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Posted by curtm on July 6, 2006, at 17:43:54
I work with blueprints and details. I generate shop drawings from a mess of seperate pages, details, schedules, and notes. When I am on, I am very good at what I do. I can in a short time see the structures in my mind and have a plan to go about my work.
For about 3 months now, that ability has all but disappeared. I struggle to relate details together and soon forget when I do, having to reread several times over. I can't come up with a plan and I don't know where to start.
I have been diagnosed ADD recently, but I don't understand what could bring this on because I have been doing work in this field my entire life and doing this specific work (Computer Aided Drafting) for about 8 years without this problem.
PS. It's not burnout, I know that feeling. My docs know about this too, but she won't treat my ADD. She says the mood disorder is more important to get straight first. Just hope I can keep my job.
Curt
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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