do you ever feel "stuck inside your own head"?

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What do you think causes this? I just recently learned I have convergence insufficiency with my eyes, and apparently it could explain a lot of my problems with playing sports growing up and paying attention to my surroundings in everyday life and on jobs.

And I hate the idea of being partly catatonic. I think it's caused partly by anxiety, but I know to others it can look like I'm brain dead or something...and sometimes it feels like that, because of the depression.

Is there a cure for this? I also think schooling messed me up because I just would go more and more in my head 'cause I was so unhappy being there...the only thing I liked was the validation from receiving A's.

I'm not working now, so I think maybe just trying to enjoy doing sensory things in my environment or outside might help. I want to feel more alive. :-/

I also think the computer makes this worse. I'm searching for the answers...I really think things in our environment can trigger some of our bad genes and make this stuff worse. Like I'm looking into reducing emf's as well as the time I spend looking at computer screens.

So just some thoughts, from being stuck in my head lol. Going to just do nothing now before bedtime.

This usually happens to me after reading and lasts for a few minutes. Longer if the book stomped on my still-beating heart. Also when writing, and sometimes when I'm really stressed out, tired, hungry, or bored. It's hard to snap out of. It's occasionally affected my work, but only rarely and never outside of the margin of error (I film practices and our cameras are on the fritz so one or two missed plays is no big deal. Obviously I try to avoid that. I eat between meals. I try not to get too involved in reading between classes. I'm very strict about my bedtime. And if something's boring I don't let myself drift off. I'll pinch myself if I have to.