I've been take 50mg of Sertraline 2 weeks now, along with .50mg of clonazepam 2x a day. I literally feel like I'm losing my mind. I feel like I can't remember anything. My mind is blank. Its hard to find words to talk. It's really scaring me. I never experienced it before and I'm afraid the memory loss is caused by something else that the doctors are just pushing off as "anxiety"? It's all that's on my mind... that I can't remember things. Then I try to remember what I done today or yesterday and I don't know. It takes me a long time to figure out something I did. Has anyone experienced this before? Or am I literally just going crazy???
I'm not on any medicine at the moment and I still went through the exact same thing. I felt like I wasn't even in my own body or mind. I felt like my life was a dream it was the weirdest most scary thing ever. I cried and cried thinking I was going crazy. I'm pretty sure it was a severe episode of depersonalization. It's a way your mind tries to protect you from anxiety or stress. I had this without medicine, but some medicines can make this worse.
The best thing to do is just accept that it's in your head and that it will go away in time. Easier said than done I know, but if you keep checking to see if you're foggy, you'll overthink it and you'll never recover.
Remember, if you were really going crazy, you wouldn't know it. Crazy people don't really know they're crazy.
Good luck friend I hope you start to feel better soon. This took me a few weeks to get out of and I still feel it slightly from day to day (almost a month later) but the really bad days are behind me.
I am here to talk if you need to, feel free to message me any time.
Wrangler
I do not know how old you are, I suffer a diagnosed Congenital Short Term Memory Disorder, believe me you do not want to go there the tests etc last for five weeks as they test for Dementia, I was lucky although they now keep an eye on me.
I am sixty six that is why I ask.
You have not been on your medications long enough, another four weeks will hopefully see a positive result.
Stop worrying take your medications and control your Anxiety
BOB
Hi Bob I'm 30 years old.