24-hour gnats have it good by comparison...

[mousme]

This may be related to the whole Mystery Tired™ thing, but since Christmas I've had the attention span of a 24-hour gnat if I'm lucky. I can't focus on anything for more than thirty minutes, and that's if I'm lucky. My days are passing in a blur, and I honestly can't tell one from the other unless there's a specific event which allows me to differentiate them.

I can't read. I'll sit down with a book, and get maybe ten pages in before my attention wanders. I can't write. I sit down at the computer, and my mind goes elsewhere. I start a sentence and forget what I was going to say. LJ posts take six times as long to compose, and when I'm not posting something random (rants about illiterate twits, shiny links), I actually have to make a point-form outline about what I want to write about so I don't forget.

I've had to write down everything I want to do, almost to the point of writing down simple things like brushing my teeth. It's not quite that bad, but last night I got distracted three times before I got around to it. I will go into a room with the intention of doing something, and completely forget what it was in the time it takes me to get there. I have to bring my little "to-do" notebook with me in order to get my chores done.

I put a load of laundry in the dryer last night (I think it was last night. It may have been yesterday morning). By this morning, I'd completely forgotten about it. I only remembered because I did another load of laundry, and upon opening the dryer I discovered the previous one: "Hey! I washed my socks! Cool." >_<

I have trouble focussing on what people say. Half a minute later, I'll have forgotten the exact wording of someone's sentence. Sometimes my attention wanders as they're speaking, which is really embarrassing.

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And I forgot what I was going to say. Case in point. I think that you get the main thrust of my post, anyway.

It's highly frustrating, in any event.

Comments

[alcinoe.livejournal.com]

I don't want to concern you too much, but I find that I have no attention span when I am getting depressed. It also could be the meds.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm the same way. Normally, though, there are other warning signs, like not wanting to go to bed, avoiding people, actually feeling sad and worthless and pathetic and all those good things.

Lately, though, it's just like my brain has had an extra few filters put in which make it hard for me to remember what it was I was meant to be doing.

I think it has to do with the fact that I'm tired all the time, and I intend to get that checked out. If it's something like a sleep disorder, then it can be fixed. I hope.

[joane.livejournal.com]

Dude. I know that I have a hammer so everything is looking like a nail, but this was Rich with his untreated apnea. Sleep disorders can really do a number on memory, attention span and cognition.

(speaking of attention spans, we have to figure out a time to work on some posts - I still need to squeeze an Adri post or two out of you. ;) )

[mousme.livejournal.com]

*sigh*

Forgot to add: my meds haven't changed in three and a half years, so I don't think it's that. But it was a good thought.