I went to finish the last of the Christmas shopping today with my brother. While I felt rough, typical symptoms, I wasn't struggling too much to follow conversation or with the hustle and bustle of festivity, which I've always enjoyed.
However, when my brother and I went our separate ways to get each other's presents before meeting up for a meal... I felt lost within 10 minutes of being left on my own. Where we were shopping is an town which I know like the back of my hand. I've been shopping there for the last 14 years, near enough every week, so feeling lost and disorientated in such a familiar place was scary in itself. Within half an hour, and presents later, the noise of people and buskers and the lights on the buses and christmas displays became overbearing and terrifying, I found myself wandering around, aimlessly, like a little old woman... I almost got hit by a car which I hadn't been aware of. My limbs felt slow, heavy, my reactions dulled and my head clouded and my vision filled with flashing not existent lights.. I was on the point of breaking down, when my brother called me, I wasn't sure where I was, but I felt better when he found me near the restaurant we planned to eat at.

Has this happened to anyone else? I feel truly scared now to venture out of the house alone, or even be alone at all..
Thank you for reading, any advice would be greatly appreciated