Posted by g_g_g_unit on March 7, 2008, at 19:37:29
hi i apologise if i start too many threads but i feel really lost at the moment ... for like the past month and a half i've been getting a weird brain-foggy feeling. basically when it first hit i was so scared that i just ceased working. then i started taking prozac (20mg) which either cut through the fog or made me not care, but either way was enough to get rid of it and i was able to start working again (i'm a freelance journalist). but the prozac was giving me insomnia so i had to come off it - which was 4 days ago - and now the fog is back. i feel like i'm going crazy because it's impossible to tell whether this is something created by my OCD (like a self-fulfilling prophesy) or a real symptom (e.g. akin to backpain) which my mind has latched on to. in any case, i feel motivationless ... my memory has gone (i forget close friends' names sometimes) .. and i'm scared because i'm at a total crossroads; i know that in a way if i could just let go and keep going as normal i might be okay. but it feels so ReAL. i have 3 weeks worth of lexapro samples which my gp gave me, and i want to try them , but i don't know if that could just make it worse - i don't wanna get stuck on SSRI's for fear of turning back to reality. my gp was aware of this since he was highly reluctant to give me anything but i said i was feeling suicidal. my other instinct, after reading earlier posts on here about brain fog, was to try out NADH or one of the amino acids for the sake of some clarity and give the prescription meds a break ... but it's hard to tell if that could just be feeding a 'non-existent' problem further by paying attention to it, and the best thing to do might conversely be to just ignore it, since i do recall a point where i felt relatively normal ... or at least in the grip of 'normal' ocd fears ...
i have also been speaking to a therapist over the phone at a CBT centre in new york (not about brainfog .. more about phobias), which has been good but highly $$$ and i just found out that there's a centre in my city, but i'm not sure if it's advisable to interrupt a CBT course midway ... ?
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