Reply To: Debilitating "Brain Fog"

[blackdog]

@drooney, Welcome, glad to have a new voice. 🙂

As kc said, please continue to post and share your thoughts. It’s always nice to have more people interacting and sharing.

There are lots of links in various threads around here to Dr. Barkley’s videos. But it wouldn’t hurt to post them again here if you want to. It will be easier for everyone to find that way.

I think I watched half of one once. I don’t sit through informational videos very well. Takes too long to get the info.  I’d rather skim over an article to find what I need, then go back and read more if necessary.

And I did skim an article on SCT awhile back. In fact, if I remember correctly, I found it through a link someone posted here. And it fits me like a glove. It explains why I don’t seem to be like a lot of other people with ADHD, the ones who think about 500,000 things before breakfast and are always on the go. I spend a good portion of most days sitting and staring out the window, not really thinking about much of anything. Or at least, not consciously. Sometimes there is more going on in my brain than I am aware of.

Which brings us back to mental fog, which is in fact one symptom of SCT. Sometimes it feels like everything is sort of muffled, like my head is stuffed with cotton. And sometimes I’m trying to work something out and it’s like I just can’t quite get there. The gears are turning, but very, very slowly. It can actually take me up to an hour just to type a comment to post here. And I usually start to get very fidgety in the process, often rocking back and forth, wiggling toes, bouncing up and down etc. And sometimes I just stop and stare out the window for a bit. Or come across a white rabbit and follow it down the hole and go off on a little mental adventure in wonderland before finally wandering back to where I was.

And speaking of fidgeting and bouncing, at one time, when ADHD was known simply as “hyperactivity”, it was thought that it was caused by the brain functioning too slowly. Which was why stimulants were prescribed even though it didn’t make sense to give stimulants to a kid who was already bouncing off the walls.  At least, that was how it was explained to me when I was working with kids with special needs, long before I realized that I had special needs of my own. Or rather, before I knew that there was a name for the special needs that I had, other than the ones that people had always called me.

Anyway, i think my original point got lost in the fog quite some time ago. So I will leave it there. 🙂

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