That's happened to me too, emomom. I used to be a voracious reader, but now I have books sitting around my house that are still unread after being given them as gifts two or three years ago. It just kills my soul to look at them and want to read them, but be unable to because I cannot focus on reading. It's beyond frustrating!

I still haven't figured out if this fits in with my Swiss-cheese memory and the fact that I have "menopause brain" (my BFF's code word for short-term memory loss), or if it's due to the bipolar itself, or the meds. Or all of the above. I thought the ability to read would come back when I finally got stable during the late summer/early fall, but either I wasn't stable long enough or the ability to concentrate on reading is just gone for good.