I can concentrate for 1h! Then I’m pooped!
My attention span shifts a ton, but to be fair, I’m also sza, so this is also probably dependent on where I am mood shift wise. My attention used to be super super bad a couple of years ago, but I’ve slowly improved by getting into audio books and getting back into studying economics for fun. I can typically force myself to concentrate for up to a couple of hours, though this definitely comes with struggles. I can have minor distractions, accidentally get tripped up by voices, that sort of thing.
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Can I concentrate on what now?
It’s gotten better but I still don’t have the same attention span I did before I developed symptoms. It helps to juggle my attention between two things.
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I don’t concentrate. That would just hurt. I live in “easy let it slide don’t do anything that will make me feel damage” land lol. But it doesn’t work. I feel damage anyway
No I cant focus or concentrate on one thing at a time my mind is racey
I did not try with a book lately, but over the internet my focus goes up to about 15 min.
A good book used to keep me awakened all nite.
I can watch a full movie on Tv
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When i am manic and i am doing something with my own interest it goes up to 10 to 12 hours in one go, but after a sleep back to square one,
I so love the 10 to 12 hours focus its crazy feeling and that too you achieve what you where trying for and i feel the reward in my brain, which is same as being normal sznic, there is no difference, the reward in the mind is the same, then i thought to treat my self with something i like but the treat as well is the same chemicals in the brain.
Thats the main reason nothing excites me now.
Those are long hours. I was manic but not on meds.
Do you get to be manic on meds also?
For me is too exhausting.
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I get Manic only on meds arip and oleanz mix 15 and 2.5 mg
I dont get exhausted but depressed later in the end realising there is no point in doing anything
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Up until recently, I would read for several hours at a time. The past couple of weeks, I haven’t been able to. I think I’m hypomanic or something.
I am now able to read almost 100 pages of couple of books for the past 1 month or so. In between had times when I could not read. And I watch some 40 mins of educational videos. No matter I learn from it or not I make it a habit to read and watch something. So I get occupied and not get distracted. There is no goal like I want to be a blogger or writer or coder or something. I just want to deflect my mind to something less harmful and useful.
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I play video games to strengthen my concentration.
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Nope i can’t consentrate at all. I trail off listening to a sentence.
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I find that caffeine has a big effect on how well I read. Sometimes I want to cut way down on my caffeine and try to do some serious reading again, but I’m fixing to drink a pot of green tea. Maybe tomorrow…
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I can’t read when Im having problems, cant concentrate on the words, my mind goes all over the place.
Sometimes i feel i need a service dog or service monkey to tap my shoulders to concentrate
I am sza and in spite of that, I have razor sharp focus and concentration. Almost nothing can break my concentration. Because of that, I am an excellent reader. Unfortunately I don’t have either speed nor coordination so, it doesn’t translate into piano playing abilities.
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When I’m interested in something it’s easier to focus. I listened to a 46 minute cumtown podcast(this one had bam Margera on as a guest) and it was over in no time. Before that was a thirty minute cumtown podcast with nick Mullen doing Christopher Walken.
I could read textbooks for school for 30 or 35 minutes at a time. I also surprised myself last week and sat through an entire movie at the theater and was able to follow the whole movie. Just recently I sat through a few YouTube videos that were more than an hour long each.
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