[laur88]

Do you guys ever have issues with focus when you're manic? I'm beginning to think it's a manic thing because I don't feel the need to focus because somehow everything will get done... Does that make any sense?

[thebosswoman]

Originally Posted by laur88

Do you guys ever have issues with focus when you're manic? I'm beginning to think it's a manic thing because I don't feel the need to focus because somehow everything will get done... Does that make any sense?

Hi Laur88

Oh yes. When manic I have such complete confidence in my abilities and in God's guidance that I take practical matters with a pinch of salt. I'm still clearing up the wreakage of my latest escape from reality a week and a half later.....

Mary

[sugahorse1]

I think it kind of makes sense- you just go with the flow when you are manic. No need to analyse things, because they just run along so smoothly.

Ironically I lose focus when I am depressed as well. I spend all the time in my head, trying to work out my feelings and emotions, that I cannot do anything else.

[venusss]

I kinda can never really focus... when I am not multitasking, I feel weird. SO on my computer, I have always at least three windows opened... at one point when I was studying to state exam, I was reading some 10 texts at once (when I got bored with it and I skipped onto the next). well, I passed the exam and quite well too, so I guess not much harm was done...

I learned to deal with my manic conscious... I use to for my advantage. It turns off my autocensor, which can be both bad and good... I still need to recongize better when i can let go and when hold back... that line is still blurry for me.

[sugahorse1]

Yeah - i can relate to having number of windows open at the same time on my PC. Right now - 2 internet, e-mail, 6 Excel spreadsheets, one office program...

[blueoctober]

laur88; I tend to jump from project to project when I'm up. It's a huge waste of energy and it's much more efficient to focus on one task at a time. I hope you are feeling better soon.

[PT52]

Originally Posted by laur88

Do you guys ever have issues with focus when you're manic? I'm beginning to think it's a manic thing because I don't feel the need to focus because somehow everything will get done... Does that make any sense?

That's how I was diagnosed with ADD, now I'm being told I'm not ADD at all. I have more energy to get things done when I'm up, and more focus when I'm down, but no motivation. Catch 22.

[SunnyD]

I have good days and bad days. My medication tends to mute the hypo-mania and depression so that might be a factor.
My pdoc said that there are so many thoughts and things going on in my head that it makes me distracted.
Then there are the days I forget I am bp. Maybe not as sharp as I used to be but feeling on top of things.

Stupid bp..

[sane1logic1]

I used to be thought ADD like PT52, passed (or failed) exams by the same method as Venus, and fully identify with the lack of focus thing whether up or down and also in my mixed states.

[venusss]

I think the problem is that there is too much information around. I read somewhere that today we absorb so much "information" (I think stimulation is a better word) in one day as people few centuries ago did in several years. So I think it's normal many people don't process it right... I don't want to be blaming the world, but if you look at the number of people who now fit the criteria of mental illness... there must be something behind it.

[lonegael]

I was also thought to have some sort of concentration problems. I know that when my anxiety is up, my focus is very bad. I havea hard time staying on task, while if I am Purely hypomanic I can ususally start and finish many tasks in a row. Th the anxiety sets in and I start speeding up and getting more and more fragmented. can hardly sit and watch a movie without craling out of my skin. Yeeeach!