Anxiety and concentration

[Ashfaren]

My anxiety prevents me from concentrating on anything .I just keep feeding my worries and they consume a lot of my time. My anxiety is debilitating. I cannot concentrate at all when i have to read or study a topic especially boring topic,my mind just gets distracted ,gets off topic and zone out.How do u cope with this problem of inability to concentrate.Any meds help u with concentration?

[Straat]

Have to say that I have very similar symptoms of ADHD, or in my case should it be a more passive variant, called ADD subtracting the “Hiperactivity” letter.

In my opinion, a person with attention deficit uses to be underestimated in almost every type of tasks or jobs due to lack of concentration.

This lack of concentration makes me also be a super-introverted person socially due to my difficulty to make fast-made answers while talking or explaining anything, and on those social cases is when my anxiety get extremely triggered due to this inability.

My family and friends think I am just dumb and don’t know nothing about anything but that is very, very wrong.

Most frequently, another people with same attention deficit use to have more of a “light” or not so exaggerated version of what I have which makes them think they actually have ADHD and I am just weird or maybe Autist without attention deficit.

I have never been diagnosed of ADD, or ADHD which is painful.

Some people think the only thing you have to do in live is to suffer when themselves be the kind of people that enjoy focusing and don’t even have ADHD-ADD or any kind of idea of what a handicap means.

And, for me, those annoying people have always been my own family.

One time, a classmate gave me a vyvanse capsule (Adhd med) for better focusing on studying for a test.

My perception of life changed.

And for the first time in my life got an A+.

That one friend made me understand that what I always thought was just my own personal way to be and struggle, actually was just a mental handicap.

Nowadays my family still saying that this is just the way i be.

I know I have been doing wrong believing on them and still looking to get prescribed, which isn’t easy with explaining my rare/extreme symptoms.

Hope this made you understand.

[KimmiC in reply to Straat]

Same issues here. I take Vyvanse but I also take clonazepam. It has worked for years and I am no longer introverted.

[Crazymind75]

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