Do you get 'stuck'?

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Do you stop and get stuck in an action after an interruption often?

For example - let's say you're reading a text, and you try to skip a boring line. And then you find that you can't read further, because your mind doesn't comply to read, unless you read the line you skipped before?

Or when you say something in a conversation and your speech is interrupted, can you just forget what you wanted to say when the topic is already ended or further ahead or do you have to say it even if the situation is over already?

Even in your thoughts maybe. When you try to skip an unfinished thought, do you find that you cannot go on further until you finished that thought.

Do you find that your become stuck entirely when you are interrupted in any way and can only go on further when you complete the action from before? I'm not sure it's OCD related, because I have this, but no OCD.

Anyone know it too?
How do you cope?

Yes, all the time. It has to be the most challenging part of doing my job. I get further and further behind on projects when my phone rings because of it.

I sometimes get stuck on sentences that dont read right. I have to read them over and over. I sometimes do it while talking too, repeating the sentence over and over till it sounds right. Sort of like a ultra long stutter or something.

I can't seem to leave anything incomplete. I absolutely hate it when I have something to say to someone in my head, only to have the conversation lead otherwise and my point never got across.

I don't lose track of my thoughts though...I'm in my head 24/7, I simply cannot afford to get stuck there. It kills me though when I can't remember something I feel I should.

Often here on WrongPlanet, I won't post in any subject with more replies than I can read. I have to absorb everything, relevant or not, about the subject before I can give my 2 cents.

Cursed Perfectionism.

yes ..sometimes

All the time.

Usually when working on the computer. I'd be doing a spreadsheet, the phone would ring, urgent this and that, then I'd go back to the spreadsheet and draw a complete blank as to what I was doing.

Often. Sometimes my own thoughts wander from the topic I am speaking on and I forget what I wanted to say.

I know this from unsolved problems, if I don't understand some thing I can't leave it in thoughts until I can classify it. That's why someone told me I got to have a folder for 'unsolved questions', a X-File!=)

You also know this? you want to tell something and while speaking you have an association and it's difficult not to follow it, even if it's not important for the topic.

Another thing is, that I often give to much information, for example, it's difficult to put a person as 'a friend of mine', instead of this I tend to tell the whole story why I konow this person etc.

Oh my god, Sora. That's me to a T, as they say. I can be talking or doing something when a sudden interruption occurs and stops me. Then I am frozen and have difficulty getting back on track.

Here I just thought I was "obsessing". I'll think of things that occurred...situations, exchanges between people...for hours, days, weeks, sometimes even months after they've occurred. Then again, my memory stretches back to about the age of 18 months (verified by my dad, when I would describe things). I'm 27, and I'll still reflect upon things that happened as far back as elementary school. Could or Should I have done something differently? Ridiculous!

And yet, if I am interrupted mid-sentence or mid-project...I do get stuck, and I can't remember what the goal was. I'll remember it 10 hours later though! That point I was going to make...and then it's all I can think about, and I want SO badly to call up that person and say, "Remember how we were talking about such-and-such yesterday? Well, I was thinking...."

I find that writing everything down helps, because interruptions of thought processes are inevitable. I'm then able to re-read what I WAS so focused on, and hopefully jog some of that out of the back of my brain in a more timely manner.