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How Anxiety Disorders Distort Memory and Create False Recollections

After my panic attacks started I can't trust my memory anymore because I keep thinking terrible things happened that actually didn't.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

High anxiety can cause the mind to mistake imagined catastrophes for actual events, blurring the boundary between fear and experience.

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“Where Are You with Memory — how it works and fails?”

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