Does SA affect your concentration?

[SilentAndShy]

I had a meeting with my psychological assessor who has been helping me as part of my process to get better with my SA and depression.

As part of the hour session, the first part I was concentrated as I was talking about my problems etc and I felt concentrated. It's when she spoke at some point talking about psychology that I just lost her. I was not focusing on what she was saying, nothing sank in.

I absolutely hate this when I'm in a conversation, especially ones that will help me like today.

It happens also when I'm chatting to a female that is extremely attractive or who I like, I tend to get shy, stutter and it goes in one ear and out the other!

I suffer anxiety when I'm driving, and sometimes when I'm driving (when I actually drive the car and muster up the courage) then my mind wanders ridiculously.

Is concentration something that, with the help of CBT and other assistance programs, can be improved? Or is this the way it will be?

I'm not sure whether any exercises would help me that I sometimes see on the 'net.

 

[ukmale]

see what I don't understand is that I can sit and watch a dvd 5mins in I put it on hold walk about the house saying thinking oh I'm so bored even tho I have waited months for this dvd and then sit right back down to it and a 90min movie might turn in to a whole day for me but some days I can easily watch 4 movies in a row in a row shocking I know just don't understand how one day I'm fine the next I cant concentrate at all I'm trying so many different things from reading a book watching one dvd or another or tv to going out the back yard to so many different things just some days I can't sit for 5mins

 

[cowboyup]

Yes, for me, it most certainly does.

I used to have good memory and concentration but it's all gone to he** now.

I get bored easily, like UKMALE wrote, I can sit through hours of movies, tv or read without a break but other times (and most likely to occur with me) is that I can't sit still for even 5 minutes, get 15 minutes into a show, and I pause it to go do something else.

Unfortunately I've yet to come up with a solution.
I don't know if there's such thing as adult onset ADHD or what, but I sure understand where you are coming from!

 

[ukmale]

hehe I found a good way of dealing with it going back to bloody bed simply or otherwise I walk around thinking about crap and get a bit stressed out easier to just go back to bed and next day its all back working all okay

sadly tho I suffer from this disorder extremely ... I am only 23 and I am house bound snice leaving school at 16 and losing my friends about 3 or 4 yrs ago I am now house bound and even find walking 300yrs to the post box at 3am on a dead quiet street to hard

I watched a tv show about life in USA death row and they was saying its pure Hell being locked down 23hours a day ti me that's heaven as long I had all the books games DVDs music great food ect lol when I do see my friends once in a blue moon I keep thinking there only here to rub ny face in how great there lifes are

I also have days where I can get out of bed for 2-3 days at a time next I am up dressed showered non stop talking to my family its ups and downs and to scared to go out the front yard to even cut the grass

I wanna do watch les mis at pictures but to scared to go if I did and someone sat next to me I will be to worried to watch the movie I have no friends to go with and I can't go with my mother that looks bad like I am some disabled child .. keep thinking I am a dick and people are laughing at u its all in the mind wish I could take a magic pill and be gone of s.a right now as its so hard see people having fun while I'm bed bound and everything even small things upset me so badly