Foggy-headed and zoning out
Left the bottle behind 4/16/2015
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Foggy-headed and zoning out
An incident here on SR today brings to mind another issue I'm dealing with during these first few months of sobriety. I can't seem to make sense out of things sometimes. I posted to someone's thread here, looked back at what I wrote, felt like an idiot because I thought I said the opposite of what I meant, corrected it, then looked back again and it appears I had it right the first time after all! Even at work, I find myself completely zoning out while someone is talking to me and feeling so embarrassed when it becomes apparent I have no idea what we're discussing. Sometimes I find myself just staring with my mouth gaped open. WTF?! I don't think I appeared this addled and confused even when I was drinking! Did I fry my brain? Anyone else deal with that?
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It's very common. I just posted about it in the thread "My log: finally quitting alcohol and weed, permanently".
Depending on your age and extent of past drinking, you can expect it to get much better with more time.
Depending on your age and extent of past drinking, you can expect it to get much better with more time.
I called it my foggy brain syndrome; my head didn't true start to clear until after 6 months. I found it the most alarming while driving. I quite literally had to keep telling my "focus, focus, focus" over and over again. So many posters on this site have told of similar experiences; it will get better, GetMeOut.
A month or so back I was driving down the highway totally zoned out. Felt like I was drunk and had to shake my head a few times. This happened more than once. It was 60 days since my last drink when that happened. I still wake up sometimes in a sort of fog. It's really weird and hard to explain.
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