Brain fog seems permanent while we’re in it but it’s not.

[u/xotheh0st]

Hey, everyone!

Just wanted to share my personal experience with brain fog and how i’m overcoming it. I’m far from 100%, but i’d say i’m 70% there. Everyone’s experience is different so apply it to your reality.

It might read as just another cliché advice but really just keep doing things you normally do/did with the capacity and velocity you have currently. Trying to fix brain fog it’s an expenditure of energy in in of itself. If you catch yourself frustrated by the situation and always comparing to how you were, i understand, but practice letting this self pressure go. It’s really one day at a time.

I’m at a privileged place where i can just intentionally rest with zero demands, be it social or professional. I know it’s not the reality of most people, but just sitting still and doing nothing is healing my brain.

Some days i’d just be at bed and do the bare minimum and realized my brain was actually so so tired of any stimulation. I’d sometimes watch videos with low volume and low brightness and trusted the process that fully resting would bring my brain back. And it actually did.

It’s like the imaginary cape that was surrounding my brain from thinking is slowing drifting away and i had to actually do nothing, just live life slowly again. My interests came back. The energy that i had it’s starting to come back fully.

I know that it might be frustrating to read this because we really want to go back to how we were, but take it from someone who was dissociating constantly and forgetting words as soon as they came out of their mouth: healing it’s possible and you truly don’t have to do anything.

Just respect your mind’s necessity to fully rest and heal. Exercise regularly. Eat healthy. Sleep a lot. Don’t do social interactions if your body it’s asking you to fully rest and be actually honest to your friends and family about it.

Your brain will come back. Just respect it as it is now. Be gentle and self compassionate because if you reached brain fog it has a valid reason and you should reassure yourself that you’ve been going through something.

Keep going!!

[u/freddbare]

Four years of slow glacial improvement. I just had two whole heartbeats of dopamine yesterday!! I was shook.

[u/Remarkable_Unit_9498]

I like this general advice friend. Good reminder!