What kinds of learning dissabilitys are there? I seem to not understand some simple things and need one to one?

Why do I have difficulty understanding the things I read?

• I'm in my second year of university studying economics and when reading a lot of the textbooks, or even reading any books for that matter (i.e. for personal pleasure), I sometimes just don't understand the things I am reading, I just don't take it in, even when I understand what all the words mean (I do have a decent sized vocabulary). It just doesn’t seem to make any sense to me at all. This problem seems to be getting worse lately. I will read the book but I just can't seem to make any sense of it. When reading I have to do so really slow, taking in one word at a time and sometimes have to read over and over it again just to understand it. The worse is when I try and read about a subject on my computer (i.e. Wikipedia). I find it almost impossible to make any sense of what it means. I don’t think I have a major problem when reading newspapers or magazines, possibly because it’s only the news I’m reading about and not actually trying to learn anything. Sometimes I do though. I think I have some sort of learning difficulty as another problem I have is not being able to learn anything in lectures. I just can't understand anything and that's why I have to rely on reading the textbooks so much. Sometimes when reading though, I think the reason I don't understand it is because I have convinced myself that I cannot understand it - particularly in difficult subjects. It's like I'm reading this book and at the same time I'm thinking 'I just can't understand this and I'm not going to'. This is something I do a lot with maths problems. Over the last year or so I seem to be concentrating a lot on words and in particular how they go together and I'm always on the dictionary website looking up a word I do not know. I think I may actually be concentrating on the words too much and not actually what those words are saying (if that makes any sense?). Lately, a question seems to be popping up in my mind: how does by reading words my brain understand what something means. How by reading words do we make sense of these words? All sorts of crazy stuff like this pop in to my head and it seems to give me less belief when reading. How much of a problem could this be? I also spend a lot of time on computers (at least 6 hours a day) and tend to feel tired a lot. Could this be a major reason? Though this may seem an obvious culprit I don't believe it is the main reason. I think it is more than likely to do with my brain being ****** up in some way. Because i do sleep for about 8 hours When I do read something and think I have understood it I always have doubts on whether I have understood it properly, understood all of it, and if I'll even remember what I've just learnt. I'm always thinking 'there must be more to it than this' and I'm always thinking - and tend to say out loud - how do I know that I am actually understanding this. It's like there's no signal telling me that I have just understood what I have read. With easy things it's quite obvious and it's only with difficult things I seem to have that problem. One of the things I tend to do often is go back to earlier chapters of a book and read parts of this chapter, only to learn something I did not pick up when I originally read it. I tend to understand earlier chapters only after reading later chapters quite often, yet it should be the other way around. Do you think I have some kind of learning difficulty? Dyslexia? Am I crazy? How do you find it best to read? How do you concentrate on what the words are saying instead of the actual words? Any tips for me? Is there a cure for me or am I just ****** up in the head? Please answer some of these questions.

• Answer:

  I think it's a simple case of brain overload. It happens to a lot of people, especially when they are in college. My Suggestion: Take about a week off from school to just clear your mind and relax. Copy notes from classes off of a friend and get the assignments from them as well.