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Anyone else feel like it takes too long to think?

Oran G. Utan

I always feel like my head is in murky waters. I'll be having a conversation with someone and trying to think about what they say, only to make them impatient because it can frankly take me hours, weeks or years to process my thoughts fully. Especially if I feel stressed, it's like the pathways in my brain become glacial as information takes forever to get where I need it to go. It makes me feel like I need stimulants or something to speed my brain up just so I can function and deal with problems at a reasonable speed. Or maybe it's the opposite problem and there's so much excessive activity happening in my brain, that the things I need it to do have to dodge gunfire to get where they're going.

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  • I can't say its a problem I have, does it happen when you're writing too, or only when speaking and listening?

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    It's basically all the time. Even when I'm sitting by myself just having my own thoughts. I'll try to make a decision on what I want to do today and stare into space for ages just trying to have that thought. I'm 32 and this is how life has always been, so I don't think it's a phase or depression or anything like that. I basically only make decisions on immediate needs, because everything else feels too complicated.

  • in reply to Oran G. Utan

    Interesting, so in a sense you live totally in  the moment? Do you feel hungry and know what you want to eat, or do you have to think about that to much too?

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    I guess that's accurate to say. I struggle to remember the past with any kind of real clarity, and the future always feels unpredictable, so the here and now is the only time that feels meaningful. I can't really talk on hunger right now because I'm on a mounjaro assisted keto diet. Most of my diet is adding butter and cream to coffee to keep my metabolism kicking while maintaining the highest calorie deficit I can. Before the diet though, decision paralysis would often make me default to ordering the same meals over JustEat for from Dominos... hence the need for a diet.

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  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    I guess that's accurate to say. I struggle to remember the past with any kind of real clarity, and the future always feels unpredictable, so the here and now is the only time that feels meaningful. I can't really talk on hunger right now because I'm on a mounjaro assisted keto diet. Most of my diet is adding butter and cream to coffee to keep my metabolism kicking while maintaining the highest calorie deficit I can. Before the diet though, decision paralysis would often make me default to ordering the same meals over JustEat for from Dominos... hence the need for a diet.

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