This tool helps you recognize neurological symptoms you might be dismissing.
It's not a diagnosis tool — it's a recognition tool. Just notice what feels
familiar. Save snapshots over time to see what changes.
Cognitive Symptoms
These affect how you think, process information, and use language
Word-Finding Difficulties
Not occasionally forgetting a name, but regularly reaching for common words that your brain won't give you. You know you know the word, but it won't come.
Brain Fog
A thick, syrupy feeling where thinking takes effort. Following conversations requires all your concentration. Reading the same sentence multiple times.
Processing Delays
Someone asks a question and you hear the words, but it takes several seconds for them to become meaningful. Needing things repeated not because you didn't hear, but because your brain needs more time.
Time Perception Shifts
Five minutes feeling like an hour, or an hour vanishing. Not "I lost track of time" but genuinely cannot tell if 10 minutes or 2 hours just passed.
Sensory Symptoms
These affect how you experience sight, sound, touch, and other senses
Sensory Overload
Normal sounds becoming physically painful. Bright lights making you want to hide. Too many people talking feeling like assault. Clothing textures suddenly mattering.
Vision Changes
Difficulty tracking moving objects. Words seeming to shimmer or move on the page. Trouble with depth perception. Sensitivity to patterns or visual "noise."
Touch Sensitivity
Skin feeling hypersensitive to touch. Light touch feeling irritating or painful. Difficulty with certain textures against your skin.
Motor & Movement Symptoms
These affect how you move and coordinate your body
Coordination Changes
Dropping things more. Missing when you reach for something. Tripping over nothing. Bumping into doorframes you've walked through a thousand times.
Tremor or Shakiness
Visible shaking or internal tremor (buzzing/vibrating feeling inside). Shakiness that gets worse with stress or hunger. Difficulty with fine motor tasks.
Muscle Stiffness or Tension
Muscles feeling rigid or tight without obvious cause. Difficulty with movements that should be smooth and easy.
Sleep-Related Symptoms
Neurological symptoms that affect your sleep
Restless Legs or Body
Legs that won't let you settle. Uncomfortable sensations that require movement. Difficulty staying still enough to fall asleep.
Sleep Jerks or Twitches
Sudden jerks or twitches as you're falling asleep. Movements that wake you back up.
Sleep Paralysis
Being aware but unable to move when falling asleep or waking up. Can be frightening and disorienting.
Vivid, Exhausting Dreams
Dreams that feel more tiring than restful. Waking up feeling like you worked all night.
Autonomic Symptoms
These affect your body's automatic functions
Temperature Regulation Issues
Sudden hot flashes or chills unrelated to actual temperature. Hands and feet that are always cold or always sweating.
Blood Pressure Changes
Dizziness when standing up. Feeling faint or lightheaded. Heart racing or pounding without obvious cause.
Digestive Changes
Nausea, constipation, or other gut issues that seem neurological rather than dietary. Swallowing difficulties.
Emotional/Neurological Symptoms
These feel emotional but have neurological components
Emotional Volatility
Going from fine to sobbing in seconds, or calm to rage. Not because something terrible happened, but because your nervous system just... decided.
Flat Affect
Feeling like you're watching life through glass. Emotions happening far away. Knowing you should feel something but you don't.
Anxiety Without Clear Cause
Body screaming danger but you don't know why. Not "I'm anxious about this thing" but pure nervous system activation.
Irritability
Everything is too much. Everyone is too loud. Everything anyone says feels like sandpaper on your nervous system.
Your Symptom Recognition Summary
Here's what you identified. This isn't a diagnosis — it's language for what you're experiencing.
Remember: This is recognition, not diagnosis. If you're experiencing these symptoms, consider mentioning them to your healthcare provider. Save this snapshot and print it to bring to your appointment.
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Saved Snapshots
Your recognition history. Tap any snapshot to expand. No frequency expectations — use this when something shifts.
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