Difficulty with words, communication

Well I am glad that you can see the humor in that...cause it is pretty much a 10 on the funny scale...

...but I know that unintentional gaffs like this don't feel like a laughing matter...because of all the things that our anxious minds can conjure up to attach to it!

However, anxiety and being spread too thin with too much on our minds...as well as middle age...all can contribute to having the tendency to make mistakes.

Do you find that the goofs coincide with times of high stress or panic? The mind can only do so many things at once...and panic pretty much takes center stage and wipes out other non-essential elements to itself such as the grammatical arts!;p

If you are truly concerned that it could be something else...I suppose you could talk to your doctor about a referral to a neurologist that could give you some cognitive tests...but I don't think that it is neccessary.

At this point, if no one else is noticing that anything is off, then you have nothing to worry about.

I hope this puts your worry to rest a bit.

S.C.

On a side note, my dad kept that newspaper to show his friends. haha!

Honestly, I think being a chronically ill child helps me with the health anxiety if that makes any sense. I figure I can handle physical problems, since I spent much of my childhood in and out of the hospital, not allowed to go outdoors or near windows, etc. and on ridiculous amounts of medicines. (I'm still phobic of catheters and IVs, but otherwise. lol)

Mental illness scares me, because I think, "If it's too bad, I can't take care of myself! I'll be such a bother! Maybe I'm evil!" lol

Yes, definitely less worry and more relaxing is in order for the weekend.

There's this blank canvas right across the room..... :)

Last weekend a friend and I went out to dinner. She asked me where I parked my car and my response was " I parked it on the sidewalk"! I was fighting a sinus infection that settled in my ears and was on many meds and was very tired from not sleeping. It's amazing what comes out of our mouths!

I don't have trouble with the written word, but I CANNOT speak clearly and make sense when I am having a panic attack. I actually started a thread about that issue a couple of months ago. I simply cannot get correct words out of my mouth. They come out all garbled, or I use the wrong words for what I am trying to say. It scares the heck out of me. I mentioned it a few times to my doctor, but he didn't react much at all. People are starting to notice, and it just happened again today while talking to my neighbor. I try to 'cover', but it's getting obvious. I HATE anxiety!!

Wish I could say you on your own with this one but you aint as you can see,I made a vid the other day when I should've saud social media. I said social mederal. I had to lol at myself and sometimes I talk to fast and a gap be in my words sounds lije thththth,so we are both cool as heck and rock,and I have to go back over every word I type on here sometimes forgetting some&words sometimes if I don't watch this being a smat phone. Because words will start to look like this,(njt funny but finny)

Thanks guys - sorry to hear so many of you go through the same thing, but it does ease my mind about the schizophrenia worry.

Larry, you're so sweet, thank you! :)

S.C. - I'm totes going to use the "sorry I've got a case of stress brain!" excuse, too. Most people don't know I have anxiety disorder, but a LOT of people tell me I need to slow down, so that will go over easy. :)

Soul - thanks for relating! :)

LHA - sorry to hear about that migraine! I get a lot of fogginess with migraines, too. Luckily enough, I haven't been having too many of them lately. Hope you feel better soon.