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Apr 24, 2014, 01:52 PM
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I'm having a really difficult time focusing on anything. When I say difficult, I mean that I'll start reading for school and my brain shuts off after the first paragraph. I don't know what's going on, why I can't read or write or string thoughts together, but my brain feels very dysfunctional and disorganized and it's really frustrating. Is this typical of Bipolar Disorder? Does anyone have any advice?
This problem is really abnormal for me and has really just gotten bad over the last couple of months. I've always been a straight A student and I've won national awards for my writing. And yet this semester I can barely keep my grades up to a C. I don't know what to do about this  Please help!
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Apr 24, 2014, 11:46 PM
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I'll refrain from being a **** and just say to ask your doctor...
Horrible concentration? Yes, that is part of what I deal with as a person with bipolar disorder and ADHD. But, overall, it is a very minor symptom in comparison to my others. Sent from my Nexus S 4G using Tapatalk |
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Apr 25, 2014, 12:43 AM
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Once I reduced anxiety by a lot I was much more able to focus. It has been a long struggle to get rid of anxiety.
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Apr 25, 2014, 08:36 PM
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My concentration has been bad since i was hospitalized a couple years ago. It's better than it was right when it happened, but it's still far from my normal. I think it's partially meds, and partially cognitive symptoms of bipolar.
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May 01, 2014, 03:25 PM
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I'm having troubles with concentration since I left hospital. I'm better now but I still don't think I'm on my normal. I love to read but I couldn't finish any book at all, it was painful, as if I got dumb. I started to watch more movies and television, things I never used to watch. Anything heavy. I don't know if it is because of my pills. When we are manic we are so much more productive, it feels awesome. But I don't know why this is happening. It's like I'm not myself anymore.
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May 03, 2014, 08:23 PM
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I have pretty bad concentration and attention issues which are always chalked up to my bipolar and/or anxiety disorders. While it's true that when I am experiencing more symptoms of those my concentration gets worse, but it's never really that good, so it annoys me that I can't get any doctor or psychologist to even consider that I may have AD[H]D. I tried for a number of years and then just gave up and live with it. Thank God I'm not in school full time anymore! That was always hell. And at my current job, there's always jumping from one thing to another because I'm an assistant teacher at a daycare...in a toddler classroom. Two year olds don't stay focused for very long, which for me is good, because I don't either!
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May 11, 2014, 11:50 PM
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May 12, 2014, 12:16 AM
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I feel the same way too. Sucks
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May 12, 2014, 01:11 AM
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Personally, I had to take off a year from school and change up meds over four years to reach my current state of moderate stability (and I'm still nowhere as "me" as I was before the age of 19). Talk to your psychiatrist and psychologist. Educate yourself on BP as much as you can. Be kind to yourself, and accept that life may or may not be a long process of trial and error. Good luck. |
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May 12, 2014, 01:45 PM
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Re: Having a horrible time focusing
Hi, I have the same problem. I was diagnosed with bipolar in January, before that I was taking anti-depressants. With my symptoms I struggled to get through the past two years of uni...but I got through them just feeling less dumb then I feel now. Eversince I have been on my combo- meds it is as if I am suffering from cognitive impairment. My doctor shrugged it off saying it's part off the disorder and that was his final answer... How can that be, I refuse to take that as a final answer...I am in my final year studying to become a teacher so far it has been torture. I don't know if Iam going to make it...and if I do what kind of teacher am I going to be who can't think straight...I am so forgetful, simple things I find difficult. I have read that this is mostly due to the meds, I have been doing alot of reading on the topic since my doctor says very little. He only prescribes and tells me with all drugs there are side effects...okay Anyway since my combo-meds I have also been audio hallucinating and having racing thoughts which is also a form of mania...never had this prier. So yes the symptoms coupled with the drugs can mess you up...I am trying to figure out if it was really that bad before the drugs because it is pretty hectic now. Goodluck to you |
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