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When ADHD optimism leads to repeated incomplete commitments

I have three unfinished graduate degrees because every time I start something new I convince myself this time will be different but it never is.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The neurochemical reward of beginning something creates a pattern of initiation without the capacity for sustained follow-through that completion requires.

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