Is changing my mind a symptom?

WastingAsparagus · Jun 24, 2020 at 12:02 AM

I have long struggled with changing my mind about things.

I have combated it with more meds, different strategies in therapy, other things.

I can never seem to stop making impulsive decisions sometimes, though.

I was wondering if anyone here has ever experienced something similar, and if so, what they did about it.

I know I should just be more accepting of myself and the decisions I do make. But it's difficult to do that.

It's almost as if I cannot even trust my own mind. It's hard to accept your own mind if you don't even trust it.

Sometimes psychotic · Jun 24, 2020 at 03:45 AM

Yes I experienced this. About 7 years into recovery I lost the job I’d held for fourteen years and Then Found another for a short one year. I was no longer psychotic but either the meds or the underlying illness had changed me. Suddenly I had cognitive problems with working memory, processing speed and adhd when I had always had extreme focus.

I personally believe it was the adhd causing the jumping behavior. Like every other day I’d change what I wanted to be now that I needed to search for a brand new career. Basically as soon as things became hard I bailed. They won’t give me a stimulant so I tried fish oil....it worked and got rid of this. Since then I got an IT cert and am working on my masters.....I’m not jumping between prospective careers anymore. I actually take algae omega, it’s a algae based substitute for fish oil that has a bit more DHA which is the brain one.

WastingAsparagus · Jun 24, 2020 at 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Sometimes psychotic

Yes I experienced this. About 7 years into recovery I lost the job I’d held for fourteen years and Then Found another for a short one year. I was no longer psychotic but either the meds or the underlying illness had changed me. Suddenly I had cognitive problems with working memory, processing speed and adhd when I had always had extreme focus.

I personally believe it was the adhd causing the jumping behavior. Like every other day I’d change what I wanted to be now that I needed to search for a brand new career. Basically as soon as things became hard I bailed. They won’t give me a stimulant so I tried fish oil....it worked and got rid of this. Since then I got an IT cert and am working on my masters.....I’m not jumping between prospective careers anymore. I actually take algae omega, it’s a algae based substitute for fish oil that has a bit more DHA which is the brain one.

Thanks! I take EPA fish oil. Maybe I should order the DHA kind.

Sometimes psychotic · Jun 24, 2020 at 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by WastingAsparagus

Thanks! I take EPA fish oil. Maybe I should order the DHA kind.

You could just get on that’s half and half, it’s the most common and will help both heart and Brain.

Deepershun · Jul 12, 2020 at 11:29 AM

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Originally Posted by WastingAsparagus

I have long struggled with changing my mind about things.

I have combated it with more meds, different strategies in therapy, other things.

I can never seem to stop making impulsive decisions sometimes, though.

I was wondering if anyone here has ever experienced something similar, and if so, what they did about it.

I know I should just be more accepting of myself and the decisions I do make. But it's difficult to do that.

It's almost as if I cannot even trust my own mind. It's hard to accept your own mind if you don't even trust it.

This is a constant for me. I was much more decisive before. I have ignored my condition for so long that my decision making is overwhelmed the constant influx of paranoid thoughts and ambivalent emotions I go through. It makes life much more difficult to process.

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