| My entire life I have had difficulty paying attention. In | | | | the other. Anxiety seems to give a person extremely |
| school, I would often stare at the clock or around the | | | | selective hearing. It seems that with anxiety, the only |
| classroom trying to find things that were more | | | | thing I seemed to be able to focus on were things that |
| interesting that what the teacher was lecturing about. It | | | | I was naturally very interested in. Such things did NOT |
| wasn't too difficult, as I've always found school to be | | | | include school lectures and office politics!! |
| incredibly boring. | | | | Then I found the program that cures panic and anxiety. |
| As I got older and grew into an adult, terms like | | | | It made me realize that anxiety will completely cloud |
| “Adult ADD or ADHD” became buzzwords on | | | | your logical thinking with emotion. Fear is a very potent |
| television and magazine advertising. I had certainly | | | | emotion. When one is consumed by it, all logic and |
| convinced myself that that must be EXACTLY what I | | | | common sense is thrown out the window. It is |
| had!!! | | | | extremely difficult to focus on anything of importance |
| How many times have I been in meetings for work, | | | | when your minds is clouded by anxiety or panic. |
| and a superior will say, “So, what do you think | | | | So as my anxiety died down more and more every |
| about this?” And I would jump out of my own little | | | | week, my sense of focus returned. What I had been |
| world and be like, “Huh? Could you repeat the | | | | calling, “brain fog”, slowly dissipated. (I had |
| question please?” This would of course embarrass | | | | orginally thought that perhaps this "brain fog" had been |
| the hell out of me and would shock me into giving | | | | the result of smoking and anxiety. But the effects of |
| extra effort into paying attention, which only lasted until | | | | smoking on my attention span were short lived.) I |
| I once again became distracted. | | | | started to experience a sense of clarity that I hadn't |
| It wasn't until later on when I really started putting two | | | | felt since I was a teenage, when I was focused on my |
| and two together. I began to notice that the days that I | | | | favorite video games. It was then I understood the |
| felt incredibly anxious or panicky, everything people | | | | relationship between the symptoms of ADD and |
| would try to explain to me would go in one ear and out | | | | ADHD and anxiety. |