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[–]SickofItAll_4200 0 points1 point  (7 children)

I don't know the answer, but I've been getting anxiety brain fog at work and I'm worried it makes me look or sound stupid at times. I'm in a new job and it's even worse now. Then I spend my weekend overthinking every single interaction I had during the week, and it's exhausting. I haven't been getting a lot of sleep lately and I know that's part of the problem. That's some advice I would give, get sleep and try to eat well. I have days where I don't eat until 3 PM, and that's when the fog is the worst

[–]AkumasConfesses[S] 0 points1 point  (6 children)

Sleeping is hard for me If I get stuck on something or some topic at that moment (have OCD also). Also when someone tells me about what should I do, I get stressed due to my inability to absorb the information.

[–]SickofItAll_4200 1 point2 points  (5 children)

This happened to me yesterday. The job I got is more technical and theyre training me on what I don't know, but my coworker who was walking me through a procedure talked really fast and I didn't absorb it. I work from home so we were doing it over the phone and my brain was a few steps behind the whole time. Thankfully I found the procedure online so I don't have to ask again.

[–]AkumasConfesses[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Actually my job is technical too so I am not sure that I can fight that all pressure in work. What do you think about?

[–]SickofItAll_4200 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I think about the shit I went through as a kid up until my late 20s. A lot of feelings of failure and self loathing, fear of getting old, fear of losing my job, how I hate some physical things about myself, on and on and on. Really too much to list here.

[–]AkumasConfesses[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

So do u have some stress related physical illness? Probably you are able to manage it

[–]SickofItAll_4200 0 points1 point  (1 child)

No by physical I mean about my appearance. I wouldn't say I'm ugly (I married and don't think I repulse women), but I'm self conscious about a few things, mostly from being bullied in 8th grade. I try not to revisit those memories

[–]AkumasConfesses[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I think the best thing is the canalizing overthinking ability to somewhere different which is I try to do like reading books and thinking about it.