Hello,
I usually have this problem, but it has been increasing in severity and I have much schoolwork due by the end of August.
I cannot concentrate or focus on anything at all anymore. My mind goes blank. If I read, I'll re-read the same line repeatedly but not take it in. It takes me hours to write one paragraph because of this blankness..I might write a few words, and then I'm no longer concentrating and my mind empties.
I'm not always like this; it is as if I have an on and off switch to my mind. Though it almost never occurs at this point, sometimes it turns on, and I have rapid trains of thought again, am aware of everything, like a certain clarity, hypersensitive again. In these periods, I will do an entire project in one sitting, and it is the only way I have gotten large assignments done.
This is extremely frustrating, because people assume I am lazy...I earn 100s on my tests, essays, and so forth, and I can concentrate enough to do what I must at school, but it is negated by not completing my out of school work. I have ten short essays and two book journals as well as math and chemistry assignments and studying to accomplish in over a week. I want to do them so badly, but I can't, and I am so ashamed and horrified at the thought of not getting it done.
I do not want to see a doctor. Even if it requires medication, it will not be fast enough to help me in this situation- are there any other methods I could use for the time being to focus? I have already incorporated a healthy diet lacking in sugar recently, but it has not helped.