Hello calmshell,
Thank you for the post, and story...
Last week I was a functioning metally fine thats what I meant...if I went back on xanax would the brain fog go away, i'm scared waking like this with severe pressure in the head....I been shaking and my heart beats fast when I try to take a nap...suggestions? Last week when I was just on it I was fine, but everyone tells me Xanax withdrawl should not occur ... but I did take one 3-4 days ago...help
Hi Gustav85..
I was wondering, at the end you said "because a week ago I was normal"... did you mean your stomach was not hurting/severe pain? When did your anxiety begin? When I started experiencing anxiety..mostly focusing on every SINGLE thought that I had that would scare me, I knew what my initial thought was that I overfocused on/analyzed, and from there just kept focusing /self-evaluating every thought after that, and lilterally scared myself all the time..over many things... It wasn't until a little later , (about a year or so) that I started to look at WHY I was having the anxiety....(it was caused by thoughts, but why was I trying to scare myself...what was the ROOT of this ...?)
Do you (I used to do this occasionally)/ can you pinpoint perhaps a trigger/experience/thought that may be a connection to WHY you feel brain fogs/anxiety all day? That is when I started to find out my thinking was distorted a bit...I had been used to a lot of "trying" in my life, but then being shut down/criticized very often , even when what I did/was doing was fine...it led to me being very, very critical of EVERY thing I did, said, thought......yikes!!!!!!! way too much for us to be constantly looking /picking apart every thing single little thing we do, say, or think.....it def. leads to anxiety/fear....that what you are doing/thinking/ saying etc...is not "good enough"....BUT it is......we learn all the time..we are not perfect..absolutely no one is. We can learn from mistakes..not dwell on them!!!!! Or dwell on anything..
And same for surroundings too. i also used to look around my surroundings and over exaggerate what was going on, my place/role etc...with that feeling of "is this right? how am i doing here? " almost like you are trying to control things that are going on, so things don't get chaotic/etc....its I think then that we almost get a mind fog (i used to occasionally if I was overfocusing on my surroundings..or the outcome of what was going on) When we just let whatever it is, no matter WHAT, be, we just simply look at it , just see it, and do not analyze.....it def. has helped me clear my mind sometimes....
So if you can see a pattern or trigger of the anxiety (the root), I think that may help to then begin to heal this ...I think I had to come down to , " I trust myself. I am capable." and truly , truly know this..it helps eliminate fear when you know "hmmm..I am a great person /human being , and am capable, no matter what has gone on in my life..no matter what." I cannot comment too much on the meds, for I have not taken them, but trying to get a new "script" in your head; reasonable, forgiving , loving of yourself, and just acceptance of yourself, and practice this w/any area of your life, could help...
Not sure if this helped at all, but its just some things i've learned that have helped me...keep us posted though.. take care=)