How anxiety affects your memory

You won’t necessarily find yourself unable to recall key events in your life, since anxiety generally affects working memory.

Instead, you might have difficulty remembering things like:

  • task instructions
  • directions to a friend’s house
  • a child’s play date
  • conversations you had with others
  • information in a textbook chapter you just studied

A few different factors play a part in anxiety-related memory loss:

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