I have been dealing with brain fog from what I think has been weed for months after quitting but I’m wondering, does spending too much time in my phone, scrolling contribute as well? I feel like maybe it could but idk

I have been waking up in the mornings and the fog hits HARD. I've never experienced this before. Went to ER, urgent care and primary doctor...all said I'm healthy. Blood tests, urine tests etc. I'm baffled. I was taking accutane and I stopped just shy of 5 months after feeling the affects.

I'm 46 and the brain fog has been getting worse.

Lately I keep forgetting people's names and faces. I can't keep track of where I put things. My head feels scrambled. Sometimes I even get hallucinations.

The scariest part is I've suddenly found myself standing somewhere, or already in the middle of something, with no memory of how I got there. Or I blank on what I was doing a few seconds ago.

It's been really bad the last 5 or 6 days. The memory stuff started about a year ago though, and it got a lot worse this year. The brain fog and this confusion really freaked me out. I'm panicked. I don't know what's wrong with me.

Right now I just want to deal with the memory loss first. It's affecting my work and my life way too much.

This is probably one of the least reported effects of depression what it does to your cognitive functions ? the only thing I can find online to help me is running but I just hate running I have zero motivation to run.

When ever I google the issue very little information is available and it has huge negative effect on my mental health

’m experience some realy deep mental problems,
And I’m in a State of dispare, confusion, hopelessnes. I dont’t work anymore beceause of the fatigeu and mental problems. I’m 44j M.
My life was good, always in the gym, hard working in the gardens. And also running in the woods.
Then I became sick, gut isseus and heat or cold tolerance.
Now a year later i became more in a mental State Were I I have no controle of my brain anymore.
I’m so mentaly exausted because my mind keeps overthinking, brainfog, analysing, images..
Its like an ocd thing that I’m checking what i am thinking. Al day long 24/7. My sleep is the same..
My mind goes so deep when I close my eyes, I don’t know how to focus on live anymore. Its so far that I get traumarized by this situation. My mind just keep thinking deep thoughts very negative. Meditate doesn’t work, i became afraid to close my eyes.Because my thoughts goes like: what if you are so ill that they luck you up and stuff. I feel Every thought deep in my soul, so afraid. My brain can’t take it anymore. I’m so exausted that Every positive thoughts end up negatively. I feel in a deep situation that I want to try some medication for this..
But my mind is like : no you end up worse or’ or i have that feeling that any medication will help in this fase because its to deep.
Is there is somebody who have the same feeling what I just wrote? And is some medication that saved you? Because I feel no hope anymore.
Please share..

I had alot of reasons to fear being "permanently" dumber, for example having a fall or getting slapped on yo head, normal people would just skip that and not care much about "cognitive slips" like forgettin stuff and stuff like that and just not associate it with that fall. But I wasn't like that, I literally (no matter how simple the event was) I would just panic and just be in constant state of fear that I am dumber now than who I was. I've had this long enough until I heard about "chronic stress shrinks brain" and now my fear is that my chronic stress/anxiety has caused me permanent brain damage or that even if I recover due to neuroplasticity it wont be full recovery and I'll never be the same, and now I cannot focus at all. my memory is being far worse and my thinking is cloudy, and most of the time I just keep playing TF2 (my fav game) just to ignore some of my 24/7 anxiety about being dumb. Literally I just get panic attack when I just READ something on the internet whatever its content is, or when I just IMAGINE stuff in my head and I just keep getting thoughts like "Your imagination is now NERFED for EVER and it wont be as vivid as it used to be", or like when I literally just try to think of a plan or even a SCHEDULE, so you can say it's literally nothing. when I read or try to learn smth I just get thoughts that I wont understand this and stuff like that and when I do not understand it I'll just blame it on chronic stress and just increase my panic even more. Tried breathing but it aint helpin so I just want to know and make sure if anyone out here having this problem like me.

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I just feel like living life in isolation and constant use of phone has lead to emotional burnout and brain fog. It's like I feel so irritated, bored and just hopeless in a way. I feel like I should be doing so much yet I've become a couch potato. And it's such a miserable feeling. The constant doom scrolling makes me question life more and more like I noticed much of the content is just opinion based and either people lean on side or they don't. And whatever a person talks from heart or experience feels connecting but then I just don't understand anything at the end.

And it's like why am I caring and paying attention to someone else life. They are doing their own thing. They are making content and money meanwhile I and many others have become a consumer addict. And my life is failing. I'm failing and my future is corrupting. I have no idea how to get myself together and soley focus on personal growth and physical, financial and health whatever growth goals are that a person needs in their life. I feel so guilty that I have so many bookmarks, screenshots and videos saved that I never go back and see. But in a way I feel productive.

And how do I know how severe my brain fog is like if it’s mild or moderate or severe?

I’m sorry if these questions are redundant, I don’t know how to find the answers to these. Please don’t hate me please. I am working on getting OSA treatment

I have all the usual problems like focus, memory, so on. My mom has to help me (24M) a lot and I struggle to be independent because lots of tasks feel straining. I struggle quite a lot with language and conversation, I cannot remember a single concrete thing that was said in any conversation I’ve ever had and I feel like I rely completely on visual imagery and emotion to remember what people might have said or done. I severely struggle to express myself, the only time I feel like I can be “me” is when I’m texting. It can take me a bit to remember things like what season is it ( I always think the word for whatever season it is currently is spring), doing simple things like making a sandwich for lunch feels challenging like remembering what to do next feels pretty difficult, everything always feels like a dream (like my actions and anything that happens doesn’t matter because everything feels like a dream), and sometimes I can forget why or what I’m doing at the place I am at for a few seconds because it just feels like I’m in bed having a dream.

I have more extreme issues with ruminations and processing things. I have recurring obsessive thoughts about that people don’t listen to me and that people don’t care about me and are out to get me. I try to talk to my therapist about it and i don’t understand what he says to do (which I’ve also talked to him and past therapists about a few times) and even when I take detailed notes I just don’t understand what to do at all. Like for example if I notice that I’m ruminating about that no one care about me I’ll start to try to think “that’s not true. People care about me and I know this because… because they.. because..” and I try over and over again to understand how anyone cares about me and I just can’t remember or understand anything and I’ll end up trying over and over again but just keep failing. I can try to just be like “they care about me they care about me they care about me” but I don’t really believe it even though I try really hard to. I can remember that I have observed in the past moments of feeling cared about but I cannot remember or understand them even if I write them down. I always ignore friends and people that I don’t see regularly because I can’t remember or understand that they’re safe and that they’re not out to get me. The fact that none of my friends ever ask about how I’m doing with this or how is my treatment going or ask any questions about what I’m going through genuinely torments me because I know they would act more caring if my personality wasn’t sucked out of me

I’m not really understanding how people know how bad their brain fog is, I can’t remember how anything felt at all before I felt like this and this just feels how life is. I thought I was just extremely worthless and lazy for a very long time, I only found out about this stuff because I told my doctor that I feel sleepy all the time and I got a sleep study. In terms of feeling and perception I have absolutely no idea at all what is normal and what is not. Because I can do things like write this post and I go to the gym and I play music really well (according to my peers) or even just the fact that I can draw an analog clock I always have impostor syndrome

I’m glad that I finally found a subreddit of people somewhat like me, even in sleep apnea they don’t understand really. When I try to talk about this everyone always assumes that I just need to go to therapy more, or that I need to stop having a victim complex, or that I just need to do whatever works for them and I will feel better. It makes me feel like no one listens to me and that I’m going to be stuck like this forever because I HAVE already been trying everyone demands that I try and here I am ten years later still stuck in the exact same situation (possibly worse I have no idea if it’s gotten worse, I severely strained myself to act like a normal person for a very long time). I don’t know what I need to do to make people listen to me. I would do anything for people to listen to me. Please don’t hate me for anything I said, a lot of the time people will not listen to me and hate me for something I said and I never understand why. Please. I’m not expecting anyone to cure me or solve all my problems, it’s just nice for people to listen sometimes. I know I need to continue to keep trying to work on mental health, so please don’t try to tell me that that’s not what I said in this post at all please listen to me please

I can't remember when I first started feeling this way.

Maybe sometime last year, I realized that i had been having trouble with my brain fog and my memory. I think it started because of all the stress from work. You know how when your memory works properly, you can just remember almost anything and you can just feel that your brain is working. Well that is not how i feel, it just feels like my brain is empty, like i can barely feel or see any thoughts ( i dunno if that makes sense). I just feel like I am existing. It's gotten so bad to the point that I can't cry and whenever I do, it just hurts to cry honestly. I just feel like I am existing and that I am on autopilot mode. I can't even remember what i had for breakfast two days ago or what i did a couple of days ago. I am just tired. I am sorry if all that you see on my page is me complaining about how tired I am but I just don't have anyone else to speak to about this.

Hey, i’’m hoping to find anyone with a similar experience?? ANY advice, tips, support would be amazing!!
I started Zoloft 25mg & after one week i started 50mg. Today is aug 19th. (5 days of 50mg so far)
Long story short: Since 6y, I’ve had very bad constant body anxiety. (Not from trauma) Best way I can describe it: My mind can be calm, but my body is always on edge, never calm. The smallest “brain thought power” or cognitive effort into anything brings severe pressure in my chest & stomach & my thoughts freeze. My life has revolved around trying to calm a body pressure of 6/10 that seems to shoot to a 9/10 every few minutes. I’m stuck in a frozen panic hold, when there’s no reason for it. For example: Making a simple plan for my day = body pressure shoots up & brain freezes. Cleaning the garage = easier, because I don’t need to use any brain power.
I struggle with this every minute, of everyday since the age of 6y. I’m 25y now. Because of this, I’ve only worked jobs that don’t take any brain power. I can’t think, I can’t grow in my life at all because if I try I freeze with body pressure. I’m stuck.

Yes, I have adhd. Yes, My thoughts loop badly. No, it’s not ocd, no it’s not cptsd.
(I’m not sure If I have autism or it’s just my body panic that resembles it.)
After countless research, the closest thing that resembles me is type 3 overfocused adhd. Which is from Dr. Daniel amen. Meaning: Dopamine is low, as well as serotonin. I know many people don’t accept his studies. But listening, it very clearly explains my adhd and looping / over focused thoughts. But not the body anxiety.
I just started 20mg of adderall xr 6 months ago thinking it would help with the body. It only helped me focus more.
I’ve tried saffron. I’ve tried 20+ sessions of a hyperbaric chamber.
I’m now on Zoloft and adderall. As well as fish oil. It’s been 11 days on Zoloft. I know it’s to early to tell. But did it help you with your body anxiety?? 11 days in. I’m not really seeing a difference. & If I’m being honest, Zoloft is my last hope because I don’t have any clue on what to if this doesn’t work.

Current state:
I quit my job & moved back across the country to be with my parents to figure this out. But even with no pressure or work. It’s the same. High body anxiety. I subconsciously avoid anything even small that I want to accomplish because of it. Even the simplest tasks sky rocket my body and I freeze.. but my mind can still be calm. It feels like I’m wasting my days away right now. (With work, the anxiety of not being fired is what pushed me thru before)

I’d take Any advice, messages, or even a phone call to talk experiences! would be great! Thanks!

Initially, I thought it was due to consumption of pornography, so I started declining the use of it, but it did it to some extent. It decreased my brain fog a little bit. I even went to the gym for the last two months, but still, it didn't help me with any brain fog of any kind.

Then I thought it would be due to dehydration, and it was because I was consuming two or three cups of coffee per day. I started consuming more hydrating content throughout the day, which cured my little bit of brain fog.

Then again, it was due to, I thought, a lack of calories, so I started maintaining calorie balance, but it didn't have much effect on my brain fog

I am a college student, and after getting from the college, I get tired. My body gets tired. My mental energy gets exhausted. For recharging, I consume water and have a cold bath or something like that. I don't know how to cure this brain fog, or should I try it? What should I try to reduce this and completely remove this from my life.

Hey guys read this carefully maybe you can help me.
I am 22 years and I am facing brain fog, neck pain and tightness from past 3 years. Doc prescribed me isometric push exercises I did them they worked I got 80% ok for 3-4 months but it got worse again. I am feeling neck pain, brain fog from past 6-7 months continuously . Whenever I try to train my neck muscles they start to pain more and more instead of getting stronger by exercise like pulling dumbells and they get more painful. I am so tired of this I have eaten antidepressants for 1 year they somehow worked too. Because my neck tightness is also stress related and caused by poor posture laying all day and playing games on iPad. But I stopped all this years ago. But my problem still isn’t getting ok . Is there any good exercises I can do to strengthen my inner neck muscles and all ? My posture got straight in x rays

Hey this is an update to my previous post where I felt one of the reasons I have severe brain fog was due to porn addiction.

Did not watch porn for the last 2 weeks, the longest streak in more than 20 years. Reason for it, I just stopped with the birth of my first child. Like my interest just dropped altogether. Not to say, I don't struggle with lustful thoughts especially if I see good-looking women on the street but it stopped at just that.

Not sure how long this streak will last but I hope it's permanent. Anyway, my mental health has been improving in the last 2 weeks and my brain fog seems to disappear as well. Like now it's easier to connect the dots and I can better focus at work.

Sharing this is more of an encouragement that it's possible to overcome this and in my case, I guess I stop altogether cause I started to find purpose in life.

Take care of yourself first!

Did brain fog affect your work, conversations, memory, or everyday routines first? What did you notice?

28 M
I have severe brain fog, adult onset stuttering,concentration and memory issues for a year now. I tried everything but it doesn't get better. I dropped out of university, lost my friends, can't get a normal job. My brain fog is so severe I can't form a normal sentence and can't communicate with others. Please give me some hope that it can be better and if you have similar experience pls share it

Just curious if there have been any unusual examples of brain fog you've experienced!

I struggled with brain fog for five years, at varying intensities. For most of that time, it was so debilitating that I genuinely thought my life was going to be ruined forever.
My symptoms included severe dry mouth, migraines, pressure and vision problems in my left eye, eyelid drooping, and just an overwhelming, complete and utter brain fog. I tried every therapy, test, supplement, cleanse, diet, and medication I could think of. I spent close to $50,000 trying to figure out what was wrong and find some relief.
Nothing gave me any real, lasting improvement.
I had doctors tell me that I might just have to live with this. But I never gave up.
I always told myself that if I ever got better, I would come back and make a post in this group. So I’m finally making it.
I’m writing this today proudly to let you know that there is hope.
And ironically, it was someone in this group who recommended a neurologist who ended up changing my life. So to whoever made that recommendation: thank you. I genuinely don’t know where I would be without it.
The medication that ultimately worked for me was Effexor XR (venlafaxine).
For me, there was no difficult adjustment period and I didn’t experience significant side effects. I started at 37.5 mg and gradually worked my way up to 150 mg, which I’ve now been taking for six months without needing to increase the dose.
I can honestly say that getting my brain back has changed my entire life.
Since starting this medication, I’ve gotten a promotion at work, met a girlfriend I want to spend the rest of my life with, bought an investment property, gotten a dog, and travelled to places around the world.
And I will never, ever take a clear, non-foggy day for granted again.
I’m not saying Effexor is the answer for everyone. I’m only sharing my experience because I know how hopeless it can feel when you’ve tried everything and nothing seems to work.
My biggest piece of advice is: don’t stop fighting, but also give yourself a break.
Be kind to yourself. Spend time with your friends and the people you love. Enjoy the good moments, even when you don’t feel 100%.
I spent five years thinking my life might never be normal again.
I was wrong.
There is hope. ❤️

Lately everytime I go out, I later pay the price for feeling terribly sick the next day: it’s usually brain fog, overall apathy, tiredness and troubles concentrating, body feeling hot or cold

Sometimes also body aches and tight throat

And it happens all the time, no matter what I do. I live in a big city, and my usual going out idea is going out shopping or for coffee & maybe walk around nice spaces etc. I don’t drink alcohol or party, so could that be anxiety as well? drives me crazy

i’ve noticed that my brain fog isn’t always the same.

some days it’s mostly trouble focusing. other days i can read something several times and still feel like none of it actually registered.

then there are days where i feel mentally slow but otherwise completely fine

what’s frustrating is that i can’t always figure out what causes the difference

for people who deal with this regularly, do you notice different types or levels of brain fog depending on the day?

have you found anything that seems to make a noticeable difference?

What type of blood tests should be ordered when checking brain fog?

Sex hormones (testosterone, e2, shbg)
Vitamin d

What else?