Day 8 Are you having success at recognizing the emotions connected to your pain? If you have, how do these

I'm currently living a very busy life, under so much stress, and trying to get good grades in college, but I think brainfog is getting worse because it doesn't work out and I'm anxious. I try not to think about brainfog, but when I study, there are so many things that interfere with my studies because of brainfog
If you try not to think consciously, you have thoughts at some point.
"I learned it yesterday, why can't I remember it today, it wasn't like this before, when did this happen?" I think many times a day. After I was discharged from the military, I had a lot of good things, so if I had brainfog thoughts every other day or so, now I feel like I'm doing it more often than every day, many times a day. And I feel like brainfog-related emotions are anxiety, but I don't really trust it because it's kind of logical, it's just a feeling..

 

I agree. I recall that brainfog can be related to anxiety. My only point of personal reference is when I’ve been severely depressed or anxious, I have trouble focusing. My brain won’t properly function.

Were you happier immediately following your service? More hopeful and at ease? Did your brainfog develop after entering civilian life?

I think you wrote that you love computer games. That takes a lot of concentration and is a distraction from your life. Is your brainfog absent then?

Is it possible that there is something your brainfog is protecting you from remembering? Or completing?

As a young adult (presumably) returning to your parents’ home and abiding by their rules can be upsetting for all of you. I’m guessing there may be some unconscious resistance brewing underneath as well.

Did you not also write that your mother took you to the doctor when younger for being unable to remember? Has this been a lifelong issue? What assessment, if any, was found on routine exams by the military?

It may be time to seek professional psychological therapy to get to the bottom of what may be happening. Your regular doctors say you’re o.k. Talk therapy can be done in tandem with this work and can be doubly effective. I know you are busy with schoolwork and may even be afraid to tell your parents how you are feeling. I hope you will consider doing so. Your feelings count and your body is always listening. I want you to get better!

 

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Brain fog is a symptom of anxiety. Absolutely. Claire Weekes explains all about it in her book, Hope and Help for Your Nerves. This is a phenomenally helpful book! And it’s short. I think there are parts of it recorded on YouTube. This book is one of those life-changers.

 

There were a lot of things in common with Alan Gordon's program.
I actually thought I was supposed to avoid anxiety, and I tried to turn it around, avoid it, and try to avoid it somehow. I didn't know it would cause my protection mechanism. So I'm trying to feel anxiety properly somehow because it's exam period these days (I'm trying to feel it with anxiety about the exam) and I could see myself unconsciously turning it around with a different thought. Thank you. diana

 

I don't know how to get talk therapy. Do I just go to the psychotherapy center around me? Can I go there and take out the emotions that are latent in my unconscious mind?

 

I don’t know where you live, but in the USA there are individual therapists who help people work through their problems. This is done by talking about them. If where you are, they are called psychotherapy centers, then you can start there. For me and others here, the interaction and learning new skills to cope, are very helpful. It is common to use a variety of resources to heal, foremost among them is accepting a TMS diagnosis after being cleared by a medical doctor of anything else.