Extreme Differences in Concentration

[MelOtt511]

Hello, I am looking for some direction for a concentration problem I have been having. Since I have been young, I have had difficulty concentrating. I am now 26 years old, male and in good health.

I am a television photojournalist (camera man) and video editor. At work, my concentration goes from being completely focused on a task, to a total lack of focus, depending on what it is I am doing. The problems go beyond work and effects my personal life as well.

Before I get to the problems, here are the positives in work and in life:
- Deeply focused on my daily assignment (shooting and editing video)
- Organization skills are excellent
- Very methodical with work (I'm a perfectionist)
- Can finish work under deadline pressure.
- Enjoy and can focus on challenging games and trivia


Now the problems:
- Driving past exits on highway, (daily)
- Making Wrong turns (daily)
- Forgetting where I am going (daily)
- Mixing up words
- Very slow reading (it takes on average 4-5 minutes to read one page in a novel, sometimes up to 10 minutes on one page)
-Short term memory loss. Example: While I'm at the grocery store my girlfriend will call and ask me to get milk. I’ll check out and drive home forgetting to get the milk. Situations like this happens all the time.
-Comprehending conversations
-Spelling
-Watching a baseball game and forgetting what happened the next day



Two years ago I had a brain MRI to see if I had a tumor. Negative results. Any idea what this could be?

[shareen]

Hi I was wondering if you could help Im a 40 year old woman who works in the travel industry over the last two years I have notice I tend to forget where my keys are or things I have just put down, drive and forget where I am driving too. My spelling stops me in mid sentence and I have think about it and most time resort to looking in the dictionary everytime. I seem to have to go over everything five times before I learn how to do it, I get a mind blank on passwards if Iv been away form computer for only two days. I frustrate myself trying to keep organised. I also stop midsentene to think about what i want to say. Also when im typing or writing I can get letters around the wrong way.
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