[Healthanxiety92]

Hi everyone, what a relief to find this website. I’m going through a really tough time right now and I wonder if anyone can relate to what I’m going through.
I’ve been very stressed and not sleeping well and then I started to feel really really weird. I started having random flash backs to old memories and old dreams that could be 10+ years old. Every time this happens I get absolutely terrified and think.. why did I just think that? It’s totally random and involuntary.
sometimes, I’ll walk by a street and a random memory pops up that seems to have no significance to where I am. It’s so hard to explain.
I’m also getting Deja vu a lot. I have health anxiety so I’ve gone from thinking I had Psychosis to now Temporal Lobe Seizures because my symptoms are pretty much identical. However, this only started when I became stressed and it’s better when I’m busy and worse when I’m alone which makes me think it’s anxiety and not epilepsy.
has anyone else had this? It’s so bizarre that it’s hard to put into words really!
thanks for reading!
cherelle.

 

[Trith]

Hi everyone, what a relief to find this website. I’m going through a really tough time right now and I wonder if anyone can relate to what I’m going through.
I’ve been very stressed and not sleeping well and then I started to feel really really weird. I started having random flash backs to old memories and old dreams that could be 10+ years old. Every time this happens I get absolutely terrified and think.. why did I just think that? It’s totally random and involuntary.
sometimes, I’ll walk by a street and a random memory pops up that seems to have no significance to where I am. It’s so hard to explain.
I’m also getting Deja vu a lot. I have health anxiety so I’ve gone from thinking I had Psychosis to now Temporal Lobe Seizures because my symptoms are pretty much identical. However, this only started when I became stressed and it’s better when I’m busy and worse when I’m alone which makes me think it’s anxiety and not epilepsy.
has anyone else had this? It’s so bizarre that it’s hard to put into words really!
thanks for reading!
cherelle.

Yes, sometimes I do have memories that seem to match your description, but I can't know if it's the same. Like I am doing something and suddenly I remember that one time when I was 6 years old on family vacation and we were in the car, stopped at a traffic light and I was looking at the blue sign of a shop across the intersection. Usually when it happens I imagine it must be because there was something in that situation that echoes my situation in the present, like something I thought of. But I can never narrow it down to something particular. Maybe it is random, I don't know.
I don't have this very often, but when I do it is not really frightening. I find it interesting and puzzling, and usually I even wish the memory would stay longer and I try to hold on to it, so that I could explore it and try to understand why it popped in my mind. I remember that as I child, I was talking to one of my parents about some weird thought patterns I don't remember, perhaps I was talking about the feeling of deja vu, and they told me "you will see, as you get older, when you will be an adult, there is another type effect that happens which is that you suddenly remember small old memories out of the blue". I swear I heard someone tell me this as a child, and I remember when I started having them as an adult I thought "oh, this is probably what they meant". So I don't know what it is, but I have it too sometimes and I have never really been afraid of it. But I don't have it very often. Also I have been tested for epilepsy last year (for DPDR) and the test was negative. My MRI was fine too.

 

[jazza_k]

Hi,
I have been experiencing this too, how are you going now? Would be great to have a chat about it?

 

[forestx5]

Hi everyone, what a relief to find this website. I’m going through a really tough time right now and I wonder if anyone can relate to what I’m going through.
I’ve been very stressed and not sleeping well and then I started to feel really really weird. I started having random flash backs to old memories and old dreams that could be 10+ years old. Every time this happens I get absolutely terrified and think.. why did I just think that? It’s totally random and involuntary.
sometimes, I’ll walk by a street and a random memory pops up that seems to have no significance to where I am. It’s so hard to explain.
I’m also getting Deja vu a lot. I have health anxiety so I’ve gone from thinking I had Psychosis to now Temporal Lobe Seizures because my symptoms are pretty much identical. However, this only started when I became stressed and it’s better when I’m busy and worse when I’m alone which makes me think it’s anxiety and not epilepsy.
has anyone else had this? It’s so bizarre that it’s hard to put into words really!
thanks for reading!
cherelle.

I lived with a lot of that stuff for 40 years. Then I found a neurological journal in a british medical library that had a case history that matched my own symptoms. It said I was suffering from a rare epileptic syndrome. So I spoke with a neurologist and she did an EEG. It showed significant pathology in my temporal lobe, consistent with someone who had a history of epileptic seizure. Once I learned about the variety of focal temporal lobe seizures, and that a seizure doesn't have to render you unconscious, I realized I had been suffering from temporal lobe epilepsy. I was a worse case scenario, because the post ictal psychosis of my initial seizure segued into an affective disorder of recurrent major depression. If you have doubt, get a painless EEG. Deja Vu is a common focal temporal lobe seizure. So are absence (daydreaming) seizures. The extraneous electrical activity in my brain was also causing my inner ear to spasm, resulting in popping and clicking tinnitus. I also suffered migraine aura and developed a mild head tremor following my initial seizure at age 17.