[paradox22]

Help my mind goes blank all the time, especially when I try harder to think. Is this because of ptsd? Or not eating? I'm also scared all the time.

[LittleLeah]

I get that too but when presented with a decisio. I'm not sure if it's an anxiety thing or PTSD. I just know it's gotten worse since my PTSD. Sometimes my fiancé asks me where I want to go to dinner and I go blank. My go to response is "I don't know" but that's not adequate for getting by in life. And it's so frustrating!

[Open Eyes]

It sounds like you are disassociating paradox. That is your brain/mind trying to slow down and manage the stress and taking a break. PTSD tends to disrupt the subconscious mind where we are often on "auto drive" but don't realize it. When we experience a trauma we are ususally caught off guard, and that affects how we develop a comfort with our surroundings in our subconscious mind. That is also why a person with PTSD becomes a lot more sensitive to their surroundings, and have more anticipation anxiety because we experienced something that was a major threat to our sense of safety and that can affect us on a much deeper level then we realize.

Are you seeing a therapist?

[Shaly78]

This use to happened to me a lot especially in group like erasing everything. I use to rack my brain as to why especially with having a spiel before hand. I thought it was because of stares I got, just everything. It took practice and it just went away and doesn't happen that often. Yes, discuss that with your therapist dissociation and ptsd be very specific when else it happens in your life. It is helpful to put in yourself in places to know when it happens for example interviews, speaking on the phone, therapy, school.

[skeksi]

Happens to me, too. Not as often as before I started with T. For me it is a fear thing, like a freeze response. It is sometimes dissociation but sometime not as severe amd I feel present, just very stuck and frozen.

It's had but try to be caring and compassionate towards yourself when it happens.