Hyperfocus

The hyper focus or hyper focus is a special kind of concentration. For sufferers of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD ) is the ability to be able to devote very intensively and continuously particularly interesting tasks, frequently observed.

During the ADHD sufferers usually has severe problems, persevering to keep his concentration on a subject, he may, if he is motivated for something, as opposed to build a flow -like extreme concentration on a subject that allows him to quickly to penetrate the topic to include also mentioned on the edge details and to work without pause very long intense the subject. Here, the motivation is not itself influenced by the person concerned.

The hyperfocus has great advantages, if the person concerned must address an issue independently; in a course, however, his situation almost monologic models and frequent intermediate questions about aspects of the topic, their relationship can be seen for other players do not necessarily, for fellow students and teachers often seem disturbing.

Another problem is that the person concerned to hyperfocus can not draw; thus shows itself, for example in school, the image of a student who obviously has great problems with tackling the topic, but suddenly shows high performance. This leads to misunderstandings ( " If he wants, he can! " Is a common phrase in assessments of ADHD sufferers ). This often results in unenlightened fellows to antipathy, which are often registered an ADHD affected because of its hypersensitivity and significantly contributes to the integration with disorders of ADHD sufferers, which in turn can trigger a reactive depression as a comorbidity.

The person appears during the state of hyper focus from the environment and forget the time. Thus the person is in danger, for example, to neglect social contacts and family.

A person concerned, who can assess the topics where he can get into the hyperfocus can take this into account in his career choice. The high rate of self-employment among ADHD sufferers explained thereof; especially since sufferers also can make their work more flexible hours.