difficulty concentrating
Scattered attention problem
Difficulty concentrating is the inability to maintain focus on a task or thought.
It can be temporary—from fatigue, stress, or distraction—or persistent, as in attention disorders, depression, or anxiety.
I've been having difficulty concentrating since the breakup.
The phrase often appears in medical contexts describing symptoms.
- distractedUnable to concentrate
- short attention spanInability to sustain focus
- foggyObscured by vapor
- scatteredSpread irregularly about
- all over the placeScattered without order
unfocused · hazy · zoning out · tuning out · daydreaming · head in the clouds · absent-minded · forgetful · restless · fidgeting · overwhelmed · mental fatigue · brain fog · spacing out · inattentive · drowsy · bleary · frazzled
- fatigue symptomsexhaustion, tiredness, drowsiness, sleepiness, yawning
- hypoglycemiablood sugar crash, sugar crash, glucose, insulin shock, hypoglycemic
- Anxietyanxiety, nervousness, panic, worry, generalized anxiety
- Aftereffectsaftermath, aftershock, fallout, side effects, ripple effect
- anxiety signspanic, nervousness, worry, worrying, trembling
- kidney symptomshematuria, proteinuria, edema, flank pain, kidney pain
difficulty concentratingsharp focus
Maximum image clarity
laser focus · sustained attention · hyperfocus · rapt attention · undivided attention
difficulty concentratingclear-headedness
Mental sharpness and focus
flow state · mental sharpness · presence of mind · lucidity · alertness
difficulty, difficult, difficultly, difficulties, concentrate, concentrating, concentration, concentrations, concentrated