Posted by noa on January 24, 2003, at 5:26:29
In reply to Re: Does anxiety do this to anyone else?, posted by mikhail99 on January 23, 2003, at 9:44:12
I think I remember Daniel Amen describing ADHD this way--the harder you try to concentrate, the less able you are to concentrate.
I think anxiety can cause similar effects. I have ADD-like symptoms but I think they are from anxiety and depression (and maybe partly from my medication).
In therapy, I have recently been discussing how when we talk about something that evokes very strong feelings from me, my mind becomes very disorganized and I have difficulty getting things to stop "flying around" so I can focus on one thougth at a time. It is like I can "see" my thoughts flying around but they are going so fast I cannot figure out what they actually are.
Another effect is that I sometimes lose access to my language skills. Like coral's two year old, perhaps, I have started calling it my "infant brain". I also sometimes visualize it as my amygdala flaring up and blocking my frontal lobe and hippocampus and language centers from operating.
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