Let’s consider it as a kind of pernicious variation in your way of paying attention. You lose perspective. Instead of paying attention evenly, you hyperfocus on everything negative. This happens subtly, but profoundly. The next thing you know some mad preacher within you has started to harangue at you and you can’t stop listening. What this adds up to in terms of a diagnosis, combined with everything else you’ve told me, is that I think you may have the adult version of attention deficit disorder.”
