How long can you concentrate and pay attention?
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Sora wrote:
A) How long is your felt concentration span?
--- I am ADHD Inattentive. My normal ADHD Inattentive attention span is about 15 seconds and shifts four times a minute (involuntarily). - pgd
B) How long can you pay attention to an everyday situation?
--- I am very sensitive in a positive way to both coffee and caffeine. The right FDA approved caffeine medicine (contains caffeine - 100 mg)(not a cure) allows me to pay attention far better for about four hours - then the caffeine slowly exits my system and the improvement disappears. Caffeine works, for me, for my ADHD Inattentive (not a cure) far better than stronger stimulants - alerting agents - such as Ritalin, Dexedrine, Adderall, and Adderall XR. - pgd
I do not want to influence anyone who posts but is unsure about this, so I'll not say anything yet.
--- I am ADHD Inattentive. My normal ADHD Inattentive attention span is about 15 seconds and shifts four times a minute (involuntarily). - pgd
B) How long can you pay attention to an everyday situation?
--- I am very sensitive in a positive way to both coffee and caffeine. The right FDA approved caffeine medicine (contains caffeine - 100 mg)(not a cure) allows me to pay attention far better for about four hours - then the caffeine slowly exits my system and the improvement disappears. Caffeine works, for me, for my ADHD Inattentive (not a cure) far better than stronger stimulants - alerting agents - such as Ritalin, Dexedrine, Adderall, and Adderall XR. - pgd
I do not want to influence anyone who posts but is unsure about this, so I'll not say anything yet.
---
Ideas:
Paying Attention vs Inattention
Reduced Distraction vs Distracted
Sustained Attention vs Short Attention Span
Temporarily Improved Short-Term Memory vs Unreliable, Fickle Short-Term Memory
More On Task vs Off Task
http://www.waiting.com/glossarya.html (Paying Attention)
http://www.waiting.com/glossarym.html (Memory)
http://www.ericdigests.org/2003-5/auditory.htm (Auditory Processing and ADHD - ADD)
http://www.rsna.org/rsna/media/pr2005/Coffee.cfm (For some users, not everyone, coffee jump-starts short-term memory)(not a cure)
Didacticity
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Joined: 23 Jul 2010
Age: 40
Gender: Male
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If it's a matter of internally working out a problem, my focus opperates on the scale of years. As far as normal, external tasks are concerned, I appear to be more patient than the average person. I have difficulty focusing on emotional cues, though.
Last edited by Didacticity on 30 Jul 2010, 2:28 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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