anxiety makes me forgetful

[rainbow 333]

hi everyone 

so hubby and I went clothes shopping I was kinda of anxious but I made myself go. found a nice pair of gloves because it's getting cooler here.

guess what walked out the store with it still in my hands I hadn't paid.  I looked down and I went oh my god I didn't pay for this. so hubby said no big deal go back and pay which I did being the honest person I am. 

I thought oh god I have anxiety I don't need to be labeled as a shop lifter too now. lol

just had to share I found it amusing what anxiety can do to you.

Amber 

[Mark G 1177]

Blimey, it's really easy to do.  Anxiety creates a preoccupation which you may not even be aware of.  This preoccupation muffles the clarity of the mind and effects short term memory somewhat.  It's one of those things and will clear once your anxiety clears.

[jonathan123 2363]

Yes rainbow. Short term memory loss is a classic symptom of anxiety. Dr. Weekes talked about leaving notes for ourselves, and if we forget where we left the notes, see the joke. Once again, we exaggerate something that happens to many people, young and old. I often go to a cupboard and then stand wondering what I went there for. Just another of those pesky annoyances.    Jon.

[James417 4]

I do this kind of stuff a lot. I have anxiety and panic disorder and it gets worse out in public so I usually catch myself being out a store and forgetting important things. Just the other day I was having some anxiety and was out buying parts for my car. I was in the store and realized I almost completely forgot what I came to that store I the first place to get then i forgot and realized what I forgot when I got home. It can definitely be scary but Johnathan and mark are correct. Anxiety does do this my doctor recently remove me from my anti depressant to make sure it wasn't causing the memory loss and now that I am off of it my symptoms got worse and so did my memory. One thing I have been doing lately is writing stuff down more often but anyways yes it does happen don't worry.

[jonathan123 2363]

Yes James. The drugs mask the symptoms. We never live the pain; feel it. We run away all the time. It's not that your symptoms are worse it's that the contrast with being calmed by meds the not being calmed is great. What is memory? It's the stored thoughts that are always from the past. We act from the past, always. How could we not? The future is something we know nothing of. So in acting from the past in anxiety we always act in a negative way. This goes on and on and seems to never end. We never or rarely ACT we RE-ACT from past thoughts, memory. Panic is a good example. A faint feeling of the onset of an attack turns into full blown one. Why? Because immediately the mind re-acts to past memory. OMG's come from the past, from memory. How I felt BEFORE. Now we can go with the feelings, accept them and carry on as best we can, but is that enough? Why do we comment all the time? 'Oh dear, here it comes again' which starts a whole sequence of negative thought. 'lonesailors' 'Off Switch' is what  I had in mind. I call this the credit card syndrome. If we can slip a credit card, (metaphorically), between the initial feeling and the following reaction we 'block' any further thought. If we stop commenting then there is no further reaction. Switch it off.       Jon.

 

[rainbow 333]

thanks for the responses... yes i did that with my cellphone twice this week at work... and went all the way back to my desk, wasn't there and than went back to my car and it was on the passenger's seat all this time... 

arrrghhhhhhhhhh.... had a really stressful week at work, hopefully this week is much better. 

happy Sunday to you all