Our executive functions control all these departments in our brain.

When it comes to 'Activation, Focus, & Action' i've always described it as 'inertia'

An object in motion will stay in motion. An object at rest will stay at rest. (Until something else causes it to stop/start.)

April 09, 2026 - 09:48 UTC

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So for us, with executive dysfunction. For both the things we want to do, and don't want to do... we can end up stuck 'at rest' with nothing to push us into action. I can be sitting there going: I really want to play this game!!! and be stuck unable to start, getting more and more frustrated.
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We can also get stuck 'in motion' (hyperfocus), where we get locked into something (good OR bad) and aren't able to stop until external factors snap us out of it. An alarm, the doorbell, a phone call, cat jumping on desk, another person.
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