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I feel like mine is decent. But I feel the symptoms and meds have kind of diminished it over the years.
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I find that when my attention wanders when I am reading or watching tv and I go back over the part I missed, my attention seems to wander right at the same place it did before. One time I went on this eight month reading binge where I read fifteen hours a day with near perfect comprehension. It was a good time in my life.
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That’s awesome you were able to read so diligently and for so long!
It felt great. I’ve tried to duplicate the experience, but all that reading just bored me. I still hope I can do it again.
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I understand. I think it’s possible, like if you really put your mind to it 
Reading fiction bores me, but that’s just my taste. I read lots of non-fiction and things that personally interest me.
I like documentaries on tv better than most movies and sitcoms. Maybe I should read more non-fiction myself.
Oh I love documentaries. A few of my favorites are Hearts and Minds, Harlan County USA, and American Hardcore (American Hardcore is about punk bands in the 80’s).
Mine is eh. I had a very good attention span as a child and could stay intently focused on things for hours. When my depression and psychosis became more prevalent as I got older my attention span started decreasing drastically. It got way worse on meds to where I didn’t even have an attention span. It’s improved again since coming off meds but it’s still sad compared to what it used to be.
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I empathize with you Anna. My attention span seems to go back and forth from bad to good. Lately it’s been kind of bad. I used to read books that were about 200 pages in about two days. Now it takes me about a week to read a book that long. Which I suppose still isn’t bad.
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Errrrr, sorry what was the question?
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my golly! that leaves only around 9 hours of sleep, if you fell asleep immediately after reading. those must have been some will-not-fall-asleep-while-reading amazing books!
my attention span is bad, and my schedule revolves around the quality of it. I can’t do anything consistently for more than 30 minutes. usually after 30 minutes, my brain starts to think random thoughts and think a little slower.
I might have exagerated a little, but not very much. The first thing I would do when I woke up in the morning would be to grab a book, and I’d read until I went to bed. I was in school, and I didn’t bother to go to class. That was bad, but I was getting so much out of my reading.
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Lol who voted twice? You can’t have it both ways!
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I can kind of relate. a few months before I dropped out, I stopped attending college classes. I didn’t feel safe attending them because of my thoughts (which turned out to be paranoid sz.) so I just stayed home and read the books. learned a lot about my limits and my potential.
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I don’t have a good attention span. I can’t even concentrate on one book. I have to keep a few books around and read them all little by little.
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My attention span is awful. I wish it was better.