I’m so negative. I run myself into the ground with my thoughts. I’m aging, I turned 51 this year and I’ve begun to forget things like, did I shower this morning? Doesn’t the mind have regenerative properties? By the way, my mind is trippy, I think because of my condition my brain produces a psychoactive chemical. I know it does, it’s like being on acid without the high. Colors have changed, man! And there’s no going back!
The mind can improve if you train it. Keep learning new things. That’s how the brain will make new neurons and connections.
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51 is too young to be concerned about decline. Yes, we decline with age but we also become more sensitive and aware in other ways…
jinx when that happens to me i’m on the verge of a breakdown
please see that you get immediate help
no going back?
snap out of it and have a look at adjusting your meds
ask for an urgent appointment with your psych nurse or doctor if they are any good
if not then a General doctor
What are you talking about, Three?
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I’m 60. I go to work three days week. In fact I just drove on the crowded freeway to get here. I’m just finishing a class that I’ll probably get a B in. I’m pretty alert usually but I’ve been staying home a lot for this class and my senses are a little bit dull. But my mind is OK. I can still figure things out and take care of my business including money. I don’t feel like I’m degenerating too much but I am slowed down physically. I still drive all over and fill out all my social security and Medicaid reviews.
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I’m 63, and I think I am going downhill mentally. I’ll get up to do something, and then I’ll forget what I was going to do. I have trouble remembering names of people and places. Day before yesterday I was talking to this guy, and I wanted to say something about the Mojave Desert, but I couldn’t remember the word “Mojave”. I do that one a lot. I’m hoping it is just mental congestion. By the way, my mom used to have a bumper sticker on her car that said, “Over the hill? Over what hill? I don’t remember any hill.”
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We are all different. My cognitive skills have declined greatly. I just don’t have the mental energy. Even though I can read, I only read ten pages a day a few times a week. I feel I’m doing pretty good. I don’t want anyone to give me anxiety. I’m clean and sober and working things out. But my mind is almost gone, I don’t know how I read, it’s strange, if you really want to you can train your mind to do just about anything. I played blues guitar this morning and I’m practicing mandolin later. I feel I’m not doing enough by just practicing an hour a day both total. I’m planning on cleaning my apartment soon. I went to the supermarket today and did laundry. I’ll be fine. I choose Life. I made this post because I believed I was making myself worse and wanted support. I AM, not I am not.
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I’m a touch less sharp than I used to be, my night vision isn’t as good, and my chronic health problems have gotten a bit more chronic. I’m 53. Just gotta accept it and keep doing the best I can with what I’ve got left.
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trippy vision …
sorry should have mentioned the what!
just about my most consistent relapse indicator
When I was young, under 23, I had a photographic memory. You would put a paragraph of any length in front of me, I would read it, and then you would take the paragraph away from me, and I could recite it word for word every time. I lost that ability after psychosis.
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I’m 57 years old and I’m declining significantly.
I just don’t have the energy anymore and I’m losing my functionality of my right arm, I’m in chronic pain.
I hate to see myself at 60 years old, if I make it that far.
To be honest I’m just about ready to die.
Just waiting on my father.
I’m 61 years old and I’m losing the functionality of my right shoulder and of both knees. And those problems just suddenly developed at age 61. And my gp can’t find anything wrong! Granted, all she did was x rays, and order PT, Lidocaine patches, and analgesic creams.
How old is your father @Wave ? And, you’re too young to go yet.
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I’m 57 years old @SkinnyMe
My father is 87 years old.
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I’ve been told it’s not so serious to forget where you put your keys, but rather how to use the keys to start the car. I don’t pass the dementia test anymore, but good news is that I remember how to use my keys. Just an example.
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I’m 57, and I’m doing pretty good! It’s been 4 weeks since my full hip replacement, and already they have me on a quad cane, but by myself I mostly just walk (it’s a small apartment). Everything’s in working order, I give my brain a workout everyday, reading, doing improvisations on guitar, researching topics of interest to me, the only troubling item is occasionally I have to “hunt for words”, but my pdoc assures me that’s a side effect of one of my meds (can’t remember which one, I take 5). So thank Heaven I’m pretty much doing alright, except for being totally bugf*ck crazy jk 
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I’m 72.
Ha, Ha, Ha, you young’uns!
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I think the decline starts much earlier. At 20 I was sharper than at 30.
Hey, I play guitar just about every day. I know how to read music and this morning practiced some baroque music. Maybe tomorrow I’ll do my blues workbook. I am looking for someone in my area to play with. I’m thinking of going to a guitar store for notices, I don’t know any other way to find out.
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