Phyxius,

With your new doctor, rather than shoot down the suggestions, ask for more information about them. Almost all doctors are going to respond negatively if you shoot down their comments.

I take the comments as an expression of the doctor's skills and knowledge. Some what to try the shotgun approach and just throw a bunch of therapies and/or drugs at you and see if they help. Others will be more prone to listen and let you think about what they have to offer.

I have come to the understanding that even Physical Medicine and Rehab doctors are weak on PCS skills. They spend the greatest amount of time getting much more severe patients to the level that we are complaining about. Plus, many PMR patients have coma inducing focal injuries that present symptoms that have a more focused treatment.

If you present yourself as anxious, expect the doctor to try to treat anxiety. Maybe you need a psych therapist or such to help you understand your symptoms and accept them better. Learning to work around your symptoms will likely reduce your anxiety. Trying to force your way through your symptoms as they rage on will be counter-productive.

Your instructor needs to understand your distractability. It should not be his place to throw distraction tests at you. He is not properly trained to understand your PCS distraction issues. Once you get your skill set up to the required level, then you can start working on the distraction issues.

Your disabilities office should be able to help you tone down this instructor's effort to distract you if you can not convince him.

Your goal should be first to learn the skill set. Once you have learned the skill set, then you will need to take it to a mastery level. This means it becomes effortless. Only then will you be able to add distractions, a little bit at a time. Currently, it sounds like distractions are getting in the way of learning.