[JayJay2]

I have great difficulty concentrating, I cannot settle to watch television or focus on anything. I think it is due to depression and trauma but sometimes i wonder if I have had mild ADD all along.
Any tips on focussing and concentrating?

[fasterjohn14]

It is bit of difficult for some but not impossible. Try to discover your way out while viewing TV. Like keep in mind some uncompleted performs. Try to go out see buddies at TV time.

okay: this is going to sound maybe a strange suggestion, but bear with me:

i have this problem too- and i usually watch something, or listen to a cd, and a minit later, forget what it is.

now i just got myself a massage chair- and it makes a loud sort of whirring sound when it's turned on.. so i find a combination of the sound it makes, and the ocasional contact with the body makes it easier for me to remember things- and sometimes now, i even ask myself questions to see if i remember it

[avlady]

when i was first diagnosed depression and schitzoaffective, i couldn't sit still for one minute, maybe i have so many things they just got sick of looking for things. i have been diagnosed with almost everything in the book, but never ADD which is what i self diagnosed myself as. it's an awful thing to have if that's what I've got, the new medication that seems to work the best, and I've been on everything, is Viibryd. It's new and I'm a guinea pig for it but i love it it feels peaceful after all the years of being nervous wreck, may be you could ask to try it.-avlady

[Hellion]

I have the same issue, as a child it was not as much as a problem except I had difficulties with un-intresting topics so my mind wandered quite a bit in class and such but I still did alright on school work and tests. I was able to heavily focus on intresting topics so I was pretty good with essay writing in middle and part of highschool. Then something traumatic happened and I ended up with PTSD, which I hate but since it will likely never go away I should probably try and learn to live with it or something. Anyways since then Its even hard for me to focus on things I enjoy or movies.

I know I dealt with a lot of unpleasntness as a child, so I am not sure my PTSD is from the one major event or if that was just the final straw but the other experiances like being ostracized by the other kids and some teachers could have factored in. I have considered the possiblity of ADD being part of it but I don't feel I quite fit the criteria and I haven't been diagnosed with it.