Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanodia

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Hey chat, welcome to the Healthy Gamer GG podcast.

I'm Dr. Alok Kanodja, but you can call me Dr. K. I'm a psychiatrist, gamer, and co-founder of Healthy Gamer.

On this podcast, we explore mental health and life in the digital age, breaking down big ideas to help you better understand yourself and the world around you.

So let's dive right in.

It's noon on a Monday and you're sitting there and you're thinking to yourself, man, I have homework.

And your brain is like, yeah, it can be you at 1 p.m.

on Monday, one hour from now, you could be done with that task.

And then you're like, damn, this is the last piece of homework I have for the next three days.

I could have I could relax for the next three days if I just sit down and do one hour of work right now.

But if your brain is like, oh,

This is going to take three days.

This piece of homework has suddenly become a dissertation.

So today we're going to talk about time blindness in ADHD.

As a psychiatrist, this is the thing that causes the most damage to my patients' lives that they are unaware of as a problem with ADHD.

So what do I mean by that?

So in ADHD, like we're all aware that there are attentional problems, right?

I have difficulty concentrating.