Posted by Dinah on July 6, 2006, at 19:51:59
In reply to My productivity issue, posted by curtm on July 6, 2006, at 17:43:54
Drat. I responded to you, but somehow lost the post.
I agree with you that if you've been able to do the work well for many years, that a longstanding problem with ADD shouldn't cause a sudden change.
I'm not really familiar with your diagnosis, but depression can cause a lack of concentration, and so unfortunately can the medications that treat it. Can you tie the time period where you started having problems to either a change in mood or a change in meds?
My word retrieval problems were so bad on Luvox that it got to be a real problem at work.
But first things first. If the medications are helping with a serious mood disorder, that's the most important thing.
My therapist convinced me to try to come up with new methods of working to compensate for problems I'm having. So I try to work off lists a lot more than I used to, and write down what I used to rely on memory for.
Maybe you could jot down ideas that might get you past hurdles in various parts of the project? Or write a summary of the usual process, so when you're stuck, you have questions that can jog you forward?
I think that, for me, when something has always come easily for me, it's extra hard to explain the process of how I do it. And I skipped the slogging through that I probably should have learned a long time ago.
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