Social Anxiety Support

JoshC · 10-31-2009, 01:53 PM

anyone else feel like they have a bad memory? i feel like i lose track of time sometimes because i live day by day, facing social anxiety every day. i feel like i repress so much and just live in the moment. also makes it difficult to look to the future. feel like im just stuck in whatever day it is.

millenniumman75 · 10-31-2009, 09:48 PM

Sometimes, if I am too preoccupied with stuff.
With anxiety, we tend not to live in the present enough as it is. We are either worried about the past or even more worried about the future.

Thomas Paine · 10-31-2009, 10:03 PM

What's a memory?

Girl_Loner · 10-31-2009, 10:07 PM

A while ago my perception of time was REALLY messed up. For the duration of one year, (bad depression) time seemed to go so slowly an hour felt like a day. A day felt like a month, It was horrible.

All better now though

millenniumman75 · 10-31-2009, 10:13 PM

I would get days confused.

Sunshine009 · 10-31-2009, 10:20 PM

don't we turn the clocks back an hour tonight?

Neptunus · 10-31-2009, 10:24 PM

^ Oh yeh, that's right! 1 more hour of sleep... sweeeeeet!

As for a memory, I have none. I credit years of stress, and maybe my meds, with damaging mine. Kind of stinks having the worst memory in the family at such a young age.

max4225 · 11-01-2009, 07:38 AM

I was waiting for a week to do something at 1pm a few days ago and it seemed to take the clock forever. After stressing out for a while and then getting that over with I noticed the clock said 5pm. Sometimes I don't know what day or month it is. It's hard to tell my days appart; weekday, weekend, laundry day. I'll forget to change my calendar for two months. The last time we did daylight's savings I didn't bother to change my clocks for three months. Some of my 2do lists go back over seven years.

leonardess · 11-01-2009, 07:41 AM

lately this has been getting worse for me...
I'll drift off in present conversations, worrying about the immediate future, or farther future....
and sometimes I lose touch with what I am doing and get so lost in my thoughts that when I "come to", I think I see people looking at me strangely and I wonder, did I say that out loud? Like perhaps I was thinking, "my god that's a really ugly blouse"...but did I actually say it?

glarmph · 11-01-2009, 08:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Thomas Paine

What's a memory?

That about sums it up for me. I guess when you just don't care to remember.

Oneiros · 11-01-2009, 08:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JoshC

anyone else feel like they have a bad memory? i feel like i lose track of time sometimes because i live day by day, facing social anxiety every day. i feel like i repress so much and just live in the moment. also makes it difficult to look to the future. feel like im just stuck in whatever day it is.

Yup can very much relate to this. Most of the time I can't remember what happened yesterday, because what I'm doing in the moment is so intense. This is only new though, after I spent about a year in a very high level of almost constant anxiety. I don't have many plans for life or anything, and often find it hard to plan ahead even for some small things.

Makes me wonder though, what's worth remembering? It's all gone when you're dead, so who cares. I don't feel stuck in the moment, most of the time I feel really free, unless anxiety is ripping me to pieces. Having bad memory and poor intellectual capacity keeps my life simple and somewhat carefree, because I'm not burdened with having to have a great job, career, fancy things, etc.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thomas Paine

What's a memory?

According to someone I used to know, 'a memory is an undigested experience'. I won't try and explain what he said next, it's too deep for me.

inna sense · 11-02-2009, 06:27 AM

i have a horrible memory

Prakas · 11-02-2009, 10:36 AM

I choose not to remember most things

shyvr6 · 11-02-2009, 01:59 PM

I forgot what I was going to say.

10-31-2009, 01:53 PM	#1 (permalink)
JoshC Status: Permanently Banned Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA Gender: Male Posts: 51	perception of time? anyone else feel like they have a bad memory? i feel like i lose track of time sometimes because i live day by day, facing social anxiety every day. i feel like i repress so much and just live in the moment. also makes it difficult to look to the future. feel like im just stuck in whatever day it is.

10-31-2009, 09:48 PM	#2 (permalink)
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Neptunus Status: Authenticating Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: USA Gender: Female Posts: 2,840	^ Oh yeh, that's right! 1 more hour of sleep... sweeeeeet! As for a memory, I have none. I credit years of stress, and maybe my meds, with damaging mine. Kind of stinks having the worst memory in the family at such a young age. __________________ "When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing." ~Rabindranath Tagore "Being gentle means forgiving yourself when you mess up. We should learn from our mistakes, but we shouldn't beat the tar out of ourselves over them. The past is just that, past. Learn what went wrong and why. Make amends if you need to. Then drop it and move on." ---Sean Covey

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Thomas Paine Status: Fail Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: USA Gender: Male Age: 28 Posts: 1,698	What's a memory?

10-31-2009, 10:07 PM	#4 (permalink)
Girl_Loner Status: SAS Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Cardboard Box Gender: Female Posts: 524	A while ago my perception of time was REALLY messed up. For the duration of one year, (bad depression) time seemed to go so slowly an hour felt like a day. A day felt like a month, It was horrible. All better now though

11-01-2009, 07:38 AM	#8 (permalink)
max4225 Status: SAS Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Great Basin Desert by lilac bushes Gender: Male Posts: 691	I was waiting for a week to do something at 1pm a few days ago and it seemed to take the clock forever. After stressing out for a while and then getting that over with I noticed the clock said 5pm. Sometimes I don't know what day or month it is. It's hard to tell my days appart; weekday, weekend, laundry day. I'll forget to change my calendar for two months. The last time we did daylight's savings I didn't bother to change my clocks for three months. Some of my 2do lists go back over seven years.

11-01-2009, 07:41 AM	#9 (permalink)
leonardess Status: wheresthefire?inmyeye! Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: WILL you people please leave me alone?I'm supposed to be working lol Gender: Female Age: 45 Posts: 1,226	lately this has been getting worse for me... I'll drift off in present conversations, worrying about the immediate future, or farther future.... and sometimes I lose touch with what I am doing and get so lost in my thoughts that when I "come to", I think I see people looking at me strangely and I wonder, did I say that out loud? Like perhaps I was thinking, "my god that's a really ugly blouse"...but did I actually say it? __________________ One day I will change this sig to something really cool, if I only had a brain....

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inna sense Status: SAS Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 3,140	i have a horrible memory __________________ duality in oness << new song click here for some songs i did with others

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Prakas Status: Failure - Life Sucks Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Delaware Gender: Male Age: 21 Posts: 425	I choose not to remember most things

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