I feel like I cant remember anything. I keep forgetting things all day. Anyone else with bad memory?
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Yeah, my short term memory is pretty bad, but im also an easy distracted person.
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I have trouble keeping phone numbers in my head. Programming has been hard for me to do lately.
Yes, me. My memory was great. And now it is garbage, especially working memory. I think it is the MH problems, the meds, and me being an internet addict at times.
My memory has gotten poor recently.
My memory is pretty bad. When I am watching a TV show with Hubby, I forget a lot of what we watched the previous day, of the same show. Recaps help. I mean, some TV shows have a recap at the start of every episode, showing some key information of what has happened so far. I really like when those are included.
On shows that have no recap, I have to talk to Hubby for like 10 minutes, with him trying to remind me of important details, before we can watch the next episode.
I constantly forget what I’m doing, while doing it. I’ll think, I need a spoon… and then I’ll go to the drawer with cutlery… get confused… grab a plate for some unknown reason… then remember what I was supposed to grab… go back to get a spoon… but then I forget again and just stare at the cutlery for a minute, until I remember. Since I’m already in place when I remember again, I am able to actually grab a spoon before I forget again.
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My problem is I can remember stuff, but not immediately. Sometimes I remember stuff several days later.
I have to make notes on my phone of when I do stuff such as take my meds.
Do you have an android phone? I use this app, from the Google Play store.
It looks like you can’t get this specific app on an Apple phone, but I bet there are similar apps on Apple.
You just put your meds into the app, and then you can set reminders for those meds, to send you a notification when it’s time to take your meds. And then you can press the notification to say you took the meds, or to dismiss the notification.
I find it really helpful.
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Thanks for the advice. It’s an Android phone. I’ve been using Samsung Notepad but I’ll check out this app.
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Yes. I was testing in school for learning disabilities and it came back with a learning diability and a “short term memory processing deficit”. My memory is terrible. It lasts seconds and makes it hard to even talk or listen. Writing is easier cause i can see what im saying. I basically live in the moment which is nice tho. And it makes it harder to form delusions because my thoughts drop out of my head in seconds so thats another positive.
Mines pretty bad. Trying to use the underground in London with multiple stops/lines is near impossible. I have to check over and over again because I cant remember the names.
Not sure. I don’t remember.
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I have poor working memory its one of the deficits that is most debilitating for me. I also have worsened math skills. I used to have a very good imagination and this was the method I used for counting. The medications have significantly decreased my ability to imagine. If I needed to add or subtract I would visualize it in my head as though I were writing on paper.
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Jokes aside, my memory is a running joke with my family and close friends. My boss learned quickly to give me lists. It really helps me at work.
I’ve finally, after years of not doing it, started making my own lists. Just basic, easy to do things. I found a great app called Todoist. It helps me.
You know how you get a 6 digit verification code for a web site sometimes and you have to copy it from your text to a site? I used to not be able to hold a 6 digit number in my head. I started taking fish oil, 1000 mg as prescribed by my pdoc for mood and additionally my doc for cholesterol and after about 2 months I could easily hold a 6 digit and longer number in my head. I also started being able to balance my checking account more often.
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They gave us this test in psychology class where they gave us a list of words not connected in any way, and told us we had three minutes to memorize as many words on the list as we could. Then a few minutes later they had us write down all the words we could remember. I always finished last or near the last out of a class of over thirty on the test. I can’t hold on to things. I’d say it is a learning disability for me. My short term memory sucks.
It`s not something I think about.
Psychosis zapped my memory away.
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Yes, probably due to my ECT treatment.
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