This memory thing messes daily when I have to recollect faces and money matters. All in head is confusion and vague. I have been going through the same thing the past few years now, memory loss, feeling like I'm in a fog, the pressure in my head, everything. I go for an MRI soon not sure if that's going to show anything. I worry about early onset Alzheimer's, everything you said is spot-on how I feel, about your memory on how something you did that morning feels like you did it the day before reading your article feels like I'm looking in a mirror if I get any answers I will definitely let you know what I find out.
I totally empathise with you. I have had these feelings for au don't know how long. I just feel utterly confused, whirring temples, I tried to explain that it feels like I have woken up but do not know how to do the things I once knew, nor can I pursue anything new. Taylor, I am 24 and share your exact same symptoms!
Your story is identical to mine. It's something that just came on overnight and has never gone alway.
Have you discovered anything new since your posting? Edited 8 months ago. Hi,I was reading about your symptoms and I have the same memory issue with my anxiety,I guess that's what its from,I've had anxiety for years now and I've tried dif meds but I've been on celexa for a few years now,it helps some but lately my anxiety has been getting worse,I can't remember things like I'm losing my mind,I feel very anxious all the time,I dnt wna go anywhere cuz I feel so tense and uncomfortable,I dnt wna b alone at all,I'm always worried that something is going to happen to me,I dnt knw what to do anymore,it has taken over my life and I have 2 young boys to take care of,I'm 37 and I shouldn't be so afraid to do normal things!
Edited 6 months ago. I have the exact same thing, and I can pretty much guarantee at this point it's not anxiety and depression. That's just a cat hall diagnosis for when you have mental symptoms that no one can explain.
If anything, depression is caused by these symptoms not not the other way around. This started for me in One morning I woke up feeling slightly strange. I popped an aspirin thinking I was getting a headache or something.
But 15 minutes later, I had all the symptoms you described. Complete dissociation from reality, total stoned feeing, unable to remember things that happened outside of the current moment, weird pressure feeling in head. I remember callung my mom and telling her my brain felt clogged.
Since then it's gone in waves of better and worse. It varies hour to hour, day to day, week to week. I've noticed I started avoiding hanging out with people because I struggle to process conversations and they're more stressful than they're worth.
My memory is shot. People at work say things like, "what a great day! Names are impossible. I forget what I'm saying mid sentance. I forget what I'm doing mid action. Time goes by ridiculously quickly because i have no grasp on it.
Yet I'm exhausted by 6pm every day. I've also developed a chronic neck pain that seems to go hand in hand with the rest of the symptoms. Have you experienced that? I've seen every type of doctor I can think of. I've run all the tests. They're all clueless. Nothing has changed in the last 3 years.
I'm still suffering. I'm convinced this is a problem caused by something new that doctors don't yet know about. When I googled it years ago there was nothing on the internet about it. Now I'm finding a handful of other people like you. Fortunately, it IS anxiety and depression. Mainly anxiety. I used to think it wasn't and that doctors were just being lazy and decided to slap on an easy diagnosis.
However over the years of dealing with this i've come to realize it is infact anxiety but a whole new transformation of it, a deep rooted chronic anxiety which doesn't feel like your typical anxiety. I too have been through every specialist in the book. I've gotten MRI's every blood test known to man and dog and all to no avail.
I've taken every antidepressant in the book which never help. For others it could be an extreme subconscious stress. School work, existential, anything. My symptoms are feeling drunk all the time like my vision is off, ringing in the ears constant brain fog like im living in a dream, easily forgetful and confusion as well as alot more symptoms including muscle spasms cramps fatigue ect. Just chiming in to say I have the same symptoms too severe brain fog, bad tinnitus , just overall spaced out feeling like I'm only partially here.
Most times I listen to people speak but only retain a small percentage of what they said. It takes tremendous effort to stay engaged in conversations because I tend to feel like I'm in the "twilight zone" most of time. I tired pretty much every day because my sleep isn't the best either. I dream something terrible every night and usually very dramatic dreams at that.
I've been to literally doctors over the past several years and the only consistent diagnosis I get is anxiety. Like my system is in a "hyped up" state and just can't relax. I don't have an extremely stressful life so I don't know why I remain this way.
It was stressful years ago due to various issues in the family but most of that is over and much better now. Maybe once your system is "tripped up" into anxiety it's a very long road back to harmony again. I tried klonopin, xanax, various anti-depressants and nothing seemed to make me much better and gave me bad side effects in most cases some of them being worsened anxiety which made matters worse so as of now I'm not on any medication.
Jayocaine - you treat your anxiety with only CBT right? Any medication at all work for you? Not that it would work for others, but just wondering. It totally sucks dealing with this daily and I feel both your pain. You just want to experience life with excitement and energy again. We can't give up hope though. There HAS to be a cure. No medication doesn't help at all, in fact it makes it worse. I've been dealing with this for about 6 years. I've done alot of searching and studying.
I've finally come to realize it's dissociation. Derealization to be exact. There is no cure per se. BUT good news, you can actually deal with it quite well and live a fullfilled life. I mean look at abe lincon and winston churchill and vincent van gogh they've all desbrived experiencing what we do. Anyways what we have are very very sensitive brains due to whatever caused us to be this way. What happened is the wiring in your brain has changed and due to brain elasticity we can overcome it.
CBT is extremely extremely important. Medication, doesn't work for me due to my sensitive brain, even a cup of coffee sends me into a foggy state of nothingness. Put it this way, since I started coming to these forums and thinking about it, reading about it.
It's gotten ten times worse. When I was roofing it was still there it just didn't bother me because I was too busy roofing and working hard. It was still there, it just wasnt as bad as it is now that i'm sitting on my computer talking about it. Posted 4 years ago. I have the same exact thing! Low grade fever and all even though its got on my cheeks like I have the flu.
No idea what it is but I so struggle with anxiety I'm trying to get help and do anything I can I want this to go away so bad! I've had the same for 11 months. I finally researched physical symptoms of depression and thought I'd try antidepressants. I've been on Zoloft for 2 weeks and I'm starting to feel better. I've had dizziness , brain fog, memory loss, exhaustion, and feeling like I'm not really living.
The Zoloft seems to be helping. Maybe something to consider. The only way I can explain this feeling is being stoned, but uncomfortably stoned. I have a constant pressure in my head, constant humming in my ears, grainy vision, memory is terrible, I can't remember much of what I did earlier during the day. I feel as if I'm dreaming almost, there is a constant fog that I live in. Some days are worse then others. Sometimes I don't even want to leave my house because I literally can't focus on anything.
On these bad days Sometimes I'm not even sure if I said something or if I thought it I get so out of it. This first happened to me when I was One day I was hanging out at school and then boom it was like an all of a sudden thing. I was terrified I prayed for it to go away and tried to just sleep it off but it never left. I'm 23 now and to this day I still feel it. It is permanent. Over these many years I have learnt how to deal with it.
I've gotten used to it and I know how to deal with it when it gets really bad. I live a completely normal fuctioning life. If you aren't already at that point you will get there. It may take a lot of time. Took me about 2 maybe 3 years and I'm still not fully used to it. I still wish I felt normal like I used to. But if we have to live with it for the rest of our lives there is no point letting it destroy us.
And then, boom, somehting clicks again and I feel even worse. And that is then my new baseline from which it will again jsut go downhill to a new lower low. And none of them was as bad as this one. I'm so sorry for your suffering. Having a mysterious illness is truly painful. Most people don't understand. My symptoms started in January of I've been tested for SO many things and they're all negative.
I've been taking Zoloft for a month now and I think it's helped with the dizziness , but it's causing me some other problems, so I may have to try something else.
I definitely believe that stress, anxiety , depression , and diet play a huge role in our health. Have you tried altering your diet? Please forgive me if I ask you a question you've already answered; my memory is horrible these days I have altered my diet way back in , no carbs, no sugar, lots of veggies etc.
But eben though I changed my diet I got these symptoms anyway. But back then they never were as pronounced as they re now nor did they last for as long. Over the last 10 years I had 4 or 5 MRIs of my brain done, all came back just fine. Like dementia for example.
My concentration is terrible, I get so irritable at work because of all the noise, bright lights, and stress. Withthe new plateau being my new baseline from which it will get even worse after a while. Hello I'm glad I found this. I have panic anxiety lately and foggy head weird fuzzy feeling put on Ativan as needed cuz I couldn't sleep. I really don't want to stay on it though. Going to try amino acid therapy.
Trying to do some meditation, only works for so long. In the beginning this feeling would come and go, somedays I'd feel perfectly fine, the next, not so much. This went on for a few months, if I'm remembering correctly. Then one day it never left me and I've been like this ever since. If what you experience is anything like what I have been living with for the past 9 years all I can say is that it does get easier.
For me I found myself getting used to it. It's hard because you always want to feel that "normal" feeling again, which conviently never comes. But once you've accepted that it gets better. What I had to do was force myself to do my daily tasks. For memory I also started keeping a journal and I write down everything I have done in a day then recap when I need to, it's quite handy to say the least.
Other then that just live your life the best you can. Enjoy the things you love to do. Evenutally you'll find yourself not even noticing it Hi dylan, I agree with you. Most doctors follow a protocol of blood work and various generic tests and give up pretty quikly especially in the U. For me, I had viral meningitus when i was 30, It was caused my the Epstein Barr virus and completely wiped me out. I went into a contant state of numbness, always feeling like I had poor sleep all through the day for 11 years now.
This had ruined my ability to concetrate, I do not have the ability to get credentials I need becuase of the non stop mental exuastion, In the U. One thing people should keep in mind on the forum is known viruses like Epstein Barr are in your body for life and have often been cited as possible causes of 'chonic fatigue syndrome'. I'm living proof of this, I'm numb as I write this, just as i always am, from the day the doctor told me I had meningitus from Epstein Barr 11 years ago until this moment, the relationship is clear as day.
I can so relate. Being a mum of small children is a real concern when you feel this way. I'm so worried about how my child will be affected by my impairment. My symptoms are very similar to yours! I hate that this is in my life while I'm responsible for a young child.
I just came across this discussion. I wrote a reply to the original post. I am suffering from the same symptoms. I am thinking that we should form a group and contact neuroscientists who might find our group useful for their research to understand brain more.
I now came to a conclusion that this is my new state of mind and I gave up on hoping that I will ever have the same clarity as I used to have. It is horrible to feel disconnected and stoned all the time but what encourages me is that other people learnt to live with it.
If it is more of us together forming a group, doctors and scientists would take us seriously than if we are on our own. What are your thoughts? I'm on board to contact a neuroscientist group I'm currently in a bad phase of it now and sometimes it worries me especially when I'm driving and have passengers in car.
I am so spaced out that I don't make the safest driving decisions and take chances I shouldn't. I almost seem to have an "I don't care whatever I just feel like I'm so mentally messed up and unable to focus. I also get very irritable if someone breaks my focus or talks over me.
I don't know what's happened honestly. I have gone through a lot of stress and think my adrenals took a beating so maybe that has something to do with it along with hormonal imbalance possibly.
It's a big mystery to me but I would love to feel mentally "with it" again. It's been so long Plus I have such horrible fatigue most days that causes me to just want to lay down and sleep at any given moment. I'm on board for an experimental group to try and help us out Nice to hear you say you keep trusting the Lord.
That's exactly what has carried me through all these years, and I tell you I've had some moments where I honestly thought I'd be seeing Him very soon. I was so exhausted and mentally in such a strange place that I didn't know if I'd see the next day.
I have hit seasons of where I feel better, although not back to myself by a long shot, but I'm thankful for those times. Right now is pretty tough so please keep me in prayer and I'll do the same for you. God Bless you as well. Yes I will be praying.
He loves us and is with us. I'm 15 gonna be 16 soon and i suffer from anxiety. My brain fog is bothering me these days coz i have my finals.
Just wanted to say the best of luck to you and your future. I know its been over a year since this post, but literally every single symptom you've described has been my exact situation, slowly exponentiating over the last 2 or 3 years. I know I have untreated depression and anxiety, but I'm curious if treatment will help or has helped anyone here. Did you have any luck? I can't speak for anyone else but for me I just keep pushing forward.
I try not to think about it, keeping busy and trust God is the best thing that has worked for me. I am trying new things and will post if they work. I'm also on board to join a group - I've been experiencing the same foggy and weird neurological issues. For anyone who is reading this and looking for reassurance that they are not the only one with embarrassing cognitive problems, this is my experience:. For a little over a year now I have been in an on-again off-again fog.
With the fog taking over more frequently and intensely in the last few months. I get confused easily, am incredibly forgetful, have a hard time finding words or staying focused, I avoid social interactions because I feel like an idiot, get random blurry vision, extreme headaches, constant fatigue, lack of motivation, numbness in my hands and face. I have a strange sense of time - hours, days even, can go by without even noticing.
When I don't have a headache my brain and ears feel under pressure. I definitely still have moments where I feel sharp, awake, and, despite sounding corny, actually alive.
But those moments are few and far between at this point. Also, Thanks to TaylorMason for the original post, and everyone else who is struggling with this. Hi Celia, thanks for posting. I recognize every bit of what you're saying and I'm sorry you also have to go through this. Please keep us updated on your doctors' appointment.
I'm curious about their conclusion. Let me know what you find. I think we might have neurological Lyme disease. What kind of treatment did your son get Cari? I don't think I suffer from depression or anxiety but I do from silent migraines. I also got Lyme disease. Some mental health conditions that may cause anxiety and brain fog include :. This also elevated their risk of brain fog. Chronic fatigue syndrome , which can cause a person to feel frequently exhausted, may cause both anxiety and brain fog.
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