Blank mind

[Lindsey14]

Sometimes my mind just feels so overwhelmed... Sometimes I feel so light in my head, I don't feel like myself. I feel so disconnected sometimes it scares me...its also hard fir me to remember stuff well.... Is this normal for anxiety?

[Kkimm]

Hi Lindsey

Yes this is very normal for anxiety. The more we dwell on symptoms the more we get them. It is hard to stop doing this but try distraction and set yourself little challenges every day and do them whether or not your symptoms remain. Then allow yourself to feel good you have achieved them and do something rewarding and relaxing. You may already be doing all this and leading a full life so my apologies if that is the case.

I found the confusion and short memory very difficult at the beginning of my anxiety condition as I had always loved to read and I could not seem to retain anything I had read. I lost interest in everything and everyone and felt really detached from the world, I was also depressed as well as anxious. Very gradually after going on antidepressants things began to come back to me and I could remember and concentrate again. I am now fully back to normal in this respect. Very rarely when I am both over tired and over stimulated, very happy actually as my medication can cause me to be a bit high at times as it is a SNRI antidepressant, which also blocks the reuptake of Noradrenaline as well as Seratonin, I can find I have a short period of being unable to take things in and a sudden short memory loss. A sort of where am I moment. This is not unusual on Venlafaxine apparently so I do not worry about it. It is over very quickly.

So antidepressants can sometimes appear to cause periods of memory loss as well as this being caused by anxiety, this however for me has been a very small price to pay for being in the sick and terrified state I was in when really ill about 20 months ago.

I hope you feel better soon.

Very best wishes

Kim

[Lindsey14 in reply to Kkimm]

Thank you❤