History Main / AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder

** As of [[http://nebezial.deviantart.com/journal/--628450711 August 2016]], Sejic seems to have hit creator burnout. It turns out that working on multiple projects at his pace for ''twelve years'' doesn't come without a heaping dose of SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome. His health degenerating to the point where it's a struggle for him to even hold a pen properly made him realize he needed to pull back and take a break from at least ''one'' of his projects.

** It hasn't gotten any better now that he's LetsPlay/BitPolar. He tends to have a ridiculous amount of {{Lets Play}}s running simultaneously, and that's not even getting into the many one shots.

* Creator/JamesCameron revealed that in TheEighties, he was he writing ''Film/TheTerminator'', ''Film/RamboFirstBloodPartII'' and ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' simultaneously. He wrote them on separate typewriters.

* One of the most annoying parts (annoying does not equal destructive) about working with the open-source crowd is how often this disorder surfaces when you have enough loosely-knit people working in the project. Sometimes one or more of the contributors don't like how the project is dealing with a particular problem, and said contributors then make a derivative (called 'fork') in which [[ItsAllAboutMe he can do things his way]]. If said contributors is particularly well-respected (or just plain ''[[SmallNameBigEgo defensive]]''), this can result in the organization that is the umbrella of the project having to support two barely differentiable sets of software.

* Video game designer Creator/Suda51 of Grasshopper Manufacture had suffered from this, at one point collaborating with Creator/HideoKojima on a ''VisualNovel/{{Snatcher}}'' radio show, developing ''VideoGame/ShadowsOfTheDamned'', and porting ''VideoGame/TheSilverCase'' and Ward 25 to the Nintendo DS at the same time.
* The high-definition remakes of ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'' and ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'' were so riddled with bugs, glitches and graphical issues that, for a time, Amazon refused to sell it in light of the fan outrage. The newest game in the series, ''VideoGame/SilentHillDownpour'' came out almost at the same time, and two other ''Franchise/SilentHill'' projects were in the works as well, leading many to believe that the creative teams involved were producing unrefined products due to being overloaded, though each project did have different teams.
** Not to mention one of the Guild 01 games for Level-5.

** This results in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' being repeatedly pushed back in development (with a {{prequel}}, {{interquel}}, and various [[VideoGameRemake remakes]] and [[UpdatedRerelease Final Mix rereleases]] to satiate fans until the required time for development to begin, "whenever ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'' (formerly "Versus XIII") is finished", is reached, with only [[VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance one]] sequel involving the main characters between those.
** Speaking of ''Versus XIII,'' it was finally announced in E3 2013 to have become a series mainstay as ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'', seven years after it was initially unveiled as a project alongside ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyType0'' as a part of ''Fabula Nova Crystallis'' in E3 2006 (though Fabula Nova was later named). ''Type-0'' was also initially named ''Agito XIII'' before 2011; despite renames for both, though, XV's E3 trailer and Square's confirmation for Type-0 still places them under the Fabula Nova project, even if XIII and XV chronicles different characters' (Lightning and Noctis respectively) sagas in their own worlds.
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' main series has seemingly fallen victim to Creator/{{Bethesda}}'s ADD in this regard. Since ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' was released in 2011, Bethesda has developed, produced, and/or published three ''Elder Scrolls'' spin-off titles (''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsOnline Online]]'', ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsLegends Legends]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsBlades Blades]]''), ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'', the ''Franchise/{{Dishonored}}'' series, a new ''Wolfenstein'' series, ''The Evil Within'' series, ''VideoGame/Doom2016'', ''VideoGame/Prey2017'', and ''VideoGame/Fallout76''. Rumors continue to swirl of yet another major production which has been clearly stated to not be ''TES:VI''. (Eventually revealed to be ''VideoGame/{{Starfield}}''). ''Finally'', at E3 2018, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkFdqqyI8y4 The Elder Scrolls VI]]'' was announced...vaguely. It is stated to be in pre-production and will not be released until after ''Starfield''. (Educated estimates put the release date somewhere [[SequelGap in the mid 2020s]]...)

* David Szymanski of ''VideoGame/{{Dusk}}'' fame is supposed to work on ''VideoGame/{{Gloomwood}}'', which saw its Early Access release in 2022..... and within the same year he took his time to develop and release ''VideoGame/IronLung'' and ''VideoGame/ChopGoblins''.

* Creator/StevenSpielberg himself, along with working at times in two movies at once - something that made him step down from ''Film/MemoirsOfAGeisha'' and only produce - got involved in producing movies and TV (including a stretch of animated cartoons from ''Westernanimation/TinyToonAdventures'' to ''WesternAnimation/{{Toonsylvania}}'', which even bill him above the title), and at times even delved into gaming with ''Videogame/TheDig'', ''Videogame/MedalOfHonor'', and ''Videogame/BoomBlox''.

** In 2012 he's released a Gorillaz single, made an Elizabethan opera album, released a funk album with Flea and Tony Allen and produced Bobby Womack. He's about to do some dates with Blur, too. When does he sleep?
* Robert Pollard makes Damon Albarn look like a wannabe.

* Music/DevinTownsend is best known for his Extreme Industrial Metal band Strapping Young Lad, but is also credited with the following.
** Several albums just under his own name.
** Punky Brüster, a parody of selling out, based around a DeathMetal band becoming {{Punk}}.
** Ocean Machine, a relatively low key Progressive Rock project
** He is occasionally a producer for others (since he does so much for his own albums), the most well-known being Soilwork's '''Natural Born Chaos'''
** Devin Townsend Band, an eponymous Progressive Metal project
** Ziltoid The Omniscient, a sort of Rock Opera based around an alien who tries to destroy the Earth because the humans failed to bring him a perfect cup of coffee. But it turns out it's [[AllJustADream all in a coffee shop employee's dreams.]]
** Guest vocals and general collaborations with who knows how many bands(mostly Progressive, of course), including Ayreon and Gojira, and having Chuck Billy of [[ThrashMetal Thrash]] legends Testament perform as the Planet Smasher during a live performance of the aforementioned Ziltoid.
** Performing vocals on Steve Vai's Sex & Religion album
** His latest endeavour, The Devin Townsend Project, which is a poppy take on his normal Progressive Metal leanings, but [[MoodWhiplash leans towards the extreme as of the album Deconstruct.]]

* Music/MikePatton is best known for fronting Music/FaithNoMore, but also started Mr. Bungle, Fantomas, Peeping Tom, Tomahawk, Moonraker, and probably several other bands. Aside from all those, he frequently works with John Zorn, has recorded numerous one-off collaborations with various others, and occasionally releases albums under his own name, to say nothing of the countless guest appearances for artists all across the musical spectrum. (He also provided the snarls for both the Anger Sphere in VideoGame/{{Portal}} and VideoGame/Left4Dead's zombies, but that probably didn't take too much time...)

* Jorne Lande projects are plagued with this trope, since 2000 he's released 24 albums. That's just counting albums where he has a writing credit, not his frequent guest spots on fellow deficit disorder creators Arjen Lucassen & Tobias Sammet's projects. He's also seemingly quick to leave side projects (twice now Masterplan have carried on without him) only his IAmTheBand main project seems to get his full attention.

** Puscifer: founded in 2003 effectively as Keenan's solo project, he's released three studio albums plus an assortment of remix albums, live albums and [=EPs=].

* Trent Reznor has got to this point, what with running two bands (the long-running Music/NineInchNails and the newly formed How to Destroy Angels), writing film soundtracks for Creator/DavidFincher, developing a mini-series based on one of his albums and being offered directorial jobs.

* Josh Homme, anyone? His most prominent role is probably Music/QueensOfTheStoneAge, but he has several side projects which include The Desert Sessions, Eagles of Death Metal, Them Crooked Vultures and Fiffteeners.

* Zach Hill of the noise-rock group Hella and the experimental hip-hop group Music/{{Death Grips}} is also an (occasionally auxiliary) member of numerous other experimental groups, namely Wavves, Team Sleep, CHLL PLL, bygones, Scars on Broadway, Nervous Cop, Flössin, Goon Moon, Holy Smokes, and Crime in Choir, as well as drumming for Omar Rodriguez Lopez, Marnie Stern, Robby Moncrieff, and Mick Barr, and releasing solo material.
* Scott "Wino" Weinrich of Saint Vitus fame. Besides his time in the classic doom metal band, Wino also contends with other doom/stoner metal bands such as War Horse, The Obsessed, Mentors, Lost Breed, Spirit Caravan, Place of Skulls, The Hidden Hand, Shrinebuilder, Probot, and Premonition 13. All of this without ever achieving commercial success (it's doom metal, what did you expect)
* Drummer Mike Portnoy, provider of the page quote, is...shall we say a busy man, and even his ouster from Music/DreamTheater and Music/AvengedSevenfold have focused him only slightly - he still has Transatlantic among prog groups, the eclectic Flying Colors, and the straightforward [[Music/TheWineryDogs Winery Dogs]] HardRock trio - whose bassist, Billy Sheehan, is no slouch here either.

* Dan Swanö has, since 1988, been a part of 29 different bands (though many of them are studio-only projects). And that's not counting the vast number of releases which he has produced or appeared as a guest musician on.

* Founding Music/{{Slayer}} drummer Dave Lombardo has become notoriously prolific in later years, having played for Suicidal Tendencies, Testament, Mr. Bungle, and The Misfits after his departure from Slayer, and those are just the ones where he was considered an official band member!

* Music/PhilCollins was well known for this (especially in TheEighties), as a solo artist, member of Music/{{Genesis|Band}} and fusion band Brand X, on-call drummer for Music/EricClapton, Music/PeterGabriel and [[Music/LedZeppelin Robert Plant]], and with his various appearances as a session drummer/producer. This is not counting his work as house drummer for the Prince's Trust concerts, his appearances in UsefulNotes/LiveAid, Knebworth '90, The Secret Policeman shows and the Concert For Montserrat, or for that matter his acting and voice acting work (and the occasional Disney soundtrack later on). The CriticalBacklash his career suffered from may have had as much to do with his ubiquity as anything. Live Aid in particular saw him appear (via Concorde!) in both Philadelphia and London, doing his own set as well as guest-drumming for Music/TheWho and the reunited Music/LedZeppelin. In a documentary about Genesis, Collins stated that in hindsight it wasn't any wonder why the backlash occurred -- he was freakin' ''everywhere''.

** There was also a chatroom Psyguy "ran" about a decade ago - ''Psycho's [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] Chat'', hosted on beseen. He eventually abandoned it completely, and let it sit unmanaged to the day beseen shut down. Currently unknown if this was due to other projects, or simply becoming disillusioned as to how great it was to have his own Sonic the Hedgehog chatroom.

* Creator/RidleyScott was attached to [[http://www.movieline.com/2009/10/know-your-ridley-scott-projects-that-will-probably-never-happen.php at least 9 projects in 2009]] (only one of those came out, the "[[Film/{{Prometheus}} Alien Prequel]]", released in 2012; says something there's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridley_Scott%27s_unrealized_projects a whole page of his projects that never panned out]]). The man still releases movies yearly or bi-annually, and produces films and TV series, despite being 78 years old! Maybe Scott just wants to complete as many films as possible now that he still can.

* ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' is in a unique position in that its creator can suffer ADCD with it alone. Different arcs are published simultaneously and in different magazines; this can get confusing when reading the magazines as the events don't properly get put in order until the official volumes are released. The ''Emerald'' arc was put onto hiatus for a whole year, the ''Platinum'' arc went through a major ScheduleSlip, the ''[=HeartGold/SoulSilver=]'' arc was horribly rushed, and the ''Black 2/White 2'' arc seems close to being an OrphanedSeries. On the plus side, Kusaka Hidenori is allowed to make [[ReCut major revisions in the official volume releases]], smoothing out quite a lot of continuity kinks and expanding the plots as he does so. Hidenori himself notes this and wonders if anybody, much less kids, can keep up with his stories in the magazine releases.

* Creator/KevinMacLeod is the most billed composer of all time, having composed ''thousands'' of pieces of royalty-free library music. He is a busy man.

** Later on, he becomes an aversion. Due to his wife's illness and having a kid, Piro has often excused his situation with dealing with both those, and has all but shut himself in for the most part. He only resurfaced in the con scene in 2012 after a two-year absence, and even then it was cons that were a day's driving distance or so from his hometown in southern Michigan. As of 2022 he has taken a day job as bus driver to pay for family member's healthcare costs plus other expenses. Megatokyo is unfortunately no longer his day job.

* Despite having an already tremendously [[ScheduleSlip behind schedule]] main comic in ''Webcomic/VGCats'', Scott Ramsoomair also has a ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' comic and does the official ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'' webcomic. ... Neither of which seem to be updating much.

* In 2020-2021, Creator/ZackSnyder worked on ''Film/ArmyOfTheDead'' (on which he's a CopiouslyCreditedCreator) and the Creator/{{Netflix}} franchise spawning from it, his version of ''[[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague Justice League]]'', a Myth/NorseMythology animated series, and a SpaceOpera titled ''Rebel Moon''.

* Creator/JossWhedon with his projects for ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' and ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods''. And then he did a secret modern-day adaptation of ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'' in the two week break between production and post-production of ''Avengers''... y'know, for kicks. And then he managed Marvel's Phase 2 film slate (where he directed ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''), as well as working on the ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' series (where he left brother Jed and his wife to actually run the series), an experience that made him break ties with the studio afterwards.

* Another elder director who just likes to keep himself busy is Creator/ClintEastwood, who is seven years older than Scott. He is more successful in actually making his movies, even if it means releasing two in the same year - a rare case where Eastwood had to step out was ''Film/AStarIsBorn2018''.

* In 2020-2021, Creator/ZackSnyder worked on ''Film/ArmyOfTheDead'' (on which he's a CopiouslyCreditedCreator) and the Creator/{{Netflix}} franchise spawning from it, his version of ''[[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague Justice League]]'', a Myth/NorseMythology animated series, the script for a second sequel to ''Film/ThreeHundred'' and a SpaceOpera titled ''Rebel Moon''.

* [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/348055/Peptuck Peptuck]] was ''notorious'' for this. Despite crafting very well-known stories like ''Fanfic/TiberiumWars'', ''Fanfic/{{Forward}}'', and ''Fanfic/{{Renegade}}'', you will notice that of all the fics he started after mid-2009, '''none''' of them are complete. The problem is that he was very much a crossover writer, and just when it looked like one of his crossovers was getting into the meat of the plot, he suddenly started another crossover. This happened ''three'' times since he started writing ''Renegade''. His creative juices appear to have been squeezed dry, as no new chapters have been uploaded for any fics since Sept. 2016, and his profile itself was last updated in Sept. 2018.

* [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4746382/SkyRig SkyRig]], formerly known as Demons Anarchy of Pride and Starlight’s Poet, suffers from this as well. In 2019, he published 100 fics, all of which he claimed he wanted to complete at some point. Burnout for a good number of them as well as a recent bout of depression led him to delete almost half of them, cutting it down to 56 in November of that. He’s published a few new stories since then, such as a rewrite of [[FanFic/Persona5HoshiToBokuraTo a previous work]]. Regardless, he still tends to come up with a lot of story ideas, which leads to a bunch of them being put on the backburner. It doesn’t help that they tend to be set up as long-runners.

* It was for this reason that the ''VideoGame/{{Loom}}'' series was left unfinished, closely related to the fact that people had lost interest in making games with serious subject matter, as they weren't as funny/successful as the other things Creator/LucasArts were working on at the time.

** Puscifer: founded in 2003 effectively as Keenan's solo project, he's released three studio albums plus an assortment of remix albums, live albums and EPs.

* Creator/JamesCameron revealed that in TheEighties, he was he writing ''Film/TheTerminator'', ''Film/RamboFirstBloodPartII'' and ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' silmultaneously. He wrote them on seperate typewriters.

* Ross Scott of ''Accursed Farms'' fame. Not perhaps, because he has so many irons in the fire, but because he's working in a medium that requires an unholy amount of time and effort. (And he presumably has a day job as well.) Fans of ''Machinima/FreemansMind'' who have been waiting a long time for the next installment to come out can't help but tap their feet and check their watches while they watch the Progress Chart for ''Machinima/CivilProtection'' slowly inch towards completion at a glacial pace. (Again, it's a work-heavy, time-heavy medium...) While productivity has been arguably good despite the addition of ''Ross's Game Dungeon'', it's yet another project on top of everything else he's working on.

* Creator/RoosterTeeth has some people who seemingly get involved with every show, and then some. Probably the biggest case is Miles Luna, who was showrunner of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' (three years plus supervisor of [[Machinima/RedVsBlueSeason14 an anthology season]]) while simultaneously writing ''Webanimation/{{RWBY}}'', and then co-creating ''Webanimation/CampCamp'' - with the other guy, Jordan Cwierz, being equally busy, doing the Rooster Teeth Animated Adventures, and then other 2D animations such as ''Webanimation/XRayAndVav'', ''Sex Swing'', and ''Webanimation/NomadOfNowhere'' - while also doing Let's Plays in ''Backwardz Compatible'', a podcast in ''Fan Service'', and appearing in other things.

** Later on, he becomes an aversion. Due to his wife's illness and having a kid, Piro has often excused his situation with dealing with both those, and has all but shut himself in for the most part. He only resurfaced in the con scene in 2012 after a two-year absence, and even then it was cons that were a day's driving distance or so from his hometown in southern Michigan. His last rant was in June 2012. That said, he ''does'' tweet a lot...

* In 2015, Creator/KieronGillen had a full plate: ''ComicBook/AngelaAsgardsAssassin'', ''[[ComicBook/SecretWars2015 Siege]]'', and ''ComicBook/StarWarsDarthVader'' for Marvel; ''ComicBook/TheWickedAndTheDivine'', ''ComicBook/{{Phonogram}}'', and ''ComicBook/{{Ludocrats}}'' for Image; ''ComicBook/{{Uber}}'', ''[[ComicBook/{{Crossed}} Crossed: Badlands]]'', and ''ComicBook/MercuryHeat'' for Creator/AvatarPress. With so many titles, Gillen had to announce he was taking a break from the Marvel Universe after ''Secret Wars'', since it was getting to be too much.

* Jason Aaron in the last few years was working on several Wolverine comics, ''Comicbook/GhostRider'', ''ComicBook/{{Scalped}}'' and ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'' while working on miniseries and giving guest apperances in other comics; at one point he was working on four ongoing series at the same time - ''Comicbook/ThePunisherMAX'', ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'', ''Wolverine and the ComicBook/XMen'' and ''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk''. What's funny is that only one of them (Punisher) suffered from ScheduleSlip and that's because of the artist, who had to deal with personal matters, so Marvel had to put the series on a very long hiatus.