Is anyone else in here have such bad focus that even these forums are hard to follow or read anything in life?
Anyone else got ideas on improving focus?
Are you as bad as me on your attention span?
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Yes… there are days I can’t for the life of me follow a thread that is more then two post long… I get lost and drift or I get upset or just misreading and confused.
My head gets so scattered and all over the board. It’s usually in the evening when my energy is spent that the deflector shields are down… I can’t keep my mind on things…
My concentration gets weak. I can’t even concentrate on or remember what is being said to me. Little things bother me a lot… the other night there was a paper being pushed by the breeze and it was sort of freaking me out… flapping around like that. I couldn’t ignore it.
I try to do my heavy brain work mid-morning when I’m feeling stronger.
I do get help. For school I have a tutor that helps me. At home when I’m tired… I’m lucky that my family knows long directions and long conversations are too hard for me.
I also use a lot of list. I read some where that writing by hand imprints stuff on the mind stronger then typing… so I write a lot of stuff down in hand.
I guess… keep in mind… the times your feeling stronger and more alert and that would be the time to work on memory stuff… or things that require more concerted concentration.
I have found memory stuff and cognitive improvement ideas on the web.
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No but I have memory problems. Keep at it it might get easier. Gotta use the brain to train it.
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Yeah I think he’s right practice is prolly the best thing.For me I guess its part of the disorder, I normally
Do 2 sometimes 3 things at once like i’ll start cleaning the kitchen then half way through move
On to vacuuming then finish the kitchen after that.If you have acces to the Google Play Store there
Are some great audio books on there that could help alot.
I guess this would be safe to sayis true, I need to practice more but damn it’s just so bad lol. I’m just glad I’m not the only one with focus problems hehehe
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When i was abilify I couldn’t focus on anything. I couldn’t even watch TV. All I did was lay down and think. Another terrible time in my life. I hate these meds.
It’s hard to fight against racing thoughts. All I can recommend is to try to calm down. Take it easy and try to clear your mind. If that doesn’t work, don’t worry about it. Your head will clear in time.
I think using MJ made it worse I’m going to lay off the weed smoking makes everything worse for me… It’s not something that makes me proud…
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That would be wise. Pot use just seems pretty stupid to me now, Used to swear by it and it was tough to give up, but my life is a lot better even though I have mental illness. I have a lot more money now.
Dont get paranoid every time I see a cop.
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I think for me, it’s a medicine side effect.
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I agree. You should ask your doc about your meds. It’s not the weed.
I have terrible focus. I used to love reading and now all I can look at is picture books. degrading. I too have just stopped smoking weed. been two weeks so far.
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“Been stable almost 14 years”
Yet you used to smoke everyday. I don’t understand this, jukebox. You never have had any issues with weed and paranoia/delusions/voices?
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not everyone wants to be caught up smoking green every day. Eventually it gets to the point it just seems dirty for the mind and body. You start to respect people who don’t use it and dislike the people who advocate it. Really though it’s a personal choice you shouldn’t be putting pressure on anyone.
Umm, whoa man I’m not putting pressure on anyone. Just because it’s not ideal for a schizophrenic to smoke it makes it bad. You shouldn’t degrade a widely accepted, culturally popular substance because we’re schizophrenic. I think you should re-read my question. I’ve talked to jukebox about marijuana before. I don’t see what the issue is. I don’t know why you’re getting on my case. Kinda disappointed in you Bryan. I thought you were cool.
haha sorry, I did get a little assertive. Just kind of bored. Please forgive me.
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I forgive you. 
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I won’t let it happen again. There just so much pot in my life. Gets annoying from time to time. I now know how all those sober people felt over the years. It’s like again, another blunt, damn.
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well, @Kella It’s been 18 years since I fell ill to schizophrenia, but I would say that I’ve been luckier than most when it comes to voices, delusions. My meds have always worked, except for Abilify for a couple of years. but when I first got stable I was suicidal and had two attempts on my life before I felt like I had hope enough to live. It’s not been an easy road, but most of my strife has been trying to live on what disability pays me. not the illness…I just found out I have violent intrusive thoughts so now I am having trouble. I guess I should change my profile.
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You just have to surround yourself around the right people. I’m in Southern Cali and everyone smokes over here, ugh! I’m determined to stay away from it but I always tell myself I’ll get back to it. I probably won’t but if I do it’ll be because I won the lottery or something, LOL. We still gotta live.
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