I read somewhere that elyn saks described her sz psychosis as a fog in her brain. only, in her case, it seems like the fog dissipated, maybe because she is so brilliant…
do you feel like your mind is in a fog? I know I have sz but I don’t think that I am in a psychotic state, yet, my mind too is like blurry or something. not sharp anyhow like it was once.
what’s your take on this please?
hugs, judy
I get the fog and it makes my focus bad. I see it as something that comes and goes. Changing with moods and days at a time. I’m not sure what to do about it can be frustrating at times.
Varies with me. Might be the SZA component as can get a total clarity of mind with the psychosis as well.
Meds make my mind foggy or foggier - not sure which combination. I know when I leave my antipsychotic off for a day my mind is clearer + more aware. Other people have commented I seem that way to them.
yes it is foggy, blurry, definitely
i can tell the most when i am out walking and i am not taking everything out like i have a severely reduced awareness,
i can also feel it when i am trying to sing in church and i am not really feeling the words, sometimes i can get into that mind zone though and i can sing great but it is a bit of a struggle with the anxiety as well, it is really good practice though and it can help.
i think at the very early onset of this disease that our awareness is reduced, it is like a blindness only we can see what we want, like we are trying to ignore the rest of the world and everything in it which casts a veil over us, we need to be aware of everything and idk why this happens, i thought it might be something to do with the eyes but it goes deeper than that, its more psychological as well.
Yes my mind is foggy, its a mixture of the meds and the sz, but my mind is in a haze most of the time.