i’ve been dealing with adhd, ocd, depression and (most likely) gad for a while, and i might also be suffering from long-term effects of several mild(?), self-inflicted tbis over the span of 5 years.

every moment i’m awake i feel like i’m only half-conscious. i feel like my brain is always trying to catch up to my body, to the point where i almost never feel completely present. i recognize this as brain fog, but it’s so pervasive that i question whether or not it is related to dissociation. the symptoms seem to overlap quite a bit.

does brain fog fall under the dissociation umbrella? is dissociation exclusively a trauma response? (i do not have ptsd) and are there any distinct differences in symptoms, causes, or co-morbidities?

(also are either related to delirium? are any of my disorders/conditions related to it? or is it just “confusion”?)