I am changed and I'm weird now. Help?!
Question: I am changed and I'm weird now!. Help!?
Hi, I am having real trouble with school lately!. I used to be really "smart" and make almost straight A's with a GPA of 3!.66!. I took AP in sophomore year and was always just a little lazy, but that's normal!. I felt almost as if I knew everything already because school was just easy for me!. I could concentrate but didn't hardly even need to!. I did sports, extra curricular, jazz band, projects at home, and more!. Recently I really started falling off the train!. I can't explain it!. Every time I am in a class now I either fall asleep because its early and I am tired or I am totally unfocused!. No matter how hard I try to focus I can't!. I will get distracted by EVERY SINGLE THING (Some examples would be teacher's reflection in white board, pattern on my desk, floor tiles, my pencil)!. I will also daydream A LOT!. The process usually goes like:
Okay, I'm ready to learn!. I walk into the class room!.
I sit down and class starts!.
Teacher says "Okay class lets do some math, bla bla bla (talking math stuff)"
I am already thinking in my head!.!.!. "Hey I can see my teachers reflection!.!.!. Hm I remember a song with those words in it!. I need to learn that song on guitar!. I need to start practicing guitar more!. I wonder where my guitar was made!. I wonder who made it!. I wonder how much I could sell it for!. OH WAIT, I'M SUPPOSED TO BE DOING MATH!"
Rinse, Repeat with different topic!.
Throughout the day I am either very tired, or sometimes very wired, not really hyper!. Sometimes coffee helps me concentrate a lot, other times it makes me feel weird and slightly sick!. This has all begun recently!. Its hard for me to just keep a train of thought!.
When I try to sleep, I will just lay in my bed thinking of things from melody of songs and beats I could make to videos I could make with my friends to anything!.
I will spend the majority of my time reading about things that interest me and learning ALL DAY about different things like guitar, video editing, other cultures, politics, history, sound, computers, bikes, and everything like that!. I will be so into the stuff that I forget to check the time and by the time I do remember I've already been reading about the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth for 4 or 5 hours!.
It's really weird and I am doing horrible in school now because of these weird behaviors!.
Anyone have any ideas!?
THANKS!
PS: I'm 17 (Junior in high school)
This stuff started last semester of sophomore year!.
Its really weird but it just feels hard to think or something when doing something uninteresting!.
BTW I have an exam tomorrow and I still can't sleep!. It's like 3!!!!!!!!Www@Answer-Health@Com
Okay, I'm ready to learn!. I walk into the class room!.
I sit down and class starts!.
Teacher says "Okay class lets do some math, bla bla bla (talking math stuff)"
I am already thinking in my head!.!.!. "Hey I can see my teachers reflection!.!.!. Hm I remember a song with those words in it!. I need to learn that song on guitar!. I need to start practicing guitar more!. I wonder where my guitar was made!. I wonder who made it!. I wonder how much I could sell it for!. OH WAIT, I'M SUPPOSED TO BE DOING MATH!"
Rinse, Repeat with different topic!.
Throughout the day I am either very tired, or sometimes very wired, not really hyper!. Sometimes coffee helps me concentrate a lot, other times it makes me feel weird and slightly sick!. This has all begun recently!. Its hard for me to just keep a train of thought!.
When I try to sleep, I will just lay in my bed thinking of things from melody of songs and beats I could make to videos I could make with my friends to anything!.
I will spend the majority of my time reading about things that interest me and learning ALL DAY about different things like guitar, video editing, other cultures, politics, history, sound, computers, bikes, and everything like that!. I will be so into the stuff that I forget to check the time and by the time I do remember I've already been reading about the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth for 4 or 5 hours!.
It's really weird and I am doing horrible in school now because of these weird behaviors!.
Anyone have any ideas!?
THANKS!
PS: I'm 17 (Junior in high school)
This stuff started last semester of sophomore year!.
Its really weird but it just feels hard to think or something when doing something uninteresting!.
BTW I have an exam tomorrow and I still can't sleep!. It's like 3!!!!!!!!Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
Elias,
This could very well be Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)!.
I have it, and I raised a son with it!.
You might have the form of it classified as primarily attentional!. This is commonly considered rare in males, but I thin it is just underdiagnosed in males, since it is the form I have!.
It may be that it hasn't showed up until now, because you classes have been less challenging!. If your classes have become more challenging as you move forward in school, it may be that you have reached the point where this has become a problem!.
ADHD does not necessarily have to hold you back (I became a professor), but it would be very much to your advantage to have this evaluated!.
Best of luck!Www@Answer-Health@Com
This could very well be Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)!.
I have it, and I raised a son with it!.
You might have the form of it classified as primarily attentional!. This is commonly considered rare in males, but I thin it is just underdiagnosed in males, since it is the form I have!.
It may be that it hasn't showed up until now, because you classes have been less challenging!. If your classes have become more challenging as you move forward in school, it may be that you have reached the point where this has become a problem!.
ADHD does not necessarily have to hold you back (I became a professor), but it would be very much to your advantage to have this evaluated!.
Best of luck!Www@Answer-Health@Com
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have you been doing any drugs or taking any new medications!?Www@Answer-Health@Com
Oh, you are preaching to the choir!. You have ADD!. Tell your parents to take you to the doctor and get some medication for it!. I couldn't listen in class either!. I'm smart so I had a good GPA, but the kids teased me because when the teacher called on me I'd be like "Um!.!.!.what were you talking about!?"!. Get some adderal!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
perhaps you are not taking your studying seriously, when you're feeling like 'i know everything i should know about school, you enter other things like on what you wrote above, playing guitar and other stuff, by doing this, you brain probably start to focus on that thing, that is what makes you loses you focus when studying and also makes you either dizzy or weird!. i suggest you to leave the other things for a while and start focusing only to your studying!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
first of all let me say your gifted!. TO make my answer short, school is simply boring for you!. That's all nothing wrong with you!. Your just bored with school cause it's freaking boring and you realized it doesn't help with your life at all!. Do something that you believe you can change!. For example if you wanted to be a singer go singWww@Answer-Health@Com
Try starting some sort of traditional martial arts!. The key word there is traditional!. Try and find one that has a meditative component to it, if you can't, just try one that seems the best, you know most authentic non-Americanized!. I did a term paper for one of my classes last semester on using martial arts as an intervention for kids with ADHD, and the results were incredible!. In one study it only took twelve weeks for kids to score above average in all the right behaviors, and below average in the disruptive ones!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
It is not as weird as you think!. First, do the responsible thing and go get a physical!. If the doctor doesn't find anything, and usually these days if you don't have excellent insurance, they won't; consider doing something that can be really simple!.
- excercise at a decent hour in the morning; this way you will be alert in class and sleepy when you are suppose to be!.
- go to bed at a decent hour!. It is great to get good grades but it isn't the all and be all!.
- start eating balanced meals and stop skipping meals because you don't think you have time or whatever!. Your blood sugar could be low which will cause you to lose focus!.
- stop worrying over crap you can't change!. No matter what is going on in your personal life, let it go!. If you don't have sound advice for them or if they aren't going to listen don't internalize their crap!
- lay off of the caffeine!. It can be like sugar!. You will have a buzz for a little while but then you will start to crash depending on your body chemistry and how you metabolize food!.
- it could just be your raging hormones; but that still doesn't take away from sleeping at a decent hour, exercise, and having a balanced meal!.
- finally, and people rule this very important factor out for whatever the reason!. You must not take on the whole load for yourself!. You must have some faith in something higher!. Not to be disrespectful of My Lord and Savior; He is the only One that I could unload on and it was much easier to get through high school and college with all of the family crap dumped on me!. Without Him I would have wigged years ago!
I hope this helps!Www@Answer-Health@Com
- excercise at a decent hour in the morning; this way you will be alert in class and sleepy when you are suppose to be!.
- go to bed at a decent hour!. It is great to get good grades but it isn't the all and be all!.
- start eating balanced meals and stop skipping meals because you don't think you have time or whatever!. Your blood sugar could be low which will cause you to lose focus!.
- stop worrying over crap you can't change!. No matter what is going on in your personal life, let it go!. If you don't have sound advice for them or if they aren't going to listen don't internalize their crap!
- lay off of the caffeine!. It can be like sugar!. You will have a buzz for a little while but then you will start to crash depending on your body chemistry and how you metabolize food!.
- it could just be your raging hormones; but that still doesn't take away from sleeping at a decent hour, exercise, and having a balanced meal!.
- finally, and people rule this very important factor out for whatever the reason!. You must not take on the whole load for yourself!. You must have some faith in something higher!. Not to be disrespectful of My Lord and Savior; He is the only One that I could unload on and it was much easier to get through high school and college with all of the family crap dumped on me!. Without Him I would have wigged years ago!
I hope this helps!Www@Answer-Health@Com