Hello everyone, I thought of creating a topic about this. I don’t know if it has already been discussed. If it has been, I will be grateful if someone can share the links here
Coming to the topic, it all comes to my life experience. Growing up, I grew up a quiet person who struggled with conversation and kinda feared the presence of a lot of people or people I didn’t know. Just a brief history.
In 2024, I kinda felt severe lack of focus, concentration, motivation, and struggled to keep up with daily commitments and daily activities. I then started reading a bit about neuroscience and psychology.
In November 2024, I got into university to do a 4 year program. In just three months the condition got a bit more worse, that was February 2024. So I started seeing the doctors specialized in brain(brain specialist). After some months, I took a break from school, a year, to focus on that alone. I then started studying about the brain myself, and later took memory training seriously since it was helping my mind to stay calm and feel better. Calming me from some kind of “mental irritations” I used to feel. Drinking a lot of water helped too.
From childhood, I have always had interest in studying and study techniques, and finding this forum is one of the best things that has happened to me, because I find a lot of people here who understands almost everything I would love to know, and my interests
I eventually stopped seeing the doctors and started reading and understanding the condition by myself since the doctors were a bit less serious about it, and they had a lot of other people to attend to. It is some kind of autism, and the good thing is that it hasn’t taken away my interest in study and researches but has rather increased, enhanced and promoted it. I’m kinda a single focus person, on studying alot of different stuff, and I find it a bit not natural to me to engage in other areas of life like sports, romantic relationships etc, even if I might desire to.
There was a time in my life where I wanted to change who I am, to become like everyone else, communicate with them the way they do, but it was so difficult for me to. I think that contributed to the condition I was in, leading to some kind of nervous breakdown. I didn’t have a lot of people around me who were interested in things I was interested in, so I thought it was not normal. Now this forum is like a place I enjoy a lot
I’m not diagnosed by the doctor, since I didn’t go back to the hospital. I kinda preferred taking it in my own hands during that time, so as I could keep my hope alive
I’m now feeling ready to go back and finish that university program.
Hoping everyone can share their knowledge about this. Thank you