#but I'm struggling to actually do that stuff because of y'know... the exact symptoms that are the reason I need to do it | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

thethingything · 4 months

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I keep randomly remembering that the reason our brain is especially fucked and a bunch of our symptoms are worse right now is because of like, an avoidable external thing that's chemically affected our nervous system instead of either our symptoms flaring up on their own or some specific stressful event triggering it, and for some reason that keeps making us feel especially bad about it.

like our mental health being bad because of stressful stuff going on and our mental illnesses randomly flaring up both suck, but I can handle our brain just doing its own thing and/or reacting to what's going on around us.

but something about it being a medication that someone else prescribed that's changed the way our brain functions is significantly more distressing in a way I can't put into words properly. a lot of the symptoms we've got (apathy, brain fog, alexithymia, memory problems, etc) are very typical depression and dissociation symptoms, but they're like a weird version of them that feels very different to how we normally experience them.

the only way I can describe the difference in feeling is that it feels more "artificial" but I can't even really describe what I mean by that. if normal brain fog is looking out the window on a foggy day, this is looking out of a window that's been covered with those frosted vinyl sheets. you can't see shit either way, but the feeling is very different.

I just desperately want it to go away. I'm finding it hard to be enthusiastic about things I'm normally excited about no matter how bad our depression gets, and our usual coping mechanisms for getting our brain to register positive things aren't really working because it's not the same underlying mechanism.

it feels like any control I did have over our symptoms and anything I could do to help with them has been stripped away and all I can do is wait it out and hope it fixes itself, and the whole "being given a drug that changes how your brain functions and takes away your control over what your brain is doing" is pretty much the exact phobia I was trying to learn to figure out how to deal with before we get dental work done, and for the dental work it'd be like... idk probably an hour at most, whereas now I'm just stuck dealing with experiencing it 24/7 for an undetermined amount of time

#personal #thoughts #🍬 post #vent post #long post #posts made on pain meds #<- we took them like 4 hours ago so idk if it still counts #but anyway this is one of those things where I can't tell if it sounds unhinged #I can't word any of my thoughts correctly and it's really freaking me out #basically a lot of it is like... symptoms we'd normally get but a really weird version of them #like this isn't something our brain would naturally do. it's technically the same symptom but it never feels like this #the apathy we normally get is like ''I'm struggling to feel excited about this but when I go and engage with it I still feel something''#whereas this is ''I keep looking at things I love and adore and just feeling nothing and now I'm questioning my sense of self''#our normal symptoms suck but at least they're familiar and there are things I can do to help with them #whereas this feels like I can't access my own feelings and the emotions I can feel are weird and unfamiliar #and I can't seem to do anything about it and I'm scared it won't go away or that I'll start acting in ways that aren't like me #and some of that is probably just me freaking out and being paranoid #but it's been 3 and a half days and yeah the really bad stuff has calmed down but it's kind of plateaued now #I probably need to do some kind of grounding exercises or anything that would be identity affirming in any way #but I'm struggling to actually do that stuff because of y'know... the exact symptoms that are the reason I need to do it #I feel like I sound insane but here we are I guess #and after all this I still have to also worry about side effects from sedation when we get those teeth pulled #on top of all the fucking phobia shit but like I'm already experiencing that anyway so at this point it's just more of the same shit

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