Caporegime
Hi everyone,
I have been suffering with ADD for my whole life, and now I have hit my college years where studying hard and paying attention to lectures is key to success, it is making life incredibly difficult, and I find myself panicking and struggling to make sense of everything, then when I finally get in a mind set where I am able to begin working, the smallest of things will distract me from what I am supposed to be doing, and then suddenly something will *click* and I will realise that I have been off track. Sometimes looking at the time and swearing out-loud because I have just wasted an hour without realising it.
Of course I do also lose focus mid conversation sometimes, and I forget to do obvious things like close doors and turn lights off because my mind is one step too far ahead all the time, but it is the aforementioned issue which is concerning me greatly.
Does anyone have any advice to offer on how I can overcome this problem, or at the very least, minimise the effects of it and help me to maintain focus for longer periods of time?
It is the internet which distracts me 90% of the time, and I have disconnected the internet before to see if that helps, but quite often I find myself needing the web for research while I am writing...
Thanks all Currently facing yet another all-nighter in which I have to complete two large assignments... Should be great fun...
I am also a terrible procrastinator, and ADD and procrastination do not go well with each other at all. So any words of wisdom there will also help. It's not that I am putting off doing the work because I don't want to do it, when I procrastinate I always really want to finish the work, but the idea of doing it just seems impossible. I then spend time trying to mentally justify why I am doing things other than the work...
Thanks all
I have been suffering with ADD for my whole life, and now I have hit my college years where studying hard and paying attention to lectures is key to success, it is making life incredibly difficult, and I find myself panicking and struggling to make sense of everything, then when I finally get in a mind set where I am able to begin working, the smallest of things will distract me from what I am supposed to be doing, and then suddenly something will *click* and I will realise that I have been off track. Sometimes looking at the time and swearing out-loud because I have just wasted an hour without realising it.
Of course I do also lose focus mid conversation sometimes, and I forget to do obvious things like close doors and turn lights off because my mind is one step too far ahead all the time, but it is the aforementioned issue which is concerning me greatly.
Does anyone have any advice to offer on how I can overcome this problem, or at the very least, minimise the effects of it and help me to maintain focus for longer periods of time?
It is the internet which distracts me 90% of the time, and I have disconnected the internet before to see if that helps, but quite often I find myself needing the web for research while I am writing...
Thanks all Currently facing yet another all-nighter in which I have to complete two large assignments... Should be great fun...
I am also a terrible procrastinator, and ADD and procrastination do not go well with each other at all. So any words of wisdom there will also help. It's not that I am putting off doing the work because I don't want to do it, when I procrastinate I always really want to finish the work, but the idea of doing it just seems impossible. I then spend time trying to mentally justify why I am doing things other than the work...
Thanks all
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