Procrastination is buried at the root of MANY ADHD challenges.

The DSM-V diagnostic criteria for ADHD includes the following:

Often avoids, dislikes, or is reluctant to engage in tasks that require sustained mental effort (e.g., schoolwork or homework; for older adolescents and adults, preparing reports, completing forms, reviewing lengthy papers).

What kinds of tasks require sustained mental effort? Those where:

• we don’t know what to do
• we don’t know where to start
• they seem too hard to do (e.g. they have a lot of steps)

We would modify the DSM-V to read a bit more accurately:

Often avoids, dislikes, or is reluctant to engage in tasks that are BORING or REQUIRE A HABIT.

The truth is that many of the issues we face with ADHD have a procrastination component.

And that’s why we need to pay attention to our procrastination conversations:

1. “I Don’t Wanna” Procrastination
2. “I’ll Do it Later” Procrastination
3. “Where Do I Start?” Procrastination
4. “It’s Too Hard To Do!” Procrastination
5. “That’ll Take Forever” Procrastination

In this episode, we talk about

• how to listen to these conversations,
• what they mean,
• and how to move forward

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