I'm sick of not being able to focus on anything Options

[Limitbreaker]

No matter whether I want to study, listen to teachers on lessons, or even play a damn clan match in some strategy game, I find myself unable to focus on the thing I'm doing. I also have trouble speaking, sometimes, or actually - focusing on it. I'm 17 now, it hadn't been such a problem before because I didn't have to actually finish the things I started to do, and never had so many things to study. In fact, I've always did everything just to avoid studying cause I was always finding it extremely hard thing to do.

Either I have to do more or it went worse since a year. I'm not the most social person, but not the least either.

I'm from Poland and I'd rather be afraid to go to a doctor for a prescription or anything... I'm mostly afraid that it could be ME and only ME and that there's nothing to save me from failing miserably in trying to learn.

I don't know how to study, and I'm afraid of failing the year.

I'm also afraid that I'm making all those excuses myself, and that I'm trying to find a 'disease' in myself. I don't think I'm doing it, but I'm still afraid.

Please DO criticize me, I need to know the truth... What should I do...? Please help!

[PANCHO]

Most of your problem comes from the image you have built of yourself. Looks matter. If you look smarter than others in some areas (maybe playing chess), confidence will kick in and push you forward. You need confidence and probably a supportive environment.

[Joesus]

When you blindly accept the ideas of others as your own, without the experience of the power of your own thoughts, you will get lost because you leave yourself behind while you try to fit yourself in another persons mold.

Chances are likely that you are trying to live up to the expectations of others rather than getting in touch with your own desires. As long as you let your desires and awareness of self worth follow the measures of those who are lost themselves, in the beliefs that are programs of a dysfunctional society which is hypnotized by fear and judgment, you will suffer the separation from your own free will and ability to discover your own inherent qualities.

Image is projected from internal beliefs. You can be pretty/handsome and have low self esteem, and that image of self worth will emanate thru every thought feeling and action. You can have great self esteem, confidence and drive and no matter what you look like, the world will respond around you to the energy that you project.

You want help? Forget about finding yourself in a dysfunctional and prejudice society that measures everyone from grade school to graduation preparing you to accept the pass or fail reality and to accept the social mores of stupidity. Find the intelligence and compassion of more conscious people and find yourself in and amongst a greater awareness of thought than prejudice and ignorance.

School does not define you or the meaning of life. Most of what you learn in an institution of social regulated programming will be meaningless.

Time to wake up.

[MyCogitate]

I think you were too much scared of anything that you may do, which may be the reason for your inability to focus.. Start being confident and remove fear so that you can focus with good efficiency

[G Bronson]

Take pills.

Look, there's a lot of people out there that will do everything in their power to dissuade you from taking add medication; and rightly so. Take a look on bluelight forums if you want to see what kind of havoc stimulants can wreak on your life. But if there is something out there that can help you achieve your goals (and graduating from highschool is an important goal), then there are only a few reasons not to take it:

Reason #1: You are addicted. This isn't you, and as long as you don't let it become you it isn't a reason.
Reason #2: There is some other problem that you are trying to cover up; i.e. you have priorities that you have subconsciously placed higher in your life than education (drugs, social life, video games).

But neither of these two sound like you. Look, we didn't evolve to sit for long periods and pay attention to someone manipulate virtually arbitrary symbols for long periods of time. We evolved to be intelligent, yes, (and from your command of the english language it sounds like you are,) but not for the inanity that is the education system.

Unfortunately education in one method or another, even if it's learning an art or a trade, is vitally important in modern society if -you- value something higher for yourself than rote janitorial work.

This post will make me unpopular, but the fact is that there are tools that modern man has developed to help those of us that weren't gifted with arbitrary attentiveness. This is not only including medication and nootropics, but natural methods as well.

You shouldn't be hard on yourself for trying to fix something about yourself that you don't like. That is human nature, and you are not alone. Talk to your parents, talk to your doctor, and talk to other people that are going through the same thing you are in order to find something that is right for you.

-Peace

[umam]

you are just like me. I have ADHD uncured until now. you should go to psychiatrist to find out your problem. right now i'm consuming piracetam + caffein + vitamin B +choline to enhance my focus. it helps alot on me. just try it.
Enough about motivation word, it won't help you. the problem is in your brain not your mental!!!

[P JayS]

No matter whether I want to study, listen to teachers on lessons, or even play a damn clan match in some strategy game, I find myself unable to focus on the thing I'm doing. I also have trouble speaking, sometimes, or actually - focusing on it. I'm 17 now, it hadn't been such a problem before because I didn't have to actually finish the things I started to do, and never had so many things to study. In fact, I've always did everything just to avoid studying cause I was always finding it extremely hard thing to do.

Either I have to do more or it went worse since a year. I'm not the most social person, but not the least either.

I'm from Poland and I'd rather be afraid to go to a doctor for a prescription or anything... I'm mostly afraid that it could be ME and only ME and that there's nothing to save me from failing miserably in trying to learn.

I don't know how to study, and I'm afraid of failing the year.

I'm also afraid that I'm making all those excuses myself, and that I'm trying to find a 'disease' in myself. I don't think I'm doing it, but I'm still afraid.

Please DO criticize me, I need to know the truth... What should I do...? Please help!

At school don't try to be good at everything. Pick out a few things you like or only even one that you are truly interested in and try to focus on that perhaps. Keep your other grades up as best that you can. You may end up a specialist and not a complete failure which would be tragic for having invested a good portion of your life at school.