I get bored so easy and I was just wondering if others' here with ADD also experience this a lot. I'm out of work now and have been for a long time now and it's so difficult for me. I have trouble getting interested in movies, tv etc. and being in the house a lot is soooo hard. The internet keeps my interest pretty much, but I even get bored with that at times. It's always a struggle with me and it pretty much causes me to be depressed when I'm bored. Now my boyfriend has so many interests, movies, video games, the net you name it! He's rarely bored, but I just tune out immediately if something doesn't interest me right away. :( I just wanted to know if this is common with ADD, which I'm sure it is.........

I think almost everyone with ADD has this problem. I know I do. :D

Actually i get bored easily but for some reason the second i get bored i start daydreamin untill the boring moment is gone.. for example in class, at work... for some reason i don't get bored during movies, i watch really looong and booring movies but enjoy them

Do bears **** in the woods?
Is george bush a president?
Does Jesus wear sandals?

OMG! I'm at work and having this problem now. "Steadily banging head on desk".

hmmm,...looking for something to do....wha' a butterfly just went by my window. You'd think it might have stopped so I could get a good look...hemmm...bored again.....

I get bored very easily, also. You are definately not alone on that one. All this time it seems. And with movies, I have a hard time overlooking the fact that they are just movies, I really can not get into the characters and stuff because all I can think is how they are just actors on a set. I can still semi-enjoy a movie, if it si very funny I can stand it but otherwise I am not impressed.

I read, if I could I would read all day long. I get totally hyperfocused on a story in a book and have been known to read for 4 or 5 hrs straight at night when my son goes to bed then when 4 hrs goes by and I look at the clock it feels like 20 minutes but its been the whole night.
Like murder mysteries or detective novels, that kind of thing.
That happen to anyone else?
-A

i get caught up in books real bad sometimes, i've been known to read for a whole day and night and forget about eating and just litterally crash.

i get bored very easily and change to differcult things all the time, it's so annoying, i need to find a work partner who loves just finishing jobs but not starting them then we'ld be like the best workers around lol

i get caught up in books real bad sometimes, i've been known to read for a whole day and night and forget about eating and just litterally crash.
I do this with books as well, as long as they are interesting to me. While I'm reading it's like I go into the book and am a part of what I'm reading. That movie "The Neverending Story" comes to mind. When I'm reading - I laugh out loud, I cry, when it's exciting I can feel my pulse racing...

When I'm reading - I laugh out loud, I cry, when it's exciting I can feel my pulse racing...
same here!, during like intense moments in the book i read really really quickly and during clue parts in the book i read more slowly, taking in absolutely everything, for instance the da vinci code, i figured out the last two of the lock codes way before it told u in the book, the first code i didn't know the word but i knew what the word would be *trying not to go into detail and spoil a part of the book for people*

i also laugh and cry and stuff, i get so caught up in the book that it's like nothing else really matters that much and i hate it when i litterally have to tear myself away from it, it has to be a good book though, otherwise i just loose interest and if it's real bad i just can't read it at all

If it's not intresting, its dead boring, I have no real median :-/

I get bored at the bars. How about that one. I also have trouble watching a movie from start to finish. When at the theatres I really try hard to not get up and wander. School has def been a challenge for me. I wish I would have know more about my ADD when I was in HS. Had I then, I really truly belive i would have done better in school. I would have gotten up and wondered when I starteed to drift, or when taking a test and getting frustrated.

casper, is that avatar a shot of an online mmrpg? can't remember the damn name now.

i get bored at bars too, don't get me wrong going and getting drunk can be fun sometimes but there has to be an atmosphere there or i'm just gonna drink like 2 pints and kinda slightly fall asleep in a corner lol

Glad to know I'm not alone! I know it can be so frustrating though, I think that's another reason I sleep a lot. I watch movies but can never quite figure them out like my boyfriend can, it's like he mentioned something that just happened and I have no clue what he's talking about. :confused: My mind is always going in other directions. Same thing with reading, I enjoy reading but if it's a story type book I often have to re-read what I read several times because my mind was drifting off.........sigh. I do like reading because I find it so relaxing but I have trouble getting interested in books, unless it's something like self-help books or things I find very interesting then I hyper-focus.

I watch movies but can never quite figure them out like my boyfriend can, it's like he mentioned something that just happened and I have no clue what he's talking about. :confused:
I do this too. I think my husband has finally decided to quit asking because he knows I'm generally gonna say "huh". :D

I know this is how I am. I'm a TV, computer addict I go back and forth when I'm home alone. Nothing on TV I go on line, on line boring I go to the TV

I keep both on and constantly look at both!

I need things to entertain me. My friends tease me about this conversation from when we went camping:

- "why are you playing with a harmonica?"
- "Because my yo-yo broke!"

I get bored easily especially when I feel out of a gang... I went out last week with old work colleagues and for long minutes (likes half an hour) I was wondering what I was doing there... And at one point I went to my car to get my stuff to do my planification for the next week (actually this week). My friends thought I was crazy to be doing work after getting out of work...

I get very bored, very easily. If I am at home I usually channel surf, watch a movie or go on the internet. I like to read, but do more so on the internet instead of reading books. A lot of people I know don't seem to get bored easily at all. They like a lot more movies than I do, too.

One thing I cannot tolerate is listening to a song on the radio or a CD. I MUST turn the station or CD track!

Also, I'd rather talk about something more unusual than everyday trivial stuff. That's boring.

Also, I love music but generally dislike poetry. Songs are like poems that's why I don't understand it.

Can you relate?

the onlythings that don't quickly bore me are my hyperfocuses. My fiance is my only one at the moment, I'm hyperfocused on getting my life on track too... but that's not a material item to entertain myself with.

I typically get caught up in books really bad and hyperfocus on them. The last two that did this were Angels&Demons by Dan Brown, and The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. Wasn't much into reading untilll these books got me started.

but I would read them for hours on end to pass the time.

I love reading too! I get bored of some books and don't finish them, but I'm pretty good at picking out books that will keep my interest, so that doesn't happen to often.

Once I find an author I like, I end up having to read all of that author's books!

Sometimes I get really bored and even books I usually love, don't hold my interest. :(

I made a mistake. I meant to say that I have to change a station or song on a CD when I DISLIKE it.

Those books by Dan Brown sound interesting!

When I find something really interesting, I obsess. Then, I find all the stuff I can on that subject. I do get tired of some stuff after awhile. It's like I get my fill than move on to something else.

I generally like to read non-fiction. If I read fiction, it's usually fantasy or something that could happen but is unlikely. It takes me out of the humdrum of everyday reality.

I wish I didn't get bored so easily!

I love Dan browns books. There is all kinds of facts hidden in the fiction, they're really informative books, I loved "The Da Vinci Code" for it's take on Christianity at large, and I love "Angels and Demons" for the misc. facts and information about the illuminati. I learned a lot about art done by various artists from Angels & Demons

I loved Dan Brown's books, I like to read books that are based on history or fact. I take breaks from reading to research facts to see what is real and not real!

Well If people with ADD don't get bored easly I have being missing something and I am really easliy bored except with a few subjects. Computers never cease to interest me. I am now pretty good with two systems. Oh right!

I don't get bored easily I just change directions a lot!!! :p

I don't watch too much TV too predictable! Stays on one subject to long

I like books mostly non-fiction cause if it aint really happening it doesn't matter.

About once a year I find a fiction book I really like and will "merge" with the story line but the book has to be usually good!

I do the internet, I like it because I can switch back and forth between subjects, forums, e-mail ect...the subject over the net changes as often as I want it to......I have a hard time sitting still for a long period of time I try to interchange internet with chores like right now I am packing, making coffee and responding to this post!

Boredom is only a matter of mental perspective unless you are stuck in a class room or desk job! As long as I can change activities as often as I want I am rarely bored!

I am weird I know… :o always have been!

I can not work because of this, No matter what it is. I would love to play a computer game for more than 30 minutes, or golf for more than 9 holes

In a work environment I have to stay put doing the same thing, I get so bored and frustrated after just hours than I mentally cant do the task, so I walk off to take a break, this clears my head, but its straight back when i return, to the point where i start getting really angry then forget what I’m doing even though I’ve been doing it for hours, I either then damaged the thing I’m doing or walk off. I HATE it when someone says


"Just think of the money like we all do, we get bored to"


This can't be what everyone experiences surely!? If so how the hell do they do it? People say,


"Isn’t being unemployed boring?"


Well yes it is, but unlike a job i can do multiple things and walk off. God i wish i wasn't born i really do. I'm currently undiagnosed, doctor said it’s normal for people to have different attention spans and prescribed me Prozac.
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I feel just like fasttalkingmon....always is the same...now I am at work not knowing to do with my time...cause 2 of the kids I work with didn`t come...so here I am reading and writting this post....just waiting for the time to pass...eventought I took my med cocktail this morning...and it is only 10 to 9 am..

I am sitting here at work with tons of things I should be doing that bore me to tears so I am sitting here posting and reading and posting and reading happily :) I get bored ALL the time can't stay at home hardly because I just have to be doing something OUT THERE that stimulates my brain even if it is looking at different stuff at garage sales or Walmart. However, like many of you, I get into a good book and forget about it, I can read for hours into the night, well at least I could before my eyes got so bad. Now they get blurry and I have to stop. I used to wonder how I could be ADD but still read a book for hours and not even hear anyone around me.:D

My version of hell is an eternity of boredom... oh wait, that is right now:rolleyes:
I must be in hell?

Crape ****e... gardening has been a lifesaver for me.. and of course it has been raining for a week straight and I can't pull weeds.. I can't find a book to hold my interest, I have two weeks to go before my summer semester starts and loads of housework to do... but I can never bring myself to do it... with or without meds.. Uggggghhh unless of course I take on a huge housework project with lots of purging and tearing up of papers.

I would love to start on a piece of art but I am afraid I won't finish and I will lose interest and don't have the cash for sheet silver so can't do a jewelry..it is now spring so I don't want to knit. :p

I am just screwed!!

Okay for no more do you get bored easy threads lol :) This is too common for ADD. We know we get bored easy :)

Okay for no more do you get bored easy threads lol :) This is too common for ADD. We know we get bored easy :)I didn't know, it was interesting to me but I am new and it made me feel better :)

hey movingshadow everyone here has a right to ask a question, there are no stupid questions, i bet adhdgirl knows things u don't so please be respectful and nice when ur answering a thread

Hmmmm -- might have offered your complete understanding of this problem in a more affirmative manner :eyebrow: -- next time, OK?

Wintergirl, I understand where you're coming from in that boredom seems to be one thing most ADDers strive with all their might to avoid. It doesn't seem to jive well with our sleepy cortexes which are constantly seeking out stimulation. One of the perils of being ADD I fear, but if it's any consolation, you're perfectly normal for an ADDer!:)

Scattered

I get bored so easy and I was just wondering if others' here with ADD also experience this a lot. I'm out of work now and have been for a long time now and it's so difficult for me.
Definately the ADD thing becomes a big focus when I'm not working. The idea behind my taking time off from work is -theoretically- so that I can work on things that I need to take care of, or simply to do productive things that I'd like to do for myself. It's definitely not so that I can blow off huge swaths of time idly doing things like adjusting the preferences in my browser, or reading up on the history of the Chinese Cultural Revolution on the internet (because the thought of it crossed my mind for whatever random reason.)

Yesterday was such a perfect example of this. Yesterday my day could be characterized as combination of boredom, lethargy, and really weak motivation. I had plans for things I needed to do, but I didn't feel like doing them right away. Unfortunately, I soon found myself feeling very bored and kind of restless. So I turned on my computer and started fiddling around in a directionless effort to occupy my brain with -something- whatever, anything to keep it occupied and reduce the boredom.

Meanwhile just about anywhere I looked around me there were a multitude of ways to spend my time more productively - things that needed to be taken care of - things I actually wanted to take care of, had planned on taking care of. Yeah, sure, I'd think about doing those things, but - for whatever reason - it felt like looking at Everest from a comfortable couch in a Tibetan cafe with cup of coffee and a good wi-fi connection. "Well, let's not tackle that right now... in a half hour I'll get going." My half-hour became hours and hours.

Ug. Where'd the day go? Then I feel uncomfortable with myself. "Oh my god, I'm such a lazy slob."

What I really hate about this bored, lethargic, and unmotivated state is the fight it seems to take to overcome it. And it's not like I just have to fight it a few times here and there, it seems I have to fight it almost everyday - especially when I'm unemployed.

Mount Everest, what a great description of all the things I see around me every day that need my attention and don't get it because it is just too overwhelming to deal with. And the guilt..

I always have to do something. I have a hard time done nothing. Make yourself a list of what you like to do. Keep a book handy-love reading. Find what you love to do.

Boredom is the worst. I understand.

I have a hard time doing nothing. Make yourself a list of what you like to do. Yeah, it's the lack of structure inherent in time off from work that's the killer for me. I might have a lot of things in mind to accomplish, but if I don't figure out some way to structure my time it tends to vaporize.

A primitive form of structuring that I've found to work is to simply set a timer for an hour. During that hour any task is fair game - dishes, vacuuming, folding laundry, scrubbing out the shower, etc. Just start the time and get moving. It's actually pretty astonishing what can be accomplished in an hour. (Higher level structuring would involve lists and prioritizing, but I haven't reached such an elevated state yet - not on a consistent basis, anyway.)

Oh my...I'm bored again. I'm at work and have been staring at the wall thinking it needs to be cleaned.

I think I'll go outside and watch the weeds grow a while...hehehe

Wishing excitement for everyone...

You can count one more....me...I get bored very easy and also even with my meds it is hard to do just one thing at a time...i listend music, work and I am writting this post ... it make me feel so good to find a lot of people that happens the same things than me....It make me feel less lonley .....
This is a nice place to belong...

Definately the ADD thing becomes a big focus when I'm not working. The idea behind my taking time off from work is -theoretically- so that I can work on things that I need to take care of, or simply to do productive things that I'd like to do for myself. It's definitely not so that I can blow off huge swaths of time idly doing things like adjusting the preferences in my browser, or reading up on the history of the Chinese Cultural Revolution on the internet (because the thought of it crossed my mind for whatever random reason.)

Yesterday was such a perfect example of this. Yesterday my day could be characterized as combination of boredom, lethargy, and really weak motivation. I had plans for things I needed to do, but I didn't feel like doing them right away. Unfortunately, I soon found myself feeling very bored and kind of restless. So I turned on my computer and started fiddling around in a directionless effort to occupy my brain with -something- whatever, anything to keep it occupied and reduce the boredom.

Meanwhile just about anywhere I looked around me there were a multitude of ways to spend my time more productively - things that needed to be taken care of - things I actually wanted to take care of, had planned on taking care of. Yeah, sure, I'd think about doing those things, but - for whatever reason - it felt like looking at Everest from a comfortable couch in a Tibetan cafe with cup of coffee and a good wi-fi connection. "Well, let's not tackle that right now... in a half hour I'll get going." My half-hour became hours and hours.

Ug. Where'd the day go? Then I feel uncomfortable with myself. "Oh my god, I'm such a lazy slob."

What I really hate about this bored, lethargic, and unmotivated state is the fight it seems to take to overcome it. And it's not like I just have to fight it a few times here and there, it seems I have to fight it almost everyday - especially when I'm unemployed
Again, i am exactly the same :mad: i have an apointment to see doctor again today. I hate the idea of going, i think people just think im lazy, i wish i could swap places with someone to see how different there world is.

A primitive form of structuring that I've found to work is to simply set a timer for an hour. During that hour any task is fair game - dishes, vacuuming, folding laundry, scrubbing out the shower, etc. Just start the time and get moving. It's actually pretty astonishing what can be accomplished in an hour. (Higher level structuring would involve lists and prioritizing, but I haven't reached such an elevated state yet - not on a consistent basis, anyway.)

Wow astonishing... You can really do that?

No really.. It can be really difficult..

I remember the days I could not even do the vacuuming within an hour. Now, I can. But it remains to be difficult. Motivation is difficult to be maintained. So I do one room at a time and I take a break every time I finished one room.

And whatever I do, it remains a difficult task. So I let my parents do it lol.

If someone invented a robot to do the vacuuming I would take it.

I don't know if I get bored easily or just distracted easily. I get bored at my work because there is absolutely nothing to do there other than read a book or surf the web (which I have done 100 times at least). When I am at home I don't get bored, but I think it is because I have alot of extra stimulus to keep me occupied ie: the computer, television, cleaning, homework, cats, books, etc... Of course I alternate between all of this rapidly at least every 20 or 30 minutes.

I had to cry yesterday...

Because for the first time of my life I did something very difficult. But I did it and I did it very good.

I put all the floor together in my room. It looks great now! Unbelieveble...

I get really bored with almost everything, I hate being bored at movies because If I really want to watch a movie, I usually get bored and do something else if the start doesnt interest me, then I come back on the interesting part and I dont understand it because I havent seen the start.

Casper, I once fell asleep at a rock concert. I had third road seats. LOL I just wasn't into the music at that moment.

I was never into the bar scene. The only time I enjoyed something like that was if I went with a bunch of friends, and we were there to enjoy one another's company. We didn't have to be at a bar to do this, but the kind of club I'm talking about involved neon, video screens, brightly flashing colored lights, and a lot of dancing. I never enjoyed clubs/bars for the sake of meeting guys. If it was for THAT, then it felt more like a meat market, and I wasn't interested.

I get really bored when it's a mandatory meeting, so I'm obligated to go, but it becomes apparent that the information in it doesn't apply to me. I've been known to doodle during these meetings. My coworkers...lol...they're used to this in me. I'm paying attention kinda-sorta. Just enough, I suppose.

i am easily bored if i am not doing what I want.
Never bored if I'm by myself.
In home group gatherings, I've been known to abandon the group and get online. Most conversations don't capture my interest.

I know this is how I am. I'm a TV, computer addict I go back and forth when I'm home alone. Nothing on TV I go on line, on line boring I go to the TV

Yep this is me too,

but i mainly get bored when i can't focus on something!

Like tonight i'm finding it hard on here then something catches my eye, iv'e got loads to say just can't focus on the job in hand.

Ha finished this one though lol :D

Yup, I tend to bore easily but it's not so bad anymore, especially with the ADHD medications I am taking. I also am finding more stuff to do.

I keep myself busy: When I am online, I visit forums, play online computer games, AIM pen pals, and mess around with the fun, interactive sites like http://www.madblast.com


I also ride my stationary bike ( is wonderful for letting out any excess energy), go to the basketball court and shoot hoops, walk my dog, do some light weight lifting, go to the library and borrow books, read, visit with people, take car rides in the country, go to yard sales, cook, do puzzles, go to church, etc. I am also learning how to draw....

I also love to write and let my imagination flow. I also write in an online blog and like to create web pages. You can make a free website at freewebs.com or at geocities.

Oh, yea, here is a great place to be when bored. I could spend hours on here.

A big thank you to the person who created these forums.

It is so nice to know there are others out there who think and act like me and have many of the same quirks.

I get bored so easy and I was just wondering if others' here with ADD also experience this a lot. I'm out of work now and have been for a long time now and it's so difficult for me. I have trouble getting interested in movies, tv etc. and being in the house a lot is soooo hard. The internet keeps my interest pretty much, but I even get bored with that at times. It's always a struggle with me and it pretty much causes me to be depressed when I'm bored. Now my boyfriend has so many interests, movies, video games, the net you name it! He's rarely bored, but I just tune out immediately if something doesn't interest me right away. :( I just wanted to know if this is common with ADD, which I'm sure it is......... I can relate to your experience a lot. I also am out of work right now, due to company closure.(closed the plant down I worked for). This was just recently, not even a month now, and it is devestating. Now I am soo bored, I don't know what to do with myself. I also, am on the internet a lot, this seems boring after awhile. I realized that this is a symptom of ADHD. I take medication, but now how will I afford to stay on this medication ? This will be hard. I right now, trying to find insurance coverage to stay on my meds. because my medication seems to help. My boyfriend has many interests also, he goes to college, and finds things to do. This is how I know that this is a symptom of ADHD. I feel that this is a ongoing problem.

I think it depends on what I'm doing.. Well I know that I tend to have a couple of things going on at once.

Boredom isn't one of the major symptoms of ADD I've had to deal with, but that's not to say I don't mind switching from thing to thing to thing. *lol* Does that make sense?

THis is a major problem for me and I have to come up with new and creative ways to fool myself into thinking that scrubbing tile grout is not, in fact, one of the most boring tasks on earth, for example. Lucky for me I came into this as a fairly creative person, or my house would probably fall down around my ears!

I am actually beginning to get bored with my PSP now, people, so somebody ask me for a tag or a sig before I perish from this eternal BOREDOM!

:)

i get bored easily all the time... but it is easy for me to get into movies, tv and books because a lot of times for the stuff i watch, the scenes change pretty often... and i am very easily entertained.

I get very bored very easily. Church when I was younger, school, slow moving TV programs, slow movies, and especially books. I have always tested at a higher-grade level than I was,but if the book didn’t interest me I would fall asleep by the third paragraph. Which I hated, take a books written by Tom Clancy, I would love to read a whole book of his, but the first half is laying out the ground work and to the build up to the main story line, but it is so long and boring I cannot make it past the first two chapters with out going comatose.

I am actually beginning to get bored with my PSP now, people, so somebody ask me for a tag or a sig before I perish from this eternal BOREDOM! :)Omg I totally know what you mean, I was FOREVER obsessed with it, and now, i couldn't give a rats ***. Thats when i switched to photoshop.

I actually have more fun sitting at my sketchbook, stareing at a blank page for hours trying to figure out what to draw, because my mind is full of neat and interesting things to draw, I have more fun doing that even tough I don't really draw anything than, well....anything else seemes to have this "tint" of "boreing"

Omg I totally know what you mean, I was FOREVER obsessed with it, and now, i couldn't give a rats ***. Thats when i switched to photoshop.Thanks for sharing that. Perhaps once I am completely over PSP I will give Photoshop a try...I am pretty already have that here, somewhere. I removed it after trying both and liking PSP better...but I think I still have the program.

I have a lot of common with people in this thread.

My biggest problem is going to work. I have a LOT to do and it's high profile work too but unfortunately, I am not really micro-managed. Anyhow, I just surf the net all day and when I do post on sites I refresh often and when someone emails me, I write a ton all the while increasing the stress on myself. I am always late to work and just surf the Net all day. And I switch the subject of what I am reading quickly. This is the most frustrating thing in my life.

Since I discovered exercise, my free time has actually been pretty structured(first time in my life). Group exercise is huge for me because there is someone there to yell at me if I am not paying attention to. I don't like to spend money on a personal trainer but I have one because he's always in my face. After 31 years, this is the only thing in my life which genuinely makes me excited to do. However when I am home and the rush has worn off from exercise or I turn on TV or surf the net, it's the same old crap.

It's almost a relief when I get fired from jobs. I always tell myself each week will be different and yet I go in and just surf the net all day. I have never succeeded at one job in my life, but I am always able to find a job(usually a better one) because I have one marketable skill on my resume which I truly hate.

OK spin, first--what is the one marketable skill--don't keep us in suspense.

Second, have you ever considered finding a job doing research work?
That way you can search and surf the net with a purpose and get paid for it.


In response to the original question of "do you get bored easy?" I think my username says it all.

my problem is that I keep reinventing the wheel... like if something bores me immediately I think "how could this be done better"

I have a gazillion thoughts, inventions, plans on just about how anything could be better...but putting pen to paper is another matter.

I'd be an awesome inventor at like cool companies like Apple or something. I'm really good at thinking out of the box...but once it's implemented its like, old news. I get a rush from planning, not so much from doing it...and not at all by keeping up with it.

Its like organizing my closet. Buy the stuff and planning is great...doing it a chore...keeping up with it hardly ever.... lol

I've often been told "you think you know it all"

Sometimes what I see as making better people get offended as seeing 'not good enough' and I try hard not to come across like that. I've learned (in my late 20's) to phrase it differently. And while I know right away a system sucks or needs improvement, I hold off now until I can't bear mentioning it anymore! and then I say "I wonder if this could be done by" instead of "that's dumb..." lol

My biggest problem is going to work. I have a LOT to do and it's high profile work too but unfortunately, I am not really micro-managed. Anyhow, I just surf the net all day and when I do post on sites I refresh often and when someone emails me, I write a ton all the while increasing the stress on myself. I am always late to work and just surf the Net all day. And I switch the subject of what I am reading quickly. This is the most frustrating thing in my life.
you've just described me to a T. I feel like such a loser too. I can however work GREAT under deadlines... I thrive on the sheer FEAR of not making a deadline. In college it was HW. but if at any point I saw that the prof was flexible, the damned thing never got done.

I switch between things quite quickly to avoid getting 100% bored of them. For example, right now I have this board on, another board i'm joined with, myspace, my email, freecell, German books for studying (and some aides I have been making using paint hehe) and the tv is on (tho I only take in what is on there about 10% of the time). I keep cycling through them every five minutes or so to try and keep myself interested and it seems to be working...mostly :)

I kind of have the same syestem at beckeybemused,

I have several things I jump around on a daily baisis, and I also get into these ling drolls of thought that keep me amused for HOURS, but at the same time....board...its wierd..

Yes you can count me here,i also tend to drift off and daydream,then totaly forget,only if its bugging me.........then wooooooooosh off i go and do some thing else.

boredom eats my brain, i feel like i need to run away from it.

i set out so much on my list to do,and then it gets to the feeling of "have to do",and again the' bore 'is hangin'round.

boredom eats my brain, i feel like i need to run away from it.


LOL, I have never heard it said quite like that, but it shure does fit!!!

hehe, I pictured drool along with that phrase too...hehe

you've just described me to a T. I feel like such a loser too. I can however work GREAT under deadlines... I thrive on the sheer FEAR of not making a deadline. In college it was HW. but if at any point I saw that the prof was flexible, the damned thing never got done.We are too similar.

Fear of failure which comes with deadlines is the only thing that has ever motivated me, whether it was papers, staying up all night for finals, and even work. Every time I have said it would be the last time I would blow stuff off and study like a normal person daily each semester.

However, as I have gotten older, my tendency has been to blow stuff off now, maybe it's cause I am using ADD as a crutch or maybe because I continue to keep getting hired for software development(even though I don't know anything). This concerns me since at some point it will be IMPOSSIBLE to explain my uneven work history. I think that's the other reason addictions are huge for someone like me is because addictions STRUCTURE my time.

I once let 6 months of expenses pile up. The stress kept building up and building up. Once I got fired, I had no problem getting it all done. I make simple problems mountains.

I do think that at some point I need to switch out of information technology and into a career where I have a DAILY deadline. (trader, psychologist, personal trainer, teacher for example, even postal officer). Or maybe there is a job in IT, maybe something like networks(as opposed to development) which would instill fear in me daily. When you have projects in the corporate world and you are responsible for the deadlines, there's a great ability to procrastinate and get to the end of the day.

Today another wasted day and have a big meeting and heat at work gets more. I just want to get fired sometimes.

deadlines are my only motivator also, at least with things i have no desire to do.

i only skim through the thread so forgive me if someone else bought this up but does anyone have a problem with being too interested in things? for example instead of paying bills and cleaning house like i was suposed to i somehow wondered to myself what the difference between boas and pythons are. I mean who in hell gives an expletive about the subtle difference between two snakes, imean i dont but i still spent an hour trying to find out on the web. but its like this with every little thought that comes to my head, but with no direction, focus and often times no purpose.

It is not always bad though because if there is a purpose i'll find out everything i need to know about some task or project so that i can make intelligent decisions regarding that task, you know the one i complete three weeks later if i remember to.

I don't pay attention to anything for lnog enough to get bored of it :P

i think majority of us do

Marytza....was just looking at your avy.......my boredom turned to curiosity, whats that thing near your head?:confused: