Living the covid-19 with ADHD

The actual world's outbreak Covid-19 is propagating at an exponential rate and taking measures is necessary at personal level to elude a possible infection.

Due to my ADHD condition forgetting the security recommendation such as put a cover if you are going the street, clean my hands, and not touching my face, eyes or nose could be easily forgotten. The best strategy to follow in this case is using a strategy I like to call reaction function.

Reaction function uses the formal definition of function for mathematics to creates new habbits or remove bad ones. The concept is very simple: Given an action you perform daily, do another action you want to make an habbit after finishing it. In example, every time you brush your teeth, do a push-up. Although the instructions are very simple, in the practice it's a bit complex.

First of all you need to recognize what kind of things you do daily and then write them in a peace of paper. Them you could select a new habbit for each one, but I suggest you to start with no more than two new task at the same time until the are attached to your everyday. Write each one at the side of one of your daily practices. Now it's time to program your gray matter: close your eyes and imagine yourself doing the daily custom you've selected. Remember how it feels, remember the individual actions you follow to make it. For the teeth brush case, i.e. watch yourself entering the bathroom, taking your brush from the cupboard, applying toothpaste, putting the brush in your mouth. Visualize your hand moving, the feeling of the bristles on your teeth, the way you change the brushing spot, etc. After that imagine yourself making the new action. Repeat the process 2 or three times. If the programming works, you'll remember the new habit immediately once you are making the daily one. Putting context to your memory is a great cheat to memorize things. Similar techniques are used in the cognitive behavioral therapy. 

Apply this for the security health care recommendations and you will be finding yourself abiding them, or at least the major part of the time.