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For the past 6 or so years, I have had trouble with memory in a certain area.
When someone is spelling out a word to me that I'm not familiar with, I cannot visualize the spelling in my head. I have to ask them to spell it out very slowly, otherwise I cannot comprehend it. The same goes for a series of numbers (for example: a phone number). I know this isn't normal because I ...

I'm a PhD candidate closing in on my defense and I'm panicking again because I remember my preliminary defense, after which all the panic attacks started, and during which I began to realize my thought processes are for lack of a better term retarded.

I have already been diag. with generalized anxiety disorder and dysthymia since childhood. Recently a friend whose family member was diag. with Executive Disorder recognized some of my symptoms as either ...

I just found out about Avolition the other day. Had never heard about it before but I think I suffer from it.

I'm a 36 year old man. I haven't had a job in almost a year, I'm broke, can barely afford food and have been relying on my parents for help. Almost every job I've had in life I sort of stumbled upon or they were offered by a friend or acquaintance. I never ...

I have a hard time reading. I was wondering what kind of healthcare professional I can see with health insurance or places I can visit for free tutoring/instruction on how to read.

If I can see an educational psychologist, I was wondering what would an educational psychologist do exactly.

I have difficulty with reading. I wanted to know what kind of healthcare professional I can see with health insurance to fix this at low cost or for free, or if there are places that I can visit where I can get tutoring/instruction with reading for free.

Recently I went through a few weeks of an extremely traumatic experience where unintentional, meaningless, and completely random thoughts have seemed to cause a scar on my brain and is proving to be quite the lengthy process to recover from. It all began when I heard voices in my head threatening me with violence, talking amongst their selves about doing something to me while I was sleeping, and then making me feel entrapped into a ...

Hey guys, this is my first post so here goes,

My mind is completely blank every second of the day. There are never any thoughts in my head. It is always empty. And even if I desperately try to think, I am unable to generate thought. I can’t picture or visualize anything in my head either. It is just darkness. I can’t focus on literally anything even entertainment: from YouTube videos to movies to video ...

My thoughts are becoming more and more different from people's thoughts as I'm having more and more trouble in raciocinating. When people hear what I think about stuff they say that it seems that I'm from another planet, I have absurd considerations. For example, my family was talking about schizophrenia and suddenly I realized I didn't know why people think schizophrenic people are crazy, I thought they were nice people to become acquainted with. I ...

Hello. I have a few questions about what certain cognitive issues can be or if there is a term for them. I would like some light shed on some of my issues.

I am in my early 30s. I have A LOT of "brain farts." I can probably literally listen to a song 30 times in a row and still forget most of the lyrics. Overall, I have a terrible memory (short-term and long-term). Many ...

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Only as I've gotten older I come to realise that I haven't really done anything in my life since I was 5. This isn't because I don't want to, but because I just can't retain information and since I've grown up it's gotten significantly worse. I don't know if it is down to psychological trauma or maybe it's because of the times I would go "cold-turkey" on medication as a child ...