Your brain could be working at limited power. To concentrate or watch TV, it has to step up the processing power. A common problem with PCS is the brain's ability to focus on one issue and ignore the others. A healthy brain can easily do this. An injured brain may not do it as well.

My brain doesn't. My neuro, after examining how my brain functions, said, "You hear everything. How do you handle that ?" This precisely my problem. If I want to watch TV, I need to wear headphones so my brain does not hear the faint ambient sounds in the room or the echos. Without the head phones, it is difficult to focus on the TV.

For many, this function will recover over time. For some of us, we just have to learn workarounds.

One of my work arounds is simple. If I need to concentrate and can close my eyes, I can concentrate much better. With my eyes closed, the brain does not have to put processing effort into the visual and can put that effort into other needed processes.

A saying to remember is simple. We often need to "Stop to think." That means we need to stop the other activities, turn off sounds, etc. so we can think.

The brain is not designed to multi-task. It is a stressful action. Learning to not multi-task can reap benefits.