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Bad short term memory, absent minded, forgets simple directions, trouble following directions, trouble listening, upset easily, trouble communicating or making thoughts flow clearly when speaking, emotional outburts, and crying fits, anti-social


...going for an official psyche eval soon but just wondering.... I know something is off with me. I don't feel right.
 

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That sounds like the effects of addiction. Memory problems, social isolation, social anxiety, depression, trouble communicating without others. When a brain is addicted to something, it gets less reward from other stimuli. Basically with addiction your reward system becomes numb to anything not related to your addiction. I'm sure being addicted to screens could cause this same type of effect. All addictions cause a numbed pleasure response which makes social interactions less pleasurable and rewarding. So I'd look at my day to day activities and try to make sure i have rewards coming from numerous sources over just getting them all from one primary source which includes the internet.

You can imagine the dopamine system as a lens. If you are addicted to something the lens is focused on that one thing and the rest aren't relevant. Likewise a person with a normal functioning dopamine system has a lens with a wide view able to receive pleasure from a wide range of activities. Of course I'm not diagnosing you here with addiction but simply answering your question of what it sounds like to ME.
 
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You're under alot of stress. The stress of everything you're dealing with is causing your anxiety and depression both of those together can cause everything you're listing.
Especially if they're sever enough.

"Depression may lead to brain fog symptoms, such as loss of concentration and fatigue. ... If the red blood cells fail to deliver enough oxygen to organs and tissues, a person may experience mental and physical tiredness, alongside other symptoms, such as shortness of breath."

Brain Fog: A Symptom of Depression | HealthyPlace

Anxiety and depression can cause psychosomatic symptoms in the body too. The mental effects the physical basically.

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WHAT IS SOMATIZATION?

Somatization is defined as the tendency to experience psychological distress in the form of physical symptoms. Astoundingly, in one study of 1000 patients presenting over a 3-year period with 567 new complaints of 14 common symptoms (including chest pain, fatigue, dizziness, headache, edema, back pain, shortness of breath, insomnia, abdominal pain, numbness, impotence, weight loss, cough, and constipation) a physical cause was found only 16% of the time. This doesn't mean that only 16% of all these complaints had a physical cause and the other 84% had a psychosomatic cause; rather, it means that 84% of the symptoms had no known physical cause. We still don't know what causes migraines, for example, but that doesn't mean we should conclude migraines have only a psychological cause.

On the other hand, another study suggested that as many as 20% of patients who present to primary care doctors are experiencing physical symptoms that have a purely psychological cause."

Psychosomatic Symptoms
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So basically I feel you're under immense stress that's causing all of this... I think if you can afford it definitely try therapy to get help on cutting down the things that are stressing you out.
 
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Just wondering if anyone else had anything similar... And nope not on meds.
Yes. I'm not on medication and when I suffered with really bad anxiety... I had shortness of breath, brain fog ect. My friend has pretty bad depression and they also have the symptoms you've listed.

Imo, I think you should definitely seek out some type of therapy to help you cope better with stresses.
 
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