Posted by Automated Lady on May 22, 2002, at 8:51:41
In reply to Re: Can anxiety cause memory and physical problems?, posted by bookgurl99 on May 20, 2002, at 11:20:36
Just to say I'm suffering badly from anxiety at the moment and I seem to be getting really bad memory loss.. my memory's never been THAt great, but now I find I can't remember what I said or did 24 hours earlier. And the more I think about it, the worse it gets... I also find I can't think of words, I stutter slightly, and sentence constructions seem strange to me. And physically... my hands have just started shaking all the time and I've been sleeping with my fists clenched! Any of this sound familiar? It would help me if it did, because when I get anxious I also turn into a hypochondriac and think I have the worst diseases possible (and start doing obsessive internet research which ALWAYS confirms my fears...) Problem is, I can't go on SSRIs for it (like Efexor or Celexa) because then I just have the opposite problem - I have no drive or interest in anything at all and I just sleep all day. At the moment the anxiety is preferable to that (we'll see how it goes though...)
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