Zone Out While Typing

[paranoid_cataclysm]

Do any of you zone out while typing?  I don't know if this best describes what I'm doing but it seems like I go into a trance of sorts while typing and end up making a ton of errors I don't even notice even though I'm staring at the screen the whole time.

[paranoid_cataclysm]

Yeah I've had my brain tested before many times and they never found seizures either.

[PrimitiveJekka]

I space out often.  My dog actually recognises it now and if I'm cooking or something he presses his nose into my leg.  I was tested and it's not seizures, so I guess it's just part of the wacky world of the messed up brain.

[paranoid_cataclysm]

Yeah I would say that would give it away for a lot of people although at the same time I guess they would have to know it's a clue that something is wrong and I'm unaware of changes like that in myself.

[BipolarGolfer]

On the typing issue i went through some up and down mood swings in college and at one point couldnt even formulate a topic sentence. I was a 4.0 high school student and on this one essay i literally spent a good 8 hours straight trying to figure out how to formulate my first sentence. I was pretty rediculous and probably should have clued me into something was going on. Other times i could write a 10 page essay in under an hour.

[Fizzy74]

Hi there, I do zone out, which is quite bad considering I have my own typing business :-).  But I do zone out, and quite often too I can read a whole chapter in a book and get to the end and not remember anything I've just read.  

[paranoid_cataclysm]

Adderall I think would probably be very bad for me from current understanding of psychiatric disorders since I think it increases dopamine and I was diagnosed schizophrenia but it would probably be of help otherwise.  I told my psychiatrist I have trouble concentrating but he didn't prescribe anything for that except he only prescribes me an antipsychotic.  I'm not sure why it happens and I'm not sure if I'm stressed out about anything in particular since it happens all the time.  I was just posting a question about it because I was curious if other people experience it and why they might to try to get some insight into it for myself.

[hyeyung]

It sounds like you're having manic or psychotic episodes.  Do you think you're disassociating yourself from something that is stressing out?  I find myself doing the same thing as you describe.  Just take a break from typing when you can.  It's like a written word salad.  I don't believe you can do much about it except maybe go to the doctor and talk about maybe Adderall to keep you concentrated?