Does anybody else experience this "cluttered" feel

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23 May 2011, 1:57 pm

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When I was a child (undiagnosed at the time) I would frequently decompress by running the shower and making a mat out of towels to lay on the floor.

I did this as well, heck, I still do it sometimes.

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23 May 2011, 2:50 pm

o wow, this topic is spot on! Sometimes I have this 'cluttered' feeling if I have too much on my mind. It is accompanied by this mental image I can't get rid of no matter what I do. It's a small room completely cramped with stuff, and I can't get it out of my mind. It is awefull and as of yet I havn't found a way to get it out quickly.

On the other side, when I'm completely at ease, I have thesame thing with the persisting image, but then of a completely empty, white room, very big, with a bed in one corner, with me in it.

Anyone has simmilar immages?

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23 May 2011, 3:00 pm

A cluttered room to me feels like pressure. I feel pressure when I'm stressed. Maybe I get the same feeling?

My father has a saying that I've taken up. He would say at the end of a day that he "had to decompress", referring to a diver that has to slowly ascend from the depths or they would get the bends. Now I use that when I need to adjust from high pressure (stress at work say) to low pressure (coming home and hanging out).

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23 May 2011, 7:16 pm

I have had that cluttered, cloudy feeling for the past 10 years. I doubt it will ever go away again. Sometimes it lifts for a short time.
Around the time it happened my whole experience seemed to shift. Before that my experience of my surroundings seemed clear and detailed, but cold and distant, like being someone who watches things, but is not involved. After the change it seems like things are more alive and warm, but everything is perceived as a mess. Everything seems too intense and chaotic, hard to deal with. I hope one day I will be able to found a way to live somewhere in between those two states. But for now I see no way out of the fog. Not yet.

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23 May 2011, 7:30 pm

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Often, after a long day or being in an overwhelming social situation, I find that my mind races and feels cluttered... The closest word I can find to describe it is "cloudy."
This has been a regular occurance since I was around eight years old, and I really dislike the feeling I get from it.
Do you get the same feeling, and if so what do you do to get rid of it? I listen to music usually but sometimes it really isn't enough to shift the clutter and calm myself down!

I call it white noise, it happens to me most days at some point, sometimes extreme enough to cause my inner monologue and senses to shutdown.

I call it static when theres absolutely nothing happening in your head, where everything has frozen up and you can't think ahead, you feel like you don't exist, that usually comes after white noise.

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23 May 2011, 8:24 pm

I'm not sure I would call it foggy or cluttered. I just kinda get tired, and I need to either sit in a quiet and dimly lit room or go to sleep.

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24 May 2011, 3:02 am

Like Phonic said: "you feel like you don't exist", that is something that is very strong lately. In the past I also felt like that, but the feeling was vague and fleeting, now it is much more pronounced. They call it Depersonalisation I think. I had it the most extreme with some type of SSRI medication they gave me. For 2 weeks I had no notion of where I had been, or that I was even there at all. Very scary, especially afterwards when the awareness is coming back.

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24 May 2011, 3:59 am

I experience both cloudy and cluttered as separate things. Most days that I work I feel cloudy. Most days off I feel cluttered. I think that the difference stems from what it is that I am feeling overwhelmed by.

When I am at work it causes sensory and people exhaustion. It feels like my mind is in a fog that is trying to protect me from some of this.

When I have a day off I am overwhelmed by changing plans, no routine. My mind races, it feels like there is "danger".

Both of these feelings make me feel like I am struggling to cope most days.

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