The effect of anxiety on memory, in addition to the fact that the illness can directly impair memory, is more important because the illness indirectly affects memory by affecting attention. Anxiety can interfere with all 4 processes of memory (recognition, retention, reproduction, and recall), so patients may have both near and distant memory affected, but usually with predominantly diminished near memory. The degree to which anxiety affects memory varies from person to person, with some patients having a significant effect and others having no effect at all. The effects of antidepressants commonly used to treat anxiety disorders on memory are complex. On the one hand, drugs improve memory by improving depression and anxiety, and they can also improve cognitive function and directly enhance memory; but on the other hand, drugs can impair memory, especially anticholinergic and sedative antidepressants, and most emotion stabilizers also have side effects that affect memory to varying degrees. If patients find that their memory has significantly diminished, what needs to be done: 1, work and life important things, such as who borrowed your money or who you borrowed money, it is best to record then; to do a list of things to do, can be recorded on the phone, or written directly on the hand; 2, the important carry-on things to remind themselves often have not forgotten, such as most people have “three pieces of clothing”: cell phone, wallet and keys; 3, inform the doctor to adjust the treatment plan, switch to drugs that have a small impact on cognitive function; 4, in the future, after the disease is cured, usually the memory can return to normal, some better than before the disease, so patients do not have to worry too much about this. Of course, they should actively cooperate with the doctor for systematic treatment and strive for early cure in order to reduce the impact of disease and drugs on memory. Recently, many patients have complained of losing their cell phones, wallets and ID cards due to poor memory, so we would like to draw your attention to this. Other anxiety disorders such as obsessive-compulsive disorder, neurosis, post-traumatic stress disorder, severe insomnia, social phobia, hypochondria, bipolar disorder with anxiety, and dysphoric disorder also have similar effects on memory. Attachment: 7 tips for finding lost items: 1, repeatedly read it: wallet, wallet, wallet; 2, only once: look carefully, do not rummage; 3, find where it should be: first check where it is most often, perhaps someone put it back; 4, scene replay: where it was used last time, retrace the path of the past; 5, camouflage effect: it is right where you think it should be, just covered by something 6, effective area: usually not more than the original location within a radius of 46 cm (Note: this may have cultural differences); 7, the coming will eventually come: if all the above tricks are ineffective, then wait until there are clues to act, usually it will always appear, at the right time. Note: important items, especially a variety of documents, to report the loss in a timely manner.