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Anyone else feel like depression made you lose the ability to think and speak properly?

I can't even form proper sentences or use anything other than a basic set of words. They are always correcting me on my grammar when it is just me not being able to speak properly!

I get this sometimes. It's like a 'brain fog'. Makes it hard to concentrate and muddles things. I'm always forgetting specific words, often very basic ones. I know the meaning of the word but just can't get what the word is. Sometimes a thesaurus helps but when it doesn't I'll get frustrated and just have to use another word.

Inevitably I will remember the word later and be bemused that I couldn't recall such a basic term.

I would try and act like I thought people expect me to.

Yes, I keep mixing up words and stuttering a lot when I'm talking now. Like I'll have the image of the thing I want to say in mind, or the concept, but it just won't form as a word on my tongue, and I'll just keep repeating the last word of my sentence until I am able to get it out.

I can express myself so much better on paper, than by talking.

Completely lost my ability to organize and control my thoughts, and my vocabulary dropped so far that normal conversations were not even remotely possible.

Thinking is what I can relate to the most. I used to be passionate about sciences like maths, physics and computer engineering. In my first university year I was one of the bests in programming and Calculus. But for almost 2 years I feel like I'm a stupid idiot, who doesn't even deserve to study on a university.

My cognitive skills, especially my memory and logical thinking went way below average. I'm struggling not only passing my exams, but I even lost my passion towards to sciences, because I just cannot understand relatively easy things. I can't even do routines (like complex integration and vector calculus) that I was able to do pretty much easily.

I hate myself for this, all day every day I'm ashamed of myself on how can I be this stupid and why I became a dumb idiot. I hate being a garbage...

I also became incompetent in my hobbies, like Snooker and etc... I lost everything I loved in my life, how could I live with this...

I couldn't even write this comment without bursting out in tears.

Cognitive slowing is my least favorite part of depression. I’m in college right now and I desperately need to graduate, I can’t afford for my brain not to work. I’m forgetting words, losing my train of thought in the middle of sentences, and just struggling to think. I can’t put into words how hard it’s been to take these classes while feeling so freaking stupid. I used to be smart, I was valedictorian, got a full ride, now I can’t string a sentence together with my brain hurting, I can’t even do my homework anymore. I miss being able to think so much honestly, my regular brain function is the main thing I wish I could get back.

As you go on, you just realize more and more things you cannot actually do. It's like a slow death to me honestly.

I know how that feels. I am a project manager. My presentation is always filled with energy and enthusiasm. When I go to parties, i am the comedian. No one knows i am hollow and shit as hell. How i do it? I lock myself in my car and scream at myself to laugh and smile. I scream until i am tired and numb. I get out and all smiles, ready to talk. Might work for you. Might not.

Yeah I feel like this. Now I go through heavy periods of saying very little to stuttering for hours on end. Like the mouth has to stop at every other word.

I’m so glad it’s not just me... I never know what to say and it’s really affecting my life. I sound so dumb. I’m just so unsure of everything, conscious of what kind of vocabulary I use (like would this word sound weird), never think of any phrases or anything offhand.

Absolutely. It's like trying to drive a car with the hand brake pulled up, or walk through wet cement. At times I become literally mute, and unable to partake or show a modicum of interest in any conversation.

I said I know what I want to say but I physically can't and I don't know why but it makes me feel out of place. I can't say it and if I try to write it down my mind goes blank.

I have this exact problem. When in a period of depression I pretty much lose all ability to talk to people . My partner gets angry at me about it and says that its impossible that u have nothing to say. I've explained to him that its a symptom of my depression. But he just says I don't speak because I obviously don't care about him. Since he has depression himself I thought he would be more understanding but obviously not.