Question...

Perhaps it is just the way I am but I would like to see if I can some how blame it on something more physical, and specifically TS related


Specifically, my mind is 'a mess'. It always has been, or at least since age 10 or so. I DO remember being able to think clearly once in my life, but I have been discombobulated for so long it is disconcerting.

My question is simply is anyone else's mental faculties not what they seem like they should be? I.e. having problems keeping things straight in your head, basic absentmindedness on occasion... heck, just following though with some mental tasks sometimes. Just plain out and out mentally functioning. I suppose even a bit of a short attention span for 'heavy mental tasks'

I'd worry I suppose except this is 'life as normal' for me, and I am kind of curious if perhaps I can blame it on T in my bod or... ^*shrug* no idea really.

Having a body that actually works could be... well, useful.

Mind you it is not as if I am totally fried or anything I just... well, don't see how people can function the way they do.
Meh, As I think you can almost always tell from my writing I am scatter brained a lot.

^*shrug*

Anyway ideas, commentary and all that happy stuff welcome.

Thank you

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P.s.
Oh yeah. Um, nutrition, or lack there of. That is prolly (probably ) it I suppose.
I keep forgetting about food. Or ignoring it. Or running the other way screaming.
^{*sighs and wonders off to make the attempt to feed herself.*}

Oh yes, it's the same for me.  Every so often I can think clearly (usually after some coffee), but more often than not I don't.  I also have trouble sometimes with not hearing things that were just said to me or forgetting things.  It drove my ex crazy.

Melissa

Yes, in a way. I think I shut off a lot of feelings and functionings around age 11. I was just too devastated to feel anything, and I didn't have control of anything and the world kept going on around me and I didn't want to participate in it, I quit eating and everything, got in a lot of trouble in school, etc.
Ok, I'm rambling, but I understand what you mean, Kim.

Quote from: Kimberly on February 01, 2007, 07:44:19 AM
Question...

Perhaps it is just the way I am but I would like to see if I can some how blame it on something more physical, and specifically TS related


Specifically, my mind is 'a mess'. It always has been, or at least since age 10 or so. I DO remember being able to think clearly once in my life, but I have been discombobulated for so long it is disconcerting.

My question is simply is anyone else's mental faculties not what they seem like they should be? I.e. having problems keeping things straight in your head, basic absentmindedness on occasion... heck, just following though with some mental tasks sometimes. Just plain out and out mentally functioning. I suppose even a bit of a short attention span for 'heavy mental tasks'

I'd worry I suppose except this is 'life as normal' for me, and I am kind of curious if perhaps I can blame it on T in my bod or... ^*shrug* no idea really.

Having a body that actually works could be... well, useful.

Mind you it is not as if I am totally fried or anything I just... well, don't see how people can function the way they do.
Meh, As I think you can almost always tell from my writing I am scatter brained a lot.

^*shrug*

Anyway ideas, commentary and all that happy stuff welcome.

Thank you

----
P.s.
Oh yeah. Um, nutrition, or lack there of. That is prolly (probably ) it I suppose.
I keep forgetting about food. Or ignoring it. Or running the other way screaming.
^{*sighs and wonders off to make the attempt to feed herself.*}

Kim,

                This sounds exactly like me on carbohydrates.  Are you symptoms worse after lunch? Try 3 days with very little or no carbs to find out. If the symptoms vastly improve add increasing amounts of complex carbs to see what your tolerance for them is. Don't go completely carb free for more than 3 days. The change is like night and day for me.



beth

Nothing will make you more scatterbrained than Hormones... at least thats my take on it.
and when you MIX both in your system you are going to see the results you have, I am afrade that is how it will continue to be for you gals ! .
Being scatterbrained is so darn flustrateing its hard to describe... attention defisate disorder
is alot like that. and I am sure I suffer somewhat from that malidy as do many others
thinking clearly is a hard thing sometimes when your mind is going 100miles an hour and your body in slow motion. but learning to CLEAR UP THE FOG is not easy , but you can !
what I have found is that I alow myself to go off on tangents very easily but if you don't alow that
your thinking is alot clearer... learning to focuse on a problem is accential to clear thinking but not as easy as it sounds... you need to "turn down the volume" of those other thoughts so they don't dround out what your trying to think on...
if you can reduce the volume to a wisper you then can almost completely ignore those thoughts and consentrate completely upon one thing. but even better is the results when You can get ALL of you thinking on the same subject at once, thats where brilliance realy kicks in ! thats when you make discoveries, this isn't easy most of the time , but if you work at it you can do it on demand
although the time at which you can stay tuned in like that is usually a short period of time. the results are usually very good.
useing ALL of your brains to think on the same subject is something man has been trying to do sense he discovered fire.... alas... I think he will be trying to do it for a long time to come too!
...in short, I think its more or less normal, it is magnified by more hormones though I think
so take your pills and stuff very carefully , on time and all that as the timeing is very important!
.....
clearing your mind to think on a problem usually only lasts for a short period of time.
then you need to back off and do it again, and again.... for some realy fortinuate people they can maintain the clearness longer is all... those are the smart people of our socioty, thats the only diference between being realy smart and realy stupid that I can see ! <GRIN>
so... you have the ability to be another Einstine if you want to be...but he worked at it very very hard.... its up to you !

...
Bob.......

Yep, I get that spaced out head in the clouds feeling, and people are always giving me flak for forgetting stuff. At its worst it feels like I'm going to pass out. Used to be I blamed it on testosterone. I was hoping HRT would fix it, but there's been no change in that regard.

Having a meal, even a small one, helps a lot. Come to think of it, I seem to get light headed more often when tossing down large amounts of low calorie beverages, hmmm....

Hey, Do not blame it on HRT - I also suffer from that type of feeling- especily laterly. Lack of (or no) concertration at work. And if I do concentrate on something it is more likly to be in here. *(Nughty Alice should not be typing here at this stage - she is still at work).

I use to be able to swim for an hour and a half but now my ming starts to wonder after about 50 mins and I am out in an hour.

So my mind is just not like it use to be. Maybe I will need to HRT to settle down and concentrate. Everyone says they feel much better on HRT  

.

Alice
(Loving the Devil Mood)

Interesting....
I find compairing my mental funtions to what they were when I was much younger silly !
as I am no longer that person, that person is lost in time many years ago, alot of water has gone under the bridge sense then, so I'ed rather compaire my mental funtions with what they were just a few years earlier, the diference doesn't seam so vast and i can remember that easier <GRIN>
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Personally I think what Kim described is NORMAL... no realy ! its just how far you let it go ...is the thing... if it comes to a point that you can't remember your own name or what you had for breakfast then its time to seek medical help.... as I did, because it got that bad for me !
a friend of mine calls that the dredded CRS desiese ! "can't Remember S---"  but it describes it to a  T.
My doctor said my biggest problem was my depression, and I said But Doc I'm not depressed ! he said oh yes you are, you just don't know any diference.... and that made me think !
depression and the inability to consentrate are due to a chemical imballance in the brain, or so he said to me.... but the trick is finding what chemicals are out of ballance...
when I take my Pills on time like I'm supposed to my thinking is alot clearer, and my aility to concentrate greatly improved... HOWEVER i am on such a small doseage that the doctor was thinking its all in my head... normially he starts people on twice as much, but that puts me into a prepetual fog and I hate that... after much debate with the doctor he finally saw things my way.
if indeed that it is a chemical imballance then you know for a fact it won't take much ! as a little chemicals go a long way, and this is what my life has proven in that respect. but then again I never have reacted properly to drugs of any sort as my doctors will attest ! Novacane and their drivitivesjust simply don't work, Nebutal a strong relaxant simply makes me fly higher than a Kite for 8 hrs stright !  and the list goes on... so I am Not Normal in that regard.
but I realy think for the most part being "scatterbrained" to a certain extent is normal. its how new ideas pop into your head, if you were a rigid thinker, not alowing your mind to wander to other subjects at any time, your creativity would be greatly reduced.... we Need some degree of "Scatterbrained-ness" to be at out top mentially !
its when it is continusly "scatterbrained" 24hrs a day 7 days a week that it is out of control...
and like anything else with the body...you control it,  it takes work to control however ,
just as positive thinking takes work... there is no diference between the two, but you can do it !
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Bob......

I used to and now again feel like that, HRT fixed it for me, that or going FT I'm not sure, but I'm still FT but I'm off HRT right now and I feel absolutely terrible and I can't get any work done at all, maybe it's just the hormonal shock throwing me back into a tizzle but i feel kinda the same way I did before I started HRT and I really don't like it at all.