My stumbling upon this has been by complete accident, as this issue is something I've faced for seven years but with no "name to the face" as it were. I found another similar post and replied to that one and that led me here. Although I've never been officially diagnosed with anything, these traits or symptoms describe what I go through regularly.

My question is has anyone moved past it? I've fought it for a long time hoping it would simply go away, and on this particularly rough night, I decided to go to the internet and search for the issue hoping I could find solace in finding out that I'm not some kind of freak.

As I said on the other post I am open to correspondence for any purpose, even if its talking out the issue with someone to a common goal. I've become a complete introvert at this point, a fact that I've only come to accept after months of my old friends insisting that I'm just not the same fun-loving person I used to be. This issue gets so bad some nights I can only stare at a wall until I become distracted by something, keeping in mind this sometimes takes hours.