If you have the following symptoms:
- Short-lived enthusiasm
- Difficulty starting tasks and procrastination, primarily compensating with deadline pressure, explosive efficiency just before the deadline
- Unstable emotions, easily nervous, anxious, or even depressed
- Pseudo-work, staying up late every night, but with extremely low efficiency, exhausted after completing a small task
- Sometimes feeling incredibly competent, and other times feeling like a complete fool
- Easily distracted, often interrupted by sudden small tasks that break the workflow
- Prone to addiction, such as smoking, drinking, staying up late, binge eating, sexual addiction, internet addiction
- Sensory overload, brain crashes when many people talk at once, can't stand scratchy clothes, sensitive to spoiled food
- Poor short-term memory, often forgetful
- Whether it's a new job or a new environment, always starting strong but ending weak
- Unable to live alone, can't do anything without supervision or observation
- Unable to think deeply, struggle to follow a normal sequence of tasks
If the above 12 points describe your situation, then you might not be 'lazy' but rather have ADHD, also known as 'Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder', abbreviated as 'ADHD'.
Messing things up is not your fault; essentially, it's due to an imbalance in your brain's neurotransmitters, such as abnormal levels of dopamine and norepinephrine, leading to dysfunction in areas like the prefrontal cortex and parietal cortex.