[JanuaryGirl]

Lately I've been extremely absent-minded. Normally, i would blame it on the stress, but this is definitely something more. There have been several occasions over the past 2 weeks where I will be doing something, and in the middle of the task, I completely forget what that thing was.
Or I will have a thought, and less than a moment later I can't remember what that thought was, or even what it was about.

Most recently I've noticed that while driving I will suddenly lose my whereabouts and not know where I am. Or I will miss my turn going somewhere very familiar (like my mom's house), and then suddenly panic because I don't know where I am.

Anybody else experience anything like this?

I'm currently on Effexor 225mg
Clonazepam 0.5mg as needed 2x daily
Trazadone 50mg for sleep
Resperidone (a really low dose.. either 0.25 or 25mg, I can't remember) to combat the voices I hear. I take this one at bedtime too.

Any thoughts would be appreciated. I have an appointment with my psychiatrist on October 29, and have been calling her desperately to move that up because my anxiety meds are no longer controlling my anxiety, as they once were. I will be sure to mention these blank-out moments to her too.

It isn't the drugs.

I have the same thing. And when I can not figure out where the hell I am - I panic.

Or I may know where I am, but just get this "sense" that I am lost even though I am not. And I panic.

Or (often) I can not remember where the hell I am going or how to get there - even if I have done it thousands of times. And I panic.

<<< I feel STUPID and kinda retarded sometimes.... Which then triggers my selfharm / depression even more.

[too SHy]

Once I was taking the wrong drug and pulled into the driveway of my old place before realizing it. The medicine definitely was making me spacey. Don't know what it was, though. I hope you feel better.

[coleychi]

Not sure if this is the same or related... but I was recently on Klonapin and Sonata (among others) and I found that I'd be writing something and I'll have 2 sentences and it'll feel like 20 minutes has passed when in reality, it had been 3 hours. And then I'd be reading something (closely and annotating) but then when I went to class the next day, the professor would be lecturing and I'd have no idea what he was talking about. My pdoc seemed to think the combination of klonapin and sonata was making me forgetful... apparently, both have memory-altering properties. Maybe something to look into? Definitely let her know about the forgetfulness though-- that's super important!

Originally Posted by Useless Me

It isn't the drugs.

I have the same thing. And when I can not figure out where the hell I am - I panic.

Or I may know where I am, but just get this "sense" that I am lost even though I am not. And I panic.

Or (often) I can not remember where the hell I am going or how to get there - even if I have done it thousands of times. And I panic.

It's a pretty scary feeling...

this is embarrasing... i get it a lot!

i'll share something that happened to me only a few days ago

someone asked me like an hour after i'd eaten my dinner.. so what did you have?

and i just looked at them as if to say, dinner?. i've not eaten dinner yet- it's too early!

[JoyDivision7680]

i forget things too, the majority of them being thoughts. i forget them in less than a second and it could take me several minutes to remember. i often forget if a door was closed before i got out of the room. i don't think it's caused by drugs, all i take is a natural antidepressant, but i was forgetting things long before i began taking it

the whole of yesterday is just 1 empy void.

i forgot to mention that...