As the Internet grows more powerful, words like “information explosion” are no longer fashionable. Procrastination is what geeks often post in their blogs. Don’t say you haven’t been distracted in front of the computer. We all know what it’s like to be nailed to a desk for eight hours a day, and it’s either superhuman or coaxing to say that you never desert. It is customary to steal a glimpse of today’s headlines when compiling documents, or sneak on QQ when doing slides, and then this harmless “small” and afterwards make people regret, feel that the time to do the right thing are wasted. But there seems to be more and more people without self-control. When ordinary people are easily infected with a habit, people will feel that it is not a matter of self-control. So some people say that this is a modern disease, attention deficit disorder, caused by the bombardment of massive amounts of information. The main manifestation of this is that it is easy to get distracted, the interest is too diffuse, what can not last too long. You see them click from one page to another, let their interest linger briefly between shallow knowledge, and can not even finish reading a complete post, is not a typical symptom? The netizens who heard this news were relieved with a big stone: Whist! Distractions are not my fault, it’s the modern disease that’s to blame. Wait and wait. There is indeed a psychological disorder called attention deficit disorder, but this hat can not be lightly deducted. If you’re just restless, procrastinating, and just can’t focus on your work before you’re about to turn in to your boss – there’s a 95 percent chance you’re not sick. What is ADHD? Attention deficit disorder, better known as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), shows symptoms by age seven according to the criteria in the U.S. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. About five out of every 100 children have the disorder, and about half of them continue to have behavioral difficulties as adults. Some of these children exhibit the “hyperactivity” that can be a headache for parents and teachers, fidgeting, jumping up and down, talking incessantly, purposely annoying classmates, and interrupting others. But in addition, ADHD can also occur in quiet children. They don’t tease, but they can’t focus on one thing. They lose track of things, are often distracted, cannot follow the teacher’s directions, and often fail to complete their homework. Such children make up only five percent of all children, a far smaller percentage than the adults who suspect they are inattentive. Not every adult who procrastinates had an ADHD childhood. There are genetic factors at play when attention deficits occur at such an early stage of life. In fact, three-quarters of ADHD cases run in families, and the children of those with the condition are at up to a 50 percent risk of developing it. the cause of ADHD is linked to mutations in a range of genes that primarily affect the production and transmission of a chemical called dopamine in the brain. Dopamine plays an important regulatory role in many brain functions, and its disruption may lead to inactive or overactive brain areas, causing behavioral disorders. Alterations in the chemical can eventually cause organic lesions in the brain. It has been shown that the abnormal secretion of dopamine indirectly causes the brain tissue called the “basal ganglia” to become smaller, which in turn leads to insufficient inhibition of movement, leaving the child in a constant state of hyperactivity and fidgeting. Therefore, attention deficit disorder is strictly speaking a physiological disorder with genetic roots and organic lesions. It’s not really a disease just because you’ve picked up some bad habits from surfing the Internet too much. However, various new social phenomena have led to new psychological phenomena, and psychological theories have evolved with the times in recent decades, and there are some gray areas in the criteria for diagnosis. For example, when an adult has changed behavior under the influence of a specific environment and behaves very similarly to a strictly diagnosed ADHD patient, should he or she be considered for treatment from the perspective of the disease, even if he or she has no family history of the disease? To answer this question, it may be necessary to look beyond the idea of organic pathology to the functional mechanisms of the brain’s acquired development. If not a disease, what is it? If you think about the context in which procrastination and inattention occur, it often comes from the time when we are most “nerdy”. The definition of geekiness requires several conditions: basic absence from the house; prolonged sitting and lying postures; irregular sleep; fast food or junk food; and dissatisfaction with one’s life or anxiety about work and others. These are some not-so-good habits on the surface, but for the human body, they actually prepare the full conditions for a chemical reaction. The moment the door of the house closes, procrastination begins to stir in the brew of various reaction factors. First, melatonin becomes uncontrolled due to the lack of light in the room for a long time. Its secretion was supposed to match the rhythm of day and night, coming out at night to help people sleep, and converging during the day when it meets the sun. Several days without sunlight otaku, the body is left with an overproduction of melatonin, no wonder it will be lethargic, feeling like suffering from seasonal depression. A good friend of melatonin is serotonin. When melatonin hides from the light, serotonin comes out to lift one’s spirits. When you don’t get sunlight and you don’t get enough sleep, serotonin doesn’t work as well. Along with the decrease in serotonin is dopamine, a “happy factor” that can become scarce due to lack of exercise. This is compounded by a poor diet and a hormonally disordered brain. A packet of snacks or a can of Coke rushed down the gullet with too many carbohydrates and sugars. They stimulate the secretion of insulin, which converts carbohydrates and sugars into fat for storage. The brain’s energy source is glucose, and carbohydrates that break down to produce glucose do give the brain some energy when they are first eaten, but they are soon converted into fat. The geeks padded their stomachs with a sense of satiety and continued to fight in front of the screen, nay, the lack of follow-up energy for the brain to have the power to do so. Plus a few days of melatonin, serotonin, dopamine and other hormones accumulated down the disorder, this bunch of out-of-control chemical reactions to the brain than the house stirred up chaos, a variety of fatigue and sleepiness, lack of energy, lack of motivation, distraction and anxiety symptoms have come. So it seems that if there is a physiological factor in the creation of otaku, it is mostly a functional disorder caused by a vicious cycle of lifestyle habits. The world has a cure for ADHD, but not for procrastination. Hormonal imbalance is the consequence and catalyst of psychological imbalance, not the cause. In order to bring back the disorder, we must first find the psychological factors that cause the disorder and adjust it back to normal. Inability to focus and procrastination are in a sense the same thing, both are resistance and avoidance of the matter at hand. Taking attention away is a more subconscious avoidance, while procrastination is a more explicit resistance. The psychological reasons behind this vary widely, and there is a very interesting statement that may be shared. In Dombrowski’s framework, the otaku who are caught in a state of procrastination are those who have not yet been freed from various “necessities” and have lost themselves, right? Although no psychological adjustment theory is absolutely correct, Mr. East accidentally points out the essence of procrastination – it is a war with the ego. As long as the new self is not found, you cannot face the world openly, and your body will be unlucky with it. Otaku are not ADHD. Give up your delusions of attention deficit disorder. A strong ego can overcome even true ADHD.