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Do you get stuck all day sometimes?

Iamnotarabot

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Another random question based on what i am experiencing right now...

Had enought sleep, no particular reason to be more sad or stressed or anything in particular...But i just cant get myself together today :

Feeling like my head is in a jar, you know with that constant pressure just upper the nose bridge/forehead...super heavy eyes...

And basically may day is just, eating, showering , and wandering in the appartement doing pointeless stuff that i cant do more than 20min then i phase/do something else pointless...and its already the end of the day yeah.

I cant even play a video game(I will try just now), i just dont know what do do even if i have a billion things to do...
 
Fuzzy head is what I call it. Yep, get it quite often. Don't know the cause either but I kinda think it's sleep inertia that gets stuck. When I get that it has the misfortune of clearing out around 10pm.
 
Brain fog. Coffee helps, exercise helps, eating sometimes helps, but often it's just a matter of riding it out and waiting for the next day.
 
WOW i got some quick answers thanks^^'
I didnt ask in the first post but I also wanted to know, do you think this is an ASD thing? Or is this related to other stuff like depression?
 
This sounds like something I experience as well. Things that can help sometimes:

~ Listening to certain music (usually low relaxing music like this video...
...I try to make sure it doesn't stimulate my brain too much with the fog there)
~ Sleeping
~ Crying
~ Doing a bit of exercise
~ Writing down my thoughts (often leads to crying as well if something is really bothering me that possibly lead to the fog happening)

There's probably other things but I cannot think of them right now. It's a frustrating way to be when it's happening. Hope you feel better soon, Iamnotarabot.
 
Foggy. I'm having one of those today. Can't get myself in action, no focus, a sense of real pressure that for me ends is a kind of headache I can't locate. There's anxiety too, as if I'm expecting something to go wrong. If I do get started on something, I forget where I'm up to or drop it after a while.

Foggy at home is OK, because I can just not bother with stuff, and there's no one else there to notice or nag at me, but right now I'm at work in a job where there isn't room for this, so I'm not doing well, and I'll end up with a lot more to do tomorrow because of what I haven't done today.
 
Yes, brain fog, my doctor (an autism specialist, for what that's worth) says it's because of certain things that cause an "opiate effect" on the autistic brain. Those certain things are gluten, dairy, and benzodiazapines. I agree with the latter two; when I cut dairy out of my breakfast, I stopped having these kinds of days, ditto with the benzos. Gluten, I have no idea, have not verified it personally, but she's right about the other two so I don't see why not gluten too.

If you're more into chemical solutions, try N-acetyl Cystine. Yes, the same doctor recommends that at a dose of 1200mg 2x daily to prevent autistic brain fog. Haven't had one of the days you describe ever since I started taking it, so I guess I can't say it doesn't work, though I tend to be skeptical of the promises made by dietary supplements/homeopathics/herbals.
 
Yeah, it happens to me. Trick is to do activities to keep your mind off things (Today I cleaned out our food cupboard and went for a walk).
 
I may have had that on Friday night... I was all excited about an event I wanted to go, hoped was going to happen (I'll just be generic here), I showed up and it didn't happen and it immediately put me into a funk for the night... There were places and events I could have gone to, just didn't feel like it... I went home and stayed there for the evening and did pretty much nothing, did text with a friend or two, listened to some music...

Saturday morning and afternoon went for a walk outside, took a "few" photos while wandering around, I was basically okay... I had told my friend in a text that maybe I just needed a night off anyway, I had a busy week going out three evenings to different things (plus my work shifts in the daytime)
 
Yes, brain fog, my doctor (an autism specialist, for what that's worth) says it's because of certain things that cause an "opiate effect" on the autistic brain. Those certain things are gluten, dairy, and benzodiazapines. I agree with the latter two; when I cut dairy out of my breakfast, I stopped having these kinds of days, ditto with the benzos. Gluten, I have no idea, have not verified it personally, but she's right about the other two so I don't see why not gluten too.

If you're more into chemical solutions, try N-acetyl Cystine. Yes, the same doctor recommends that at a dose of 1200mg 2x daily to prevent autistic brain fog. Haven't had one of the days you describe ever since I started taking it, so I guess I can't say it doesn't work, though I tend to be skeptical of the promises made by dietary supplements/homeopathics/herbals.
This is useful. I had wondered whether it had anything to do with diet. I might experiment on myself to see what works.
 
Yes, brain fog, my doctor (an autism specialist, for what that's worth) says it's because of certain things that cause an "opiate effect" on the autistic brain. Those certain things are gluten, dairy, and benzodiazapines. I agree with the latter two; when I cut dairy out of my breakfast, I stopped having these kinds of days, ditto with the benzos. Gluten, I have no idea, have not verified it personally, but she's right about the other two so I don't see why not gluten too.

If you're more into chemical solutions, try N-acetyl Cystine. Yes, the same doctor recommends that at a dose of 1200mg 2x daily to prevent autistic brain fog. Haven't had one of the days you describe ever since I started taking it, so I guess I can't say it doesn't work, though I tend to be skeptical of the promises made by dietary supplements/homeopathics/herbals.


Hum, thats interesting , because it has been like 3 days that I eat ice cream like crazy because the temperature rose recently, i should eat less then.
In general I always knew that a good diet was realy positive for me, but i didnt know it could be related to specific things like that!
I dont think it is the diet on its own but yeah it interracts with your body when you also have stress etc i guess..I said i wasnt stress but who am i kidding i am always stressed to some degree.

But i didnt understand, what is benzidiazapines? I mean, where do we find that? I used to smoke some joints and yes this is true that it took me days to get out of the stone state unlike other friends who recovered faster, but stopped that years ago now honestly and i dont plan on ever doing it again, especially now that i know i may be different.
 
Hum, thats interesting , because it has been like 3 days that I eat ice cream like crazy because the temperature rose recently, i should eat less then.
In general I always knew that a good diet was realy positive for me, but i didnt know it could be related to specific things like that!
I dont think it is the diet on its own but yeah it interracts with your body when you also have stress etc i guess..I said i wasnt stress but who am i kidding i am always stressed to some degree.

But i didnt understand, what is benzidiazapines? I mean, where do we find that? I used to smoke some joints and yes this is true that it took me days to get out of the stone state unlike other friends who recovered faster, but stopped that years ago now honestly and i dont plan on ever doing it again, especially now that i know i may be different.

Benzodiazapines: Xanax, Ativan, Klonopin, Valium, would be the common ones. Prescribed controlled substances, so you'd know if you were on them.

Other drugs, I have no idea, it's been a long time. Stopped with that around the time the topic of autism came up. The same doctor does tell me that all narcotic drugs affect us differently than NTs though, for what that's worth.
 
I experienced that a lot I my life. Especially in holidays or weekend. At these days I get spontaneous procrastination. Or perhaps it's no procrastination at all. I get some kind of bored at this days and I'm not motivated to do anything like drawing. Lack of ideas and energy.
Fortunately I found several solutions for these time periods.
I go for a walk through town I live. It really helps. Making photos is also fun for me.

However, I get these days rarely because I usually have a lot to do. :sweatsmile:
 
Hum, thats interesting , because it has been like 3 days that I eat ice cream like crazy because the temperature rose recently, i should eat less then.
In general I always knew that a good diet was realy positive for me, but i didnt know it could be related to specific things like that!
I dont think it is the diet on its own but yeah it interracts with your body when you also have stress etc i guess..I said i wasnt stress but who am i kidding i am always stressed to some degree.

But i didnt understand, what is benzidiazapines? I mean, where do we find that? I used to smoke some joints and yes this is true that it took me days to get out of the stone state unlike other friends who recovered faster, but stopped that years ago now honestly and i dont plan on ever doing it again, especially now that i know i may be different.


Stone state? Could you elaborate on that please.
 
Well I said that because we can say it in French but yeah this isnt very clear in english..

Well I felt weird to 2 or 3 days after smoking , like, when i smoke I had a good night in general, had more fun,could laught at anything and phase often etc, i wont elaborate on that much.

But the day after and sometimes longer like 2 to 3 days I was realy tired , with a heavy brain fog but no headhache , and overall no motivation to do anything else.But this may not be only related to that but also others things like not sleeping etc...

I have quit because basically after 2 years I only had those moment of fatigue and no motivation and i wanst feeling good (nor bad) , just the heaby brainfog and the lack of motivation remained so i stopped it was not worth anymore.




But it felt different than what i am experiencing now ( well I had another day like that yesterday) because i have also headhache and while its hard to explain it feels different.
 

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