[nummy]

I had about 4 days of recent anxiety ( including several hours of near-full blown anxiety attacks. It was positive anxiety, from visiting family, but then we went shopping and that's when the panic attacks hit.

This has left me exhausted and feeling strange. By strange I mean my head feels numb, like I've had a concussion. I've never noticed this before, not saying it's not normal only that I never noticed. The exhaustion I could work through, but this brain fog is really scary. I'm on a very strong medicine, an atypical anti psychotic, after a brief mixed episode that left me diagnosed with PTSD so bad I was actually delusional with fear. The med took away my brain fog...which is now sorta back.

There is a possibility I'm having temporal lobe seizures which mask as fear, which might explain the weird way I'm feeling. But I just don't know.

Has anybody else had this happen to them? Does anxiety normally result in brain fog? I'm not delusional or depressed, just....out of it.

Please, I really need some feedback... Please? Please??

[kaliope]

anxiety does weird things to me. exhausts me. escalates me to the point I feel like I am going to go over the edge. and that is just an ordinary day. im anxious for no reason. I can say I ever gotten fogged up, but maybe. theres many times I haven't been able to think straight. often times I have hallucinated as a result of my anxiety. mine is linked to my ptsd as well. I take buspar to keep the edge off. that has kept the hallucinations at bay. I have klonopin for when it escalate. I just live in a constant state of tense. I wish I had more to offer you. just know your not alone.

[Travelinglady]

nummy, I think anxiety can lead us to feel exhausted. I am thinking that physically anxiety increases our heart rate, like we're running in a race. Plus increased breathing, more adrenaline, etc.

And when we feel anxious I suspect we can get less blood to the head. So, we might pass out or feel "out of it."

My ideas, anyway.