Strange symptoms

[BetterMeToday]

Since my anxiety has been at its worst I feel like I have very little access to my memories. It’s one thing that I can’t focus so I space out and forget things right after they happen but this is like I can’t remember any shoes that’s I’ve watched. Movies I’ve seen a dozen times I can’t remember plots or names. Events I was at with people are just blank. It feels like I have no base, no center. Like all the things and experiences I’ve learned from are no longer there. Like I just got placed down into someone else’s life. It’s super strange. Does anyone else experience this?

[Ivy_chan5]

Hello. My anxiety levels are damn high, just like you. And I tend to forget things frequently. Like I cannot remember that I have kept the tap in the bathroom on for filling the bucket. I missed an important online lecture yesterday because I completely forgot about it. I also forget that I had promised to call a certain friend, etc. Something terrible happened 3 days before which has spiked my anxiety even more and I cannot quite understand the situation yet because even those memories are hazy. I have gotten clumsier, I stumble , break and spill stuff. I think it's because our mind is not focused at all on the outer environment.. it's like the real us are asleep and everything is happening on auto pilot. Maybe try to focus on one thing maybe a song or some video which might calm you down a bit. For me , I am trying to distract myself by studying way too hard like it's the only thing I can ever do.. I can't focus well but it's helping me. Let's do our best 😊

[Ivy_chan5]

I think our memories are there... they just have been covered up like the clouds which cover the moon. I also can't quite remember the things you have mentioned above but when I am calm I can. You can, too.

[BetterMeToday in reply to Ivy_chan5]

I really hope we can both get some relief. I hope that all that information is still there. I’m searching for anything that can help so it should only be a matter of time until something works. Thanks for your support Ivy

[Ivy_chan5 in reply to BetterMeToday]

Anytime. 😊 Yes, you will feel better soon. Let's do our best. 😊

[Msheatherlady]

Anxiety can cause memory loss and struggles with remembering things. This is usually caused because your mind is overloaded from the fight or flight response caused from the anxiety that puts your body in survival mode and because of this it can cause memory issues because your body is exhausted and can't keep up becuase of the stress on your body.

[BetterMeToday in reply to Msheatherlady]

Thanks for the info, it helps to know what is actually happening to me. At least I know now that it’s part of the process and not a bigger problem.

[completely-zero654]

So pleased that you have put your post on here for help as this is exactly what my husband is going through, every single little thing you have said. He has been to hospital twice by ambulance with "pain" had all kinds of tests and at one point they at the hospital were going to even operate on an expected hernia. This was until he had a C.T scan and the op thank goodness was stopped, we spent weeks with getting tests done at the hospital and all thank God was normal.

All this was down to stress and anxiety from our A.S.B neighbour who assaulted him early new years day morning, its something that has been going on for 3 years over. Since this he has become someone I don't even know at times, some days he will just sit and stare into space on other days when we go to the local shops for an hour away from here he is my husband again. He is hyper active first thing then this exhausts him until later then the t.v. goes on but he says he is not really watching it.

We have been married for 39 years, I have been registered disabled for 14 years but thank God not severely, my husband is my carer too. We live in a housing association 1 bed bungalow with a corner garden which we have built up and watched grow for 18 years, and so much has happened since I/we came back "home", I was born in the village where we live and I lost my mum in 2013 while living here, but also lost my fav uncle within 4 months as well could say that I have lost my step sister and my mum's husband as well because they have not had anything to do with me since my mum went. We all use to get on so well we went everywhere almost together, then all of a sudden for goodness knows what reason and guess I will never know, even though I have tried so hard to contact my sister and my mum's husband who I called dad only lives round the corner from us, it is like I/we have just never been to them . I even went with my mum's husband to the hospital when my sister was born and remember like yesterday her little face staring up at me as my "dad" held her just after the birth, such a wonderful site and will never forget this as long as I live. My sister is apparently now married with children of her very own, she was pregnant when my mum was poorly with lung cancer but nobody said a word to me.

Anyhow this was about my husband and how he has been, as I said he has the exact same things going on forgetting, dropping things etc., but we are on the housing list to move its the only way my husband will ever get like his old self again as the housing association will do nothing at all to help us, and that is another nightmare I wish so now have to throw myself into putting almost 4 years of hell with this neighbour onto a solicitor as I am exhausted.

Bless you, and thank you all for your experiences on this as I wasn't 100% certain this was all my husband but now I know it is.

Take care and hope you and everyone else will find some peace of mind soon, as I can fully understand now what my husband is going through. xxxxx

[BetterMeToday in reply to completely-zero654]

Thanks for your reply, solidarity is a special thing, I’m glad my post resonated with you. I hope you and your husband find the peace you so desperately need and deserve. Hang in there and best of luck to you both.

[completely-zero654]

Bless you, I did not mean to put my own problems in with your asking for help and assurance, it was that I read your post and realised that it was exactly what my dear husband was experiencing himself, and it is you that I need to say thank you to and I hope and pray that you will be able to have some support and helpful answers from the wonderful people on here who are going through and have been the same as yourself.

I want to wish you love, peace, health, happiness through this awful journey that life has just thrown at us all here, and can only hope with all I have that things will get better albeit slowly but surely given the right advice be all well again. xxxxxxx

[SunnyTomorrow22]

When you are in anxious states your body shuts down parts of the brain that it doesn't need while it is in fight or flight mode.