I’ve noticed that my speech is slower. I have to think what I have to say. But it’s hard. My ability to talk and hold conversations is impaired.
I still can’t picture things in my head. I have a lot of trouble with abstract thinking.
I feel like I have lost a big part of myself.
I don’t know if it’s this illness or meds?
Have you experienced anything similar?
I think it is both for me.
When I am in a complete psychotic state It seems that I can not think my way out of it.
Also when I am on a high dose of AP’s It can kind of dull my way of thinking while also dulling the positives.
As of now I seem to be developing a habit of thinking my way out of psychosis. Before I tried so hard and no habit formed.
I had this exact same experience this morning. I described it the exact same when a social worker checked on me this morning – my speech is slower. My tongue felt heavier. Sometimes my tongue would feel like it freezes while trying to talk and I would cough.
Last night I had 3 mental health workers come and they were listening to me speak, but I didn’t even realise until hours afterwards that I was skipping words and messing up my grammar. Sometimes I was only saying phrases or single words at a time.
When this happened this morning, I felt sad. Then I read over things that I wrote in the past, and that helped me to remember words. When I practised talking with my sister, it made it easier.
I saw a psychiatrist today but my speaking was back to normal by the time I saw him in the afternoon – he called my sister to confirm. It was so hard to explain and convince him, and then I just saw your post today.
I don’t have meds – I was diagnosed with autism and had a provisional diagnosis for schizotypal pd a few years ago
I really feel you there, it can make you feel sad and scared, the thought of not being able to express yourself like you used to and visualise like you used to.
It’s really hard to decipher without an ability to remove medicine from your current equation. I know this because I myself requested more sedation since my mind was going at 100 MPH. And with sedation comes all the goodies by not having to think at all.
This is just speculation and I wouldn’t know this without a proper study. But I also know what’s like to be a numb person, so at the same time I’m the study as well.
My brain starts to hurt If I try to think something really hard. I lose words and my speech has become slower because I say wrong words and forget words and what I want to say. I feel like a moron. I am afraid my family and friends will notice and find out I actually have become more stupid and slow. I used to be pretty smart so this is alarming.
hey @Speedy I can tell you more after being on a very low dose of antipsychotics, vs. the days before and periods when my meds wear off
These are much more suppressed for me under medication.
I think it’s because these skills are highly related to unusual beliefs and experiences like hallucinations.
For visualisation: this was highly active before I had meds.
E.g. Several times I saw visions inserted into my brain, and goddesses appearing before me, on the day before the worst phase of a suspected psychotic episode.
For abstract thinking: this is over-active when my med wears off. I start thinking that many unrelated things are now related. And not only that, they’re all related to me.
E.g. When my med wore off yesterday, shortly before I had my next dose, I saw an announcement that a video game company which I follow will have a livestream on 31 Oct. I was so freaked out because on that day I have a psychologist appointment, and an afternoon class which clashes with the livestream. Then I started thinking, because I have these 3 good events on that day which I can’t go to all of them, that I will have 10 bad things happen to me also on 31 Oct. And I thought that I should keep an eye out for everything related to 31 Oct to know which bad things will happen to me.
After I had next dose, I realised that these were all unrelated.
This was happening to me several times before I had med. I had the same as you on my Tuesday morning after I woke up.
I had slurred speech yesterday (I couldn’t say ‘s’, only ‘sh’) after I woke up.
Then in both cases, it gradually got better, hours later after I woke up.
Great post and realised point, I have had this type of brain fog on and off for 19 years now, it helps to play music in the background when typing and to get a full eight hours sleep at night, also rest take breaks then go back to the task or thought process, also some meds and exasperate the process of thinking, carrying out simple tasks or thinking about what to say.
Just take regular short breaks or cat naps, I find I am more alert when I wake up.
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