u/Lazy_Yoshi_5702

after us release. I want cream. Also do 3 packs come to the uk, looking for that Amy three pack if it comes out.

I've been feeling off and out of it for the past 3 months or at least I think so, at least at the start I know if felt worse. I fixed my diet, sleep and exercise and yet still I feel like this.

I don't know if it's in my head or not anymore, cause I don't remember how I used to feel, I find myself thinking about my focus a lot and I wonder if this always happened or if I am so hyper focused on if I'm alert that things I usually just ignore are proof of my lack of focus.

I'll admit I don't do a ton all day, cause since my focus issues I haven't wanted to, not because I can't but more so cause I want to be fully present when doing certain things.

I know I can focus sometimes or enter a flow state when I've got tasks to do so maybe I'm fine and just overthinking the general moments when I'm not fully focused.

I went to the doctor last month and had a blood test a week ago came back fine except for vitamin d being a little low, I was worried about diabetes, which it seems I don't have(makes sense I'm young and not overweight even if my diet was bad and my exercise was infrequent.)

any help on how I can figure out if there's anything wrong or if I'm just so hype focused on it that I'm getting worried for no reason

Something I've been thinking about recently. You know how american kids channels have a bunch of crossover games and such, as Nickelodeon and Cartoon network it got me curious about who would be in a cbbc crossover game?

It could be a fighting game, kart racer or some kind of action game like the X zone series.

I guess the most iconic characters would be available. Makes me wonder who is the main character like the spongebob of CBBC. I think it could be fun to come up with stages/ levels and other elements cause I love crossovers in general.

Also is there any shows that could have feasibly crossed over do you think. Due to when I was born I am quite biased to the 2000's and early 2010's shows.

I’d had this issue for a year or so when I only want to play games or make progress on personal projects when I’m 100% focused. My reasoning is simple, I’m only going to 100% a game once or create some kind of media once so I want to be fully present.

It was a thing where if I interacted with these things while unfocused, they would feel ruined or off to me. Idk why they felt ruined in my mind and I wish they didn’t.

That issue was frustrating but fine as I could still casually enjoy media, such as watching stuff I’d watch a lot and playing games for fun (that I’d beaten )casually.

However as of a few months ago I’ve been having focus issues in general, feeling out of it, not fully present and feeling unfocused. I’ve been trying to improve my lifestyle to fix these with better diet, sleep and exercise, but no luck. Got a blood test next week.

This then resulted in even casual enjoyment of stuff I’ve already done feeling off or ruined in my mind even interacting with them while in this state bothered me and things I’ve interacted with still feel strange in my mind. During this phase where I don’t feel fully present.

But due to me not knowing if my focus is back or still gone and getting frustrated due to trying and failing to fix it, it’s got me stuck here wanting to enjoy things but not doing them since I didn’t want to ruin how I saw them or not enjoy them.

So I’d like some advice on how to change my mindset, hell I’d even be happy if my brain let me go back to only caring about new games or new projects in terms of being fully focused.

The main issue with just doing it and interacting with the media is that it would feel wrong, ruin how I see a ton of stuff I love and feels like accepting defeat, like I’m not caring anymore and that I’m enjoying media less by forcing myself to interact with it. I don’t know if that makes sense, but I mean compromising and not being fully happy with myself and what I’m consuming, but doing it anyway.

Since the start of March I’ve felt off, unfocused and out of it ( was worst the first week or so) I ended up booking a doctors appointment after a week but that didn’t happen until a month and a bit later.

I’m currently unemployed looking for work after graduating in summer 2024, I did a summer internship for a bit in summer 2025 and have been looking for work since then. I never really felt bored cause I had lots of personal projects and media to consume.

My diet wasn’t good then neither was my sleep and I didn’t do much exercise so I changed all of that, with consistent sleep time, a better diet ( sometimes I eat very unhealthy snacks instead of meals) and going to the gym most days if I can ( only really simple cardio and I don’t go crazy but gets me out the house)

I am and was quite concerned about diabetes, I’m healthy weight, but due to my symptoms such as waking up with a dry mouth, feeling unfocused despite proper sleep, and going to the toilet a lot while trying to sleep ( though now since I go to sleep faster this isn’t an issue, was likely due to me laying in bed thinking as I tried to get to sleep)I wanted to get tested.

As for caffeine I cut it out for a month felt no change and so have started having tea and diet sodas again, I think they give me a little focus can’t tell.

I’ve got a blood test finally up next week.
The issue isn’t really the focus lack I can live with that, it’s my stupid standards and practices.

Since that split I haven’t wanted to play games I enjoy that are new or consume certain media as I don’t want to ruin them in my mind. I know that sounds idiotic and it is, but I get it l, if I want to watch something or play a game to 100% I’m only doing it once in my life and so I want to be fully present.

This had gone into other stuff too just casual plays or games I’ve already beaten and other media that I love and consume a lot which I haven’t touched since the focus issues started.

Any tips on how to get over that silly mindset would be helpful I want to, but it’s hard and feels like I’m giving up/ not doing things perfectly just doing it just to get it done if that makes sense:( but I miss when I never thought about focus.

How can I tell if all this focus nonsense is in my head or genuine? Like it’s hard to tell if I feel normal again or if I feel the same as the past few months. I overthink everything in terms of my alertness and focus and it just makes me worry and frustrated cause I improved my lifestyle and yet still feel the same. It’s difficult to know if I’m alert of my surroundings or not or if I was always like this.

I feel like I stare at things sometimes trying to feel fully present and alert. I don’t think my focus is truly ruined, I feel alert enough to speak or react to things I’m watching and I can focus on things, I got engrossed in a 3 hour video about a franchises story, plus when I draw I go into a flow state for an hour following the image I’m copying as I listen to a video on the side.

Plus when I go out shopping every few weeks for the whole day, I feel focused or at least present as I focus on looking at things in shops or on buying the things I need to.

So any advice would be appreciated I just want to feel normal again and get on with my hobbies as I continue to job search.

I recently brought a used 360 Slim and brought a cheap monitor for it to connect to, only issue is I realised it doesn't have any audio output and so I was curious about how I could fix that cheaply and the simplest way.

The monitor I have is Acer AOPEN 22CL1QJ0 22 Inch 120Hz FHD Monito it is connected to the xbox 360 via a hdmi cable. The monitor only has two outputs being HDMI and VGA. the Slim has all it's ports free except for the hdmi and a controller adaptor which is connected to a modern wired power a controller for newer xbox models.

What is the easiest and cheapest way to get audio output? I have looked into HDMI audio extractors, but it's hard to know if they will work. Is there any other ways and which is the easiest to understand and set up? I am from the uk and if it's something I can go buy new in a shop in person, then that is preferred to having to order something online, but whatever will give me audio is fine even if it's only through headphones.