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Hi, I'm Dr. Tracey Marks, a psychiatrist and I make mental health education videos. Today, I'm talking about executive functioning. What it is and what it looks like when it's not working optimally. This is part one in a series of videos talking about managing ADHD symptoms without medication. ADHD can be thought of as a disorder of executive functioning, so understanding this is an important lead-in to making behavioral changes. Executive function is a set of cognitive or thinking skills that are responsible for the following, planning, organization and prioritizing, initiating actions, self-inhibition, self-monitoring your behavior, being able to shift your attention between tasks and working memory. That's a lot of stuff, so let's break it down. First, planning organizing and prioritizing. This involves any planning on a global level, it's not just planning a party. It's the ability to anticipate how long things will take or how much effort things will require or thinking through multiple steps to see something that you wanna do all the way through to the end. Problems in this area can look like being unprepared for something even though you had adequate time or resources to do it. You may have trouble managing your time properly because you can't look at various pieces of information and easily tell what's the most important thing to pay attention to, so instead you may spend your time frittering away at something that doesn't matter much while leaving the most important thing incomplete. Next, initiating actions. This involves taking action to get started with something. Anyone can put things off that they don't wanna do but trouble with initiation is at the root of procrastinating. It's like there's a block to being able to just do it. So if you have trouble in this area, you may need lots of pressure and prodding to get things done. So let's say you have a big project to complete and that project is gonna take a lot of work and a lot of planning. The person without trouble initiating will be motivated to get it out of the way so that they don't have to think about it anymore. The person who has trouble with initiation, doesn't use the same kind of reasoning, they don't factor in the stress that it will cause having to do things at the last minute with not enough time. They can just still sit there and be immobilized and unable to start the project and put it off until the last minute. Self-inhibition. This can be thought of as impulse control. It's the ability to hold back from automatic responses because you're able to anticipate what impact your action will have. Trouble in this area can look like interrupting people or even making quick decisions or snap judgements. Self-monitoring. This skill is the ability to look at your behavior and measure your progress against what others expect of you or what's needed of you. If you have trouble in this area, you may...