My brain is saturated

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That's the best description I can give.

Advice? Anyone else ever feel like this? Anything?

People don't understand and try to make it into things its not. So does anyone here understand and can anyone here help because of understanding?

I have times when my brain feels saturated. I do not know if it is the same saturated as you described.

What usually helps me is trying to get some sleep. When I am saturated, I tend to be very close to shutdown, and it is not hard to sleep in that state, even when sleeping is otherwise difficult.

Of course, it helps if the cause is gone or over when I wake up. Or if I am left alone. Sometimes going for a walk can help, but that's only when being outside doesn't result in sensory overload or disorientation.

If people are not understanding you (do you mean on WP or in real life?), perhaps you are using too few words to explain what you are going through/feeling?

Based on your description of saturated, you need an emotional/psychological/sensorial wringing out! This means removing yourself to a safe, quiet place and recuperating. Saturated implies too much input, so the remedy for that is removing as much of the input as you can.

I can empathize -- I get so frustrated when I can't communicate something important, and when people insist that they do understand despite being incredibly wrong it just makes it worse by creating another problem (i.e. misunderstanding and/or pressure).



I'm not sure if I understand or not...is it sort of like:

• Your brain is so full of brain-stuff (thoughts, feelings, etc.) that it's going too fast -- like an engine stuck in high gear?
  
  (and/or)
  
• Too much (info, experience, questions, etc.) has gone into your brain and/or been created in your brain (thoughts, feelings, questions, etc.), to the point where your brain is like a water-logged sponge, a river overflowing it's banks, a fabric bag that's coming apart at the seams, or a system of roads where traffic can't move because there are too many cars and nowhere for them to go?

This one.

And then when people push me to do stuff on their terms or faster, the roads for the cars to travel on that already has too many cars on it such that its a traffic jam and its already not going anywhere also physically shrinks underneath them suddenly at that point in time, if we're using the cars on the road analogy.

I'm incredibly introverted--I'm very hermit-like, even if I'm not a hermit. So, of course, being alone works for me. Part of it is so I can stomp around, growl, shout, talk to myself, etc. if I have to, and also so I can lie down.

I think I have felt similarly but I can't think of much advice to give ...

In general what I might do is to try to give my brain a break or do something to restore balance to my nervous system -- I'll try to do something that is simple and patterned but requires focus (e.g. juggling) or something that I could do without focusing on or thinking about anything (e.g. running)...sometimes this restores the roads to their proper size, if nothing else.

Technically speaking, everyone's brain is saturated - with blood and other fluids.

Anyway, I think I know this feeling, though I usually describe it as "my head feels too dense."

I usually describe this as "drowning" or visualize rocks being piled on my shoulders. The only thing that prevents it is doing one thing at a time and not moving on until finished. However other people expect me to be working on multiple things at once which is what usually causes this feeling for me. Once I feel this way I have to, depending on how bad or how long it has been going on is persist in doing one thing at a time, taking frequent breaks, or if it is bad turning off all lights in a very quiet area to shut everything out.

The hard part is not knowing how to convince my boss that I really do need to do only o e thing at a time.

Yes, that's a very familiar feeling. It's like, "Teacher, my brain is full! Can I go home now?" Except that it's not a classroom causing the trouble, but the whole world.

Take some steps to reduce overload, give yourself some time to process. Here's hoping things get better for you.

I take things slowly, one thing at a time to avoid that feeling. With lots of breaks of doing absolutely nothing. Actually it's not absolutely nothing since my mind is active when I appear to be doing nothing. I can't function in a fast pased world, I seem to need more time to process things, and whatever I'm doing I have to take breaks to pause and think about what I'm doing.