Forgetting and muddling words

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Hey, I'm a bit worried about a problem I've been experiencing lately so thought I'd ask for some advice. Basically I keep getting words muddled up when I talk and it takes me a long time to retrieve some words. At first it was funny and of course people laugh when I get words muddled up, but it's happening all the time and I'm getting worried now. My mum even said to me that she doesn't know what has happened to me because I used to be so intelligent. It's usually nouns that I will muddle up, for example saying 'please can you pass me that fork' while pointing to a knife. Really simple things like that. It's happening lots though. Any ideas why this is happening? I don't know whether to go to the doctor, but they always make me feel like I'm wasting their time. Thanks for your time

Getting words muddled somewhere between brain and mouth is normal for me. It is a struggle to stay on track and deliver what I actually intended to say, rather than what often comes out, but it is not something that has worsened over the years.

I have however, noticed diminishing ability to recall or remember words since I ceased taking Citalopram (an SSRI) a few months back. Perhaps you have been taking or ceased taking some medication which may explain your difficulty with words?

Funny you should say that because I stopped taking citalopram about 3 weeks ago. I didn't realise it could do that! Will it get better or am I stuck with this now? Lol

I've noticed a general reduction in my intellectual abilities; things that I used to know how to do or were easy are I've now forgotten or are hard. I had no idea that Citalopram withdrawal could do this either, so I'm as much in the dark as you are. I would say that it has got worse during the second month of withdrawal. Overall an incredibly nasty drug in my opinion, that did very little for my depression yet saddled me with a whole load of other problems.

I forget and muddle up a lot of words when I'm posting here.

My mind and my tongue tend to disagree on what I should say. In your example, I could say "could you pass me the salt" when I was talking about the knife because my mind had closed off the knife sentence and went on to thinking about salt (usually because someone else is talking about the salt). This can lead to some rather extreme garbles. I have the same problem when typing. I generally don't need to look at the keyboard and don't need to think about typing, so my mind often wanders and that sometimes makes me replace words in my story with words I was thinking of.

If you were say 10 years older, I might say it is time to be concerned about mental loss. A LOT of people see similar things happen infrequently.

As it is, since you are STILL young, I would say to check your diet. Did something change? Are yu stressed out, etc? Did you start smoking?