Hi guys, 

As the title says, I’ve had extreme anxiety/stress/overthinking for the past 3 weeks and since 5 days ago I’ve started to drastically notice that I’m losing my short term memory/ information intake/ retaining anything that’s happening around me or is being said. I could be having a conversation with someone and I’d forget everything after 5 seconds but am somehow able to talk without knowledge of the flow of conversation but when I think back I only remember tiny bits (same goes for my own flow of thoughts and what’s happening around me). I can’t read, watch tv, remember most things I looked at on my phone etc. Everything in the past 5 days has been extremely hazy and it’s causing me immense stress on top of what I already have.

Can someone who has either been through this or can explain what this is reassure me that it isn’t permanent? It’s absolutely terrifying and I’ve never experienced anything like it in my life. I feel like I’m developing dementia and I’m only 21.

Thanks in advance