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Russian often uses an impersonal construction to talk about how easy/difficult something is for someone:
- Мне трудно… – It’s hard for me…
- Тебе легко… – It’s easy for you…
- Ему интересно… – It’s interesting for him…
Here мне is dative case (“to me / for me”), and трудно is an adverb meaning “hard, difficult”. Literally: “To me it-is-difficult to switch…”.
You cannot say Я трудно переключаюсь. That sounds ungrammatical; трудно doesn’t modify the subject “I” like an English adverb. Instead, Russian treats “it is difficult” as something that exists in general, and then adds the affected person in the dative: мне, тебе, ему, etc.