Poll Sufferers, Do You Multitask Well?

[desiderata310]

Usually should be the real answer.
USUALLY I do well with multi-tasking. Recently, with a TBI I do better if I only try one thing at a time.

 

[VioletButterfly]

Hang in, i promise it will be better soon. Sending good throughts, love and strenght.

Thank you, kindly. I understand what it feels like to be left behind. All of my colleagues have moved on and don't talk to me anymore either. I appreciate your support. If okay, sending :hug:.

 

[Changing4Best]

Nope, horrible at it! I can focus in on one thing to the exclusion of all else though, like when I read, it takes a raised and irate or impatient voice to interrupt me, although the phone will break successfully through my attention, but that is about all.

I am a sound sleeper too. I sleep through thunder storms even, but again, the phone will wake me. I am not sure why this all is, because I can sleep through an alarm clock or wake just enough to turn it off and go right back to sleep again. But the phone? I'm up. That's it, no going back to sleep after a phone call.

 

[SeedMan]

This is so interesting to see how we each deal (or not) with multitasking. At present in the poll, it's about 50-50 for those who multitask well and those who don't. For me, self-initiated toggling between tasks is very easy and fulfilling (provided I remember what I had previously been doing); however, if it comes in from the outside (phone calls, personal interruptions) I'm nonfunctional.

 

[EveHarrington]

I don't think anyone actually multi-tasks well. Its a bit of a myth. Mostly people just switch quickly...

Exactly.

Studies show this to be true.

In fact, "multitasking" actually decreases efficiency and accuracy.

 

[Deleted member 8714]

I multi-task quite well. I'm a writer and I've got three stories developing and ongoing in my head at once right now. I'm furthering each one through playacting. I used to be poly-fragmented DID, and I playacted out my abuse in my head as an adult. It took me many years to figure out that it was my abuse that I playacted. When I was younger I did it with dolls and toys. I wonder if the brain is hardwired (with having had DID) in some way for life to be able to multi-task.

 

[8888]

I don't, but I also have ASD in addition to PTSD so that could be responsible.

 

[whiteraven]

I do if I have to. If I'm at work, I can scan email, chat on IM, answer a question somebody is asking standing at my desk, and complete a document I'm working on all at the same time. Once I'm gone from work, though, sometimes I can't remember my own name.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

I am a frustrated perfectionist, and have organized piles and drawers. I do not multi-task well right now because I am so stressed and have lost focus.

I used to be able to quite well.