Concentration

[Bordo66]

hey I have been noticing that I really have concentration issues, I notice it when I'm at school. I notice it here, I want to fully read others story but I can't :(, I read the first sentence and then think I forget it, I know I want to read it but it's almost impossible.

 

[sea]

I read the same lines over and over and over and over. (Are you reading this over and over and over and over and over?...Does it seem a little repetitive?)

 

[KP the nut]

I read the same lines over and over and over and over.

However books last ages, you can reread them and never remember the endings:roflmao:

 

[Bordo66]

I can read books, but whenever im reading a post on any site or even when I have to listen to people I dont know what to do with my hands for example. When some1 is talking to me I have the habit of watching away.

note: I dont read books :)

 

[AngelaMarie]

When I first came on the forum and read the rules, I understood what Anthony was saying about long posts. I can manage to read long posts after a while. However, it takes me a while to be able to concentrate. It is sad for me sometimes because I used to read book after book. Now I will read a book and forget half of it. However, I will not give up. I can learn to overcome this and everytime I can read a long post here and support someone it gives me hope. All of our stories are long and complicated and for me it is the best way to try to learn to be able to concentrate again. I want to posts some of my feelings and I can't put it in to words yet, but I believe in the future I can do it!

 

[mikenanboy]

I have a terrible time concentrating, seems I can only stay focused for a few minutes and then I start drifting. Makes it hard at work sometimes when we are learning new procedures and such, I really have to put effort into it. I don't remember being any other way. Repetition seems to be the key for me mostly, keep on doing it or reading it over and over.......but then I lose interest.....ahhhhhh:confused:!!!

 

[OKRADLAK]

Can't do it either. I was in a PhD program and now? Peanuts comics are a challenge.

 

[Reclusive]

I tend to swing back and forth from obsessive to free floating. I can go hours concentrating on minute tasks or repetitive behaviors over and over again and then sometimes I can string a thought together before the next one comes along. On the upside, I don't mind reruns because I never remember how the episodes end (I watch crime dramas).

 

[gidge]

Yay is not just me.

 

[freakofnurture]

Concen... what? Concentration? What is that? Some fancy new style of... oooh, look, a squirrel! Now, what was it that I wanted to do? Doo-doo-dee-doo... hehe. There was a squirrel. Did you see that?

 

[livergirl70]

LMAO, I feel so much better now, the amount of times I have got halfway through watching something and then realised that I watched this episode yesterday :roflmao:

 

[Innordinate]

I was diagnosed ADHD before PTSD... so yeah.. concentrating... no such ability for most things.
however the concentrating problem was probably a PTSD symptom and the school wasn't really worried about anything else except getting money for another kid with ADHD...whereas PTSD doesn't give them better funding. :mad: