Having Trouble Writing Out Things

[Deleted member 38644]

Have you ever had trouble writing things out as if you forgotten what you was going to say or do because you end up typing a word or something in your mind that you are thinking? the things I write down isn't what I want to say. Im thinking it in my head but writing it down as I think is a completely different story

 

[bring em all in]

Very timely post, for me. I spent the afternoon journaling about one of my traumatic situations and its affect on me. I kept blanking out on words, drifting between present and past tense, writing to myself and then my mother, switching from writing a poem to prose- I was all over the place!!!

In some cases I switched from first person ("This is what happened to me") to third person ("Then this happened to him"). I feel like I left a roadkill of words and thoughts and memories along the way, but eventually I got from point A to point B- and now I'm not sure I can ever share it with anyone, although I'd like to share it with my therapist and perhaps in one of these forums. I can't even think of which heading to put it under.

 

[J'qel]

Yup. English joint honours student here (ex-my PTSD hit me halfway through my degree). Not being able to find the right word, or typing the wrong one or weird typos drive me up the wall! I know how to speak, how to write but some days it's like I completely forget everything.

I think it might be a form of dissociation but I'm not sure. All I know is that I wish it would bloody well stop. *gr*

 

[Deleted member 38644]

Very timely post, for me. I spent the afternoon journaling about one of my traumatic situations...

I thought I responded to this...thank you soooooo much

 

[Deleted member 38644]

Yup. English joint honours student here (ex-my PTSD hit me halfway through my degree). Not being able to...

Thank you

 

[bring em all in]

I just spent five minutes fumbling and stumbling and agonizing until I came up with the word "vicarious" for something else I was writing. It's sooooo frustrating. I had a second-year college vocabulary when I was in 7th grade and now, at times, it seems a 7th grade vocabulary at age 53
:(

 

[J'qel]

:( I understand. I hate those days too.

maybe we can start a "word gone-blargh!" support group :P

 

[bring em all in]

:( I understand. I hate those days too.

maybe we can start a "word gone-blargh!" support group :p[/QUOT...

I gave up on the novel I was writing because the "lost word" experience was so pervasive and frustrating. Maybe I'll damn the torpedoes and get back to it. I can leave a blank or F-bomb where I get stuck and then move on.

 

[physicist13]

indeed... this is very relatable (& makes school a bit of a struggle)