift. But today’s understanding of how social media affects ADD, and vice versa, has huge gaps in research.
What we need today is a new type of learning: education and training from professionals with technical and communications know-how in Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, OkCupid, and many more of the online communities we spend out time in building relationships, both personal and professional. They understand people in the organic sense and the virtual sense, and understand how we are evolving like technology, and how to bring us back down to earth and make us mindful of social context, and of each other, for personal happiness and professional success. These are the new “Social Stylists.”
Learn from this presentation:
• The connection between Social Media and ADD/ADHD, and vice versa.
• How professionals in social media and other Internet communications can master “Virtual ADD” and still stay focused, organized, and effective with their responsibilities, both professional and personal.
• Social Media, and other jobs and responsibilities perfect for ADD/ADHD people.
• Tools and tips for how to manage ADD/ADHD for a happy and successful, per-fessional life.
• How to use distractions to your creative advantage, and how to set realistic systems in place for shutting them off. (Including constantly checking email and one’s social media walls.)
• How to learn the hard-to-find social cues in digital media, and make more thoughtful communications that lead to less misunderstandings, and better relationships.
• Stories from successful per-fessionals who mastered their own ADHD.
14. The Advantages of Virtual ADD
1. *Super-focused
2. Fast-thinking
3. Fast-talking
4. Thinking outside the
box
5. Entrepreneurial
ADHD Social Business World
1. Technology-driven
2. Fast-paced
3. Multitasking
4. Need for speed
5. Always-on
6. Always-changing
7. Quickly pivot
15. The Challenges of Virtual ADD
1. Constant dopamine fix
from online stimuli
2. Multitasking expecta2ons
3. Incessant
interruptions from
our digital devices
Cause Effects
1. Easily bored
2. Losing focus
3. Late getting workdone
4. Can’t do mundane
tasks effectively.
5. Feeling socially
inadequate
6. Diss–connected
16. Virtual ADD is a Social Disability
1. Lose Focus
2. Hyper-focus= overfocus
3. Impulsivity
4. Lack of filter
5. Poor time management
6. Hypersensitivity
7. Speaking before
thinking
8. Poor communication
from digital limitations
9. Negative emotions
outweighing positive
emotions
10. Emotional
disregulation
21. • Imagine each store as a single
YouTube channel.
• Many people enter a YouTube in
“just browsing” mode.
• “Suggested videos” distract people
from their original goal.
• The result: user straying into other
stores, continuously. Way more time
is spent than planned on.
Think of YouTube as a Shopping Mall
23. Why a Casino?
• Your Time is
YouTube’s money
• YouTube’s revenue
stream comes
from advertisers
• Their goal is to
have you stay long
enough so the
house always wins
25. • Licensed Clinical Psychologist
• Associate Psychologist at Sari Solden,
Private Practice
• Specializes in working with teens, adults,
and families navigate challenges related to
ADHD and similar disorders.
30. erictivers.com
• Owner of Tivers Clinical Specialties
• Licensed Therapist, Coach, Consultant.
• Specializes in ADHD, Asperger's & Autism
• Podcast Producer and Host, “ADHD
ReWired.”
• Manages 3 Facebook pages and 2
Facebook groups for ADHD members, a
Zoom group, and a Google+ Hangouts
group
63. Eric Tivers, Host of ADHD rewired
Psychotherapist & Coach
About ADHD rewired
ADHD reWired is the show de igned for tho e of uwho have really good intentions but
a light wanderi ng attention.
As a psychotherapist and coach in private practice Eric Tivers has the unique
pe pective of being both a clinician who pecia lizes in ADHD and an adult who ha
it. Eric talks openly about his own ADHD and hares with listeners the trategies he'
learned to be ucce ful a well as the areas that continue to be challenging. Starting
with episode 16, Eric begins talking with listener , coaches and other therapists.
65. Tips for Mastering Digital Distractions and
becoming an awesome Social Stylist
1. Turn off your notfications!
2. Plan your day and week in
advance
3. Try wearing a watch, or have
a fun clock around
4. Focus on one thing at a
time.
5. Allow yourself small
rewards
6. Have an accountability
partner.
7. Be mindful of keeping personal
media private and being
intentional about your posts.
8. Mindfulness (pause, observe,
reflect, acknowledge)
9. Take breaks
10. Get exercise, sleep well
11. Eat and drink healthy an in
moderation
12. Practice building new habits,
slowly.
13. Try shutting up and only
listening for an entire
conversation. (Or for social
media, just observing.) Wait to
ask questions when someone is
done speaking.
14. Pay attention to how you’re
feeling.
Maybe this can help better explain. We know how much the Internet transformed business and our culture. I am here to say that we are going through just as big a revolution. The 5th age of Modern Business is underway.
To understand where we are, we must first look back at where we came .
We must understand that at each age, businesses had to adapt to technological and market forces
We must understand that to survive in our current age, we must fundamentally evolve the organization to a highly adaptive one.
Rarely in business history has a new age opened up so many possibilities across every industry and discipline. In less than 5 years, the balance of power has shifted from seller to buyer, from big media to the influential individual, from industry trade associations to thriving digital communities .
Now is the single greatest time in history to be in business.
This Fifth Age of business has created a new set of rules for organizations to compete in the economy as equals.
But being large no longer ensures having a competitive advantage. In fact, it may mean the opposite.
What else is business has been disrupted, shattered or destroyed?
“We have this society where people can’t get away from their cell phones. They get bored. They don’t get the dopamine.”
Being constant distracted affects our focus on people we care about, and negatively impacts how we communicate with each other, and ultimately our relationships with each other.
Published on Jul 3, 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0hY5TYVv_s
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. A personal understanding of ADHD is an enlightening source of understanding what it is to live in a hyperlink-enriched world of information. Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and similar media create a highly multifaceted, multidirectional information environment well suited to the ADHD mind. Theodore Siggelakis is a 2014 graduate of Quinnipiac University. Theo designed his own major in Public Policy Analysis, combining courses from English, Political Science, and Sociology. He has been active in Student Government at Quinnipiac University, has interned for multiple political campaigns and is now Campaign Manager for a state senate campaign in New Hampshire.
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Helping understand the thought progression of someone with ADHD.
“My brain works like hyperlinks.”
Dealing with social inadequacies.
If you have ADHD like me, my neurotransmitter system for dopamine is slowed down. It doesn’t work the same way as everyone else is. When you go on the internet, you get a constant shot of dopamine.
What happens is, when you’re used to getting a constant shot of dopamine, yours too slows down.
When you’re stuck doing a mundane task that doesn’t give you instant dopamine like the internet, your system slows down and you get bored very quickly.”
“We have this society where people can’t get away from their cell phones. They get bored. They don’t get the dopamine.”
“What has happened in society is we now have two types of people with ADHD:”
There are those who’ve had it since birth; and there’s type 2 – it’s an adult onset. It comes from using the internet.
It comes at us the same way as diabetes. There’s one that you’re born with; and there’s one that comes with the environment.
The difference between ADHD and diabetes, is that there’s an advantage to being Type 1.
There are two distinctive advantages that set me up better to handle the Internet than people who aren’t born with ADHD, but just “acquire” it.
One trait is hyper-focus
Another is, I’m not overburdened by the Internet. I’m not overwhelmed. I have a discriminatory focus. I know exactly what I want and I don’t focus on anything else… That’s why when I do something I love, it’s not a problem. I’m a 150% into it.
But when I have to do something that doesn’t hold my interest, it may take me all day.
Our other advantage is peripheral focus. When we’re in the zone, we can also see side details. What happens, we’re able to create a new essential. This is what makes us great entrepreneurs, especially in the technology field.
Dr. John Rateyat Harvard University called this “Acquired Attention Deficit Disorder.”
Dr. John Rateyat Harvard University called this “Acquired Attention Deficit Disorder.”
“No one thinks before they speak on the internet.”
Then the mall turns intoa casino
YouTube’s business model is like a casino
YouTube’s business model is primarily based on advertising. That means, getting people to continue to watch videos, and videos, and videos. I.e., to never leave.
Michelle Frank: Here is a great slide show to use to demonstrate the reward pathway in the brain which contributes to both ADHD and addictions of any kind
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/rewardbehavior/