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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Interesting. Does anyone have this?

deleted_user
deleted_user
So tonight i went to see American Gangster with some friends from the wrestling team and the girls that they were. The movie was a great movie and i would recommend everyone to see it. I understanded the movie and i stayed calm throughout the movie but that was just it. I stayed calm. I didnt experience any real emotion when certain emotional parts in the movie were happening. Also when i got out of the movies i really didnt have anything to say about it except it was a good movie with a great story plot. Does anyone else go through this sort of thing? Being calm and understanding things but does not know how to show emotion without anxiety showing up?

Another thing i want to ask all of you great people out there is if you feel like your memory is bad due to anxiety. I feel like i can never remember names of people, situations that happen in my life. It is hard to recall things. If anyone knows what i am talking about please help me understand more about it. Help me overcome this and be happy and inlightend again. Thank you.

Wrestling157
deleted_user
deleted_user
I can relate to the whole memory thing.. Lately as you know, I have been really struggling with anxiety and I have kinda noticed that my memory isn't as sharp as normal. I really notice it in little things; like you said remembering names. I dunno.. maybe anxiety and memory don't have any connections, but then we are both a little weird lol!
deleted_user
deleted_user
sometimes i feel like i numb myself so much to stop the anxiety that i feel nothing. i'm sorry i have no real advice except to sympathize. :)
deleted_user
deleted_user
i cant even get in the cinema..i train myself not to think, to clear my head..i cant remember allot somedays, just dont take it in, busy concentrating on nothing, amking sure the outer shell does all the right things in the right places..i say my heads like a nobo board - is it important? not really..gone before its left a print...
deleted_user
deleted_user
i see your point of view with the movie thing, and aside from movies i've had similar things happen in real life, it's like the emotion switch has just been turned off, you see something tragic, and just don't feel though you know you should. as for the memory thing sometimes i do feel like theres gaps, and from the sound it's more the short term memory where the trouble is, i'm not sure how to combat it, it's kind of like when asked a question and your mind goes blank then when it doesn't matter anymore it comes to you. hopefully i got the right idea
sleepykitten
sleepykitten
I think I definatly don't remember things because I'm never properly listening or concentrating, my minds always on something else.
Marigolds
Marigolds
Yes, anxiety does affect memory in that it interferes with the memory process. Your memory is just as good but anxious thoughts interrupt what you were thinking about...if you see what i mean !
Marigolds
DogCrazy
DogCrazy
yes anxiety really affects my memory, cant remember things i have discussed with my children or things i have talked about with my husband.
I very often go completly blank, cant remember freinds names.
I also cannott retain information, i wonder if some of it is the meds.
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