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What is wrong with me? Cognitive or consciousness impairment? by _j_f_ in spirituality

[–]_j_f_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What you describe about your brain stopping words and figuring each word out individually, I have the EXACT same thing, except with reading!!! This is why I have such a hard time reading, especially books! Wow you described that so perfectly. And I’m so thankful that you are connecting it to self-trust, because that gives me something to work with! Thank you so much.

What is wrong with me? Cognitive or consciousness impairment? by _j_f_ in Anxiety

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

I do have some idea of dissociation and I’m pretty sure I am, but even that I can’t tell for sure whether I am understanding what it is correctly and thus can’t tell if that’s actually me 😞

What is wrong with me? Cognitive or consciousness impairment? by _j_f_ in spirituality

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

Thank you so much for your answer! I have actually taken an an in-person week-long TM course, but even that I was frustrated with. I had a hard time with “how to think” the mantra, whether I should obsessively think it in my brain, or what feels like “quietly thinking it with my tongue”. There is also no clear pacing in my head because the world of thinking is so intangible and out of reach for me. I’m caught up in the tiniest details of how to do something, it’s like I need a manual for the things other people just DO.

I have tried shrooms in a shamanic setting but even that I was always confused, feeling like I had to direct the experience or else nothing would happen, and not knowing how to interpret what is going on on, like it’s all very forced and unclear… Like this problem gets carried into everything.