Dear calisister:

I think I understand now and I do remember very well your difficulty reading a text, what you referred to as ADD, which is indeed a deficit in the ability to attend to a text as it goes on and on as well as to the numbers  on a chart and so on.

And you do intend to go through it. Question is how to make it easier for you for the next couple of months. Only one way: relax. What disrupts your attention is anxiety, the chemicals released when anxious. When you calm yourself, you change your chemistry. It is a skill and a practice that you can built.  It is doable.

Arrange your life in such a way as to minimize anxiety (avoiding experiences and people that distress you, for one)- that is the outside strategy, and practice calming yourself- that is the inside strategy.

anita