I have real bad problems concentrating. I can’t watch more than 10 minutes of to at a time. I read chapters in books two or three times as the story doesn’t sink in.
I can pretty much handle this forum but only if the posts are spaced out into bite size pieces.
My question is what treatments/therapies help this? My pdoc thinks my APs may be causing some of this but I really don’t want to reduce them (I get bad pretty quick). Are there any meds that help? Or any mind training/ talking therapies?
I long to have the focus I had when I was 12 and would bunk of school and watch 4 movies straight and be real into them all. As it stands I get little pleasure from media entertainment.
You could try watching things like music tv, or listening to radio. If you have it on as background noise, and don’t have to concentrate, it could help. I found that helped me a bit.
But reading is still out for me. As is sitting through a movie without being able to pause it.
But, yeah, start with having media as background noise would be my suggestion.
Breaking away from all that entertainment can’t be all bad.
I have your problem with concentration. I am building a relationship with my therapist and as my trust in her and bond with her improve, so does my interest and therefore my level and length of concentration.
Also, I can remember when I couldn’t work very long without getting a strong desire for a cigarette which rudely interrupted my concentration. Thank goodness I finally stopped smoking.
large text… long threads… it washes over me and it doesn’t sink in. I feel like I miss something. No matter how hard I try to make myself interested, I’m just not.
It used to be meds…
poor concentration hit me with the negative symptoms too.
For now I just have to be patient with myself and read in little chunks and rest. I don’t own a T.V. but I do watch a movie once in a while on the computer.
reading… I had to build up to reading a bit more each time. Little by little…
Jimbob, what meds are you taking now and at what dose? I have poor concentration, too. I suspect it may have something to do with high prolactin level.
I can’t watch tv either. I don’t remember what happened in the movie and then I don’t understand what happens next. I hate this. Same thing reading, I read one word at a time. I thought everyone did until I spoke to my friend yesterday. He said he reads the whole sentance at once.
