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Please if anyone can, Help me with my concentration.?

yes. i have tried a lot to fix this problem (doesn't include taking medicine) but it never works. i went online and i researched ways to help me concentrate on my homework. the same answer comes up. something like find a quite place to work, bring a snack, take breaks like once an hour for 10min; etc. i've tried and it deosn't work nor does music. Also, i'm not like most people when it comes to getting destracted by entertainment devices and friends. as a matter of fact, even though i like games, they make me depress when i play them because i really don't get any solid result in the end, and also i don't have much friends in my life so i play games only when i got nothing else to do. i'm a loner a lot of times. i have some friends but we never hang out after school or do anything together beside go to school. i have a cell phone but i don't use it unless i need a ride home or emergency. pretty much, i don't have much too distract me besided my parents occasional arguments, but thats not always. okay, so now this is how it happends. i get out my homework after school.(the time is like 5:30pm) then i take out my planner with all my homework listed on it from my different classes. i don't really have much homework to a normal dedicated kid BUT!!!!! to me it's a lot because i take a HELL of a long time to do it. they say it takes dicipline to teach yourself to focus and i am diciplineing myself. i say, i'm not going to do anything else until i'm done. no sleeping, and no games. but guess what, i end up freeken till like 2-3:00am(thats about 11-14hrs of homework). i still got to wake up at 6:30am to get ready for school. i'm so tired of it all. f*** i'm so tired of life. but this is it. and i got to do it if i want to go places in my life. i'm a senior graduating 2010 my classes and my homework today: Band: practice(never get a chance too. i just hope the teacher doesn't notice) Spanish 3:none(i usually get an easy A in this class cause everything is so pointless. the teacheres are horrible. we just watch movies and do pointless assignments that we just copy from the mexican kid. cheating is wrong but hey, you want the F then go ahead and try if you even able too) Ap Gov: read pg. 34-44, Answers question 1-5 on pg. 44 English: none Anatomy and Physiology: answer questions on pg. 39 and pg.46 not much homework right? But i'm up late every night and early into mourning still struggling? And i ask y can't i concentrate? *also i have additonal projects on the side but i haven't gotten to do them yet because of homework. i'm not procastinating, its just if i don't do the homework my grade suffers and so i do whats need now.* additional projects include: Start Senior project(signatures due october) Read SSR book(300pgs)(due in mid november) find 20 news clipings about 20 different types of government problems in the recent news.(due in December) what ususally happens when i'm doing my work is that my mind starts drifting off into space. i start think about other things like personal problems, my future life on a daily basis, girls, a lot of pointless thoughts, and i feel like i'm talking to myself in my head but it comes natural cause i've done it so often. it just happens so fast and so quickly that i don't even realize taht i'm not doing my work anymore. then when i realize it, i try to focus again but i comepletely forgot what i was learning and if i'm reading something, i'll go back and have ot reread it. sometimes even like 10 times before it gets to my head. i spend i have a modified schedule and my school day ended 45minutes early. i went to the library to catch up on my reading in government and i ended up only readying 2 pages by the time school was out while sitting in a quiet desk in an isolated spot in the library. y is it so hard to concentrate!!! if anyone, anyone, can maybe provide a helpful tip of some sort, i would be really thank full to them and be really glad i used yahoo's answers. please please, i really really would like my answers answered as soon as possible.

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1. what worked for me: Make reading an active process. Make flash cards. Read a section at a time and then write on paper what you read. Or write down the things that you would normally highlight. Once you've read enough or start to drift off, go over your flashcards. See what you remember. Move forward with new reading once you've mastered your flashcards. Your collection of flash cards will be great for your final exam. If worse comes to worse, get a study buddy or definitely a tutor that can keep you on track.