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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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  • All the time. I even had an awkward moment at the end of my therapy session yesterday, it has left me constantly trying to process it since, it’s like a bad song that I can’t get out of my head. I didn’t have anything to say back and things probably came across completely different to what I intended. I would love to know of a way of managing this myself but know you’re not alone. 

  • in reply to Take5

    Ooh, I'd ask the therapist next week how they perceived the silence, clarify with them what came across from what you said  to the therapist? 'I'd like to know what you understood from what I said' type thing and then discuss management techniques.... also then consider 'am I making more of this than I need to, am I ruminating/over thinking this?' I say that because you said you' cant get it out of your head - like a bad song.... I definitely ruminate and my understanding of conversations can be eaons miles and lightyears away from how the other perceives it.... as well as those 'blank' moments where its like the entire thread is lost...

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  • in reply to Take5

    Ooh, I'd ask the therapist next week how they perceived the silence, clarify with them what came across from what you said  to the therapist? 'I'd like to know what you understood from what I said' type thing and then discuss management techniques.... also then consider 'am I making more of this than I need to, am I ruminating/over thinking this?' I say that because you said you' cant get it out of your head - like a bad song.... I definitely ruminate and my understanding of conversations can be eaons miles and lightyears away from how the other perceives it.... as well as those 'blank' moments where its like the entire thread is lost...

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