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I've wondered about all this too. I know I'm not clinically depressed at the moment - been there done that - just a bit lonely over the holiday weekend - but the inability to focus sometimes scares me, though I laugh at my "butterfly mind". With quilts, I think it's been partly the lure of the next exciting project that has led to UFOs building up, plus the very practical problems with my old machine. I've taken steps - putting all the projects except the one I'm working on out of sight helped a lot - but still tend to split myself between different projects. I'm doing the Leah Day Quilt Along, which is great fun and helping my quilting hugely - but of course that's giving me less time to tackle the backlog and is even adding to it as things get stuck at the binding stage. I notice the same thing in other areas of life and have to be careful not to spread myself too thinly. Probably not ADD as such, but tendencies that way that just have to be managed. I think our society just encourages this scattered mindset -far too many different media and possibilities, and some of us have trouble limiting ourselves!