I believe that lack of habit formation is a big part of at least some ADHD cases. Having your unconscious make something a habit is how you learn to focus, if your unconscious doesn't decide to make things habits and instead just look for new ways and solutions to do stuff you'll have a hard time focusing.
I don't think that lack of habit formation is necessarily a bad thing, making something a habit is good if that something is good, but bad if you learn things that are wrong. Meaning I'd argue that people who are worse at forming habits are likely better at rethinking their beliefs and theories.
> I believe that lack of habit formation is a big part of at least some ADHD cases.
Definitely a significant part of my case. Until I started using a smart watch to walk me through morning and night routines, I had no routines. I generally don’t have regular habits which makes maintaining basic life stuff difficult at times.
> Until I started using a smart watch to walk me through morning and night routines
This might be a silly question, but what does that mean in practice? I don't think I have what can be called morning or night routine (other than "go to bed when sleepy" and "get up, shower and go to work") but I also can't think why I'd need more than that.
I 100% relate to this, so the smartwatch bit is very interesting as I didn't think of using it for this - what's your workflow like?
Do you just have calendar events on your wrist, or a more custom solution?
I use an app called Routinery (Apple Watch) and you can just setup sequences of tasks that trigger at times. Very simple but exactly what I need for the morning.
Same. I learned earlier this year that I have multiple of the ADHD symptoms. Since then I got an Apple Watch just for reminders, after reading people from r/adhd praising its use. For the first time I feel that my days have a structure, and I can check at any time if I already did something instead of forgetting about it and doing it more than once (such as feeding my cat, who needs a very strict diet because of a health condition)
I don't think that lack of habit formation is necessarily a bad thing, making something a habit is good if that something is good, but bad if you learn things that are wrong. Meaning I'd argue that people who are worse at forming habits are likely better at rethinking their beliefs and theories.