Amnesia

[[Pa...]]

Does anyone else feel as though they have partial amnesia? My memory has just been wiped out since I began my taper and subsequently jumped. It has affected both my long term and short term memory. I'm 22 and have always had a great memory. I'm too young to have such a poor memory, it's gotta be withdrawals right? It's very difficult for me to recall the previous day and impossible to remember the week past. My long term memory has also been destroyed. My early teen and childhood memories are few and far between. They're also very vague. It has me very worried I feel as though I have partial amnesia. Has anyone else experienced this? Am I alone?

[[...]]

Lots of people have memory issues in withdrawal.  When I was on high doses of clonazepam I constantly lost my train of thought during conversations.  Mid sentence I would completely forget what I was talking about.

You can always get checked out or talk to a therapist if you are concerned there might be something else wrong or you just want peace of mind.

[[Bi...]]

The amnesia lifts in due time. Memory will come back. Do not let this symptom get to you because it's a withdrawal deception.

 

Billy.

 

 

[[WT...]]

My long term memory is rubbish, but my short is fine (for the most part.)

[[iz...]]

I am in the same boat as you.  I am also 22 and I had taken Klonopin for about 2 years.  I have been off of benzos for roughly about 5 to 6 months.  I still have horrible memory.  What you described is exactly the same thing I am going through.  I cannot remember most of my childhood or teen years.  My friends bring up some of their memories with me but I just blank.  It is a horrible feeling.  I am sorry you have to go through this too.  I hear a lot of people say that it will pass with time.  Keep your head up. 

[[Ho...]]

Yes, absolutely. The biggest time frame that I feel was wiped  out by amnesia, though, was even before benzos. It was during high school, when my mom had me on the most ridiculous cocktail of dangerous psych drugs, all aimed at controlling something  innocent that I now know can't be controlled (hair pulling) ... so many drugs that I was an unfunctional zombie during the day. I could not function and would skip school just to be able to go home to sleep because the drugs were knocking me out so bad. To this day (which is only 7 years later), when friends talk about memories from high school, I cannot remember a single one. They've joked about it just saying I'm the one with the "bad memory." But it's much more than that... But, I prefer not to really think of those days... not right now at least, still far too painful..too much anger...

[[Bi...]]

I am in the same boat as you.  I am also 22 and I had taken Klonopin for about 2 years.  I have been off of benzos for roughly about 5 to 6 months.  I still have horrible memory.  What you described is exactly the same thing I am going through.  I cannot remember most of my childhood or teen years.  My friends bring up some of their memories with me but I just blank.  It is a horrible feeling.  I am sorry you have to go through this too.  I hear a lot of people say that it will pass with time.  Keep your head up.

 

This is my problem. I can remember everything but my childhood years. I remember a bicycle, a dog I had. That's the extent of it. I remember my teens and 20's, anything further back than 11 or 12 years old is a complete mystery to me. I have friends that tell me about teachers in the second grade and I have no clue. I was told by a therapist, I had alot of trauma in those years.. and that is why my brain will not let me tap into those memories. It becomes unsettling not to remember then, but that was 20 years ago, so I just scrape it as, "too far back to remember."

 

Billy.

[[Pa...]]

I'm sorry that you all are having to go through this. It helps to know I'm not alone in this but still it hurts to think of anyone else having to deal with this crap. My memory was hit hard coming off paxil, now Xanax has just wrecked it. I feel like the man without an idenity because I simply can't remember.  It's like I'm kinda just here, with no past or life story. It's awful