Debilitating symptoms. Brain fog...extreme memory loss...spacey 24/7!

EVERYTHING described here I feel 24/7. I can also say that I experience the memory loss, and it's not just long term but short term predominantly.

I forget what I even did at work the day before, what I ate the other day, what I did on my days off and so forth and that's just a few days not to mention a week ago or more.

I'm 23 and it feels like I've felt like this ever since I was a young kid, so it's hard to say 'when' this first started but it's been over 10 years.

Days, weeks, months go by and it just feels worse/same/never any better. Some days I can cope but others are less on the easy side... it feels like I'm just floating/drifting through life.

I was put on anti-depressants for anxiety/depression but later felt they made it worse. I haven't been through many tests myself as I'm so scared to talk about this with anyone. I've never been able to describe this, nor put it into words until I saw this post and threads today.

I'm not sure what to even expect from posting this but it feels like it provides some relief in just saying it.

look up intercranial pressure

i saw this post a few weeks ago and I have not been able to stop thinking about it.

I went through the exact same thing. In november of 2020 I had my first panic attack. I am in quite the strenuous relationship myself and being a senior in highschool doing the IB diploma defintely has not made it any easier.

ever since that panic attack, I have not been the same. I would feel completely stoned out of nowhere. I would be at socials completely glazed over. my eyes were glassy and there was nothing i found that did anything about it. I couldnt remember ANYTHING. my ability to think about simple tasks was completely shot and there was nothing i could really appreciate as a result of that. I numbed myself out and had absolutely no emotion to anything. When I drank alcohol, I would only feel worse than I already did. Nicotine buzzes no longer felt like nicotine buzzes, and only spiked my anxiety afterwards. I have spent hours on google trying to figure out what is wrong with me. I have gotten blood tests, taken vitamins, changed my sleep schedule, upped my physical activity, tracked my hydration... everything... i even MEDITATED...but still no result.

I am a healthy kid and completely functional, headed to university next year and I wanted to figure this out before i left. I finally gave up and went to talk to a specialist and I am now on SSRI's. i am using 20mg of fluoxetine every other day and I cannot express the difference I have felt in the matter of a week. I am finally almost back to where I was before all of this started. I feel grounded again. Depersonalization/derealization was a huge thing that I realized was affecting me. All the feelings of being outside of myself and not being present wherever I was i could attribute to that concept. it may not be exactly what youre feeling, but how you described yourself was exactly how i would describe myself, and i found that derealization is pretty spot on.

the pressure in the head is very very weird. It feels like there's like a rock in my brain or something like the back of my head is just one big thick cloud.

If you havent done this yet, I absolutely recommend fluoxetine. I have had 0 side effects so far and i can finally enjoy music. i can finally feel tired. I can be sad about things and i can feel what its like to be happy again. This experience has been hell on earth but I am so thankful that i have finally (hopefully) made it out.

I really hope this helps 😃

I too have these symptoms although they started a couple of months after having covid doctors don't seem to care too much was hoping to find a cure in this forum but I guess that would have been too easy

im starting to wander if its our diet. a friend of mine suffered for the last few years, been on every type off medication for depression & so on and nothing worked; untill finally discovered his gut wasnt able to break down processed foods. which resulted in posion been sent to his brain., which was making him feel depressed and so on. now on a much cleaner diet and feeling much better,

id like to hope this is some of the problems. but feeling douthfull in my case, i just cant seem to get enough sleep, im never going to get that feeling of fresh after a nights sleep, drives me mad. & symptomes seem worse for the last few days. but yet it can lift for a few hours (not completely but enough to function.) and then back again seem to get worse than before, ( dont even no how its possible to feel any worse anymore)

After going through a lot of stress at work, I started developing similar symptoms that lasted a few weeks at a time, but were not too severe.

Then, a year or two after the first episodes, it suddenly became worse. Constant, extreme fogginess and memory degradation. As I walked, it felt like I was not controlling my own body. I would go to get groceries and buy something, only to return home to find out I had already bought the same item earlier that day. I would come back from work and just lie on my couch all day waiting for it to stop. There was no stress in my life at that time nor anything that I could identify as a trigger. I was an otherwise healthy 26 year old.

As many of you, I visited a doctor who ended up attributing this to anxiety - something I didn't particularly feel identified with. According to him, my symptoms didn't sound severe enough to be a real issue? But to me, it felt like I wasn't myself anymore.

I don't know how, but it subsided after about 2 months. I am not aware I did anything to get better, except label it with the term "anxiety".

Two years later I still have it, but not 24/7. It gets better for a few weeks then worsens again. It gets triggered the most when I go out during the day, and sometimes when I meet people - I think being scared that this will happen actually triggers it. When it happens, I have no idea how to handle it. I have tried sitting down and waiting it out, meditating, hurrying to my destination, exercising, persevering through it, ignoring it. Nothing works, except returning home and resting. I did go to a therapist and although it helped with other issues, it didn't with this.

I wanted to thank you for sharing your symptoms. I feel like I can understand mine better now. And next time I visit a doctor, I think I'll be able to better describe what is happening.

Hello, how can I send a private message on this site? I really need to contact with one of the users

I only made an account here to respond to your thread because My heart definitely goes out to you. I'm experiencing the same thing right now, word-for-word. So far, the only thing that has helped me in the past was Sativas. Normally I hated smoking (as in I didn't like the feeling and it gave me anxiety when I smoked indicas). However, I did find that sativas gave me the clarity I lacked during my depressive episodes and was my only escape from the brain fog. It gave me the clarity I needed to function honestly. I know you're ideally looking for long-term solutions, however, until then, I recommend trying sativas to give you some relief and some much needed clarity.

Sending you all the positive energy! Stay well 😃