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MissConstrue
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22 Jan 2009, 12:32 am

I've had this since I was little. I would always fall asleep when I sat for over an hour and had trouble concentrating on assignments. This has caused me great trouble in life. I'm one of those people who can't sit still and have to move around just so I don't fall asleep.

It's gotten to a point where I feel hopeless. My mind is a complete blur and all I want to do is sleep or move around. I've even gone to doctors about it and they have no idea...

Anyone else have this problem?

I just feel like I'm in a constant battle with it and I think it's progressed over the years.


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22 Jan 2009, 12:42 am

Yes. I've only had this problem for the last couple years, though. I'm not sure what is causing it either, but, somedays I can't sit and watch TV for hours(even boring TV) without getting sleepy, and then other days, I only last about an hour before I'm dozing off. At first I thought it was from lack of sleep, but even when I get plenty it still happens. It is a mystery. Hmm..... :scratch:


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22 Jan 2009, 2:13 am

This is me too, it makes me wonder whether I have some variety of ADD, I get bored and fidgety very easy, despite the ability to focus in on things I happen to be fascinated with at the time. For example, I try and look at all the posts on here, but end up just skimming and eventually skipping over the longer posts. I just seem to have a short attention span, I get bored, and if I don't have a definite agenda of things to get done, I will end up just lazing around and end up doing very little. At the moment I am in the middle of a two week break between finishing work and starting college, and I should be organising everything I need to get done, but instead I am doing as little as possible.

I wonder if it is procrastinating because we don't to go out and have to face society? I know there's a lot of days I can't be bothered dealing with all the mundane things I have to do, it i very hard to keep motivated to do anything.


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22 Jan 2009, 2:16 am

Before I recovered from my depression I was very much that way.


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22 Jan 2009, 2:29 am

If Caffeine or other stimulants don't help...
and you are gaining weight without eating more than usual...

THYROID PROBLEM?



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22 Jan 2009, 2:36 am

I'm like this. I just don't get excited about most things. Nothing drives me.

That isn't true... a couple of creative outlets can get me motivated for a time. But not to any great extreme...

I just don't feel like doing anything most of the time... and I'm kind of content with that.

Setting a goal is the most difficult of things for me to do...


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22 Jan 2009, 2:57 am

I've been battling that my entire life... sometimes I can work 15 hour day's for weeks on end, and sometimes I'll go for months sleeping 12+ hours a night and still feel like I need more... some day's I just don't feel like working, and I don't... sometimes for a week or more (but only very rarely)...

I used to sleep through classes in school, but nobody made an issue of it because I passed all the tests... I've never been able to hold a job for more than 3 months, which made life really suck before I started my own business... I was almost 40 before I discovered that it was Aspergers, I used to think I was just extraordinarily lazy...

I stopped trying to fight it a long time ago... now when I don't feel like working I let the employees handle everything... there have been times when the company sufferred because of my absence, so I try to avoid overdoing it, but as long as everything's running OK I'll try to get as much sleep as possible and take the day off as often as I can get away with it...

If I wasn't self-employed, I would probably be homeless...



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22 Jan 2009, 3:20 am

Yes. If I'm bored with whatever task I have to do I become too sleepy to function. Lately it feels like I'm living in slow motion while everything else races around me. I get short bursts of energy and inspiration for a while after drinkng some coffee but then I crash a couple hours later. I often feel like I have to do something fun just to get my energy up enough to start working. I've been wasting way too much time reading/posting on WP lately because I can't get my interest up for anything else.



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22 Jan 2009, 4:39 am

Me too. If I can get myself to do anything productive in a day, it's an achievement. I'd think it was depression, but my mood is fine, and I enjoy all the things I've always enjoyed, I enjoy them as much as I've always enjoyed them, it's just that a lot of the time I can't get myself to do them.


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22 Jan 2009, 4:49 am

I am well adapted to sleeping long hours in the cave over the winter, then going out to hunt as the herds move through.

I have a lot of drive and focus for making new spears for the year, killing and eating, but it seems the world has changed.



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22 Jan 2009, 9:49 pm

fullfathomfive wrote:
This is me too, it makes me wonder whether I have some variety of ADD, I get bored and fidgety very easy, despite the ability to focus in on things I happen to be fascinated with at the time. For example, I try and look at all the posts on here, but end up just skimming and eventually skipping over the longer posts. I just seem to have a short attention span, I get bored, and if I don't have a definite agenda of things to get done, I will end up just lazing around and end up doing very little. At the moment I am in the middle of a two week break between finishing work and starting college, and I should be organising everything I need to get done, but instead I am doing as little as possible.

I wonder if it is procrastinating because we don't to go out and have to face society? I know there's a lot of days I can't be bothered dealing with all the mundane things I have to do, it i very hard to keep motivated to do anything.


john


It would be easy if it was plain procrastination. I get tired to a point where I can't seem to function or think clearly. No matter what I do I can't seem to wake up except physically get up and move around. This has also gotten in the way of my job. I can't seem to keep up or think clearly.

One thing I forgot to add is the slight pain my muscles. It's not so bad that I need doses of pain medication but there is some pain.


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22 Jan 2009, 9:52 pm

ValMikeSmith wrote:
If Caffeine or other stimulants don't help...
and you are gaining weight without eating more than usual...

THYROID PROBLEM?


I had that checked and they found nothing out of the ordinary as well as anemia and diabetes. I do take B12 which helps a little but that's about it.

As far as depression is concerned I already got that fixed. It's not a mood disorder although this has been affecting my mood to the point where I feel like I'm in constant battle.


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23 Jan 2009, 12:12 pm

Yes, I can relate. I tend to have no real motivation, and Imybody feels uninspired to get up and do things. Most things I find to be draining and require too much effort. I think this is all due to my extreme anxiety. However of late a few things have helped. Usually when I feel low or flat I take honey to boost my sugar levels, or something salty. I read that low Sodium can cause mental epathy. I am also anemic so this too possibly plays a role.

Just take some honey when you feel flat, it will give you a boost.



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23 Jan 2009, 12:38 pm

MissConstrue,
check out chronic fatigue syndrome as that sounds like it may be similar,am know quite a lot of users on a mixed disability forum am use have CFS.


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