Brain fog

Hey Veeky Forums, mega-DYEL here.
I've had virtually no noticable health problems to speak of for as long as I can remember despite having had poor sleep habits, eaten (and drunk) trash at least once a week and done minimum exercise for most of my life, but over the last three years I've noticed mental fog:
>concentration problems
>difficulty finding the words I'm trying to use in conversation; thinking of one word but randomly saying another
>when reading, constantly re-reading a line with a feeling of not getting what is written

I'm 18 years old, 56kg/178cm. No one in my family or of my relatives has any serious health problems or long-running conditions to speak of. This fogginess is the only noticable symptom I have. The fog doesn't come and go, but it's constant.

Any nigs familiar with this?

Start lifting/getting fit. Your mind and body are the same thing, fit body fit mind.

hypothyroidism

I've had this on my mind. I know getting healthy and fit is generally a long-term investment.
I feel what I have to get over is the feeling that I could easily patch this brain fog if I knew exactly what was causing it. There's little point in NOT getting fit.

I had my blood tested some months ago and my values were apparently normal. I don't feel much different now than I did then.
I'm not sure if my doctor was serious about it but I should get my blood tested again. Don't have any other symptoms though, only fog.

Yep, it's over for you.

aw heck

I started getting symptoms like these at 19 but it progressed into schizophrenia

Go exercise more

it's called being depressed. i'm in a very similar situation to yours

What were your symptoms like? Sometimes I get an odd sensation like I'm floating around/not connected to my body. As far as I know, no one in my family tree has ever been diagnosed with schizophrenia. I'd be surprised.
Gonna start slowly working on my health as soon as I can regardless.

The fog has gradually worsened over the course of (at least) three years. I'll look more extensively into depression but given what I've heard of it, I doubt I'd have it. What's your situation like? Do you just suffer from depression or more symptoms?

i failed highschool despite being naturally very smart and ambitious to learn, you feel as if your head has a cloud in it and then only thing you think about is how upset you are/how much of a failure you are/how much you hate life and everyone. you daydream all the time imagining alternative realities and scenarios where things are going the way you'd wish they'd have and the only thing you can focus your attention to are escapist hobbies like vidya,reading and television where you can pour your imagination to, this situation will escalate more and more as you gradually lose touch with reality and everyone around you which will become a vicious loop you will find almost impossible to escape since depression kills willpower and motivation

the only difference between you and me is that i'm 173cm 55kg JDIMSA

brain fog is a meme
you are just a lazy tiny kid
lift, eat like a man and stop being a generic cuckboi

i get brain fog sometimes but i also smoke a fuckton of weed

I had the same problem. What I changed:

>lifting (3 times per week)
>Vitamin D supplements
>reduced food portions
>Beta Carotene supplements
>reduced bread consumption to a minimum
>reduced crystal sugar consumption to a minimum

I don't know which one of these worked, or if it are all of them, but I am sharp in the head most of the time now. I still get it if I eat too much in one meal though or if I sit on a desk all day long.

You are underweight and malnourished.
Eat more (not garbage) and gain weight, sleep more and start supplementing Vitamin D to be safe.

sleep more OP, just do it.

try sleeping 8-9h a day for a week

i recently started getting only about 6h of sleep a day and it does cause concentration problems and brain fog

hello me. I have the exact same problem

I'm currently in my last year of high school and I'd describe myself as having the same qualities you do.

Luckily, I don't feel horrible about it, or like I am a failure (not yet, at least) but I find myself escaping into videogames and music a lot to compensate for not being able to hold a conversation, write to my fullest extent etc. I think a whole lot about how I would be performing, and feeling, if I wasn't handicapped by the brain fog, as if it's the only obstacle between me and a substantially better life. Maybe depression, if I do have a case of it, is a symptom of feeling inadequate rather than being the culprit. Like I said I haven't lived very healthy until now.

Did you get prescribed any medication for depression? I've heard bad things about SSRIs and other anti-depressants.

The sun is shining right now and I try to get good amounts of it, but I might look into supplementing. I haven't eaten junk food in two weeks but don't feel too much better, although I notice I fall asleep much faster at night. I eat minimal amounts of sugar now, if any at all, but I have not reduced my bread intake. I'll give it a go and see how it goes.
How long did it take until your fog went away after starting all of that? I reckon it'll take more than just a few weeks to see lasting results.

I've done my best to repair my sleep schedule, 22PM to 7AM now every night, though I fucked up on the weekend. I still feel tired/unrefreshed when I wake up though; not sure why. I always wake up blurry and never have the discipline to get out of bed. Thinking of experimenting with the sleep time to see if I'll get less tired if I sleep earlier (8PM-ish).

>How long did it take until your fog went away after starting all of that?
Got better after 2-3 weeks. Doesn't happen instantly.

take a tip from an expert on this shit. get help right fucking now. at age 22 after failing highschool and having 3 years of cuckscription under my belt picking the shards of your life latter on trying to get your HS diploma when you have no skills hobbies or friends is a living hell. every bad condition you have right now will feel much much worse after age 21 and even worse when you will be older (this part is from my gathered knowledge not my personal experience)

you have no idea how much worse it's going to get. you are much closer to the mental health wall than you think. every day i feel like i hate myself for being depressed faggot during my puberty years and that i've probably fucked up my growth potential with my shit sleep cycles and diet

i was offered medication in the past and i refused to go this far

i've heard CBT is a good therapy. i want to try it but can't afford to spend too much money around

I'm also in the exact same position as you. Always tired/foggy. I constantly have fkn songs stuck in my head or just like some kind of white noise/fog constantly. I also experimented sleeping more but also messed up on the weekends so it might be that. I started getting Veeky Forums in an effort to try and make this better but now after a workout I'm completely destroyed, as I am the next day as well. I lack the motivation to get out of bed and do things. Feels like my brain is sloshing around in my head.

oh god you sound exactly like me. Plz help

i can tell you what will help you but i can't give you an example as i failed every single one of these requirements. still interested?

you described me except for the part of failed highschool (failed uni instead)

absolutely. If I know what to do I'll probably do it

maybe youre an idiot

1. work out. but not alone since you will most likely not find the willpower to go at it alone, find a group and then you'll have pressure put on you not to miss out and it will provide a place for you to socialize with people

2. in relation to what was said before you need to embrace the fact that even having shit friends is better than not having friends at all and being stuck in some depression hibernation at home, drop your harsh standards to the ground, this will almost certainly be the hardest part because i assume you are probably an introvert. you need to understand that socialization is a primal need almost as much as food and that you absolutely will lose your sanity if you don't socialize consistently no matter how disappointing that may prove to be

3. absolutely DROP social media.Veeky Forums,video games and porn out of your life. this is the most dangerous thing to you, you really shouldn't see other people's perfect life or at least their show of a perfect life on the internet, you REALLY don't need mind breaking female hypergamy/manletism/chads/redpills etc to pollute your mind. at will have devstating effect on you. specifically vidya and porn is the worst thing though. it will raise your satisfaction bar too high and break your mind to achieve instant satisfaction that real life can't compete with. you really don't want to suffer from porn induced erectile dysfunction or to get off only to sick shit because real women don't do it for you anymore. also porn destroys your body image which i imagine is already terrible anyway

4. really want to try this but haven't. stop holding to your virginity and don't feel bad throwing it on a hooker just get some sex experience already even if it's bad or embarrassing

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5. eliminate free time from your schedule. if are an introvert you probably get easily overwhelmed being outside but because you have depression you will end up making things worse for yourself when you withdraw from the outside world. you become a pressure cooker of terrible feels and you will because extremely sad, anxious and overly self conscious

6. once you start doing things you will get energy to do more things, this is where you improve your study and start feeling better about yourself

7. don't put other people on pedestal, especially not women. try to kill your inferiority complex and realize everyone has some spooky shit in their lives

8. your sleep schedule should also recover by this point, fucking maintain it. and try to eat well

9. therapy and meditation

i will say again i failed all of this

Thank you, user. I've read what you said carefully. and I'll read it again. I think I'll try everything you suggested. Honestly, the hardest thing for me to do will be to get off Veeky Forums. You people are my only friends and the only people I can speak to and relate with. Not coming back here will be really tough. Still, I've set myself some lofty goals that I need to achieve for my sake and for the sake of a few others. Too many people will be disappointed if I fail, including me. Thank you again, I'll try my hardest. After I post this I'm deleting all of my Veeky Forums bookmarks. Maybe I'll check in after a while but for now, I'm done.

I wish the best for you as well user. With your lifts and with your life. It's not too late and maybe one day I'll be able to return this favor. Hang in there, we're all going to make it.

>Honestly, the hardest thing for me to do will be to get off Veeky Forums. You people are my only friends and the only people I can speak to and relate with

You're not alone on that one, user.

4 chan also gives you the feelings you don't have an actual problem in your life because everyone here shares these problems, when you go out you realize this is a place for special snowflakes and the real world isn't so understanding to people like us

it's not easy user but i wish you the best

Thanks guys. I guess a part of my complacency is because I have no one to speak to and get support and encouragement from. Funny how Veeky Forums is a big part of the problem but you guys are the ones that are motivating me to change. Again, thanks. I really hope you all accomplish everything you set out to do as well. This will be my last post for a long while.

too much drinking / drugs

I'm 27, went partying a lot past years, took too much coke, and now i feel like a fucking zombie

Godspeed user