i feel like ive become really dumb cause i cant hardly hear 90%+ of what is going on around me (people/tv). im constantly slipping into my mind where it is making up stories and distracting me. learning things is pretty much impossible unless it is broken way down and repeated to me over and over. i can focus for a few seconds maybe 30 seconds then im lost in my thoughts again where stories are being created. its like uncontrolable daydreaming. im trying to watch a documentary and even with complete effort im catching myself gone off again. its similar to what happens when someone tries to meditate but they forget they are meditating and start thinking but it happens with everything all the time.
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Yes very much.
I can’t watch or focus on anything longer than 50 mins max.
I have to take break.
And when I take the break, I won’t go back to the thing I was doing,
But get some other idea. To do something else.
I face with difficulties and find an escape route, I don’t understand why I do it for movies.
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This has been happening to me more often too recently, since i started experiencing symptoms ~5 months ago
I called it tuning out & getting lost in my imagination. but it’s more like 50% for me so far sometimes when someone is directly talking to me. often when it started becoming about something that i quickly lost interest in. then i can try refocus again on the conversation when i gently remind myself and i keep trying to concentrate
but my brain also does the same like when I’m on public transport, making stories like that
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