Anxiety Support Group

Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...

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rsimmons 08/29/2011

Hi all,

I have had a feeling of being outside of myself, or sort of like I am fading away for about 3 years now. This feeling never fully goes away, but sometimes it is more intense than at other times.

Does anyone else experience this?

I was also wondering if you wouldn't mind describing some of your memory or concentration issues. I am having a very hard time with mine, but because my doctors have not been able to measure my symptoms by their means they attribute these to my depression.

Are these symptoms common to Anxiety?

flowerA 08/29/2011

Hi, Try very hard not to keep going over bad times for a start. One of my bad times was; when in panic mode my husband walked into the room and I just could not think of his name, I knew who he was, but name would not come for a while, when I calmed a bit his name just popped back in my head. How strange was that, it did scare me untill Doctor told me ; these thing happen when in panic or illness in body.

Well now you take care and keep looking forward as I am trying to do.Love Ann x

deleted_user 08/29/2011

Flower gives very good advice. I find the more I dwell on it, the worse the symptoms get. When my anxiety is high, I have a vey hard time remembering numbers, recalling events, what I need at the store, forget things that people just told me, etc. Sucks! But on the bright side.....when it does kick in people don't expect much from me so its kind of like a mini vacation.

deleted_user 08/29/2011

if it is common to anxiety i wouldn't be surprised. think of all the energy your brain is using while u r stressed. it's like being caught up in another world. i just had a huge panic atttack over a small task i had to do for my husband's work. i'm a perfectionist & get rattled easily if i can't figure out what seems to be a simple task for most people. my memory of the situation is thankfully waning although my heart is still palpitating. with fibro fog and slight brain damage from an injury memory problems from anxiety related issues obviously give me good enough reasons to forget not only my husband's name but mine as well. on the serious side, i have an incresingly hard time learning new tasks and retaining instrutions. it took me spprox. 10 times recently just to learn how to e-mail which i know u have all been doing for eons. the only way i could finally remember wwas by writing how to pick up my incoming and reply to my e- mailstep by step. it remains a daunting task to me just as it does to navigate around this site. you are not alone in your feeling of having memory gaps.

rsimmons 08/29/2011

Thank you all for your comments.

I posted this question on the Bipolar Group and now believe it is probably an effect from either one or all of my mental illnesses. I have Bipolar 2, General Anxiety Disorder, and Major Depressive Disorder.

Thank you all again.

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