Mentally washed out

I was wondering if anyone else experiences a mentally washed out period after an episode. A brain fry period.

I've felt this way since July. I spent two hours tonight, in a quiet room, just staring at a wall. I can't concentrate on writing or reading. I have tmi issues. I feel faded, like I'm going through certain motions but am not all there, for lack of a better description. I feel like I fried my brain! It feels like my brain is healing right now or something. The only thing I can concentrate on is coloring mandalas. I even have trouble coming on here and reading posts, which is why I haven't been posting very much lately.

So, brain fry period, anyone else?

Or am I just weird?

I felt this way after I had my first psychotic break too, last January.

The episode I'm recovering from was from April through August, where I ended up in the hospital twice. It was the most intense episode I have ever had! By far the worse.

Yes, and the worse the episode, the worse and longer my recovery period is. It really does feel like the brain needs to heal. I would stare at walls for hours and hours. All those symptoms I relate with.

How long does it take you to recover, elsa?

After my first break...I felt like I was literally starting over. Every thing seemed foreign to me, and I had to relearn my job. I slowed way down with meds....Everything was so intense like I noticed every little detail....
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Days, weeks or months depending on the episode. I'm not entirely sure if I do heal completely. I've felt broken for a few years now. Stability is fleeting these past few years. I feel mostly healed right now but it's pretty likely I'm not.

This has been my experience too. The worse the episode the longer the recovery period. In June I had a horror mixed episode (lasted five weeks even while in hospital being medicated to the eyeballs). I forgot periods of time during that month as I was so unwell, agitated and out of reality. The mixed episode ended around June 27th but I have only began to feel 'normal' in the last few weeks. So about three months recovery.

Thanks for the responses everyone!

I'm hoping I start recovering soon. This whole staring at the wall, having difficulty reading thing is getting old.

Yes, every time I've been hospitalized it's taken some time to recover...it's traumatizing and mentally exhausting

I am still having trouble reading and focusing really well after my 2 year episode that finally ended this spring. I am reading books I have read before and that works and sometimes I can get through a newer book (but without knowing entirely what is going on) but it's still hard. Of course we still don't have the sedation worked out so that might be the actual problem. But I always have times that are completely gone from my memory after an episode and it takes varying times for me not feel like my brain is just TIRED after what it goes through. I'm happy with where I am now compared to a year ago when I was so sick I couldn't really talk well but I am still not nimble of mind yet. I do a lot of thinking "WHAT was I doing?" or forgetting stupid little things that normally I wouldn't.

I actually still recovering from.a psychotic break I had in 2012/2013, everything just feel abnormal, I'll never feel the way I did before the break, and I was also in and out of hypomanias during that time aswell, and it all went untreated (I mentioned it to a psychiatrist that tried dx-ing me schizo-affective which I'm not, but I stopped seeing him shortly after), so yea it went untreated. And I'm not fully recovered yet...