Constant Anxiety,Uptightness Fatigue and Brainfog.

[harryford01]

Since i was like 9 i always felt very uptight and inhibited. Iam 23 now. This doesnt affect my athletic capabilities,but much more so my mental state. This goes to the point where i now can't ever think clearly.

Iam consntantly tired and never well-rested after waking up.I dont feel myself as much as i used to. This is really inhibiting me from living my life properly.

I have done an MRI and EGG with normal results. The only thing that i discovered while doing yoga some time ago is that the bad feeling seems to get somewhat better when i do something like a middle split or spread my legs wide. Everything becomes clearer. The bad feeling seems to originate from the pelvic area,but iam not entirely sure.

I also cant really say what may have been the cause except for a single instance when i was nine where i fell like 8 feet off a tree on my back on hard barren dirt. But this is about the only accident at that time i can think of.

Years before at like four years old I also got a deviated septum in an accident. This caused me to breath through my mouth since my nose didnt work 100%. This wasnt fixed until 2021. I dont think this is the cause though since this was many years before problems began.

Now what i do is stretching exercises to try to fix the issue but im not really feeling better even after months.

As a last note I would like to add that this is really a severely miserable state iam in and not just some small issue. My conciousness and perception is impaired.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you in advance!

[Man7Cut]

First of all none of us here are medical professionals we can only relate our own experiences. I know when I was growing up I always felt inhibited and a sense of not fitting in to the extent of things manifesting in physical symptoms eg stomach pains or pain and confusion in my head. They say that the body remembers past trauma in your case the fall, so it could stem from there. What you're doing with the yoga is good or maybe try tai chi, where you are concentrating on specific exercises and breathing. Diet is important as well and plenty of fresh air plus minimum time spent online or social media. Don't know if any of this helps but thought you deserved an answer after opening up.

PS Have ever had professional help with the problem?

[STEM_Dad]

I can only guess, but the stretching might be helping because of vagus nerve stimulation.

Other that that, the exercise itself might be stimulating your cerebellum in ways that are helping. There is research about how exercise which challenges coordination and balance can stimulate the cerebellum in ways that help to improve communication pathways that go through the cerebellum; this has been used to help some people with ADHD.

The symptoms that you describe in the title could be related, or they could be due to different issues.

I know that I struggle with Inattentive ADHD and with anxiety. When my anxiety symptoms get very bad, it causes my ADHD symptoms to get worse than usual. So, I have to take medication for my ADHD, but I also have to keep my anxiety in check (which I normally do using mindfulness, but yoga can also be very good to help manage anxiety).

I'm not sure what you mean by "uptightness". I associate feeling that way with my anxiety.

As for brain fog, I lived with it persistently until I began treatment for ADHD. At first I was on a stimulant medication, but it didn't help me enough. Then, I started on Strattera (a non-stimulant ADHD medication), and it cleared all the brain fog.

• Before that, the only thing that would clear the brain fog was an adrenaline rush, but that would only last a little while, then the fog would come back quickly.

If the issue is neurological in a way like my ADHD is, I don't think an MRI or EGG would pick it up.

If your childhood fall caused some sort of traumatic brain injury, then that might explain you experiencing the symptoms after that. But, there's a lot of brain development which happens in youth (from before birth until mid-to-late 20s), so what you are experiencing could simply be developmental.

There are other possibilities, too, like vitamin deficiency, other biological or neurological conditions (e.g. hypothyroidism, or OCD), environmental factors, etc...

Keep working with your doctor. Ask lots of questions.

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I feel fortunate that I finally found out that many of my issues were due to ADHD, but I didn't get diagnosed until I was 45. But I also wish that I'd gotten a diagnosis when I was your age...my life might have turned out very differently.

I certainly hope that it doesn't take so long for you.

[Lizzo30]

It may help you to look into increasing your nitric oxide And learning about the Alexander Technique for your breathing and posture

[Norwich1 Moderator]

You really should be consulting a healthcare professional about your problems. Perhaps seek a referral to a neurologist.