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Once a week, ADHD coach Robin Nordmeyer joins the Zoom collection with other coaches, while she writes blogs, performs administrative tasks or works on the content for the presentations that she puts off.
Nordmeier, who has ADHD, does not necessarily use a meeting for cooperation with others – she just needs their presence as a motivator to help her do everythingField
“I am managing business, and I have to balance many different areas of business,” said Nordmeyer, co-founder and managing director of the Center for Living with AdHD-Minnesota, ADHD coaching group, not far from Minneapolis serving all ages.
“Some of these things come very easily – how, they are in my steering line, they charge me energy, I can’t wait to get to them,” Nordmeyer said. “And some of these things are a little more tiring, or I have any resistance around them.”
What Nordmeyer does to cope with these more stringent tasks is sometimes called “doubling of the body”, performance and strategy of self -help, which includes Working with another person Around to help improve motivation and concentration. For some time, it was popular among people with ADHG-deficiency of attention/hyperactivity, especially during the pandemic.
“The idea is that the presence of the other is, in fact, a mild reminder of to stay on the assignment,” said Billy Roberts, clinical director of the SDVG of a focused mind in Columbus, Ohio. “For people (C) of ADHD, whose minds, as a rule, wander and abandon the task, the body in some way works as an external motivator to stay on the task.”
Diving of the body, not only for people with ADHD, but, like many “survival strategies, what can be useful for anyone is more important and important for people with ADHD,” said Dr. Russell Ramsey, who founded the coder from the treatment and research program in the field of treatment and research of the University of Pennsylvania.
Why is the doubling of the body work
According to Harvard University, a disorder of the development of the nervous system, usually diagnosed in childhood, but for a long time in adulthood, SDVG stems from underdeveloped or impaired executive functions and self -regulation skills, according to Harvard University. Center for developing childThe field of these skills help us plan, focus on, remember instructions and multitasking. Symptoms of ADHD include inattention, hyperactivity and impulsiveness – therefore, people with this disorder may have problems with concentration, remain organized, manage their time or control their impulses, which can affect both their work and personal life, Roberts said.
According to Roberts, if people with ADHD are not interested in the task, they usually fight with a lack of internal motivation to complete it or even start. According to experts, doubling the body provides this motivation.
“It also relies on our social itself,” said Ramsey. “Many people with ADHD will say:“ It is difficult for me to start with this if I do it for myself, but if I know that someone else relies on me, if anyone is still waiting on the street to appear to go on our walk, I will be more likely to go there because I don’t want to bring them down. ”
According to Roberts and other experts, there are no extensive studies to doubling the body for performance. “But I know that the idea of external motivation is a long-standing, based data control mechanism for ADHD management,” Roberts said.
Theoretically, this method is quite simple, but there are several factors that should be borne in mind to use it as much as possible.
How to effectively use the body of doubling
Dear body can help with almost any task that it is difficult for you to complete – whether it is work, household chores, exercises, school work or documents. Another person should not do the same as you, unless you need to double the body – for example, training – does not require this help.
Be versed of who you ask to become double your body. According to Roberts, a person should be as well -committed to you as you, like you – not to distract you from a conversation or something else. Choose the one who usually makes you feel comfortable and safe, and who can encourage you when necessary.
“It is important to keep a double body session for his target,” said Nordmeyer. If the conversations appear, click them for later, possibly during a break or dinner.
To ask someone to be your body double, it may seem awkward, but Roberts said that the best approach is often simple. You could say: “This is what I heard can help with productivity. Could you just be near me while I am working on it? Maybe you have something, what you could work on. ”
You can also exchange with them, in a sense, making such an offer, for example: “You help me organize my garage on Saturday; I will help you organize your home office on Sunday, ”said Ramsey.
These small first steps to search for a partner and setting up the session will make you start and continue, he added.
According to Nordmeyer, planning regular sessions of doubling the body is one of the options, or just ask when there is a need. How transparent about why you need a double body depends on you, as well as you have more than one double body.
“It depends on the person,” said Roberts. “If this turns into a distraction more than awareness, accountability or behavioral support, then you just want to remake things. You can seem to be busy with things until you find what works. ”
The virtual body doubles
If you do not have a friend or colleague to be double your body, you are not lucky.
Some Tiktok users, such as Ellie K. CampbellGo regularly while they work, so that others can use them as a double virtual body. There are also a doubling of body doubling or coworking or applications, such as FlyIN Focusing or Flow ClubField
At virtual sessions, “Most of the body of the body ask you to share your camera, and many people are very nervous from the fact that they are visible,” Nordmeyer said. “The purpose of this is to make sure that you are still in your chair. … But there may be other ways to create this responsibility using a chat function. ”
The advantages of doubling the body are probably why some people like to work on things in cafes, libraries or coworking spaces – which may be sources of doubling of a passive body, if you do not need to ask, said Roberts.
“Some people work better with the support of the community and simply the awareness of other people around them,” he added. “You have seen a lot with pandemia as people who learn more about the types of structure they needed.
“We all think and work in the other way, and there is nothing wrong with that,” Roberts said.
