I have a problem focusing and paying attention,. any solutions to overcome this.?
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I think you do have ADD. go to your Dr. tell them the same info. try the med. if you don't like the effects of the med. discontinue using it and try something else.(if you tell the Dr. the same story your sure to get the med.)
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good that you are acknowledging that you have a problem. the first key to solving a problem is to admit that you have a problem to begin with....Your obsession is not natural or healthy.......you are letting your thoughts control your behavior.....SWITCH CHANNELS......occupy yourself in other ways.
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you can try yoga and meditation it will help u to increase your concentration  power.
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I feel that the United States doctors are going crazy w/ this diagnosis. I feel this is something you can help on you own.  I think that this is a super crazy world w/ tons of things going on in our lives at once and because of this, some of us have a hard time focusing.  You need to practice focusing possibly w/ the everyday use of meditation you could over come this so call disorder.
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1. Keep balance on everything you do. Consume, rest, exercise & excrete enough.\n2. Practice to focus on anything you do. Don't tag along to other subjects while working on another.\n3. While reading, put on 60 beats instrumental classical music. It helps activate your right hemisphere so it won't bother the left one with emotional thoughts & feelings including boredom, sleepiness.\n4. Keep away distractions while working. If you're a visual person, avoid places where lots of people going by, or avoid a room with a TV in it. If you're an auditorial person, avoid noisy places.\n5. Take a break every 20 minutes. Do a relaxation before get back to your work. Human attention/concentration span is taking an increasing pattern to a peak then sloping down. So you have to know when to stop.
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Maybe you have to make a list - could be a form of ADD.  I know I get doing things and get distracted too.  As long as you get the important stuff done.
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Relax, I have OPC and learnt that you just can not do everything at once no matter how good you are at multi tasking, do the urgent things first, one at a time until completed or as far as you can take them, then move on to the next on the list, take time for yourself no matter what, other wise you burn out and you cant do anything
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Think of concentration improvement as a three-step process:\n1. Learn the causes of poor concentration and decide which apply to you;\n2. Understand what you can do to control these factors; and\n3. Make your control habitual.  \n\nLEARN THE CAUSES\n\nCONTROL THE CAUSES\n\nExternal Causes\n\nEnvironmental distractions: TV, chairs that are too comfortable, snacks, other people, etc.\n\nLeave or re-arrange a distracting environment. Go to a library or a classroom when you seriously intend to study.  \n\nNoise: Music with words, conversations\n\nTrain yourself to study away from others and in silence.\n\nInternal Causes\nPhysical distractions: hunger, drowsiness.\n\nPlan to study when you are most alert. Eat a high-protein snack. Do five minutes of light exercise to wake up.  \n\nBoredom, dislike, disinterest\n\nFind a reason which satisfies you for taking the class; talk with other students and the professor.  \n\nAnxiety about studies\n\nMake sure you know how to study effectively. Put the course in perspective.  \n\nIntimidating study tasks\n\nBreak up large tasks into achievable subtasks. Do the most intimidating task first. Give yourself rewards for progress and punishments for avoidance.  \n\nDaydreaming\n\nSeparate daydreams from studying. When your mind starts to wander, write down the interrupting thought and continue studying. Or recall important points and then turn away from your book and continue to daydream. When you're ready to read again, do so. The trick is not to daydream and read at the same time.  \n\nPersonal worries\n\nIdentify and define the problem and develop a concrete, specific plan to resolve personal worries. Talk with someone who can help: a friend, a counselor, a specialist.\n\nMAKE CONTROL HABITUAL\nEven if you lapse into old habits of distraction and daydreaming, keep insisting of yourself that you concentrate using these controls until you can routinely concentrate well on your studies for fifty minutes of every hour.
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I have the same problem. First of all, I never find anything that interests me. Second of all, I tend to have a short attention span. Maybe you have the same problem.
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Meditation.\n\nThis can be the only solution to your problem. I have solved my problem with meditation. We forget advices very easily. If you keep taking people's advice about how to concentrate on your studies you will never come to any solution. You will just think like, ok! I will do this. Most probably, the next day you will forget because EVERYBODY hates to CHANGE unless THINGS CHANGE US. Very people knows how TO CHANGE THINGS.\n\nRemember! sometime THINGS chooses US and sometime WE CHOOSE THINGS. Which is better?\n\nI dont know.\n\nTry meditaion. Meditate yourself and self-talk or give auto-suggestion to yourself repeatedly and repeatedly.\n\nFor your reference, about how to meditate. Visit:\n\nwww.tm.org\nwww.silvamethod.com\n\nand some books on meditaion.\n\n\nMeditation is DOING something for improvement and listening to advice is trying to do something for improvement. Tell me which is better. Trying or just sit and start doing?\n\nTake action now.\n\nNow! go, do it!\n\nGoodLuck!
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What is making it so hard to concentrate? Is everything OK?\nKnow this for yourself. If there's nothing majorly wrong, try an organizer from Walmart or the drugstore, or index cards with tasks and reminders that you print on them. Dollar stores carry these-and organizers sometimes.\nBe patient with yourself when you make mistakes and find healthy ways of dealing with stress.\nTake care, Buttercup
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mental concentration to perform well
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Hi Kat...\n\nIf you've had significant changes in your concentration recently, you should definitely talk to your doctor or therapist first.\n\nOn the other hand, remember that inability to concentrate, by definition, is hard to measure.  After all, you've never been inside someone else's head!  Also, like any physical and mental characteristic, there's a natural range that occurs within the general population.\n\nFor example, I had an engineer that worked with me who had tremendous focus and concentration.  Trouble was, he was oblivious to nuance and change.  At the same time, I had a sales and marketing guy working for me whose mind was always "somewhere else".  But he'd bring back great ideas (and orders) from those flights of fancy.\n\nBoth guys were important contributors in their own way.  Surely we need those with steel-trap minds and laser focus.  But we also need dreamers and out-of-the-box thinkers to invent the things that the engineers will work on and react to change and challenges with spontaneity and nimble thinking.\n\nInspiration is rarely found in the humdrum here-and-now.  Maybe you're just a poet, being too hard on yourself?
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A few things you can do to help you out are\n\n1. Read, reading will stimulate your brain activity knocking out some of those cobwebs that may be slowing you down.  Make sure you read something you enjoy, so you will actually do it.\n\n2. Do puzzles, like word searches, crosswords, whatever you enjoy, I personally like the word searches.  Doing this will keep you focused which will help you stay sharp and clearer.\n\n3. Exercise; when you exercise you release ceratin hormones that will help you stay clearer and "smarter," exercise at least 3-4 times a week, morning is the best time, wake up an hour earlier and try it, get in a good habit and you will notice immediate results.\n\n4. Get a good night sleep, at least six solid hours, this is paramount in staying focused.\n\n5. Eat right, remember you are what you eat...this is a fact.  Use portion control, (proteins, complex carbs and vegies should be about the size of your fist) when eating and drink plenty of water.  Also take a good multi vitamin for added nutrients.\n\nTry these things for three months and I guarantee you will notice a big difference, you'll be more confident and secure which will make you "smarter" and you'll feel better.\n\nGood luck\n\nDr.Mark
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how about changing your work study habits instead. Try a place thats quiet with no distractions, get up often and stretch or take a short walk in fresh air every 30-45mins. Don't snack while working change subjects or projects if you find yourself stuck or losing focus and then come back to it. There are lots of herbal and otc's that make claims but do any of the really work or cause more harm or just waste your money.
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smile. Im with you on this one. My mind is slowing down. I always thought I was fine. Never got depressed like my other friends but yes, the minds slowing down. Is concentration a huge prob as well?....the best thing I do is eat lots of fresh foods everyday, keep up your daily vitamin intake as well. Water is very underated and should be drunk in masses! There is a herbal drug out there called H2JK (or something like that - someone help us here) but it helps with the memory. Admittingly im very smart witted, its just Im starting to forget things....best of luck and lets see how you go :-)
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Try timing yourself when you read something easy like the newspaper for example. Don't read all of the words, but skim through it and when you're done see if you can grasp the main idea. If not, go back and try it again.