Your and my descriptions feel so qualitatively different that I&#x27;ve got to wonder if fundamentally different things are going on between the two.<p>A previous HN thread had a lot of people comparing ADHD to the effect of chronic sleep debt, with the suggestion that ADHD could be an effect of the inability to enter deep sleep. &quot;Like never having slept enough&quot; isn&#x27;t an analogy I would make for my symptoms, but it would seem to fit yours much more closely.<p>As a probing guess, are your symptoms helped more by NRI-class drugs? From what I know about norepinephrine, it governs whether moment-to-moment attention will tend to fixate or drift. The symptoms of both that, and the disorder of motivation, seem to get conflated as &quot;ADHD&quot; for some reason.