FallingApart?
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A Bit of Backstory Info [You can skip this if you want]:
Spent early years in a catholic private school, if I'm not mistaken, they tended to make joke(s) that the public school was one year behind them and if I'm not mistaken, in the 4th grade (maybe it was 3rd - idrk) I think I tested 8th grade level for reading and math (maybe there were more subject(s) and/or maybe that was the average level of my scores). If I'm not mistaken, I was allowed to skip a grade but my mom said that they said I was too immature (which is fair - I was a trouble maker and fairly bored with the work as I maybe didn't find it challenging enough). If I'm not mistaken, reading books was fun and if I'm not mistaken, I read a 500 page book in a day in I think the 4th grade (I think I was grounded maybe and/or might have been in trouble that day - idrk). Fast forward to high school mile time is 4:56, 3200m time is 10:48, 5K is 17:48 and if I'm not mistaken the most miles I've done in a week is 86.4 miles.
Personality is probably aggressively similar to Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast and/or The Tim Dillon Show.
So I would like to think that I might be characterized as fairly stable both cognitively and physically.
Now fast forward to college when the college and my mother required/had me to take the vaccine (I got the vaccine and two boosters and no it was not my idea)
Problem:
If I'm not mistaken, since taking the vaccine and two boosters I have been in an aggressive cognitive decline. I don't mean decline as in forgetting how to implement the product rule in calculus - I mean cognitive decline as in forgetting how to add / multiply / remembering to take a shower even if I'm standing right next to the shower / struggling and/or scared to hold and/or be around boiling water / forgetting the names of people I know and/or don't know / forgetting the words to prayers and/or stumbling over prayers (e.g. not knowing what comes next in the Lord's Prayer or looking up the words to the Apostles' Creed even though I've said it in mass for years) / having a talk with my mother on the phone the night before and not remembering what we talked about / struggling to read/retain information in a book that I probably could have easily breezed through when I was a kid (I'm talking young adult level book like "House of Hades" by Rick Riordan <- this was the book by the way), struggling to read articles, stuggling to even watch/listen to podcast(s) on YouTube / having an issue where I forget where I'm at in a prayer when other people say the prayer next to me (I guess it might be too much stimulation for me to handle at the moment). If I bang the back of my head it might clear up my mind a bit to push through (maybe it's an andrenaline thing) / I think I've been experiencing OCD like habit(s) like repeating stuff like word(s)/action(s) if I don't do them right and/or a certain amount of times. / getting paranoid-like
It used to be that day(s) and/or week(s) would go by and I barely remembered any of it. I'd wake up on something like the 2nd, go to sleep, check the calendar again and see it's already the 9th or close to the end of the month.
I'd like to think I'm pretty sure the problem isn't discipline but that's it's a health issue and that it's becoming a more aggressive health issue for me.
I thought I was too distracted and tried keeping myself in quiet rooms by myself (even if YouTube may have been distracting me if may have helped me in whatever it is I'm going through). I tried taking amphetamine salts (I think around 20-60mg per day) but that pretty much just made me more anxious-like (not saying I have anxiety but more like what I would assume someone with anxiety feels like - in a panicked and/or worried state when there's pretty much nothing to panic over and/or be worried about). It may be that my mind may push me to get distracted and/or drunk off of my thoughts, possibly, to lower/remove cortisol and/or reduce/remove inflammation (I think it may be similar to maladaptive daydreaming).
I thought it may have been a depression issue so I tried zoloft (I think about 20 mg per day) for 6 weeks but I felt it kind of sucked - as in wasn't really fixing the problem and I also didn't like that it was affecting my erection size
If I'm not mistaken, I've stopped amphetamine salts and zoloft months ago.
What I've tried supplementing:
Zinc (a f*** ton) - like 200mg to 2 grams per day (average was probably like 500mg per day) over the course of 4 months [If I'm not mistaken it was gluconate and some picolinate] and I think it maybe might have helped me feel a bit better - maybe better enough to start searching for other supplement(s).
Vitamin D - about 50,000 IU per day for a farly significant amount of time - I forget maybe around 3-4 months in total.
Vitamin C - I think for a fairly short time it wsa around 3,000 mg of Vitamin C as absorbic acid and about 30mg of Rose Hips as Rosa canina (fruit)
Magnesium (I think it was a complex so like citrate, aspartate, and I think a third one)
K-2 MK-7 - was taking about 1000 mcg per day with about 50,000 IU od D3 (If I'm not mistaken, I emptied the bottle/ran out)
Boron (If I'm not mistaken, I emptied the bottle/ran out)
Selenium - was taking about 800 mcg per day but I think this may have helped me out along with Boron regarding talking to people again - I don't think I'm fully back to how I was pre-college but I'd like to think I'm getting there socially.
Copper - at the time I think it was 2mg copper gluconate and 52mg calcium per tablet (If I'm not mistaken, I emptied the bottle/ran out)
Iron - I forget but at the time I think it was around 650 mg per day (If I'm not mistaken, I emptied the bottle/ran out)
Melatonin - at the time I was maybe taking 240mg per night but I don't really take them anymore
Fish Oil - at the time it was maybe around 10,000 mg per day (If I'm not mistaken, I emptied the bottle/ran out)
B6 (If I'm not mistaken, I emptied the bottle/ran out)
Niacin - at the time I was probably taking 1.2g of Niacin as Inositol Hexanicotinate and about 300 mg of inositol as inositol hexanicotinate (If I'm not mistaken, I emptied the bottle/ran out)
B12 - at the time I was probably taking 20,000 mcg of Vitamin B-12 as Cyanocobalamin and about 400 mcg of Coenzyme B-12 as Dibencozide (If I'm not mistaken, I emptied the bottle/ran out)
Aspirin - this I felt was signficantly helping me out and it's what I'm currently taking - if I'm not mistaken I'm taking around 3,250 mg per day - I feel like it's maybe reducing inflammation that might be in the brain and/our around the body
Pregnenolone - this I'm on like day 4 with but I feel like it's a fairly significant cortisol inhibitor but I feel that a signficant amount of this stuff may only be masking the problem and not actually fixing it.
I might also add that I've maybe been taking about 2 grams of pregnenolone per day (that may be my average so far) and I ordered L-theanine but I don't think it has been delivered to me, yet.
Question: How do I fix this? I feel like I'm two years away from becoming the man at the bus stop screaming when no one's there. This sucks and I felt like my time in college has been significantly wasted and I'm about to graduate. I guess this experience may give me a new sense of sympathy/empathy for those they may be dealing with bigger neurological issue(s) and/or for those that may be disabled. Someone please help me - I feel like my mind is like a house/building and the foundation is continuing to rot until my mind collapses in on itself. I feel like I might acutally go insane (not figuratively - I mean literally) if I don't fix and/or attempt to fix this.
Spent early years in a catholic private school, if I'm not mistaken, they tended to make joke(s) that the public school was one year behind them and if I'm not mistaken, in the 4th grade (maybe it was 3rd - idrk) I think I tested 8th grade level for reading and math (maybe there were more subject(s) and/or maybe that was the average level of my scores). If I'm not mistaken, I was allowed to skip a grade but my mom said that they said I was too immature (which is fair - I was a trouble maker and fairly bored with the work as I maybe didn't find it challenging enough). If I'm not mistaken, reading books was fun and if I'm not mistaken, I read a 500 page book in a day in I think the 4th grade (I think I was grounded maybe and/or might have been in trouble that day - idrk). Fast forward to high school mile time is 4:56, 3200m time is 10:48, 5K is 17:48 and if I'm not mistaken the most miles I've done in a week is 86.4 miles.
Personality is probably aggressively similar to Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast and/or The Tim Dillon Show.
So I would like to think that I might be characterized as fairly stable both cognitively and physically.
Now fast forward to college when the college and my mother required/had me to take the vaccine (I got the vaccine and two boosters and no it was not my idea)
Problem:
If I'm not mistaken, since taking the vaccine and two boosters I have been in an aggressive cognitive decline. I don't mean decline as in forgetting how to implement the product rule in calculus - I mean cognitive decline as in forgetting how to add / multiply / remembering to take a shower even if I'm standing right next to the shower / struggling and/or scared to hold and/or be around boiling water / forgetting the names of people I know and/or don't know / forgetting the words to prayers and/or stumbling over prayers (e.g. not knowing what comes next in the Lord's Prayer or looking up the words to the Apostles' Creed even though I've said it in mass for years) / having a talk with my mother on the phone the night before and not remembering what we talked about / struggling to read/retain information in a book that I probably could have easily breezed through when I was a kid (I'm talking young adult level book like "House of Hades" by Rick Riordan <- this was the book by the way), struggling to read articles, stuggling to even watch/listen to podcast(s) on YouTube / having an issue where I forget where I'm at in a prayer when other people say the prayer next to me (I guess it might be too much stimulation for me to handle at the moment). If I bang the back of my head it might clear up my mind a bit to push through (maybe it's an andrenaline thing) / I think I've been experiencing OCD like habit(s) like repeating stuff like word(s)/action(s) if I don't do them right and/or a certain amount of times. / getting paranoid-like
It used to be that day(s) and/or week(s) would go by and I barely remembered any of it. I'd wake up on something like the 2nd, go to sleep, check the calendar again and see it's already the 9th or close to the end of the month.
I'd like to think I'm pretty sure the problem isn't discipline but that's it's a health issue and that it's becoming a more aggressive health issue for me.
I thought I was too distracted and tried keeping myself in quiet rooms by myself (even if YouTube may have been distracting me if may have helped me in whatever it is I'm going through). I tried taking amphetamine salts (I think around 20-60mg per day) but that pretty much just made me more anxious-like (not saying I have anxiety but more like what I would assume someone with anxiety feels like - in a panicked and/or worried state when there's pretty much nothing to panic over and/or be worried about). It may be that my mind may push me to get distracted and/or drunk off of my thoughts, possibly, to lower/remove cortisol and/or reduce/remove inflammation (I think it may be similar to maladaptive daydreaming).
I thought it may have been a depression issue so I tried zoloft (I think about 20 mg per day) for 6 weeks but I felt it kind of sucked - as in wasn't really fixing the problem and I also didn't like that it was affecting my erection size
If I'm not mistaken, I've stopped amphetamine salts and zoloft months ago.
What I've tried supplementing:
Zinc (a f*** ton) - like 200mg to 2 grams per day (average was probably like 500mg per day) over the course of 4 months [If I'm not mistaken it was gluconate and some picolinate] and I think it maybe might have helped me feel a bit better - maybe better enough to start searching for other supplement(s).
Vitamin D - about 50,000 IU per day for a farly significant amount of time - I forget maybe around 3-4 months in total.
Vitamin C - I think for a fairly short time it wsa around 3,000 mg of Vitamin C as absorbic acid and about 30mg of Rose Hips as Rosa canina (fruit)
Magnesium (I think it was a complex so like citrate, aspartate, and I think a third one)
K-2 MK-7 - was taking about 1000 mcg per day with about 50,000 IU od D3 (If I'm not mistaken, I emptied the bottle/ran out)
Boron (If I'm not mistaken, I emptied the bottle/ran out)
Selenium - was taking about 800 mcg per day but I think this may have helped me out along with Boron regarding talking to people again - I don't think I'm fully back to how I was pre-college but I'd like to think I'm getting there socially.
Copper - at the time I think it was 2mg copper gluconate and 52mg calcium per tablet (If I'm not mistaken, I emptied the bottle/ran out)
Iron - I forget but at the time I think it was around 650 mg per day (If I'm not mistaken, I emptied the bottle/ran out)
Melatonin - at the time I was maybe taking 240mg per night but I don't really take them anymore
Fish Oil - at the time it was maybe around 10,000 mg per day (If I'm not mistaken, I emptied the bottle/ran out)
B6 (If I'm not mistaken, I emptied the bottle/ran out)
Niacin - at the time I was probably taking 1.2g of Niacin as Inositol Hexanicotinate and about 300 mg of inositol as inositol hexanicotinate (If I'm not mistaken, I emptied the bottle/ran out)
B12 - at the time I was probably taking 20,000 mcg of Vitamin B-12 as Cyanocobalamin and about 400 mcg of Coenzyme B-12 as Dibencozide (If I'm not mistaken, I emptied the bottle/ran out)
Aspirin - this I felt was signficantly helping me out and it's what I'm currently taking - if I'm not mistaken I'm taking around 3,250 mg per day - I feel like it's maybe reducing inflammation that might be in the brain and/our around the body
Pregnenolone - this I'm on like day 4 with but I feel like it's a fairly significant cortisol inhibitor but I feel that a signficant amount of this stuff may only be masking the problem and not actually fixing it.
I might also add that I've maybe been taking about 2 grams of pregnenolone per day (that may be my average so far) and I ordered L-theanine but I don't think it has been delivered to me, yet.
Question: How do I fix this? I feel like I'm two years away from becoming the man at the bus stop screaming when no one's there. This sucks and I felt like my time in college has been significantly wasted and I'm about to graduate. I guess this experience may give me a new sense of sympathy/empathy for those they may be dealing with bigger neurological issue(s) and/or for those that may be disabled. Someone please help me - I feel like my mind is like a house/building and the foundation is continuing to rot until my mind collapses in on itself. I feel like I might acutally go insane (not figuratively - I mean literally) if I don't fix and/or attempt to fix this.
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