Unwanted brain reboots.

[Dannyboy1]

Anyone have thoughts about this? It's like my brain reboots every day and forgets everything I've learned or planned. Even periodically throughout the day I suddenly get involved with one thing and forget everything else. I think my brain shifts every time something gets boring or I hit a wall. When I write things down, I never get back to looking at it again. It's frustrating. I know I need to just commit every day to do certain things, but it's like I'm so sensitive to stimulii, that anything can throw me off. I know if I could apply everything I've learned, I could do anything.

[wolfgang]

Do you meditate?

[Believer]

Yeah I'm like this too, I have trouble following through with anything and even when I do, I quickly got bored of whatever it is.

I don't know what it is though, sorry I'm not much help, but I've never looked hard enough into it. :P

[silicon toad2000]

I used to be like that.
You need to train your brain to remember things.
Mediation might help, training your brain to focus.

I trained my brain by spending a few minutes at the end of each task trying to remember the list of things I have to do.
I also used an outlook task list to help trigger it. But after a while you can remember most things.

[Jonathan Mead]

Meditation has greatly improved my ability to focus. I can focus on tasks for extended periods of time where I used to get bored easily and move on to the next thing.

There's also the possibility that maybe the activities you're choosing just aren't interesting or challenging enough. You could be getting bored too easily.

[Dannyboy1]

I can't even sit still. I do use hypnosis mp3s. I have ADHD and I just found out I have sleep apnea (which I'm getting a cpap machine for this week). I know I couldn't possibly meditate on my own. My mind wanders too much.

Originally Posted by wolfgang

Do you meditate?

[kpugh]

I struggle with this too. A while back, I actually had a supervisor of mine suggest that I get "tested" to see if there was something wrong with me...maybe ADHD, she thought. I was driven and hyper-focused at times, and was scattered and aimless other times.

I ended up getting tested, more to put my mind at rest about it than anything, and I was not on the scale for ADHD at all. However, it highlighted that I did have some "impulsive" tendencies, and my motivation seemed to follow changes, not routine.

Not surprisingly, I've always been a better "starter" of things than "finisher". I haven't necessarily solved this challenge, but being more aware of my style and tendencies allows me to find jobs and other things that have some creative aspect to them. I love to develop and create new things, or innovate existing things. So, it makes me a good visionary and motivator...but then I need to hand the maintenance of the project over to someone who excels at that piece. Maybe this is why consulting is such a good fit for me?

[Ninja]

Originally Posted by Dannyboy1

I can't even sit still. I do use hypnosis mp3s. I have ADHD and I just found out I have sleep apnea (which I'm getting a cpap machine for this week). I know I couldn't possibly meditate on my own. My mind wanders too much.

Ooh, as a fellow AHDH-er, I feel your pain. Ritalin works wonders for me, but without it I just can't focus. Have you tried medication? If you really have ADHD (because unfortunately, people get that label way too easy these days), there is no shame in giving it a go. You won't turn into a zombie (unless you get too much), your creativity won't vaporise and your brain won't start leaking out of your ears. See a doctor.

[Smarky]

You know in the UK you can't get Ritalin via your doctor if your an adult. Well you can but it's almost impossible. They are only a few clinics in the country that deal with it and even then there is a three year assessment period.

The condition is barely recognized by the health service beyond 18 years of age.

I tend to have similar problems with focusing and for me that is what I found out after an independent said i showed high signs ADD/ADHD lol

So i decided that it was who i was and to stop looking it as a problem, it's one of the reasons why i have so many ideas and am so creative, i'm just learning how to deal with that now though.

[wolfgang]

Neurologist Dr. Fred Baughman talks about the fraud of ADHD and the poisoning of U.S. children

See if you can eat better first.

Take up something like learning to sing or play an intrument, or group dancing or tai chi/yoga. Something that would require you to focus and the group will carry the focus some too.

Or go to a classical concert and really listen to the whole piece of music, as much as you can. When you listen see if you can hear the sound of the music in your head - follow the sound as it were.

Or just find a live band in a local club and bust a move to a couple songs. That would traing you to stay focused for the length of one song, of you grove out to it the whole way through and sometimes the loudness of a rock band is something that will demand your attention so you won't be able to wander.

[vapourmile]

Originally Posted by Dannyboy1

Anyone have thoughts about this? It's like my brain reboots every day and forgets everything I've learned or planned. Even periodically throughout the day I suddenly get involved with one thing and forget everything else. I think my brain shifts every time something gets boring or I hit a wall. When I write things down, I never get back to looking at it again. It's frustrating. I know I need to just commit every day to do certain things, but it's like I'm so sensitive to stimulii, that anything can throw me off. I know if I could apply everything I've learned, I could do anything.

Reads like a simple lack of concentration. I have it too: I know what I want / should be doing but I drift off. It can start with something I tell myself won't be too harmful if I get it out of the way quickly, basically, these things I refer to are all what I've come to recognize as easy pleasures, then I get absorbed in the easy pleasure, for example, posting things onto internet forums, an activity which has very little productive value for me, but is easy to accomplish, and then time slips away until the thing I was meant to do gets swept away. It's a non-work ethic I've had to develop over years and it's terribly draining on the levels of self-esteem, personal pride and satisfaction I feel about myself., so much so that my word for obtaining easy pleasures I put under the umbrella term of onanism (the word I use myself isn't so polite as that, but you can get my meaning from the one supplied!).

Sadly though, because I suffer from loss of focus and drive problem myself, for me it's like having a car with a clutch that never quite engages properly, so there is a loss of connection between my engine and my wheels, I am not about to pretend to have a solution. I would love to hear from anybody who has a mind-body clutch-fix though. Have you ever smoked the reefer? Because I think that 'helped' a lot with me. Memory loss too.

[Dannyboy1]

You'll understand more what I was talking about.