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Hello, dear readers of the site! Today we will look at what are the causes of loss of concentration. So that you can identify the source of your troubles and eliminate it. After all, let’s say, if the matter is the lack of proper rest, it is useless to look for methods that motivate to be collected. Right?
Types of loss of concentration and causes of its occurrence
True distraction
A person is distracted from everything that happens in his inner world and environment. Up to the things that previously seemed extremely important and valuable to him. He is unable to focus on one thing for a long time.
This happens due to fatigue, especially if the night turned out to be sleepless and the body’s resources simply did not have time to replenish. To be able to function normally during the day. Headache also provokes absent-mindedness. With her, it’s not even possible to catch a thought, let alone keep attention on one process.
But the most common cause of attention disorder is boredom and monotony. When the work causes absolutely no interest and is so familiar that you can do it with your eyes closed — willy-nilly you will think about extraneous things that have at least a little more energy.
By the way, there is such a thing as road hypnosis. When the driver has spent too long on a road with low traffic. Then he falls into a half-asleep and loses the sense of speed and time spent on the path. This threatens to cause an accident with serious consequences.
Imaginary absent-mindedness
A person is so strongly fixed on the task or the problem that has arisen that he is simply unable to notice the rest of the processes that are happening around him.
Have you heard stories that most geniuses were not adapted to everyday life? For example, Isaac Newton could go to dinner and be completely hungry. Because on the way to the dining room, I thought about something so much that I forgot where and why I was going. Why did he return to the room and continue to work.
Once when Isaac received guests, it turned out that the wine had run out on the table. He, as befits a hospitable host, went in search of a new bottle. But something went wrong. Just a couple of minutes later, he returned empty-handed and began to write quickly at his desk.
So, this subspecies is called professorial absent-mindedness. A person is so absorbed in his ideas and discoveries that he is completely unable to realize and notice himself in this world. And even more so, take care of others.
There is also poetic absent-mindedness. It differs from the professorial one in that a person simply “drops out” of reality. He lives in dreams and fantasies. Why does it seem carefree, infantile moments.
Student
Children, students and adults who actively learn something new experience a decrease in mindfulness. Again, fatigue, monotony of activity and lack of interest in the information provided make themselves felt.
But it can also happen due to Attention Deficit Disorder. This is a neurological-behavioral developmental disorder in which a person becomes hyperactive, impulsive and cannot not only keep attention on one subject, but also control his own actions and deeds.
senile
Violation occurs for a completely natural reason — the aging of the body. Processes slow down, there is not much energy. Why memory lapses make themselves felt, a person forgets where he went and what he did half an hour ago. He falls asleep at the first signs of fatigue. Even if she appeared in the middle of an interesting conversation.
Physiological causes
With epilepsy, the activity of nervous processes decreases in a person, so he is simply unable to, so to speak, switch. The same thing happens in the case of depression, hypoprosexia.
Head injuries also cause distraction, exhaustion and overwork even in healthy people. Athletes mostly suffer from this.
There are such types of psychopathologies as hyperprosexia, paraprosexia and aprosexia. They are all accompanied by a violation of the ability to concentrate and require medical intervention.
The power of thought alone does not restore its former attentiveness. Especially with aprosexia, which is characterized by a complete lack of involvement in the processes that occur both within the personality and in its environment.
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Finally, I want to recommend you an article that shows the most effective ways that will help increase your mindfulness. Also remember that proper nutrition, proper rest and maintaining a healthy lifestyle in general are important in this process.
Recommendation
Be sure to check out these electronic exercises. On this site, you will find excellent exercise equipment that will help you develop your mental abilities.
Take care of yourself and be happy!
The material was prepared by a psychologist, Gestalt therapist, Zhuravina Alina