STOP ME IF YOU"VE HEARD THIS ONE

Can anyone help?

- Think about how myself/other people speak, gesture, move, think, do things all the time
- Imagine upcoming/past conversations playing out in head
- Poor memory, attention, awareness, processing day to day tasks
- Don't know what to say to people or how to act around them
- Easily distracted, especially by people around
- Mind drifts, goes blank, find conversation tiring

onedayago wrote:Can anyone help?

- Think about how myself/other people speak, gesture, move, think, do things all the time
- Imagine upcoming/past conversations playing out in head
- Poor memory, attention, awareness, processing day to day tasks
- Don't know what to say to people or how to act around them
- Easily distracted, especially by people around
- Mind drifts, goes blank, find conversation tiring

-yup
-yup, obsessively, annoyingly
-yup
-yup, I try to tell myself their opinions don't matter to me and/or they really don't care that much about me to be paying as much attention to me that I think they are, sometimes works
-not so much easily distracted as too difficult to pay attention, if you i know you well enough i will say "I really don't care" and often have to confess when asked "Are you listening???" a "Sorry, no, but I am now", then really try to...I succeed maybe 50/50 but when I fail repeatedly people get quite irritated with me (luckily I am very cute and my family loves me )
-yup
I have ADD and Anxiety NOS, take ritalin and klonopin and they really help

onedayago wrote:I have ADD and Anxiety NOS, take ritalin and klonopin and they really help

My baby brother has ADHD. Ritalin turned him into a zombie and everyone in the family hated him on it. So now we just feed him Diet Coke 1 whole giant bottle a day! Don't worry though, he would've drunk that much anyways {family's BIG on soda}, but we've noticed how much better it is with him on the caffeine as opposed to the pill.

Sorry - just my two cents

Yes all of those. The conversational/distraction stuff just makes me feel as if i'm completely socially inept. The running through of past conversations stops me sleeping.
If anyone finds the cure, i would like to be on the list to receive it!