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Confused about not being able to take on too much
Hello,
I am 25 year old male.. During the past 5-6 years I found it very hard to hang onto a job. Anyway.. I find that when I start a job I cannot focus on much anything else other than that ONE job! I become completely FOCUSED on my job and everything else takes a backseat. Currently I am a fitness instructor and teach 2 times a week 2 hours a week. My whole focus is on this.. I love doing it.. but isn't that problematic that with all my jobs I HAVE TO just be focused on that, the job and I cannot do anything else after but mentally prepare for my next shift.. I do have ADHD and treatment for anxiety but still...??? Working shouldn't be my whole life??
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Not sure if you are saying that you juggle several different jobs at same time for different employers or whether you meant focusing on just one "task", one part of your job, but not focusing on all the other stuff you need to do for the same job, or whether you meant something else entirely.
Either way, ADHD would definitely affect your performance in a job as well as all other areas in your life. Just because you earn money from a job doesn't make it any more important than everything else in your life, including handling a budget carefully and paying bills, taking good care of a girlfriend or even a pet, etc.
I have heard of people with attention deficit issues, finding improvement when cutting sugar out of their diet as much as possible. I know a couple whose daughter went to a special Montessori school where the kids were not allowed to attend if they had taken in any sugar and the teachers could tell by their performance in class the following day. They cited tests that had been done and the real proof was when parents visited grade school classes even first grade where all the children were focused and acting more like college students as they studied. Thats a vast difference from the kind of kids I went to school with. So give it a try.
As for your anxiety, I understand you are on meds but not all people I know who are on meds are really helped by them. You may want to read a book titled "When Anxiety Attacks" by David D. Burns. I used to have severe social anxiety when younger but no longer. I followed the same advice this Dr. has written in his book. It may be hard to self diagnose exactly what angle to try in treatment exercises, so if you decide to seek a professional who can help you with a non drug treatment of simply working with you to rewire how you think, then seek a Dr. who offers CBT methods of treatment,(Cognitive behavioral therapy)
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