Ideas?

[Asha]

Usually halfway through a conversation I move on ahead with the conversation in my head and tend to forget where I am at in the actual conversation. Sometimes it ends awkwardly since I just stop and some times I am reminded where I stop. It completely stops y thought flow and I end up just forgetting what I actually wanted to say.

[Sandra]

Yes! I do that a lot at work. I just get a little ahead of the actual conversation. But I play it off well and it's a running joke with everyone about how spacey I can be so no one thinks anything of it

[Leda]

i do that too... most times i get away with it as I make fun of myself and other people understand cause it happens to them occasionally but sometimes i get so frustrated as I know it is linked to my lack of ability to focus

[Asha]

That seems helpful, making it quirky that is. It kind of happens even when i"m introduced to someone. I wonder what to say, you know, something nice or polite and I end up not catching their names. Awkward..

[Cordellia Amethyste Rose]

OMG, I'm TERRIBLE at conversations.  I either have absolutely nothing to say, or I ramble on in a rapid monotone about my own personal thoughts and feelings and completely forget to even ask about the other person.  With new people, I usually do the former, but with people I know, I usually do the latter.  It's called "pressure speech."  Have you guys heard of that?  Even though I'm now aware of what it is and that I do it, I can't stop it at all.  Not only can I not stop it, but I find myself repeating the same things over and over.  The result is that people often tune me out and miss much of what I say.  It's horrible.  

I agree about laughing off daydreaming like it's nothing, though.  That usually works.  That's what I do if someone catches me drift off in the check-out line or in the elevator or something.  

[Asha]

I wouldn't exactly say same situation, but I seem to have gotten over a habit of jabbering around people I know. Tough to rein myself but it worked. It was minor but I could contain myself. If it helps, try being a little distant, not too much else people will ask you if something is wrong. Just enough to keep that mysterious aura around you. People tend to notice you then. Respect your opinion. Trust me it helped.

[H]

Sometimes those feelings are simply because the conversation is uninteresting. Other times it is because of some sort of mentalism, hangup. This happens to everyone all the time. If this happens during an important conversation which is interesting to you and often so, I'd advice you to talk to someone who can give you cognitive behavioral therapy.

[Alice in Wonderland]

I totally get that...it happens to me all the time. Sometimes I wish I had a note pad to write everything down that I want to say. In the middle of a conversation I lose focus, its almost like a short circuit, I'll be talking about one thing and its like a connection has been lost or broken.its quite frustrating at times.

[C. Foster]

It happens to me as well. I at times am in the middle of a sentence and my voice trails off or I walk out of the room to do something else or look down mid-sentence. 

[Asha]

How do you approach someone to ask for therapy, or even a talk when it is your parents who are going to pay them and parents themselves don't know? I sit in front of my books and move on to another world while people think i'm studying. If they know what happened, they'll know why i haven't cleared my exams. And i'll just get lectured, which actually doesn't help. I know this is a bit off key to the discussion but I really don't know who to approach or how.