Hey folks,
One more question. Mind pops: are they normal with anxiety? My mind races a lot and I’ve noticed that when it’s bad, I randomly think of random memories I’ve had. I legit got so scared I was getting seizures (tests were negative and they occurred in tests), or schizophrenia (docs said I’m fine). What do you guys think about memories randomly popping in?
Get them all the time like flashes of something from years ago even.
I wonder what caused them? My therapist said it’s anxiety and stress?
Yep anxiety
Crazy!!
I have this happening to me too. It’s really severe. Nearly everything I look at or think or do causes my brain to flash up a memory and along with the memory comes a terrible feeling I can’t describe and dread. It’s particularly bad when I first wake up. I also have really vivid flashbacks of memories from dreams. They will sometimes come one after the other so I might have 10 /20 different dreams I’ve had play out in my mind and it feels like I’m having some kind of seizure. Along with these memories I have a terrible feeling like I’ve lost all connection to my self and life and normality and also a feeling like I’m remembering something terrible about myself or an awful realisation about the true nature of life and reality and myself
Have you seen a neurologist?
No I haven’t. I spoke to a psychiatrist about the possibility of this being related to temporal lobe partial seizures but she dismissed my fear saying seizures would only last a few minutes and not be as frequent as I experience these feelings. She said she thought it was related to dp/dr. I’m not convinced though. My sister has epilepsy. She has full blown grand mal seizures but also has partial seizures which manifest as extreme feelings of deja vu and repeating visual images. After her first seizure she had an eeg but it was completely normal so epilepsy doesn’t always show on an eeg like you say.
I did have an mri years ago when I first got symptoms that were later dismissed as anxiety but it was normal.
Ugh that’s so scary. The uncertainty is what really freaks me out. I had these feelings (I responded to one of your posts, where you described it perfectly) happen when it got bad. It happened again the other day. What’s interesting is that I’ll be researching seizures or MS or something (I’m a hypochondriac) when this occurs. Like I mentioned, if it was an “aura” to have the random dream flashbacks, nothing came back on the EEG and it happened during the test.. do you think it would have? My neurologist asked me if it popped in my head and I said yes and she said “good cuz it wasn’t a seizure”.
I just ask because I was terrified when this happened to me and I had an EEG and MRI and it came back as normal. I was told it was anxiety.
Conscious Mind vs. Subconscious Mind
Medication for the mind
Mindfulness &meditation
The mind is a powerful thing that must be trained.
Worried that I will lose my mind completely
