How is your memory?

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Hi all i m just wondering how is your memory?is it too poor to not understand something or is it normal?

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It fluctuates sonetimes it is very good at other times I have poor memory. I have no way of predicting how it will be.

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Do you think its from illness or from drugs?

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I think its a combination of both.

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Ä°s there any medicine for this problem?anyone knows?or cognitive impairment medicines can boost memory also?

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My memory is dreadful, I’m constantly repeating things because I don’t remember that I’ve said them already. I also tend to just get confused, like today I had to turn off the stove after boiling some water, and I almost stuck my hand in the flame because I got confused and didn’t know what I was doing. I’ve been this way since before I was on meds, but I’ve gotten so much worse lately, and I don’t know what I’ll do if the cognitive problems keep getting worse.

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my memory is terrible, my in laws sometimes expects something done and I forget but according my father in law, “i forgot is not an excuse” I think its just his way to be a dick to me. I think if they actually researched these illnesses they would understand but they just don’t care they expect me to be at the same level as a normie.

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I remember my memory before medicine.it wasn t like i m forgeting something.it was like i was completely different thoughts that they incline my attention.but after medicine i don t have thoughts that ruin my attention

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Actually i m in same boat about pretend to be normie.i usually relation with normie all day and i m hiding my diagnosis because sz word is pointing really serious disease and i m afraid of stigma.my only relaxation is with my pdoc and thats not even 5 min.she knows what i m doing and what i m accomplish despite to my illness and appreciate me and thats what i want to say all normie at around me.i just want to say " hey you don t have a illness that â– â– â– â– â– â–  up your brain.you don t have cognitive impairment you don t have stupid delusions to ruin your life thats why you have to accomplish much than i did" but i can not say this because they don t even know that i m sick.they just know me as a normie

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You ever talk to your doctor about concentration problems or you think it’s something else?

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I need to, I tend to just wave it off like there’s nothing wrong but I think it’s time to bring it up to him.

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My doctor always tells me my first symptoms of not having enough meds is lack of concentration.

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But rowan s situation is different than lack of concentration.she seems to totally forget things.this is nothing to do with lack of medicine.its different things.

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I have a bad memory

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My memory is pretty â– â– â– â–  to say the least. But I mainly blame that on having DPDR. I think that my medication could be another factor of having such poor memory.

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Last couple of times at the depot clinic they have asked me about my concentration. I said it varied. To which I was asked what I did. To which I said “go on the internet”. That was taken as proof my concentration is ok. I tried saying with the internet I tend to flit around a lot, and tend not to stay focused on anything for very long, but by that point they’d gone off that thread of conversation.

All of us here are on the internet whether by computer/tablet or smartphone and yet many us have admitted to some degree of problems with concentration.

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I can remember everything except for the things I need to.

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My long term memory is patchy but better than my short term memory.

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I seem to be a little more forgetful than I was before. Also I noticed that when I had my psychotic break I forgot a lot of things that I knew. I watch political videos sometimes and everyone and a while they bring up something that a few years ago I would’ve known well but have forgotten.

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my memory used to be fabulous, i could remember when i was 5 and i had my tonsls out and i was in hospital and could remember loads stuff like that

now i dont want to emember o at least that is what it feel like

ive been an admin accountant but if i looked at it now its like going back t school, i dont know it. i had t get a job a cple weeks ago and i just sat there staring at the figures, they all went into one on the spreadsheet, and i was like what the hel is this and what do i do with it.

it takes me all the time to actually read stuff, including on here, i get, sort of bored or uninterested or just plain dont know what the words mean xx