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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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  • Honestly, you just described me. I take forever to respond to people, and people have been giving me grief over it since I was a small child. And ironically, when people are mean to me about it, I just become even slower at responding because my anxiety then becomes worse. Honestly, it has gotten to a point where sometimes I just tell people before I start a conversation with them, that I take a long time to respond and that if I'm taking a long time to respond, it's not because I'm not listening, I'm just thinking about what to say. Also, stimulants are not gonna help. I'm very sensitive to caffeine so even if I have a small amount it makes me very jittery. But it does not speed up my thought process at all.

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  • Honestly, you just described me. I take forever to respond to people, and people have been giving me grief over it since I was a small child. And ironically, when people are mean to me about it, I just become even slower at responding because my anxiety then becomes worse. Honestly, it has gotten to a point where sometimes I just tell people before I start a conversation with them, that I take a long time to respond and that if I'm taking a long time to respond, it's not because I'm not listening, I'm just thinking about what to say. Also, stimulants are not gonna help. I'm very sensitive to caffeine so even if I have a small amount it makes me very jittery. But it does not speed up my thought process at all.

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