Ari Fletcher describes severe anxiety that tanks her attention span and short-term memory, making it hard to focus or retain information. Her conversation partner suggests anxiety medication might be causing ADHD-like symptoms, since those drugs can impair short-term memory while leaving long-term memory intact.
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But I'm saying that to say, like, what the fuck am I supposed to do? Like, deal with having severe anxiety and losing my mind every day, or not have my memory? You know what I mean? Like, I remember things. Like, I'm not literally like, it's flat, I don't know shit. But it's like, like, if you watch the video, you know, I already have— like, if I'm talking Like, if I'm on my phone and he's talking to me, like, my attention span, bro, is miserable. Like, you can have a whole— everybody know, my mama, everybody, like, if they're talking to me, they'll just stop talking if I'm doing something on my phone.
Hmm, so did anxiety medication give us some— give her ADHD? Because that's a symptom of ADHD. Your short-term memory be fried. Long-term memory is a beast.